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> Geography Colloquium Series
Spring 2008 Colloquia have concluded, please join us in September for the Fall 2008 Colloquia series.
For more info on the Colloquium Series contact Chris Renschler at: rensch@buffalo.edu
Unless otherwise stated, Each colloquium will run from 3:15-4:15pm in
145H Wilkeson, GIAL Lecture Room, Ellicott Complex/UB North Campus
Spring 2008 Colloquia
| Spring 2008 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 31 | Charles H.V. Ebert, UB Geography Department | Teaching Effectiveness & Public Speaking, Part I of IV, 12:30pm, Wilkeson 145H |
| Feb. 14 | Charles H.V. Ebert, UB Geography Department | Teaching Effectiveness & Public Speaking, Part II of IV, 12:30pm, Wilkeson 145H |
| March 4 | Faculty Meeting | |
| March 6 | Charles H.V. Ebert, UB Geography Department | Teaching Effectiveness & Public Speaking, Part III of IV, 12:30pm, Wilkeson 145H |
| March 10-14 | SPRING BREAK | |
| March 18 | Faculty Meeting | |
| March 20 | Charles H.V. Ebert, UB Geography Department | Teaching Effectiveness & Public Speaking, Part IV of IV, 12:30pm, Wilkeson 145H |
| March 21 | David Mark, UB Geography Department | Cross-Cultural Ethno-physiography, 3:15pm, Fillmore 170 |
| March 28 | Bernard Hubbard, US Geological Survey | Land-use/cover Factors Influencing Soil Erosion and Turbidity Issues in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed: A Multi-temporal Satellite Imagery Perspective, 3:15pm, Fillmore 170 |
| April 4 | Alan D. Howard, University of Virginia | Four Billion Years of Fluvial Activity on Mars, 3:15pm, Fillmore 170 |
| April 8 | Grad student presentations for AAG | [in Wilkeson 144, 12:30-2:00pm, on TUESDAY, April 8] |
| April 10 | Geography Career Fair | 10:00am - 3:00pm, Hall outside Wilkeson 110 |
| April 11 | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| April 14-18 | AAG ANNUAL MEETING, Boston, Mass. | [NO COLLOQUIUM] |
| April 22 | Faculty Meeting | |
| April 25 | Alexander Klippel, GeoVISTA Center, Penn State University | Sapient Interfaces to Spatio-Temporal Information, 3:15pm, Fillmore 170 |
| May 10 | Geography Department Graduation Reception | Ctr. for Tomorrow, 3:00pm |
Previous Colloquium Speakers:
| Fall 2007 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Sept. 7 | State of the Department | 3:00 pm, MFAC 170 |
| Sept. 14 | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| Sept. 21 | Michael Woldenberg, UB Geography Department | Special: Colloquium on Plagiarism |
| Sept. 28 | Peter Rogerson (PhD ’82, UB Geography Department), UB Geography Department | The Statistical Direction and Monitoring of Geographic Patterns |
| Oct. 5 | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| Oct. 12 | Chi Ho Sham (MA ’80, PhD ’84, UB Geography Department), Sr. Scientist/Vice-President, Cadmus Corporation, Boston, MA | (Special time: 1:00pm) The Role of Geography in Protecting Drinking Water Supply Sources Across the U.S. |
| Oct. 19 | Matt Bonner, UB Department of Social & Preventive Medicine | Proximity to Atomic Energy Commission Sites and the Risk of Breast Cancer |
| Oct. 26 | Janet Penksa, Geography PhD student; Commissioner of Administration, Finance, Policy, & Urban Affairs, City of Buffalo | Blighted and Vacant Property in Buffalo: Incidence, Effect, and Approach within Varying Geographic Scales |
| Nov. 2 | Mike Emch, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Spatial, Environmental, and Social Network Analysis in Vaccine Trials |
| Nov. 9 | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| Nov. 16 | Risa Palm, UB Geography Professor; Provost & Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs, The State University of New York | Culture Realms in the United States: A Marketer’s Approach |
| Nov. 23 | NO COLLOQUIUM | Thanksgiving Holiday |
| Nov. 30 | Charles H.V. Ebert, SUNY Distinguished Teacing Professor, Emeritus, UB Geography Department | Intelligence and Disinformation |
| Dec. 7 | NO COLLOQUIUM | Geography Department Holiday Party |
| Spring 2007 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Jan. 19 | WNY GIS Users Group | GIS: Innovating Natural Hazard Management, A Review of the ‘October Surprise’ Storm |
| Jan. 26 | NO COLLOQUIUM | FACULTY MEETING |
| Feb. 2 | Gilberto Câmara, Director, Brazil’s |
From Pixels to Processes: Detecting the Evolution of Agents in a Landscape |
| Feb. 9 | Billie Turner, Clark University | Land Change Science and the Southern Yucatan |
| Feb. 16 | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| Feb. 23 | Antonio Paez, McMaster University | Spatial Analysis and Travel Behavior |
| March 2 | NO COLLOQUIUM | FACULTY MEETING |
| March 9 | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| March 16 | SPRING BREAK | |
