This
multidisciplinary colloquium is held every Friday at 1:00
during each semester in 144 Wilkeson Quadrangle,
Ellicott Complex, North Campus (unless stated
otherwise).
IGERT Colloquia, Fall 2010
Please note that the
IGERT - IRTG Virtual Seminar is part of the IGERT colloquium
series. This is an exchange of students and research between
our NSF - funded GIScience IGERT and the DFG-funded IRTG
Semantic Integration of Geospatial Information, from
Muenster and Bremen, Germany. (http://irtg-sigi.uni-muenster.de/).
Presentations are as
follows:
| Oct. 1 |
Kick-off meeting to discuss
ideas for potential speakers |
| Oct. 8 |
Open |
| Oct. 15 |
Dr. Chris Renschler,
Geography Dept., speaking on the art of securing grants
from the initial stages of locating grants through to
the final renview process. |
| Oct. 22 |
Open |
| Oct. 29 |
IRTG Virtual Seminar, Dr.
Stephen Hirtle, University of Pittsburgh, "This is the
Tricky Part: When Directions Become Difficult",
Special time & place: 9:30 AM, Ketter 140 |
| Nov. 5 |
IGERT Trainees: Andrew Trgovac, on his IGERT
International Research Experience at the National
University of Singapore this past summer; and Amy
Frazier on her ongoing IGERT International Research
Experience at University of Queesland in Brisbane,
Australia |
| Nov. 12 |
Open |
| Nov. 19 |
Geography Awareness Week:
Dr. Marc Armstrong, Geography Dept., University of Iowa,
"Cyberinfrastructure in Geography"
Special Time & Place: 3:00 PM, 170 Fillmore |
| Dec. 3 |
"Mountains, Maps, and Mici :
International Experience in Eastern Transylvania" by Ray
Whitlow |
| Dec. 10 |
"Small Area
Population Estimation with High-Resolution Remote
Sensing and LiDAR by Dr. Le Wang
Venue: 9:30am
in 140 Ketter |
IGERT Colloquia, Spring 2010
Presentations are as
follows:
| Jan. 15 |
Open |
| Jan. 22 |
Bill Duncan, IGERT Trainee,
"Making Ontological Sense of Hardware and Software" |
| Jan. 29 |
Kerry Trentelman, Post-doc
in the UB Dept. of Philosophy. "A Temporal Theory for
the Basic Formal Ontology" |
| Feb.5-12:30 pm |
Dr. Randall Dipert, UB
Dept. of Philosophy |
| Feb. 12-1-2 pm |
"How to Build an Environment
Ontology" by Dr. Barry Smith, Dept. of Philosophy. |
| IRTG Joint Session Feb.19 |
Presenters:
Jeff Gower:
"Towards an Ontology of Patent Law"
Ray Whitlow:
"Settlement patterns of two Copper Age culture-groups in
the Eastern
Carpathian Mountains in Romania"
Paul
Berglund: "Placement of Warehouse Cross-aisles"
Joe Holler:
"Environmental change, livelihood insecurity and
opportunities for
learning and adaptation on Mount Kilimanjaro" |
| Feb. 26 |
Open |
| Mar. 5 |
Open |
| Mar. 12 |
Spring Recess |
| Mar. 19 |
Dr. Ray Turner, Dept. of
Computer Science and Electronic Engineering, University
of Essex, England "Programming Languages as
Mathematical Theories" |
| Mar. 26 |
Dr. Thomas Bittner, UB
Geography & Philosophy Dept. "Vagueness & the tradeoff
between the classification and delineation of geographic
regions" |
| Apr. 2 |
Dr. John Kearns, UB Dept. of
Philosophy " Logic, ontology and epistemology: Truth &
Commitment" |
| Apr. 9 |
Neil Williams of UB's
Philosophy Department "Dispositions & The Argument
from Science" |
| Apr. 16 |
TBA |
| Apr. 23 |
Dr. Harlan Onsrud, Dept. of
Spatial Information Science & Engineering, University of
Maine |
IGERT Colloquia, Fall 2009
Presentations are as
follows:
| July 23 |
Introductory session, Prof. Dr. Werner
Kuhn, Universitat Muenster, "Introducing the IRTG
Semantic Intergration of Geospatial Information" |
| Sept. 9 |
Overview of the IRTG disaster management
scenario (http://irtg-wiki.uni-muenster.de/mediawiki/index.php/Common_scenario) |
| Oct. 9 |
10:00 - 11:30 AM, Rm. 140 Ketter Hall :
Anthony G. Cohn, University of Leeds, "Steps Towards
Cognitive Vision" |
