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Monday, December 18, 2006 All events are in the NCSA Auditorium unless otherwise noted.
8:00am - 9:00am	Registration Coffee and continental breakfast NCSA Atrium
9:00am - 9:15am	Welcome Vernon Burton, director of the Illinois Center for Computing in the Arts, Humanities and Social Science (I-CHASS) Outline of workshop objectives Luc Anselin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NCSA
9:15am - 10:30am	Keynote address: Fundamental Spatial Concepts Michael Goodchild, University of California, Santa Barbara
10:30am - 11:00am	Break
11:00am - 12:30pm	Social Science Perspectives (1) Population Dynamics and Land Use Change: Blending Social and Spatial Perspectives Barbara Entwistle, University of North Carolina Opportunities for Developing Data-Driven Spatial Theories of Sprawl and Urban Land Use Change Elena Irwin, Ohio State University Enterprise and the Wealth of Villages: An Application of GIS and Spatial Statistics to Two Structural Economic Models Robert Townsend, University of Chicago
12:30pm - 1:30pm	Lunch NCSA Atrium
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Social Science Perspectives (2) Social Explorer: Spatial Exploration for Everyone? Andrew A. Beveridge, City University of New York Political Science Across Time and Space Wendy Cho, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Violence, Gangs and Neighborhood Effects: Putting Space in its Place George Tita, University of California Irvine
3:00pm - 3:30pm	Break
3:30pm - 5:00pm	Humanities Perspectives Humanities GIS: New Tools or New Discipline? David Bodenhamer, Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis Framework for the Preservation of Geospatial Data Richard Marciano, University of California-San Diego and San Diego Supercomputer Center Modeling Historical Phenomena in Space Ruth Mostern, University of California Merced
5:00pm - 7:00pm	Reception

Tuesday, December 19, 2006 All events are in the NCSA Auditorium unless otherwise noted.
9:00am - 10:30am	Panel discussion: Cyberinfrastructure for the Social Sciences and Humanities Moderator: Luc Anselin, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NCSA Panelists: Vernon Burton, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NCSA Noshir Contractor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and NCSA Kevin Franklin, University of California-Irvine Michael Goodchild, University of California-Santa Barbara John Bonnett, Brock University Jim Myers, NCSA Marc Snir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
10:30am - 11:00am	Break
11:00am - 12:30pm	Breakout sessions or Introduction to ArcGIS: Workshop I
12:30pm - 1:30pm	Lunch and continued discussion NCSA Atrium
1:30pm - 3:00pm	Summation of breakout sessions or Introduction to ArcGIS: Workshop II Conclusion of workshop

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