Past Events

2018 Sep 13

Job Opening: Assistant Professor in GIS and Computational Social Science

Location:
College Station, TX
12:00pm

Texas A&M University. The Department of Geography invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position in Geographic Information Science at the Assistant Professor level. We seek applicants who address questions through a computational social science approach. The successful applicant must be able to teach advanced courses in...
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2018 Sep 07

Basic Introduction to GIS (fall 2018)

Location:
Northwest Building B129 (52 Oxford St, Cambridge, MA)
1:30pm to 3:30pm

Instructor: Jeff Blossom

In this 2 hour workshop students will gain an understanding of what GIS is and how it can be used. Students will use both web and desktop GIS to visualize, query, and analyze geographic data.

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2018 Aug 30

GIS Visualization Presentation

Location:
CGIS South Room S030
2:00pm to 3:00pm
The CGA's Jeff Blossom presented "GIS Visualizations" at the "Circulating across Europe?: Transgressive Narratives about the Past" seminar. View the...
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2018 Aug 23

ABCD-GIS Presentation: Human-centred Geoinformatics - Sensing and Analysing Urban Geographies

Location:
CGIS South (1730 Cambridge St.), Room S030
12:00pm to 1:30pm
Speaker:

Dr. Bernd Resch will present Human-centred Geoinformatics - Sensing and Analysing Urban Geographies

Abstract: The scientific discipline of geoinformatics is currently going through a substantial transformation. Previously under-researched aspects in the area of human-centred design, together with the rapidly increasing availability of human-generated data from human sensors, wearables or social media have been quickly gaining importance. This talk explores approaches towards a human-centred understanding of...
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2018 Jul 26

Introduction to GIS research for the SHARP and BLISS fellows

Location:
CGIS South (1730 Cambridge St.), Room S0305
12:00pm to 1:30pm
The CGA organized and moderated a seminar introducing GIS and featuring presentation by Harvard researchers who use GIS for the SHARP and BLISS summer fellows.

12:15 - ...
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2018 May 29
GIS Institute Summer 2018
Tue - Fri, May 29 to Jun 8, 9:00am - 5:00pm
GIS Institute Instructors (Summer 2018):
Scott Bell and Jill Kelly

GIS Institute Registration Schedule (posted seasonally):

Application deadline:
Friday, March 16, 2018 @ 11:59 pm
(Late applications can join the waitlist.)...
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2018 Apr 26

2018 CGA Conference: Illuminating Space and Time in Data Science

Location:
CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium
(All day)
AUDIO recordings of the Conference are linked below.

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