SAM/GA Plenary Sessions
Since 2000, in cooperation with Geographical Analysis (GA) and the Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, the Spatial Analysis and Modeling (SAM) Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) has established a tradition of co-sponsoring a plenary speaker at the annual AAG meetings.
| Year | Location | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Honolulu, HI | Peter Rogerson | Testing Hypotheses When You Have a Few Too Many |
The following table summarizes the speakers and their lecture titles to date, by AAG annual meeting year/location.
| Year | Location | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | Denver, CO | Jennifer Miller | On null models in spatial ecology |
| 2022 | Virtual | ||
| 2021 | Virtual | Sergio Rey | Big Code |
| 2020 | Virtual | ||
| 2019 | Washington, DC | Alan Murray | Spatial Analysis and Modeling: Analytics and Spatial Data Science |
| 2018 | New Orleans, Louisiana | Harvey Miller | Some big thoughts about Spatial Analysis and Geographic Information Science in an era of plenty |
| 2017 | Boston, Massachusetts | Daniel Griffith | Some Robust Assessments of Eigenvector Spatial Filtering |
| 2016 | San Francisco, California | Stewart Fotheringham | Dispelling some Myths about Geographically Weighted Regression |
| 2015 | Chicago, Illinois | Keith Clarke | On the topology of topography |
| 2014 | Tampa Bay, Florida | Helen Couclelis | Ignorance in the Age of Information: Prediction and Uncertainty When the Numbers Just Aren't There |
| 2013 | Los Angeles, California | Morton E. O'Kelly | Hub location: a geographic analysis |
| 2012 | New York, New York | Robert Haining | Space-time modelling to support local policing |
| 2011 | Seattle, WA | Geoffrey Jacquez | Key problems and some solutions in geospatial health analysis |
| 2010 | Washington, D.C. | Peter Nijkamp | Behavior of Humans and Behavior of Models: A Cognitive Perspective |
| 2009 | Las Vegas | Denise Pumain | Modeling spatial evolution: the example of urban systems |
| 2008 | Boston | ||
| 2007 | San Francisco | Luc Anselin | Spatial econometrics: retrospect and prospect |
| 2006 | Chicago | Kingsley Haynes | Innovation, technology and latecomer strategies: evidence from the mobile handset manufacturing sector in China |
| 2005 | Denver | Richard Church | Beyond 9-11: the new challenges for spatial analysts |
| 2004 | Philadelphia | ||
| 2003 | New Orleans | Nina Lam | Challenges in spatial analysis: an assessment |
| 2002 | Los Angeles | Arthur Getis | Invention as the mother of necessity: a brief history of quantitative methods in geography |
| 2001 | New York | Michael Batty | Generating urban landscapes at the fine-scale: cells, agents, form and development |
| 2000 | Pittsburgh | Michael Goodchild | Spatial analysis in a communicating world |