ICA-ISPRS Joint Workshops 2011

As part of the IRMACS 2011 Thematic Year showcasing Scientific Modelling at SFU, the IRMACS Centre is pleased to present between August 10-12, 2011, the joint workshops titled "Our Complex World: Representation, Analysis and Modeling" by the International Cartographic Association (ICA) and the International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ISPRS).

The workshops bring together leading researchers from relevant disciplines to address issues related to the complexity of dynamic geographical and environmental systems from a geospatial analysis and modeling perspective. The overall focus of the workshops is to examine the conceptual, technical and application challenges of complexity science as a paradigm to effectively analyze the linkages between social, economic and natural systems evolving in time and across geographic space.

The keynote speakers at the workshop are:

• Dr. Paul Torrens (http://www.geosimulation.org/) an Associate Professor, Geosimulation Research Laboratory, School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning, Arizona State University.
• Tim Nyerges (http://faculty.washington.edu/nyerges/) a Professor at the Deaprtment of Geography, University of Washington.
• Stewart Fotheringham (http://ncg.nuim.ie/redir.php?action=staff/staff/sfotheringham) a Science Foundation Ireland Research Professor and Director of the National Centre for Geocomputation.

The Workshop Chair and Organizer is Dr. Suzana Dragicevic, a Professor from the Department of Geography, Simon Fraser University.