| Dec. 11 |
11 AM, 140 Keter Hall, Willem Robert van
Hage, Faculty of Sciences of the VU University
Amsterdam, "Space Package" a prolog reasoner for
topological relations which can directly work on RDF
triples such as linked geo data. |
Colloquium Series - Spring 2009
| Jan. 23 |
Colleen Bronner, IGERT Trainee, on her IGERT
International Research Experience at Griffith
University, Brisbane, Australia |
| Jan. 30 |
Open |
| Feb. 6 |
Dr. Jared Aldstadt, Dept. of Geography, "Cluster
Sampling of Dengue Virus Transmission" |
| Feb. 13 |
Open |
| Feb. 20 |
Dr. Maoyi Huang, Dept. of Civil, Structural and
Environmental Engineering, "Toward an Integrated
Understanding of the Earth System: Linking Climate
Change, Surface/Subsurface Hydrology, and Biogeochemical
Processes at Regional to Global Scales" |
| Feb. 27 |
Open. Geography Colloquium, 3:15 PM, 145H Wilkeson,
Dr. Sam Cole, Professor, Dept. of Planning,
"Globalization, Agglomeration, and Chaos: Insights from
Resort Tourism" |
| March 6 |
Open |
| March 13 |
Spring Recess |
| March 20 |
Dr. Howard Lasker, Dept. of Geology; Biological
Sciences; Director , Graduate Program in Evolution,
Ecology, and Behavior, Marine Biologist. "Population
Connectivity in a Caribbean Octocoral: A Tale of Three
Datasets" |
| March 27 |
Jose Silvan, Post-Doc student in Geography
Department. "Sub-pixel remote sensing for mapping and
modeling invasive Tamarix: A case study in West Texas,
1993-2005" |
| April 3 |
Dr. Thomas Bittner. "An Ontology-based framework for
the analysis and integration of ecoregion classification
systems" |
| April 10 |
Dr. Bea Csatho, Dept of Geology. "Monitoring
Earth-Surface Dynamics with ICESat Satellite Laser
Altimetry" |
| April 17 |
Dr. Jane Law, Dept. of Planning, University of
Waterloo. "Serious crime neighborhoods: Geographical
analysis of multiple sources of crime information using
a Bayesian approach" |
| April 24 |
Wende A. Mix, Associate Professor, Geography and
Planning Department, Buffalo State College. " Spatial
Analysis of Neighborhood Change" |
IGERT Colloquium Series - Fall 2008
|
Sept.
12 |
Short
introductions of IGERT Fellows’ research |
|
Sept.
19 |
Ben
Kamphaus, IGERT Fellow, “Implementing Spatial Data
Standards in Archaeology”, and
Daniel Cadzow, IGERT Fellow, “A GIS assisted,
‘phenomenological’ investigation of three Nova Scotia
Harbors documented by Samuel de Champlain between 1604
and 1610” |
|
Sept.
26 |
Dr.
Peter Biehl, Dept. of Anthropology, and Raymond Whitlow,
IGERT Fellow, “Archaeology and Spatial Data Production
at Catalhooyuk” |
|
Oct.
3 |
Open
|
|
Oct.
10 |
Dr.
Alexander Cartwright, Dept. of Electrical Engineering,
and Director of the Institute for Lasers, Photonics and
Biophotonics, “Multidisciplinary Research at a Public
Research Institution” |
|
Oct.
17 and
Oct.
23 |
Dr.
Michelle Masucci, Dept. of Geography and Urban Studies,
Temple University, “Informal Science Education and
Geography – A review of approaches taken by the bITS
Program”, and “Towards a Theory of Citizen Cartography” |
|
Oct.
24 |
Dr.
Alan Rabideau, Dept. of Civil, Structural, and
Environmental Engineering; Director of the
Environment & Society Institute; and Director of the
Ecosystem Restoration through Interdisciplinary Exchange
(ERIE) Program, “Groundwater Remediation at the West
Valley Demonstration Project: The role of
modeling” |
|
Oct.
31 |
Dr.
Irus Braverman, UB Law School, “Planted Flags:
Trees, Territory and Law in Israel/Palestine” |
|
Nov.
7 |
Dr.
Andrew Turk, Murdoch University, Western Australia,
“Ethnophysiography: Progress, Philosophy, and
Possibilities” |
|
Nov.
14 |
Dr.
Enki Yoo, Dept. of Geography, “Spatial Uncertainty
Assessment in the Reconstruction of Presettlement
Forest Patterns in Western NY, USA” |
|
Nov.
21 |
Dr.
