Dear Member of the Spatial Econometrics Association,

first of all let me wish you all a very happy new year 2014.

The beginning of the year is the right occasion to give you some updates of the ongoing activity of the Association and of the programs for the year 2014. As you all know two are the main activities of the Association namely the Yearly conference and the summer school.

1) The VIII Annual World Conference of the SEA this year will be held in Zurich from Wednesday 11^th june (reception) to june 13^th. The link at http://www.spatialeconometricsassociation.org/2014/ will be soon populated with all the relevant information. The conference is organized by  Prof. Peter Egger at the ETH Zurich (http://www.kof.ethz.ch/).

2) The 7th Edition of the Spatial Econometrics Advanced Institute (SEAI14) will be held in Rome, at the Catholic University of the Sacred Hearth. ( http://roma.unicatt.it/home?rdeLocaleAttr=en). The instructors of this year's edition are: Giuseppe Arbia (week 1), Anil Bera (week 2), Ingmar Prucha (week 3), Badi Baltagi (week 4). The computer lab sessions on the software language R will be lead by Gianfranco Piras, Diego Giuliani and Giovanni Millo.

Here below please find some important deadlines and timetable:

February 20th, 2014 - Deadline for formal applications

March 10th, 2014 - Notification of acceptance

April 15th, 2014 - Deadline for the first half of the payment

May  10th 2014 - Deadline for final payments

May 12th- June 6th, 2014 - Courses

The application form can be downloaded at the web page: http://www.spatialeconometricsassociation.org/advanced/program_2014.html

Send the applications forms to : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

I rely on  your help to diffuse these information in your network. Looking forward to see you all in some of the future activities.

Best regards,

Giuseppe Arbia

Chairman of the Spatial Econometrics Association

Regards,

Yangki Imade Suara
PRSCO 2013 Secretariat
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Our photographers took a lot of pictures during PRSCO 2013 (around 30 GB in total). We have uploaded all pictures to IRSA's Flickr account. Please kindly visit http://www.flickr.com/photos/irsa-indonesia/sets/ to download your pictures during PRSCO 2013.

If you have uploaded your pictures to Flickr, please kindly use tag #prsco2013 and #irsa2013 so we can link it with our photo album.

Regards,

Yangki Imade Suara

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The 23rd PRSCO and the 4th IRSA Institute http://www.prsco2013.org/ | https://www.conftool.com/prsco2013/

No dia 14 de Janeiro de 2014, terá lugar na Universidade de Aveiro, Sala de Atos da Reitoria, entre as 9:00 e as 18:30, o seminário internacional “Governance, Science and Innovation in Development Policies”, organizado no âmbito do projeto “Alianças Territoriais para a Inovação”.

O seminário será estruturado em torno de dois temas principais: “Leadership for Governance: Much Ado about Nothing?”, a ser debatido durante a manhã, e “Science, Development Policy and the Stubborn Reality!”, que constituirá o motivo de debate durante a tarde. A estimular e apoiar os debates estarão os oradores Gerry Stoker, Colin Copus, Giovanni Allegretti e Luís de Sousa no primeiro tema, e Bjørn Asheim, Louise Kempton, John Edwards, e Paulo Pinho no segundo. Poderá consultar mais informações sobre o evento no programa que enviamos em anexo.

O seminário, de inscrição gratuita, terá um número limitado de participantes. Teríamos muito gosto em poder contar com a sua presença. Ficaríamos gratos se confirmasse a sua participação para um dos seguintes e-mails: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ou This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Para qualquer informação adicional, não hesite em contactar.

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Saudações cordiais,

A Coordenação da Equipa do Projeto “Alianças Territoriais para a Inovação”

Artur de Rosa Pires

Filipe Teles

Flyer in English (PDF)

Speakers (PDF)

'Call for Papers' for the 2014 IIOA Conference in Lisbon, Portugal (15-18th July 2014). (See the Call document attached!)

Our Conference Paper Submission System (COPASS) is open to receive your abstracts (and full papers). Goto: https://copass.iioa.org, login, and click the link "22nd IIOA Conference in Lisbon".

We are looking forward to your participation!

Check out latest news, important dates, accommodation hints, and how to contact us on the conference web-page: http://www.iioa.org/conferences/22nd/

2014 International Conference on E-commerce and Contemporary Economic Development [ECED2014] aims to bring together researchers, engineers and students from around the world in both fields about E-commerce and Contemporary Economic Devel opment for information sharing and cooperation. Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit their contributions to ECED2014.

