Workshops and Tutorials
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registration page and following the instructions.
Workshop 1: Introduction to Spatial Agent-Based Modeling (Full day) - (CANCELLED)
Workshop Facilitator – Yuri Mansury, PhD (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)
Workshop Description: This intensive full-day tutorial will introduce regional scientists to agent-based models and simulation of spatial systems. The tutorial will include an intensive lecture and hands-on laboratory to introduce the foundational ideas and tools of agent-based modeling, as well as their application to socio-economic questions relevant to regional science. I will present ABM programming algorithms and advise for the beginners in agent-based modeling. NetLogo is the principal programming platform. Participants will receive handouts describing the algorithms and their documentations, as well as electronic copies of the NetLogo implementation. The tutorial will discuss models where spatial patterns emerge from the uncoordinated actions of heterogeneous agents. Topics covered include models of Residential Segregation and Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma. The tutorial will proceed in stages where (i) ABM techniques and application are presented; (ii) the role of space is examined; (iii) participants gain hands-on experience working through ABM tutorials.
Every participant must bring a laptop, on which the latest version of NetLogo (free download from http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/) and the NetLogo GIS extension have been pre-installed.
Workshop 2: Exploratory Spatial Pattern Analysis: Revealing or Deceiving (Half-day/Afternoon)
Location: Faculty of Architecture and Planning (APTU), room Computer Lab (209) , 2nd Floor
Local transportation between the main venue (Krungsri River Hotel) and APTU will be provided for workshop participants. The van will depart Krungsri River Hotel at noon (meeting point at the hotel lobby) and return by the end of the workshop. As it is during a school holiday, workshop participants are recommended to have lunch at the hotel before coming to the workshop.
Workshop Facilitator – David W. Wong, PhD (University of Hong Kong/George Mason University, USA)
Workshop Description: The target audience of this workshop are junior researchers who have an interest in analyzing spatial patterns of areal/polygon data. The workshop provides an overview of several methodological issues in analyzing spatial data, including the MAUP, spatial autocorrelation, and spatial data quality, particularly about attribute accuracy. As maps are often used in exploratory spatial data analysis, caveats and misgivings of using maps to detect spatial patterns are discussed, particularly how error in data may affect map interpretations. Some “solutions” will be reviewed. Quantitatively, spatial autocorrelation-association statistics are often used to detect spatial clusters. Their limitations in cluster detection will be addressed. Demonstrations will be provided throughout the workshop, and hands-on lab sessions will be held if the facility can support.
Workshop 3: Introduction to IMPLAN (Half-day/Morning)
Location: Krungsri River Hotel, room Pa-Ka-Krong, 2nd Floor
Workshop Facilitator – Jenny Thorvaldson, PhD (IMPLAN Group LLC, Huntersville, North Carolina, USA)
Workshop Description: This workshop presents an Introduction to IMPLAN. IMPLAN is a software and data system for economic impact analysis currently used by hundreds of government agencies, colleges, and universities, non-profit organizations, corporations and business development/community planning organizations. IMPLAN software allows you to view data that describes the economy of your region, perform economic impact analyses, and customize the information used in the analysis to match your specific industry, or program knowledge. Additionally, IMPLAN software allows you to look backward through the supply chain, to estimate how changes in industries or programs can impact an entire region, and provides the ability to view your results in terms of production, payroll, GRP, Employment and taxes, across a variety of industries and tax transaction types. Clients use IMPLAN as a tool to quickly and efficiently model regional economic impacts. At the national level, IMPLAN data can be used to examine how changes in programs and policies may impact local economies, and how current industries support the economy. In academia, IMPLAN can prepare students for careers in their fields and in research IMPLAN can be used in combination with other tools to assess fiscal and potential social aspects of problems related to policy development, programs, businesses and natural resource usages. IMPLAN can assist in understanding the potential fiscal impacts of policy decisions, cutbacks, attractions/events and potential layoffs. It can help with weighing the benefits of competing programs, and of using industry tax abatements to draw local companies, by providing a clearer view of the economic portion of the picture. IMPLAN aids users with a variety of skill levels and backgrounds to perform reliable, reproducible and consistent economic analyses. IMPLAN Group LLC is also working to further increase the accuracy, reliability and standardization of analysis protocols for economic impact studies.
