SILC National Science Foundation

Spatial Intelligence and Learning Center

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Calls for Participation

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Upcoming Conferences / Meetings

June 24-26, 2008 22nd International Workshop on Qualitative Reasoning, University of Colorado at Boulder.
Qualitative Reasoning research lies at the boundary between Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence. QR combines the quest for fundamental understanding of how people reason about physical systems with new ways to supplement conventional modeling, analysis, diagnosis, and control techniques to tackle real-world applications.

Please join us in June at the foot of the Rocky Mountains this summer to learn more about recent advances in this important and exciting research area.

July 16-18, 2008 Advanced Training Institute on Geographic Information Systems for Behavioral Research, University of California, Santa Barbara. To enable more researchers to learn about GIS, the APA Science Directorate is sponsoring an Advanced Training Institute on “Geographic Information Systems for Behavioral Research, ” directed by Dr. Reginald G. Golledge of the University of California, Santa Barbara. The ATI will be held on July 16-18, 2008, in Santa Barbara. It is an expanded version of a one-day course offered in 2007 at the APA Convention in San Francisco.
This summer’s course will feature coverage of GIS usage in the health sciences, cognitive science, counseling, criminology, and education.

July 20-25, 2008 Invited Symposium on Interindividual Differences in Spatial Cognition  We are planning to announce a symposium on the International Congress of Psychology in Berlin (20.7-25.7. 2008) on Interindividual Differences in Spatial Cognition. We would be glad if some of the members of the Spatial SILC Network like to attend this group. For further information of the congress see http://www.icp2008.de/ . Please write a short email to either or if you are interested in attending this.

September 15-19, 2008:  International Conference on Spatial Cognition 2008 (SC'08), Freiburg, Germany. Their website: http://conference.spatial-cognition.de/sc08. Also more info here.


Lecture Series

FALL Lecture Series Schedule:

Note: This is a graduate seminar jointly offered by University of Chicago and Northwestern University.

October 2008
November 2008
  • 11/03 Invited Speaker: Joan Stiles
  • 11/17 Invited Speaker: Jodie Plumert
December 2008
  • 12/01 Invited Speaker: Daniel Haun