Conference

The concept of a digital twin—creating an authentic virtual counterpart to a physical entity—has deep roots in human history, across cultures. From ancient analogues like architectural models, astronomical devices, table top battle replicas, and even...

May 16th 1-5pm & May 17th 9am-5pm Conference Program with Speakers Bio and Abstracts (designed and edited by Lingbo Liu, last updated on 5/15/2024) Conference Program with hyperlinks to Zoom Recording and Slides (edited by Yogya Kalra, last updated on 7/5...

Conference Program with embedded links to slides, videos, posters and photos (updated on April 21, 2023) Conference Program with speakers bio, photo and abstracts (updated on March 19, 2023) Questions on the health of an individual, the health of an...

While a changing climate impacts everyone’s ability to feed and support themselves, these impacts are not experienced equally. The uneven geography of climate change is revealed as grassroots movements and industrialized nations around the world take...

Background In late 2019, the outbreak of the novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) and resulting illness, COVID-19, in Wuhan, China rapidly expanded across the globe resulting in the declaration of a global pandemic by WHO in early 2020. A highly contagious...

In the wake of much public data science and public data visualization (as related to covid-19, elections, police violence, evictions, etc.), how is geographic knowledge translated to various publics? What are the important GIScience principles that get...

Agenda (with abstracts, speakers' biographies, and slides for download) Time (EDT) Topic Speaker 10:00 AM Welcome & Introduction Jason Ur (Harvard) 10:05 AM Measuring Changes in Mobility due to Social Distancing Interventions against COVID-19 Caroline...

Last update (7/30/2020): As the COVID-19 pandemic evolves rapidly around the globe, many of our invited speakers are playing a key role at the forefront in combatting the disease. The organizing committee and sponsors recently reevaluated the situation...

As Geography Departments are dramatically disappearing from universities across the US and geographic knowledge is diffusing itself and taking on new forms, this conference identifies a set of urgent questions pertaining to the future of geography: Where...

Solutions to today’s rapidly growing urban challenges require innovative thinking and accumulative efforts from the most forward-thinking problem solvers. We are excited to announce the official date, Monday, June 17, 2019, for our second symposium at...