Kelly Frothingham, Dept. of Geography and Planning,
Buffalo State College, “Investigating Stream Channel
Change in the Cazenovia Creek Watershed:
Implications for Biotechnical Streambank Stabilization” |
|
Dec.
5
12:30
pm, 435 Cooke Hall |
The
Center for GeoHazards: Dr. Alexander Braun, Dept.
of Geomatics Engineering, University of Calgary,
“Observing Geohazards with Space Geodesy:
Tsunamis, Sand Dunes and Sea Ice” |
Colloquium Series - Spring 2008
|
Jan 25 |
Dr. Barry Smith, Dept of
Philosophy, "The Environment Ontology Project" |
|
Feb. 1 |
Seth Spielman and Justin Yates,
IGERT Fellow, on their research |
|
Feb. 8 |
Dr. Sara Metcalf, Dept. of
Geography, "Ecological boundary-setting in mental
and geophysical models" |
|
Feb. 15 |
Speaker
postponed |
|
Feb. 22 |
Dr. Toni Shenk, Ohio State
University and Visiting Research Professor in the
SUNY/Buffalo Geology Dept. Remote Sensing Lab, on recent
research |
|
Feb. 29 |
IGERT
Advisory Board Meeting |
|
March 7 |
Dr. Scott Branting, Director, The
CAMEL GIS Lab at The Oriental Institute,
University of Chicago, " Analyzing Ancient Urban
Centers: GIS-T and Agent-Based Approaches" |
|
March 14 |
Spring
Recess |
|
March 21 |
Dr. Michael Frachetti, Dept. of
Anthropology, Washington University, St. Louis,
"Simulated vegetation indexes and their implications of
high-resolution Paleo-landcover reconstruction in the
Eurasian Steppe zone" |
|
March 28 |
IGERT
Fellows: Discussion of multidisciplinary collaborative
project |
|
April 5 |
Dr. Le Wang, Dept. of Geography,
"Urban Land Use Classification from Contemporary Remote
Sensing"
Co-sponsored by "The IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing
Society Western New York Chapter" |
|
April 11 |
Presentation of upcoming AAG talks:
Christopher Brehme, IGERT Fellow,
"A Model of Spatial Interaction Between Endangered
Whales and Lobster Fishing Gear"
Joseph Holler, IGERT Fellow,
"Social Networks and Community-Integrated GIS for Water
Resources Management"
Peter Kedron and Jeffrey Gower (IGERT
Fellow), "Political and Economic Contexts of
Biofuel Production: A Case of Iowa's Ethanol Industry"
|
|
April 18 |
Session
Cancelled for AAG Meetings |
|
April 25 |
Dr. Alexander Klippel, Pennsylvania State University
(Co-sponsored
by Department of Geography) |
September 2007
|
Sept 7
|
Le Wang, Assistant Professor, Geography,
"Invasive Species spread modeling using multi-resolution
remote sensing data" |
|
Sept 14
|
Douglas Bolender, Institute of European and
Mediterranean Archaeology |
|
Sept 21
|
IGERT Fellow research interests and discussion |
|
Sept 28
|
Tina
Thurston, Dept. of Anthropology, Dept of Anthropology,
" Making and breaking places: The spatial dimensions of
political and social development in early Denmark"
|
October 2007
|
Oct 5 |
Dr. David Mark, NCGIA,
"Recent progress in ethnophysiography" |
| Oct 12 |
Dr. Chu Ho Sam,
1:00 pm in Wilkeson 145H - joint presentation with the
Department of Geography |
| Oct 19 |
Presentations by IGERT Fellows
Heath Robinson and Joe Holler |
| Oct 26 |
Dr. James Jensen,
Civil and Environmental Engineering, "Drugs and Bugs:
Pharmaceuticals & Personal Care Products in the
Environment" |
November 2007
|
Nov 2 |
Dr. Michael Emch,
Department of Geography, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, " Spatial enviromental, and social network
analysis in vaccine trials" |
| Nov 9 |
Dr. Changxu Wu,
Department of Industrial Engineering, "Modeling Human
Performance and Mental Workload using Computational
Methods" |
| Nov 16 |
Note: Time &
Location Change! 2:00-3:00 in 120 Clemens Hall
Dr. Risa Palm, Provost &
Vice-Chancellor for Academic Affairs SUNY and Professor
UB Geography Department, "Culture Realms in the United
States: A Marketer's Approach" |
| Nov 23 |
Thanksgiving Recess |
| Nov 30 |
Dr. D. Scott Mackay,
Department of Geography, " Towards a mechanistic
framework for predicting evapotranspiration in time and
space" |
Spring 2008 Schedule to be announced in January
For information
regarding each semester, select the semester of interest
below.
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