Geography Colloquium

Please join us for "Digital Gossip and Neighborhood Value," an Urban Conversations event with speaker Elizabeth Delmelle in conversation with Chris Herbert. This talk synthesizes findings from three studies that use natural language processing on a...

Speaker: Devika Jain Harvard AI Community of Practice Talk on how Spatial AI is transforming the way we interact with, analyze, and act upon spatial data. This talk presents innovations and applications showcasing how AI is reshaping spatial analysis...

CGA "Brown Bag" Presentation by Dr. Jielu (Jenny) Zhang Abstract: Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) impacts over 350,000 individuals annually in the U.S., with a survival rate below 6%. To address this, the study proposes a comprehensive...

Presentation by Dariusz Wójcik and Julien Migozzi Atlas of Finance is the first ever published book-size collection of maps and visuals dedicated to the topic of finance and a unique illustrated exploration of the development of finance that combines data...

Presentation by Russell Howell Reed (A.B. '20) Abstract: Over the past century, American geography has increasingly aligned with technical and "objective" methodologies, deepening our empirical understanding of the world. Paradoxically, this quantitative...

Speaker: Yarden Michaeli is a senior journalist at Haaretz, Israel's sole newspaper of record, and has been working at the newsroom there for the past ten years. In his most recent role, Yarden served as the newsroom’s Gaza editor, and personally reported...

Presentation by Olivia Graham, Product Manager at Google Research focused on the development and application of artificial intelligence for weather, climate, and geospatial solutions. Abstract The UN projects that an additional 2.5 billion people will be...

Speaker: Dr. Ollie Ballinger, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, Faculty of the Built Environment, University College London Abstract: Part 1: Battle Damage Detection In the context of recent, highly destructive conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine, reliable...

Presenter: Jason Ur, Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard Abstract: Since 2005, I have been taking Harvard College students into Cambridge’s old burying ground, the only place of burial for Cambridge’s inhabitants for its first two centuries...

Presentation by Dr. Hamed Alemohammad, Director of the Center for Geospatial Analytics, Clark University. Abstract There is a rapid growth in developing AI foundation models for Earth observations (EO) including multi-modal models that combine inputs from...