The U.S. Mission here was recently contacted by a Minister of the Government of Lesotho (GoL).  The Minister requested assistance with city planning expertise – something sorely lacking here!  Would it be possible for RSAL to provide any type of assistance, whether it be a guest speaker, educational resources, or anything else?

MPhil and PhD scholarships in labour economics and urban/regional economics are available at the University of Waikato.

For more details please see link below:

 Waikato scholarships (147.87 kB)

For more information about the Benjamin H. Stevens 2009-2010 Graduate Fellowship in Regional Science see link below.

 Stevens Fellowship (29.46 kB) 

GIScience 2010 :: First Circular

GISCIENCE CONFERENCE BACK IN EUROPE!

Zurich, Switzerland, September 14-17, 2010

Zurich, Switzerland will be the host city of the sixth GIScience, continuing a highly successful series of conferences that commenced in 2000, and which regularly attracts over 200 international researchers.

GIScience 2010 aims to bring together scientists from academia, industry, and government to discuss the state-of-the-art in geographic information science, and explore emerging research directions. The conference focuses on basic research findings across all sectors of the field, and pure application papers are discouraged. The conference has two (refereed) submission tracks: full papers and extended abstracts. Pre-conference workshops and tutorials (Sep. 14) and the main conference (Sep. 15-17) will take place at the University of Zurich-Irchel campus, featuring state-of-the-art conference facilities within a park-like setting.

The conference site is located only 20 minutes from both downtown and Zurich Airport, and is easily accessible through public transport.

The Second Circular, including the call for papers and more detail on the conference structure, accommodation, and registration will be sent out by the end of August, 2009. Note also the conference website, which will be updated on a regular basis:

http://www.giscience2010.org.

DEADLINES

Workshop and Tutorial proposals due       January 7, 2010

Workshop and Tutorial notification           January 29, 2010

Full papers due                                    January 29, 2010

Full paper notification                            March 15, 2010

Extended abstracts due                         April 30, 2010

Extended abstract notification                 June 15, 2010

The Regional Science Association International: British and Irish Section invites the submission of abstracts for their 39th Annual Conference in Glasgow from August 25 to 27, 2010.

 Call for Papers: RSAI-BIS conference 2010 (35.12 kB) 

The following are suggested themes, but quality papers in all areas of regional science are welcome.

·      Regional Growth and Productivity

·      Differential Regional Impacts of the Current Economic Crisis

·      Sustainable Regional Development

·      Regional Energy Use and Environmental Impacts

·      Patterns of Migration and Implications for Regional Labour Markets

·      Evaluating Regional Development Policies

·      Spatial Analysis and Geodemographics

·      Multisectoral Modelling Approaches

·      Innovation and Competitiveness

·      Spatial Productivity Disparities

·      Transport and Infrastructure

·      Rural Economies and Communities

There will be Special Session for early career / doctoral students with prizes for the best conference paper and the best conference presentation by early career researchers.

Early career researchers are those engaged in or having recently completed PhD study in regional science.  Those applying for the best presentation must be at a stage prior to a PhD viva date.  Applicants for the best conference paper must be within 3 years of their PhD viva.  If you are eligible and wish to be considered for these prizes please bring this to the attention of the Secretary when you submit your abstract.

Please submit abstracts of up to 300 words by e-mail to the Secretary at the address below as soon as possible and by February 12th 2010 at the very latest. Authors will be notified of the selection committee’s decision in April 2009.

For any further information regarding the conference please contact the Secretary: Dr Declan Jordan, Secretary RSAI:BIS, Department of Economics, University College Cork, Western Road, Cork, Ireland.

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

To address these questions the Editors propose the following broad themes but also welcome papers that cut across or go beyond those specified:

·         Global Competitive Pressures and Regional Realignment

·         Changing Global Divisions of Labour and Regional Development

·         Financial/Economic Crisis and the Restructuring of Cities and Regions

·         Surviving/ Living through the Crisis / Uneven Impact of the Recession 

·         European Borders and Boundaries, Inclusion, Exclusion and Identity

·         Geographical Peripherality and Regional Development

·         Creativity and Sustainability

·         Economic and Environmental Sustainability in Cities and Regions

·         Constructing Creative Cities and Regional Advantage

·         Gender, Diversity, Difference, Inclusions and Exclusion

·         Urban Change, Vernacular Cosmopolitanisms and Creative Subcultures

·         Mobility and Migration

·         Theories, Methods and Models of Development in an era of transformation

Pleanary Speakers include:           Ron Boschma (Urban and Regional Research Centre Utrecht)

                                                Mick Dunford (University of Sussex)

                                                Costis Hadjimichalis (Harokopio University)

                                                Merje Kuus (University of British Columbia)

                                                Frank Moulaert (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

                                                Andreas Novy (Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration)

                                                Speakers from the City Hall in Vienna

Proposals for Papers                    A one page abstract should be sent by 31^st March 2010 to:

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

Further details                            Booking forms and further details can be obtained by contacting:

Kathy Wood, Department of Geography, Durham University, Durham DH1 3LE, UK (email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.), Tel: 00 44 191 334 1926

GIScience 2010

(http://www.giscience2010.org<http://www.giscience2010.org/)

Sixth International Conference on Geographic Information Science

Zurich, Switzerland, September 14-17, 2010

LAST CALL FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS and WORKSHOPS/TUTORIALS ANNOUNCEMENT

OVERVIEW:

Zurich, Switzerland will be the host city of the sixth international GIScience conference, continuing a highly successful series of biennial conferences that commenced in 2000. GIScience 2010 aims to bring together scientists from academia, industry, and government to discuss the state-of-the-art in geographic information science, and explore emerging research directions. The conference focuses on basic research findings across all sectors of the field and has two refereed submission tracks:

full papers and extended abstracts. Pre-conference workshops and tutorials (Sep. 14) and the main conference (Sep. 15-17) will take place at the University of Zurich, Irchel campus, featuring state-of-the-art conference facilities within a park-like setting. The conference site is located only 20 minutes from both downtown and Zurich Airport, and is easily accessible through public transport.

