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Symposium 2022 > ScheduleUCGIS Symposium 2022: GIScience Forward: Meeting the ChallengeJune 7 - June 9, 2022Schedule is tentative and subject to revision. All sessions will be held in the Schine Student Center, in Goldstein Auditorium (not to be confused with the Goldstein Student Center on South Campus). Monday June 6 | Tuesday June 7 | Wednesday June 8 | Thursday June 9
SessionsSUNY-ESF ToursSUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry is a unique, small unit of the state university system granting PhDs, Masters and Bachelors Degrees in many environmental and natural resources fields. It is located on the same campus as Syracuse University, just south of the well-known Dome athletic facility. Faculty and students learn and conduct novel research in several aspects of geographic information science, beginning in the 1970s. The tour includes two stops:
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Industry PanelSession Title: Academic - Industry Partnerships Organizers: Jane Read, Aaron Addison Session Moderator: Jeremy Mennis Session Description: There has been a renewed interest in stronger partnerships between academia and private\industry in recent years. Opportunities may be found in specific research, teaching, and higher education overall. This panel discussion will explore the opportunities as well as the challenges each side of such partnerships must navigate to achieve shared success. Panelists:
ResearchSession Title: AI in Spatial Decision Support Organizers: UCGIS Research Committee: Xinyue Ye, Zhe Zhang, Lei Zou (Texas A&M University) Session Moderators: Xinyue Ye, Zhe Zhang, Lei Zou (Texas A&M University) Session Description: In recent years, artificial intelligence (AI) methods have been widely used for spatial decision support. The movement towards intelligent urban and environmental systems creates new challenges to the economic, social, cultural, and legal systems. AI technologies present an unprecedented potential to the design, planning, simulation, and visualization of neighborhoods and cities. In addition, technological advances have brought up new challenges and opportunities in urban and regional decision making theories, methods, practices, education, and ethics. This is an opportune time to explore how AI should function and thrive in the context of spatial decision support. Panelists:
Session Title: Human dynamics and pandemic reflections (panel discussion) Organizers: UCGIS Research Committee: Shih-Lung Shaw & Xiaobai Yao Session Moderators: Shih-Lung Shaw & Xiaobai Yao Session Description: Each panelist will be invited to give a short (5-10 minutes) discussion on research opportunities and challenges related to human dynamics and the pandemic. Open discussions will follow with the goal to identify the key research topics/challenges under this theme. It is our wish that, after these discussions, some UCGIS members will volunteer to lead future efforts UCGIS to pursue publications and/or grant activities on the identified topics and directions. The success of this session will facilitate future UCGIS group research collaboration efforts. Panelists:
EducationSession Title: Communicating Science: Environment, Climate, and Sustainability Education (panel discussion) Organizers: UCGIS Education Committee Session Moderators: Forrest Bowlick & Jennifer Bernstein Session Description: This session will explore methods, approaches, and content in Environment, Climate, and Sustainability Education. Within the broader context of science communication, this panel will discuss these topics during an interactive panel session discussion. Given the various interrelations and overlap between GIS and Geography education and Environmental, Climate, and Sustainability Education, this session will welcome engagement with the transcending expertise of participants to understand more of how teaching and learning operate within these spaces of learning. Panelists and participants will be encouraged to share ideas and operations of whatever components inspire them in this topic. Panelists:
Session Title: Addressing Technical Challenges in GIS Education (working panel) Organizers: Forrest J. Bowlick, Eric Shook Session Moderator: Forrest J. Bowlick Session Description: Technical challenges, broadly, are part of the everyday life of teaching and learning in GIS. This working panel session will invite participants to discuss technical challenges faced in their GIS instruction, consider solutions to said challenges, and generally offer a supportive environment to share problematic experiences and find support in the various challenges of GIS instruction over the past few years. Participants will work in small groups and on Google documents, with key findings shared by a panel representative of participants at the end of the session. Community & Committee (C&C)Session Title: Building the UCGIS Community and Role of Committees Organizers: Jane Read, Aaron Addison Session Moderator: Jane Read, Aaron Addison, Amy Rock, Shih-Lung Shaw Session Description: UCGIS Committees have an important role to play in keeping our UCGIS community diverse and strong. These back to back sessions will detail the function and need of committees and then transition into working groups that will inform the future of UCGIS committee responsibilities and focus areas. Standing committees include:
Body of KnowledgeSession Title: GIS&T Body of Knowledge Research & Education Activities Organizers: Diana Sinton Session Moderator: Diana Sinton During this session, hear from members of the editorial and managerial team of the GIS&T Body of Knowledge (https://gistbok.ucgis.org) about its forthcoming plans to migrate to a new digital platform (The Living Textbook), the subsequent access to interactive and analytical tools, and the ways in which we are establishing linkages between BoK topics and CyberGIS learning approaches, such as the use of Jupyter notebooks. |