| March 23 | Peter Kinnell, University of Canberra | The Universal Soil Loss Equation, an Analysis |
| March 30 | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| April 6 | Lee Hunt, High Point, NC Police Department | GIS and Drug-Related Crime |
| April 13 | David Stea, Texas State-San Marcos | Borders and THE BORDER: US - Mexico Borderlands in Perspective |
| April 20 | NO COLLOQUIUM | AAG Meeting-San Francisco |
| April 27 | NO COLLOQUIUM | FACULTY MEETING |
Fall 2006 |
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| Sep. 15 | NO COLLOQUIUM | FACULTY MEETING |
| Sep. 22 | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| Sep. 29 | Trevor Barnes, University of British Columbia | The Geographical State: The Development of Canadian Geography |
| Oct. 6 | Roundtable: Drs. Bian and Mark, grad students | The Grant-Writing Process |
| Oct. 13 | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| Oct. 20 | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| Oct. 27 | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| Nov. 3 | Roundtable: Geography Professors & Grad Students | Navigating through UB's Geography Program(s) |
| Nov. 10 | Stephen Walsh, UNC-Chapel Hill | Mapping and Modeling Deforestation Patterns and Land Use/Land Cover Dynamics in the Northern Ecuadorian Amazon |
| Nov. 17 | NO COLLOQUIUM | |
| Nov. 24 | NO COLLOQUIUM | UB CLOSED-THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY |
| Dec. 1 | NO COLLOQUIUM | FACULTY MEETING |
| Dec. 8 | NO COLLOQUIUM | DEPARTMENT HOLIDAY PARTY |
To download a list of previous colloquium speakers from a given semester, please click on the appropriate link below. Note: All documents are in Microsoft Word format.
- Geography Colloquium Series Spring 2006
- Geography Colloquium Series Fall 2005
- Geography Colloquium Series Spring 2005
- Geography Colloquium Series Fall 2004
- Geography Colloquium Series Spring 2004
- Geography Colloquium Series Fall 2003
- Geography Colloquium Series Spring 2003
- Geography Colloquium Series Fall 2002
Please email geog@buffalo.edu for updates to this list.
The Geography Colloquium Series, Spring 2008
presents jointly with the IGERT Program in GI Science :
Alexander Klippel
Assistant Professor,
Geographical Information Science,
GeoVISTA Center, Department of Geography,
Penn State University
“Sapient Interfaces to Spatio-Temporal Information”
Friday, April 25, 2008
3:15 p.m.
Fillmore 170
How is it that we humans make sense of all the dynamic events and processes that we encounter during our daily lives and in the world around us? Understanding how such events are conceptualized and organized at the cognitive level is important because any computational systems built to represent such events needs to provide user interfaces that reflect our human understanding, or else risk being difficult or impossible for humans to use effectively. But what are the organizing cognitive principles, and are they consistent between people? Our research on sapient interfaces seeks to bridge the gap between qualitative and quantitative perspectives on spatio-temporal information to advance the development of intuitive geographic information systems and interfaces. To achieve this goal, artificial intelligence based formalisms-characterizing qualitative spatial knowledge-in GIScience have been evaluated in behavioral studies. The goal of these evaluations was to determine where qualitative formalisms do indeed capture human cognitive processes, and where they fall short in delivering the promise of modeling commonsense spatial knowledge. The GIScience community is in need of a research methodology and efficient software tools for behavioral studies that would allow for evaluating the abundance of proposed spatio-temporal formalisms regarding their claimed suitability for reflecting commonsense reasoning. Our current research advances methodologies, especially similarity measures, to asses these formalisms regarding their potential for intuitive (sapient) interfaces.
Alexander Klippel is an Assistant Professor for Geographical Information Science at the GeoVISTA Center, Department of Geography at Penn State. His research interests center on multidisciplinary topics at the interface between spatial cognition and GIScience, especially the area of geographic event conceptualization and the integration of cognitive factors into formal characterizations of dynamic spatial processes. Alex received his Ph.D. from the Spatial Cognition Program in Germany (Informatics, Bremen) and also holds a masters degree in Geography (Trier, Germany). He worked as a postdoctoral research associate at UC Santa Barbara and the University of Melbourne (Australia).
There will be a Reception with Pizza & Wings in the hallway outside Wilkeson 108 in the Geography Department following the presentation.