TOPICS AND TRACKS:

Fundamental research findings and emerging topics across all sectors of geographic information science (GIScience) are welcomed. The conference attracts leading researchers from all cognate disciplines to reflect the interdisciplinary breadth of GIScience, including (but not limited to) geography, cognitive science, computer science, engineering, information science, mathematics, philosophy, psychology, social science, and (geo)statistics.

Since GIScience 2010 focuses on advances in the fundamentals of geographic information science, submission of pure application papers is discouraged.

To accommodate the variety of publication cultures within an interdisciplinary research community, two refereed submission tracks are provided: full papers (NOW CLOSED) and extended abstracts.

EXTENDED ABSTRACTS TRACK:

Publication in separate Conference Proceedings Volume

Extended abstracts of 1500 words, describing work in progress, will be reviewed by at least three members of the international program committee and, if accepted, selected for oral or poster presentation. Extended abstracts must be written in English according to the formatting guidelines published at http://www.giscience2010.org/index.php?page=submission

and submitted using EasyChair:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=giscience2010.

If you have not previously used EasyChair, we strongly recommend registering with the system BEFORE the submission deadline.

WORKSHOPS & TUTORIALS:

A total of 4 half-day tutorials, an innovation for GIScience, and 4 workshops have been accepted by the Programme Committee. For detailed information, see:

http://www.giscience2010.org/index.php?page=accepted-workshops-and-tutorials

The accepted TUTORIALS are as follows:

Development of Web GIS and Web Mapping Applications with QGIS mapserver

Organisers: Ionut Iosifescu, Marco Hugentobler and Lorenz Hurni

Geometric Algorithms and Efficiency for GIScience

Organisers: Marc van Kreveld and Bettina Speckmann

A Practical Introduction to Geospatial Visual Analytics

Organisers: Natalia Andrienko and Gennady Andrienko

GISolve Toolkit: Cyberinfrastructure-based Geographical Information Systems

Organisers: Shaowen Wang, Yan Liu

The accepted WORKSHOPS are:

Emerging Methods for Studying the Use of Spatial Technologies

Organisers: Amy Griffin, Scott Bell and Mary Hegarty

Role of Volunteered Geographic Information in Advancing Science

Organisers: Budhendra Bhaduri, Michael Goodchild and Daniel Getman

Linked Spatiotemporal Data

Organisers: Krzysztof Janowicz, Todd Pehle, Glen Hart and Patrick MauÈ

Workshop on Movement Pattern Analysis

Organisers: Roland Billen, Bjoern Gottfried, Alexander Klippel, Patrick Laube and Nico Van de Weghe

A DOCTORAL COLLOQUIUM will also be hosted by GIScience on the 18th of September. More details are available here:

http://irtg-sigi.uni-muenster.de/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=25

IMPORTANT DATES:

Registration open April 15, 2010

Extended abstracts due April 30, 2010

Extended abstract notification June 15, 2010

Earlybird registration closes June 30, 2010

Dear Friend of Regional Science:

Mark your calendars and save the dates for the 57th Annual North American Meetings of the Regional Science Association International. This year’s meeting will be held at The Grand Hyatt Denver from Wednesday November 10th to Saturday November 13th, 2010 in Denver, Colorado.

The 2010 meetings promise to be bigger and better than ever. A new innovation introduced this year will be the opportunity to participate in poster sessions in addition, or as an alternative, to the regular paper sessions. We’re also working on optional sightseeing activities and training opportunities.

Start thinking about that paper and/or poster you’d like to present. The registration portal of the North American Regional Science Council (NARSC) will open in late April 2010. Always an important part of the conference, please think about organizing one or several themed sessions. Paper/poster abstracts and session proposals can be submitted any time from opening data through August 1, 2010.

Information about the 2010 Denver Conference is now available at the NARSC Website <www.narsc.org>. But, check back often as we add new information about the conference and activities surrounding the conference.

If you would like to suggest session ideas or discuss issues related to the program or poster session, contact Program Chair Neil Reid, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or +1.419.530.3593.

For issues related to local arrangements, contact John Leatherman, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or +1.785.532.4492.

For sponsorship, exhibitor space, and overall arrangements, contact Jean-Claude Thill at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Dear colleagues,

I contact you to inform about the start of the process of the Call for Papers of the "Workshop on Economics of Education" which will be held at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Barcelona (UB) the next September 20th 2010.

To find more information about it please check the attached pdf and the website of the event:

 Workshop Economics on Education (24.2 kB)

http://www.pcb.ub.es/xreap/workshop

Participants whose Papers have been accepted are exempt from the payment of the registration fee, for the other attendees the early fee costs 100EUR (before July 26th) and the late fee 150EUR (before September 12th).

Once we have the final program (in mid-June), you will find the form in our webpage.

Looking forward to hearing from you,

XREAP

Attached is a flyer outlining the 2010 Applied Geography Conference which will be held in Fort Worth, Texas on October 20-23, 2010.

 AGC 2010 (128.76 kB)