AAG-UCGIS Summer School 2019

 

Reproducible Problem Solving with CyberGIS and Geospatial Data Science

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Monday, July 8 –  Saturday, July 13, 2019


 

In July 2019, a week-long summer school on Reproducible Problem Solving with CyberGIS and Geospatial Data Science will be co-led by the CyberGIS Center for Advanced Digital and Spatial Studies (CyberGIS Center) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), American Association of Geographers (AAG), and University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS). Approximately 30 graduate students and early career scholars will learn to collaborate in developing novel solutions to complex problems and to take advantage of geospatial data science and cutting-edge scientific advances and technical capabilities of cyberGIS (e.g., CyberGIS-Jupyter and Virtual ROGER: cybergis.illinois.edu/infrastructures). Participants will experience the types of collaborative and professional interactions that are key to addressing reproducible geospatial problem-solving in the context of computation- and/or data-intensive research involving confidential geospatial data. The program is built on the success of the inaugural UCGIS Summer School in 2017 (https://www.ucgis.org/summer-school-2017), and ideal for those working on interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary topics, including but not limited to data-driven social and environmental sciences, digital humanities, geospatial artificial intelligence, and remote sensing big data.

 

This Summer School will be hosted on the UIUC campus at Urbana, Illinois, USA from Monday July 8 to Saturday July 13, 2019. If you are a graduate student or early-career scholar new to cyberGIS and geospatial data science and want to learn more about integrating them into your research, or are already working on cyberGIS and/or geospatial data science approaches, this Summer School will offer new and exciting opportunities for your professional development, and will help you build connections with others in related fields. UIUC will offer travel awards through the generous support of the National Science Foundation (NSF) for participating in the Summer School.


Award

Awardees will receive NSF travel support that will cover travel costs and shared hotel accommodations for the duration of the Summer School. Travel arrangements will be made directly by UIUC and no reimbursements will be made.


Eligibility


How to Apply?

Applications are being accepted now. Each application needs to include the following components as a single PDF file.

Applications should be submitted via EasyChair and will be due by April 15, 2019. Awardees will be notified by April 29, 2019.


EasyChair Submission Instructions

Questions about the Summer School can be directed to Dr. Anand Padmanabhan (apadmana@illinois.edu) or Dr. Shaowen Wang (shaowen@illinois.edu).


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