Other Related Events
Apply for APA Advanced Training Institute on GIS for Behavioral Research
Geographic Information Systems for Behavioral Research
University of California, Santa Barbara
July 16-18, 2008
UCSB is hosting an Advanced Training Institute for the American Psychological Association. The objective of this ATI is to introduce the science and technologies of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to psychologists and other behavioral scientists.
ATI personnel will include: Reginald G. Golledge (behavioral geographer, UCSB), Michael F. Goodchild (geographer and GIS expert, UCSB), Daniel R. Montello (geographer, psychologist, and cognitive scientist, UCSB), Stephen Hirtle (psychologist and information scientist, University of Pittsburgh), and Gerard Rushton (geographer and health scientist, University of Iowa).
For complete details on the workshop and to apply online for participation, see http://www.apa.org/science/ati_gis.html. Deadline for applications: 30 April 2008.
NSF sponsored 2008 Summer Workshop on Spatial Filtering with the Eigenvector Approach
Geographic Information Systems for Behavioral Research
The University of Texas at Dallas (UTD), June 16 - June 20, 2008
Go to http://www.spatialfiltering.com/Workshop/index.htm for details and to apply online. Deadline May 5, 2008.
Workshop coordinators: Michael Tiefelsdorf (UTD) and Daniel A. Griffith (UTD).
Key software platform: Spatial statistical routines implemented in the R system (see www.r-project.org).
Spatial filtering is a novel spatial statistical methodology to capture the inherent autocorrelation within geo-referenced observations.
Workshop on Agent-Based Modeling of Complex Spatial Systems
Over the past few years two research communities have
developed more-or-less independently: the community of
agent-based modelers of spatial systems on the one hand, and
the community interested in the representational and computational
aspects of complex dynamic systems on the other.
As part of the joint US National Science Foundation / UK
Economic and Social Research Council Special Activity in the Area of
E-Science, the University of California, Santa Barbara and University
College London have received funding for a workshop of approximately
30 participants, to be held
April 14-16 2007
Upham Hotel in Santa Barbara, California
Look for the Call for Papers mid June, 2006.
The Ninth Crime Mapping Research Conference
Spatial Approaches to Understand Crime & Demographics
Developing Methods for Research and Practice
The use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS)
and spatial data analysis techniques have become
prominent tools for analyzing criminal behavior
and the impacts of the criminal justice system on
society. Classical and spatial statistics have
been merged to form more comprehensive approaches
in understanding social problems from research and
practical standpoints. These methods allow for the
measurement of proximity effects on places by
neighboring areas that lead to a multi-dimensional
and less static understanding of factors that contribute
to or repel crime across space.
March 28 to March 31, 2007
Omni William Penn Hotel in Pittsburgh, PA
Look for the Call for Papers mid June, 2006.
CUPUM 2005
The Centre for Advanced Spatial
Analysis (CASA) at UCL will be holding the 9th International
Conference on Computers in Urban
Management and Urban Planning. Major themes inlcude
networks, mobility, urbanisation, planning systems,
new media, and spatial simulations.
Special sessions are also planned: Urban
Development Models, Tools for Urbanization in Developing
Countries,
and Decision support for
European Spatial Planning.
University College London (UCL), London
June 29 - July 1, 2005
GIS
PLANET 2005
GIS PLANET 2005 is a global, independent and open
event designed to involve many organizations. It
targets the participation of the worldwide community
and is the largest event dedicated to Geographic
Information in Europe.
It will gather experts and professionals from many
backgrounds and fields, allowing research, institutional,
technical and user perspectives to converge in a
single event focused on the framework and development
of the Geo Information Society (GIS).
Estoril, Portugal
May 30 - June 2, 2005
The
Vespucci Initiative Summer School on GIS
Celebrating the fifth centenary of Vespucci's discoveries,
the Vespucci
Initiative recaptures his spirit of multi-disciplinary
intellectual enquiry to explore new frontiers of knowledge.
To that end it organizes and conducts a range of research
and teaching activities, bringing together senior scientists
and promising young researchers from around the world.
The Summer School is aimed at researchers from the
university, commercial, and government sectors. It
provides an inspiring and productive opportunity for
peer-to-peer interaction with leading international
experts in the field.
