In this talk, Epidemiologist Mark Lurie and co-investigators will discuss their newly funded NSF Center, MAPPS, aimed at predicting and preventing future pandemics.
This presentation by GIS Developer and Spatial Scientist Guixing Wei will explore the benefits of utilizing a multi-level framework that simultaneously considers samples' membership, spatial autocorrelation, and differing urban/rural within-cluster variances in order to provide valuable insights into the understanding of demographic and health outcomes.
January 3-14: The GIS Institute is an intensive two-week training focused on visualization, management, and analysis of geographic data. The Institute is a partnership between S4, the Brown University Libraries, EarthLab, and the PSTC. The GIS Institute allows participants to refine and/or develop spatial/geographic research questions with guidance and critical feedback from Brown University faculty. Application deadline is December 12. More information here.
In this talk, computational epidemiologist Aditya Khanna will discuss some of his recent work developing biosocial network models that are embedded in social and geographical space in Chicago.
William Goedel – Assistant Professor (Research), Department of Epidemiology, Brown University School of Public Health
This talk will focus on the spatiotemporal epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 infection and related outcomes of hospitalization and death due to COVID-19 in Rhode Island.
Eugene Brusilovskiy - Director, Laboratory on GIS Analytics in Rehabilitation Research, Temple University
This talk will focus on the use of Global Positioning Systems (GPS) to measure community mobility and participation of individuals with psychiatric disabilities.
Miriam Rothenberg, Winner of 2020 S4 Graduate Student Paper Prize, Brown University
Miriam Rothenberg will present her research on the wind-powered sugar mills of the Caribbean island of Montserrat, and how they signify the power and control of plantation owners.
Nick R. Smith, Assistant Professor of Urban Studies, Yale-NUS College, Singapore
PLEASE NOTE THIS TALK IS CANCELLED. Nick Smith of Yale-NUS College will discuss an experimental village on the outskirts of Chongqing and different visions for future urbanization and Chinese society.
Grant McKenzie of McGill University will discuss how geographic information science has pushed beyond “spatial” to incorporate non-explicitly geospatial contextual data.
This two-week course will focus on visualization, management, and analysis of geographic data. Participants will refine and/or develop research questions with Brown University faculty.
Thomas Marlow, Winner of 2019 S4 Graduate Student Paper Prize, Brown University
Marlow will present his research on Providence manufacturing geography that shows the influence of race, class, and land-use history on environmental inequality.
Adriano Borges Costa, Visiting Scholar, Brown University
Costa will present his research using historical GIS data to investigate the relationship between transportation policy decisions and the formation of São Paulo's peripheral area.
Participants in the GIS Institute will present their projects as the culmination of the intensive two-week GIS Institute that focuses on visualization, management, and analysis of geographic data.
Jorge Pérez Pérez, PhD candidate in Economics, Brown University
Pérez Pérez will present his research on the effects of changes in the minimum wage. His paper was selected for the 2018 S4 Graduate Student Paper Prize.
Robert Manduca, doctoral candidate, Harvard University
Manduca will address a core question in urban planning and urban economics that concerns the extent to which urban employment is monocentric, polycentric, or diffuse.
Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences (S4), Special Events