Workshop 4: Land Use and Climate Change (Half-day/Afternoon)
Location: Krungsri River Hotel, room Bu-Nga, 2nd Floor
Workshop Facilitator – B. Majumder, PhD (Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh)
Workshop Description: Land use is the human use of land. Land use involves the modification of natural environment such as vegetation, pastures, and settlements. Population, economic, or sociopolitical factors of a region can determine land use practice as well. Consequently, the change of land use affects climate through modifications of land cover, e.g., forest to agriculture. Carbon dioxide is the driving component for climate change. In fact, vegetation is the only media that can exchanges carbon dioxide between the atmosphere and the terrestrial biosphere through photosynthesis and plant and soil respiration. This natural exchange has been occurring for hundreds of millions of years. However, humans are changing the natural rate of exchange of carbon between the atmosphere and the terrestrial biosphere through land use practice. This tutorial course provides a basic understanding of land use and includes the effect of land use change on climate. The focus will be on exchange of carbon between the atmosphere and the terrestrial pool of aboveground biomass, and soil in relation to climate change. Precisely, the topic and course content definitely falls under regional science territory.
Workshop 5: Design flood estimation under climate change (Half-day/Morning)
Location: Krungsri River Hotel, room Bu-Nga, 2nd Floor
Workshop Facilitator – Samiran Das, PhD (Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh)
Workshop Description: The estimation of flood for various return periods, referred to as frequency curve, is needed when analysing flood risk. Statistical investigation of peak flows extracted from daily time series is required to determine the flood frequency curve, i.e., the flood magnitude (Q) return period (T) relationship. With the effect of global climate change the hydrologic variables such as precipitation patterns are changing, and in many places they are drastically increasing. Changes in the frequency of flooding events are thus expected under climate change. The use of frequency curves based on historical flood data might, therefore, underestimate the risk associated with the design of water resources infrastructure systems. Flood estimation under climate change requires flow series to be produced under climate change using the climate data obtained from Global Climate Models (GCMs). The aim of this tutorial is to provide knowledge and technical skill to estimate design flood under climate change.
Workshop 1: Introduction to Spatial Agent-Based Modeling (Full day) - (CANCELLED)
Workshop Facilitator – Yuri Mansury, PhD (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA)
Workshop Description: This intensive full-day tutorial will introduce regional scientists to agent-based models and simulation of spatial systems. The tutorial will include an intensive lecture and hands-on laboratory to introduce the foundational ideas and tools of agent-based modeling, as well as their application to socio-economic questions relevant to regional science. I will present ABM programming algorithms and advise for the beginners in agent-based modeling. NetLogo is the principal programming platform. Participants will receive handouts describing the algorithms and their documentations, as well as electronic copies of the NetLogo implementation. The tutorial will discuss models where spatial patterns emerge from the uncoordinated actions of heterogeneous agents. Topics covered include models of Residential Segregation and Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma. The tutorial will proceed in stages where (i) ABM techniques and application are presented; (ii) the role of space is examined; (iii) participants gain hands-on experience working through ABM tutorials.
Every participant must bring a laptop, on which the latest version of NetLogo (free download from http://ccl.northwestern.edu/netlogo/) and the NetLogo GIS extension have been pre-installed.
Workshop 2: Exploratory Spatial Pattern Analysis: Revealing or Deceiving (Half-day/Afternoon)
Location: Faculty of Architecture and Planning (APTU), room Computer Lab (209) , 2nd Floor
Local transportation between the main venue (Krungsri River Hotel) and APTU will be provided for workshop participants. The van will depart Krungsri River Hotel at noon (meeting point at the hotel lobby) and return by the end of the workshop. As it is during a school holiday, workshop participants are recommended to have lunch at the hotel before coming to the workshop.
Workshop Facilitator – David W. Wong, PhD (University of Hong Kong/George Mason University, USA)
Workshop Description: The target audience of this workshop are junior researchers who have an interest in analyzing spatial patterns of areal/polygon data. The workshop provides an overview of several methodological issues in analyzing spatial data, including the MAUP, spatial autocorrelation, and spatial data quality, particularly about attribute accuracy. As maps are often used in exploratory spatial data analysis, caveats and misgivings of using maps to detect spatial patterns are discussed, particularly how error in data may affect map interpretations. Some “solutions” will be reviewed. Quantitatively, spatial autocorrelation-association statistics are often used to detect spatial clusters. Their limitations in cluster detection will be addressed. Demonstrations will be provided throughout the workshop, and hands-on lab sessions will be held if the facility can support.
