I am very pleased to announce that I will be presenting about my ongoing research about Spatial Terrorism Vulnerability Analysis at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Japan Association on Geographical Space (JAGS) on Saturday, June 30th 2012. The conference will be held at the Tōkyō Campus of Tsukuba University. The location is Ōtsuka 3-29-1, Bunkyo, Tōkyō (東京都文京区大塚3-29-1). For further details please refer to the conference website (in Japanese). This is a great opportunity to introduce my research to an (almost) exclusively Japanese audience.
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Wrap-up: 2012 Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers (AAG)
From February 24th to 28th the 2012 Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers (AAG) was held in New York City, NY. Due to the large number of participants (~8,600) and sessions offered (~3,500) the conference was held in both the Hilton New York and the Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers. The conference ended more than one month ago, but unfortunately I haven’t been able to write down my comments about it earlier.
I have been trying to attend as many sessions as possible, and after detailed preparation have been able to attend a session in every time slot offered, except during the two field trips I participated in. Furthermore, I presented my own research in one session.
This is a summary of the sessions I attended and the most interesting papers and topics covered there. (The numbers in brackets refer to the session IDs in the conference program.)
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.
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.
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.