Thesis topics

1. a) Business And Social Applications;
2. b) Communication And Network Security;
3. c) E- Business And Extended Issues In E -Business;
4. d) Innovation Management and International Finance.

Note: Not limited to the above issues. The authors according to the above issues can personally giving their comments and opinions

The paper language: English    

Index： EI and ISTP

Paper format

1. a) All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not submitted concurrently for publication elsewhere.
2. b) Each paper should be at 3 pages
3. c) Finally leave our E-mail convenient we contact you.

Paper submission Due: March 08, 2014

Conference Date: June 7-8,2014 

Conference Location: Hong Kong, China

The official website: http://www.eced2014.com

Submission Via Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

ECED2014 ORGANIZER COMMITTEE

Dear colleagues!

The Department for Social and Economic Geography and Regional Studies, the Faculty of Geology and Geography, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Ukraine) invites you to take part on 3-4 April, 2014 at the scientific and practical conference for students, post-graduate students and young researches «Region-2014: human-geographical aspects» and to publish your articles in the scientific journal «Journal of human geography». The call for papers is placed in the attached file.

http://hgj.univer.kharkov.ua/index.php/en/ – the link to the web-site of our journal. The journal is included in the list of Ukraine’s scientific professional publications (according to the Certified Staff Evaluation Department of the Ministry of Education and Science of Ukraine), which results of theses for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy (geographical sciences) may be published.

In 2013 the monograph “Spatial Analysis in Human Geography: New Approaches, Methods, Models. Monograph / K.A. Nemets. – Kharkiv: KhNU, 2013. – 225 p.” by K.A. Nemets, L.M. Nemets was published. («Просторовий аналіз у суспільній географії: нові підходи, методи, моделі»)

In the attached file the content and the summary of the monograph are placed.

Also I suggest to look through the research interests of the Department for Social and Economic Geography and Regional Studies. The department deals with such issues: evaluation of natural resource, tourist resource potential and environmental management, demographic studies, investigations of the employment potential, analysis of the social infrastructure, social development, social safety of territories, studies of business environment, small and average entrepreneurship, studies of foreign economic connections of border and cross-border territories, territorial organization of the agricultural complex, training of specialties (masters) in recreation and excursion activity. Methodic of the study of the territorial planning, and monitoring model of the city's social and economic development have been worked out by the researchers of the department. If some of these fields of research are intersected with yours we would be glad to collaborate.

If you have any questions, please, write to my e-mail (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it., This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.) or listed below:

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. (the e-mail for questions on articles in «Journal of HUMAN geography»)

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.(E-mail for submission papers at the conference «Region-2013: Human- geographical Aspects»

The e-mail of the Department for Social and Economic Geography and Regional Studies, the Faculty of Geology and Geography, V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University (Ukraine):

This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

The web-site of the department:

http://soc-econom-region.univer.kharkov.ua/index.php?lang=en

We are waiting for your publications and look forward to working!

Sincerely, Pavel Kobylin.

With the support of Gulbenkian Foundation, and with the aim to create a Regional Science Association International (www.regionalscience.org) Section in Armenia, took place on the 6th of December 2013, at Yerevan State University of Architecture and Construction (www.ysuac.am ) a Regional Science Workshop on Interdisciplinary Analysis and Policies for Regional Sustainability. There were seven speakers and thirty participants. The remaining of the support will be spent in a Conference by Peter Nijkamp on March 2014 and on support to Armenian scientists in the European Regional Science Association Conference that will take place on August 2014 in Saint Petersburg, Russia.

Only 6 DAYS left to submit the abstract.

List of tracks and online abstract submission are available here.

Dear Colleagues:

You still have time to join us in Bail, Indonesia at the 2014 international industrial engineering and operations management (IEOM) conference on January 7-9 and meet people from more than 60 counties including distinguished global engineering education speakers. IEOM 2014 conference program is attached.

If you are interested, you can register onsite at Grand Hyatt Bali. The early registration will open on Monday, January 6 from 3:00 pm to 9:00 pm in the Grand Ballroom Foyer area. The regular registration fee includes: conference technical sessions, keynote presentations, global engineering education sessions, welcome reception, conference award dinner and cultural program, box lunches (Tuesday and Wednesday), coffee breaks, conference program booklet, conference CDROM proceedings and conference bag.

You will see a great added value conference. Your participation of IEOM 2014 Bali Conference is highly appreciated.

IEOM Forum wishes you a HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR!

Thanks

Ahad
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Ahad Ali, Ph.D.
Conference Chair, IEOM 2014
www.iieom.org