Organization and Agenda

The Ann Arbor Workshop will be organized around three main themes. Most of the first day will be devoted to a series of advanced lectures (with software demonstrations and ample time for questions and discussion) on four major topics: GIS and spatial analysis; geovisualization; ESDA and spatial regression; and geostatistics and spatial hierarchical modeling.

The focus in the second day is on the diverse perspectives on spatial analysis and the role for spatial analysis in social science research represented by the participants. Each participant will be expected to make a short (10 minute) presentation reflecting on their perspectives in this regard. This short presentation may be a summary of your current research, some general thoughts about spatial analysis, some questions for future discussion, etc. A short abstract describing each participant's viewpoint is posted on this web site under Participants & Statements.

In the afternoon of the second day, we will try to summarize the various ideas and formulate a concrete action agenda. In addition, there will be considerable time devoted to a presentation of the CSISS software tools program as well as opportunities for participants to demonstrate software and/or data sets.

Finally, the Sunday morning session will be devoted to outlining specific action items in terms of the planned edited volume, a collaborative "example" data analysis of a major social science data set/research question and initial planning of next year's second round.

Tentative Agenda