THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2007
8:45- 9:00	Introduction Dave Martell, University of Toronto
Fire Spread Models I
9:00- 9:30	Cordy Tymstra, Government of Alberta TBA
9:30-10:00	Rob Bryce, Brandon University TBA
10:00-10:15	Chris Bose, University of Victoria Self Similarity and Huygen's Principle
10:15-10:30	Tanya Garcia, University of Neuchatel Smoothing and Bootstrapping the PROMETHEUS Fire Growth Model
10:30-10:45	BREAK
Fire Spread Models II
10:45-11:30	Kevin Tolhurst, University of Melbourne Generalizing Dynamic Fire Spread Modeling - Lessons from the development of PHOENIX
11:30-11:45	Petro Babak, University of Alberta Differential Equation Models for Forest Fires
11:45-12:00	John Braun, University of Western Ontario Fitting a Stochastic Spread Model to Data
12:00- 1:15	LUNCH
Stochastic Models and Spread Data
1:15- 1:45	Gail Ivanoff, University of Ottawa Optimal detection of a change-set in a spatial Poisson process
1:45- 2:00	Katherine Davies, University of Western Ontario Statistical Behaviour of a Spatial Renewal Process
2:00- 2:30	Steve Cumming, Laval University On the spatial scale of process and inference for landscape models
2:30- 2:45	Doug McCrae, Canadian Forest Service Obtaining high-resolution data required for fire behavior modelling
2:45 - 3:00	BREAK
3:00- 4:00	Roundtable Discussion: Future Directions in Fire Spread and Large Fire Management, Dave Martell, University of Toronto and Mike Wotton, Canadian Forest Service Short Presentation: Wen-Bin Cui, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources Fire growth modelling BFOLDS
Fire Behaviour and Fire Weather Indices/Regional Level Analysis
4:00- 4:30	Rob McAlpine, Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources The Fire Behaviour Knowledge Base – a “third way out”
4:30- 4:45	Sylvia Esterby, UBC-Okanagan Classifying historical fire weather patterns
4:45- 5:00	Doug Woolford, University of Toronto Exploring the Seasonality of Area Burned by Forest Fires in Ontario
5:00- 5:45	Jim Gould, CSIRO Fire in dry eucalypt forest: fuel structure, fuel dynamics and fire behaviour
6:00	Dinner and Informal Discussions

FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2007
Wind Modelling
9:00- 9:30	Craig Miller, University of Western Ontario Wind Storms: Types, Features and Modelling
9:30-10:00	Greg Kopp, University of Western Ontario The aerodynamics of wind-borne debris: application to firebrands
10:00-10:15	BREAK
Insects I
10:15-10:45	Terry Shore, Canadian Forest Service TBA
10:45-11:15	Barry Cooke, Canadian Forest Service TBA
11:15-11:30	Bo Song, Clemson University The Simulation of the Southern Pine Beetle Spot Growth
11:45-12:00	Rich Fleming, Canadian Forest Service Spread with and without contagion: the spruce budworm in Ontario as a case study
12:00- 1:15	LUNCH
Insects II
1:15- 2:00	Ed Johnson, University of Calgary Pacific Decadal Oscillation control of mountain pine beetle outbreaks in western Canada
2:00 – 2:45	Sylvain Guichard, ENSIS-CSIRO A tale of two pest spread models: A cellular automata population model, and a detailed individual-based model
2:45 - 3:00	BREAK
3:00- 4:00	Round Table Discussion (Statistics and Forestry) Charmaine Dean, Simon Fraser University
4:00- 4:30	Wrap-Up Discussion - Future Directions John Braun, Charmaine Dean, Dave Martell, Jim Gould