The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Department of Geography and Earth Sciences seeks a tenure-track, assistant professor in economic geography/regional science for an August 2015 appointment. This position is in support of a multi departmental cluster hiring initiative by the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences in the areas of Human and Social Capital, Innovation, & Quality of Life.  At the time of appointment, the successful candidate will hold a doctoral degree in geography, regional science, urban planning, applied economics or related field. Qualified candidates will have primary expertise in applied and empirical industrial/ commercial/retail location analysis, geographies of consumption, or an area related to the economic geography of intra-regional locational analysis. Desirable experience includes one or more of the following: (a) expertise in housing policy, (b) the geography and policy of entrepreneurship and innovation, and (c) social network analysis. Also desired is experience in teaching in a diverse classroom setting. The successful candidate will be expected to develop and maintain a robust and sustainable externally funded research program and contribute doctoral level courses in applied economic geography in the Ph.D. in Geography and Urban Regional Analysis, M.A. in Geography and the interdisciplinary Public Policy Ph.D. programs, as well as appropriate undergraduate courses as needed.  The successful applicant  is expected to be actively engaged in the academic community of the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences and the Public Policy Ph.D. program via participation and leadership through advising and mentoring students, service at the program, College, University, community and professional levels, and programmatic governance.      

UNC Charlotte is an AA/EOE and ADVANCE institution. Applications from women, minorities and other underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged.  Applicants should submit a letter of application, responding to the required and desired qualifications listed above, a current vita, at least one writing sample, and graduate level transcripts to http://jobs.uncc.eduwhere they will find a full position description. Three letters of recommendation should be sent via email to Harrison Campbell, Search Committee Chair at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Review of applications will begin immediately and continue until the position is filled.  For more information, contact Harrison Campbell at 704-687-5997, or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., or view our department website at http://www.geoearth.uncc.edu/.  

Applied Geography IGU Conference 2015:

‘Applied service analysis and Planning’

Shangri-La Hotel, Bangkok, 11 May - 13 May 2015

This leisurely resort in the heart of Bangkok is sure to ease the troubles of any weary traveller. Located on the Chao Phraya River, Shangri-La Bangkok prides itself on excellent customer service, mirroring the famous Thai adage “land of smiles”. Guests can expect excellent complimentary services including beverages, pressing of shirts, WiFi access throughout the hotel and gardens, and much more. Salathrip, the central of 10 restaurants offered by Shangri-La, features upscale dining in a traditional Thai pavilion including Thai dancers to entertain patrons.

For an escape to the beautiful city of Bangkok, guests can either chose to utilize the boat taxi courtesy of the hotel, or the sky train located just around the corner. Additionally, Shangri-La offers an on-site doctor, 24-hour fitness facility with classes, and the award winning CHI spa.

CALL FOR PAPERS

Abstracts are welcome in the following areas:

Health care planning

Rural service provision

Retail and business geography

Crime and emergency services

Education planning

Housing and settlement patterns

Transport and spatial planning

PLEASE SEND ABSTRACTS TO PROFESSOR GRAHAM CLARKE This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Deadline: 20^th December 2014

The Applied Geography Commission of the IGU is focused on enhancing applied scholarship demonstrating the power of geography in solving real world problems at all spatial scales.

We have the pleasure of inviting you to the 5th Winter Seminar of Regional Science that will traditionally take place in the mountain resort of High Tatras on 11th – 14th March 2015.

The main objective of the annual Winter Seminar is to bring creative academic debate on actual issues of regional science and practice of regional policy by an attractive environment and relaxed atmosphere.

Accepted articles will be published in the conference proceedings "5th Winter Seminar of Regional Science 2015” with ISBN. Selected papers will be invited to publish in the peer reviewed journal Region Direct in 2015.

We welcome papers from following themes, but also those that cut across suggested topics:

•          Agglomeration and Industrial Clusters

•          Creative Industries, Creative Cities and Regions

•          Evolutionary Economic Geography

•          Entrepreneurship and Innovation

•          European Cohesion Policy

•          Globalization and Regional Development

•          Local and Regional Strategies and Policies

•          Regional Labor Market and Migration

•          Urban Development and Urban Change.