Workshop 3: Introduction to IMPLAN (Half-day/Morning)
Location: Krungsri River Hotel, room Pa-Ka-Krong, 2nd Floor
Workshop Facilitator – Jenny Thorvaldson, PhD (IMPLAN Group LLC, Huntersville, North Carolina, USA)
Workshop Description: This workshop presents an Introduction to IMPLAN. IMPLAN is a software and data system for economic impact analysis currently used by hundreds of government agencies, colleges, and universities, non-profit organizations, corporations and business development/community planning organizations. IMPLAN software allows you to view data that describes the economy of your region, perform economic impact analyses, and customize the information used in the analysis to match your specific industry, or program knowledge. Additionally, IMPLAN software allows you to look backward through the supply chain, to estimate how changes in industries or programs can impact an entire region, and provides the ability to view your results in terms of production, payroll, GRP, Employment and taxes, across a variety of industries and tax transaction types. Clients use IMPLAN as a tool to quickly and efficiently model regional economic impacts. At the national level, IMPLAN data can be used to examine how changes in programs and policies may impact local economies, and how current industries support the economy. In academia, IMPLAN can prepare students for careers in their fields and in research IMPLAN can be used in combination with other tools to assess fiscal and potential social aspects of problems related to policy development, programs, businesses and natural resource usages. IMPLAN can assist in understanding the potential fiscal impacts of policy decisions, cutbacks, attractions/events and potential layoffs. It can help with weighing the benefits of competing programs, and of using industry tax abatements to draw local companies, by providing a clearer view of the economic portion of the picture. IMPLAN aids users with a variety of skill levels and backgrounds to perform reliable, reproducible and consistent economic analyses. IMPLAN Group LLC is also working to further increase the accuracy, reliability and standardization of analysis protocols for economic impact studies.
Workshop 4: Land Use and Climate Change (Half-day/Afternoon)
Location: Krungsri River Hotel, room Bu-Nga, 2nd Floor
Workshop Facilitator – B. Majumder, PhD (Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh)
Workshop Description: Land use is the human use of land. Land use involves the modification of natural environment such as vegetation, pastures, and settlements. Population, economic, or sociopolitical factors of a region can determine land use practice as well. Consequently, the change of land use affects climate through modifications of land cover, e.g., forest to agriculture. Carbon dioxide is the driving component for climate change. In fact, vegetation is the only media that can exchanges carbon dioxide between the atmosphere and the terrestrial biosphere through photosynthesis and plant and soil respiration. This natural exchange has been occurring for hundreds of millions of years. However, humans are changing the natural rate of exchange of carbon between the atmosphere and the terrestrial biosphere through land use practice. This tutorial course provides a basic understanding of land use and includes the effect of land use change on climate. The focus will be on exchange of carbon between the atmosphere and the terrestrial pool of aboveground biomass, and soil in relation to climate change. Precisely, the topic and course content definitely falls under regional science territory.
Workshop 5: Design flood estimation under climate change (Half-day/Morning)
Location: Krungsri River Hotel, room Bu-Nga, 2nd Floor
Workshop Facilitator – Samiran Das, PhD (Asian University for Women, Chittagong, Bangladesh)
Workshop Description: The estimation of flood for various return periods, referred to as frequency curve, is needed when analysing flood risk. Statistical investigation of peak flows extracted from daily time series is required to determine the flood frequency curve, i.e., the flood magnitude (Q) return period (T) relationship. With the effect of global climate change the hydrologic variables such as precipitation patterns are changing, and in many places they are drastically increasing. Changes in the frequency of flooding events are thus expected under climate change. The use of frequency curves based on historical flood data might, therefore, underestimate the risk associated with the design of water resources infrastructure systems. Flood estimation under climate change requires flow series to be produced under climate change using the climate data obtained from Global Climate Models (GCMs). The aim of this tutorial is to provide knowledge and technical skill to estimate design flood under climate change.