Fattoria
Montebeni, Italy
July 4-15, 2005
Location Privacy Workshop
The expanding use of spatial, mobile and context-aware
technologies, the building of coordinated spatial data infrastructures
and sensor-networks, and the use of location data as the foundation for
many current and future information systems have profound implications
for personal information privacy. This workshop will
- explore diverse practices, perceptions and concerns of citizens,
data developers, system developers, privacy advocates and users of
spatial data and location-aware technologies in government and private
industry,
- explore the interconnectedness of location information and location technologies with personal privacy concerns,
- evolve conceptual frameworks within which such links might be better understood and concerns accommodated,
- consider the potential effects on spatial technology uses and
developments of the legal options being suggested by scholars for
protecting personal information privacy, and
- make recommendations to the broad scientific and practitioner
communities as well as to policy makers on directions and actions that
would best balance the interests of all parties affected by spatial
technologies.
Schoodic Peninsula, Acadia National Park, Maine
August 5-7, 2004
The
Vespucci Initiative Summer School on GIS
Celebrating the fifth centenary of Vespucci's discoveries,
the Vespucci
Initiative recaptures his spirit of multi-disciplinary
intellectual enquiry to explore new frontiers of knowledge.
To that end it organizes and conducts a range of research
and teaching activities, bringing together senior scientists
and promising young researchers from around the world.
The Summer School is aimed at researchers from the
university, commercial, and government sectors. It
provides an inspiring and productive opportunity for
peer-to-peer interaction with leading international
experts in the field.
Fattoria
Montebeni, Italy
July 5th - 16th, 2004
History and Geography:
Assessing the Role of Geographical Information in Historical
Scholarship
The Newberry Library's Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for
the History of Cartography will host "History and
Geography," a conference devoted to assessing the
many dimensions of historians'rapidly growing interest
in geographical methods and sources, and Geographical
Information Systems (GIS) in particular. Scholars engaged
in historical research in the humanities, social sciences,
and earth sciences will address emerging issues, including
how to acknowledge the uncertainty and context of historical
sources within the logical structure and visual representations
of geo-spatial techniques, whether those techniques
are contributing to a new positivism in history, and
how geographers and historians can work together to
improve geo-spatial methods and the quality of research
based upon them.
The Newberry Library, Chicago
March 25th-27th, 2004
QMSS Colloquium Talk and a Workshop on Geocomputation with Python
Two upcoming events are being co-sponsored by QMSS
and CSISS. On October 23rd, 2003 Serge Rey will be
giving a talk in the Quantitative Methods for Social
Sciences (QMSS) Colloquium Series titled Exploratory
Space-Time Analysis of Regional Income Evolutions.
The talk will begin at 3:00 pm in the ISBER conference
room. Then on the 25th he will be offering a workshop
on Geocomputation with Python from 10 am - 4 pm in
the Star Lab, Ellison Hall 2610. If you would like
to attend either of the events please contact Stuart
Sweeney at sweeney@geog,ucsb.edu.
Serge Rey
Bio
Colloquium
Abstract
Workshop
Description & Schedule
UC Santa Barbara
October 23rd & 25th, 2003
Conference
on Spatial Information Theory - COSIT
The aim of COSIT is to bring together researchers
from different disciplines for an intensive scientific
exchange. This aim is facilitated by the presentation
and discussion of a restricted number of papers and
posters -- the most innovative and significant recent
contributions -- rather than papers covering all advances
in the field. The conference is designed as a single
track meeting to ensure that all conference participants
can get involved in the discussions of the selected
papers.
Ittingen, Switzerland
September 24th-28th, 2003
The
Vespucci Initiative Summer School on GIS
The 2003 Summer School will focus on Location Based
Services and Spatial Data Infrastructures and e-Government.
It builds on the successes of the Summer Institutes
organized by the European Science Foundation's GISDATA
programme and the National Science Foundation's NCGIA
in 1995-97. The School is open to post-graduate researchers
in the academic, public, and private sectors selected
on a competitive basis through an open call for expression
of interest.
Villa
Demidoff, Pratolino (Florence), Italy
July 28th - August 8th, 2003
Short
Course on The Economics of Urban Sprawl and Land Use
Change
The purpose of this one-day intensive course is to expose
graduate students, environmental and urban economists,
geographers, urban planners and policymakers to the
recent developments in the literature on the Economics
of Urban Sprawl and Land Use Change Modeling.
Donald Bren School of Environmental Sciences and
Management, UCSB
June 22, 2002, 8:00 am – 6:30 pm
Special
Workshop on Agent-Based Models of Land Use / Land Cover
Change
Sponsored by The Land Use and Land Cover Change (LUCC)
Project,
Center for the Study of Institutions, Population, and
Environmental Change,
and Center for Spatially Integrated Social Science
Irvine, CA
October 4th-7th, 2001
Sackler
Colloquium on
Adaptive Agents, Intelligence and Emergent Human Organization:
Capturing Complexity Through Agent-Based Modeling
Irvine, CA
October 5th-6th, 2001