Important Dates:

Abstract submission deadline:                       December 31, 2014

Paper submission deadline:                January 31, 2015

Participation fee payment deadline:  January 31, 2015

Winter Seminar:                                 March 11 - 15, 2015

The participation fee is 85 EUR for RSAI members and 105 EUR for non-RSAI members. The participations fee includes the conference proceedings, 1x lunch, 2x dinner, closing reception with dinner on Friday and coffee breaks.

Conference language is English. One-page abstract should be sent to Valeria Szitasiova (e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) until December 31, 2014. In case of any questions, please, do not hesitate to contact us via e-mail This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Yours sincerely,

Winter Seminar´s Organizing Committee

Stefan Rehak, Miroslav Sipikal, Valeria Szitasiova, Tomas Cernenko Slovak Section of ERSA

SAVE THE DATE

Copenhagen Executive Seminar
Thursday, 29 January 2015

Venue: The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters
H.C. Andersens Boulevard 35
Copenhagen, Denmark

Please hold the date for our first Copenhagen Executive Seminar! The theme for the seminar is The Next Big Thing.

We will focus on key areas such as digital solutions, open access and data policy, while reflecting on the challenges and opportunities for associations in today’s rapidly changing society. The seminar is also a great opportunity to meet with European and Scandinavian society representatives to share experiences across similar and different fields.

We are developing the full agenda and will provide more details of sessions and speakers shortly. In the meantime, we encourage you to reserve your placefor this complimentary, invitation-only event as soon as possible, using the online registration form link below. Please note that this link is for your personal use only; if you would like to nominate someone else from your organization to attend as well or instead of you, please contact Lena Jacobsen (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) to request an additional invitation.

Please register for this event by completing the online registration form: http://wiley.qualtrics.com/SE?Q_DL=0dmEO0XR6VfNinz_5vVILxNDoC960FT_MLRP_38WnhLlLv2T8xvf

We will be in touch again soon with more details but, in the meantime, please do not hesitate to contact Lena Jacobsen (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) if you have any questions.

We hope to see you in January!

The Wiley Journals Team

2015 International Work-Conference on Time Series (ITISE 2015)

1st-3rd July, 2015. Granada (SPAIN)

itise.ugr.es

It is our great pleasure to remind you the International Work-Conference on Time Series (ITISE 2015), which will take place in Granada (Spain) in July, 2015. Details and instructions for the conference can be found at the conference web site (itise.ugr.es). The ITISE 2015 (International work-conference on Time Series) seeks to provide a discussion forum for scientists, engineers, educators and students about the latest ideas and realizations in the foundations, theory, models and applications for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research encompassing disciplines of computer science, mathematics, statistics, forecaster, econometric, etc, in the field of time series analysis and forecasting.

We encourage you to submit paper focused on interesting, relevant and original works that are related to these subjects. We also admit the submission of short abstracts, which must be extended to full paper in case of being accepted. You could also be interested in organizing a special session for this conference. These are some important and final dates for the submission.

Submission of Special Session proposals: January 15th, 2015.

Submission of abstracts by authors: January 15th, 2015.

Submission of papers by authors: February 8th, 2015.

Notification of provisional acceptance: April 28th, 2015.

Submission of final papers: May 10th, 2015.

Registration of final papers: May 18th, 2015.

Early registration (special rates): May 18th, 2015.

ITISE CONFERENCE: July 1st-3rd, 2015.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

1.-Time Series Analysis and Forecasting

Nonparametric and functional methods

Forecasting with Many Models. Model integration

Econometric models, etc.

2.- Advanced method and on-Line Learning in time series.

Adaptivity for stochastic models

Time series analysis with computational intelligence, etc.

3.- High Dimension and Complex/Big Data.

Techniques for dimension reduction

Forecasting Complex/Big data, etc.

4.- Forecasting in real problem.

Real time macroeconomic monitoring and forecasting

Applications in: energy, finance, transportation, networks, meteorology, health, research and environment, etc.

Paper publication:

All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under both ISBN and ISSN references. Contributions will be indexed in the ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index (Thomson Reuters) and the DBLP database.

Special issues:

A list of papers with very high quality will be selected to be extended and submitted in different special issues.

It will be a pleasure if you can actively participate in ITISE 2015 conference. Thanks for your attention, and we hope to see you in Granada, during the ITISE 2015 event. Please, feel free to contact us for any further question or remark.

