Upcoming Event: 2012 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG)

From February 24th to 28th, 2012, the Association of American Geographers (AAG) is inviting everybody interested to its 2012 Annual Meeting to New York City. This will be a great opportunity to hear about (and see in action) the latest trends and ideas in geography, GIS, and spatial analysis in more than 4,000 paper and poster presentations as well as several workshops and field trips.

I, too, will be involved in a so-called Interactive Short Paper Session titled “Highlights in Spatial Analysis and Modelling”, where I will give a brief 5 minute overview of my current research in a slot titled “Spatial Analysis of Terrorism Vulnerability”, followed by a panel discussion together with the other seven presenters of this session. The session will be held on Sunday, February 26th, from 8:00 AM to 9:40 AM in a room called Sutton Parlor Center on the 2nd floor of the Hilton New York, one of the two conference venues.

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Upcoming Event: CSIS Days 2011 (Tokyo)

As I mentioned in one of my previous articles, there will be an interesting GIS-related event happening in (rather: near) Tokyo this week.

Once a year the Center for Spatial Information Science (CSIS, jap. 空間情報科学研究センター) at Tokyo University (jap. 東京大学) holds a conference about all things GIS and SIS called CSIS Days. It is mainly targeted to the Japanese research community, hence most of the presentations are in Japanese, but it has some very interesting people and topics covered. Please find a list of presentations here.

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Wrap-up: International Conference “Spatial Thinking and Geographic Information Science STGIS2011”

Last week I attended an interesting event here in Tokyo, labelled “Spatial Thinking and Geographic Information Science STGIS2011”. The event was initiated by the University of Tokyo (東京大学) Center for Spatial Information Science (CSIS) at their satellite campus in Komaba, located in the west of Tokyo. It was a three-day event, held for the first time, with a focus on the “spatial thinking” component of GIScience and attracted scholars from all over the world.

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Restating My Graduation Thesis

I have been invited to present my graduation thesis at a Japanese geography and GIS conference called 2011年度 空間情報科学研究センター シンポジウム – CSIS Days 2011 in November. CSIS is the Center for Spatial Information Science (jap. 空間情報科学研究センター) at Tokyo University (jap. 東京大学). Tokyo University is considered to be the No. 1 university in Japan, also CSIS is regarded the top-notch institution for geospatial analysis in Japan, so apparently I’m quite thrilled by the fact that they showed interest in my work.

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