Sincerely yours.

ITISE 2015. Conference chairs.

International Work-Conference on Time Series- ITISE 2015. 1st-3rd July, 2015. Granada, Spain

Dear Madam,

Dear Sir,

TransportNET is hostinga Course on Research Methodologies in Natural and Social Sciencesfrom 6-13 December 2014 at University of Lisbon – Instituto Superior Tecnico, in Lisbon (Portugal). This course is open to academic researchers (professors, senior researchers, PhD students) and professionals (from industry and public authorities) from all kinds of backgrounds, research fields and interests, holding at least a Master’s degree or equivalent, on a first come first served basis.

The aim of the course is to provide transport researchers, PhD students and young professionals with and understanding  of key concepts on:

a)       differentiating between the different fundamental research methods and understanding their strengths and weaknesses when applied to real world problems;

b)       system thinking framework, process and compositional approaches for research design, including identification of research questions and formulation of hypothesis;

c)       utilization of multi-methodologies to approach complex problems with quantitative and qualitative methods;

d)       effective and rigorous communication of scientific results to skilled and non-skilled audiences

Furthermore, the course provides students with the technical skills to:

a)       organize a research process;

b)       choose the adequate method for the research envisaged;

c)       analyse real world problems and develop formulations and solutions supported by scientific methods.

The lectures is composed of the following main topics:

•        Start organizing your research

•        Start assembling your method

•        How to publish – Scientific Communication

Course participants will get an attendance certificate and a credit certificate upon successful completion of the evaluation. For doctoral programs, the whole course corresponds to 6 ECTS credits. One assignment only can be taken, valuing 4.5 credits upon successful completion.

Full information, tariffs and registration possibilities are available through the Lisbon Research Methodology course page.

The course is open to participants on a first come-first served basis. The maximum number of attendants is limited.

Economy of Region (ISSN 2072-6414), is a peer-reviewed research economic journal and is indexed in the Scopus, EBSCO, RePEC, NEICON, Ulrich's Periodicals Directory and the Russian Science Citation Index. Research areas of the journal include:

• New paradigms and concepts of regional development

• Transformations of economic space and regional dynamic

• State regulation of regional development

• Economic security and sustainable regional development

• Social and economic regional development

• Models for regional economy

• Intersectorial regional complexes

• Municipal economy

• Foreign experience of regional development

 Our prime publishing criteria are discovery, innovation, usefulness, and quality – in equal measure. All submissions are subject to peer review.

 There are no fees associated with publication of contributions. Authors will not be asked to contribute to costs of processing, formatting, or storing publications.

 Use the online submission form at http://uralces.ru/en-us/erjournal.

Click on http://www.economyofregion.com/ for the journal web site.

Please, do not hesitate to contact me if you need further information.

We hope for effective collaboration and we will be glad to see you among our authors!

Best regards,

Dr. Alexander Kuklin, Executive Editor

The Department of Geography (geo.msu.edu) at Michigan State University invites applications for a full-time, academic-year (nine-month) tenure-system Assistant or Associate Professor to begin in Fall of 2015.  We seek an outstanding Economic Geographer whose primary research and teaching interests are in applied and theoretical aspects of the field (for example but not limited to, market analysis, transportation, entrepreneurship, or economic development).  A Ph.D. in Geography or related field is required. Corporate or governmental experience is also desirable. We are currently expanding our program in Economic Geography and especially seek candidates who will play a central role in our new Bachelor of Science degree in that subfield.  We also welcome applicants who can teach related spatial modeling and quantitative methods. Faculty members are expected to be effective teachers, develop a record of significant scholarship, seek external funding for their research, and provide meaningful service. 

All applications should include a curriculum vitae, statement of interest, and the names of three references.  Questions may be directed to Professor Bruce Pigozzi, Chair of the Search Committee (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.).  All applications must be submitted through the MSU Applicant Page website at https://jobs.msu.edu posting 0310

Review of applications will begin on December 15, 2014 and will continue until the position is filled.

For more information about the MSU Department of Geography, please visit our website at: http://www.geo.msu.edu.  MSU is an affirmative action, equal-opportunity employer. MSU is committed to achieving excellence through a diverse workforce and inclusive culture that encourages all people to reach their full potential. The University actively encourages applications of women, persons of color, veterans and persons with disabilities.