Presentations

Most talks are in web formats, and may include links that are now broken. Others are PDFs. Others are missing, but are listed because they give a sense of development over time.

Date	Title	Notes
2024 August	Time-space mapping in mountainous terrain	GeoCart 2024, National Library, Wellington, 21-23 August
2024 April	A spatially explicit agent-based model of on-farm environmental interventions	Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Honolulu, Hawai’i, United States
2024 March	30 Day Map Challenge 2023	Maptime! Wellington
2023 September	From geographical information science via spatial data science to geographical computing	Fourth Spatial Data Science Symposium, University of Canterbury Hub, 7 September
2023 August	Computing Geographically: Bridging Giscience and Geography	University of Canterbury, School of Earth and Environment, Research Seminar, 10 August
2022 November	Tiled & woven thematic maps	Regional GIS Forum, Palmerston North, 11 November
2022 August	Computing geographically: rethinking space and place in giscience	Keynote at New Zealand Geospatial Research Colloquium, 29-30 August
2022 August	Tiled & woven thematic maps	GeoCart 2022, National Library, Wellington, 24-26 August
2022 July	R for geospatial	Spatial Literacy User Group, Te Herenga Waka - Victoria University of Wellington
2021 November	Weaving maps of multivariate data	State of New Zealand Cartography, Special Meeting of the New Zealand Cartographic Society, Wellington
2021 September	Mapping the Dulux Colours of New Zealand Using R	Maptime! Aotearoa, online
2020 November	Spatially-explicit models for exploring COVID-19 lockdown strategies	New Zealand Geographical Society, Wellington
2020 November	Computing geographically: rethinking giscience as geography	University of Utah, Department of Geography, Geography Awareness Week Colloquium
2019 September	A spatial simulation model to explore the potential impact of gene drives as a control on invasive wasps	Geocomputation 2019, Queenstown, 18-21 September
2019 August	Theoretical geography: definitely harder than physics!	VvoIP_Physics_Debates symposium
2019 July	Avoiding the YAAWN syndrome	Agents for Theory: From Cases to General Principles, Theory Development through Agent-based Modeling, International Workshop held at Herrenhäuser Palace, Hanover, Germany
2018 May	Some translation required, or: A city is not a network either!	Inaugural Brian Coffey lecture and workshop in Geographical Information Science University of Washington, Tacoma
2018 April	Computing with many spaces: Generalizing projections for the digital geohumanities and GIScience	(with Luke Bergmann who presented) 114th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, New Orleans, LA
2018 March	Reimagining GIScience for relational spaces	University of Colorado Boulder, Department of Geography Colloquium Series
2017 December	Bridging GIScience and Geographical Thought	Geographic Data Science Lab, University of Liverpool
2017 September	Identifying ‘narrative arcs’ to explain outcomes in an agent-based model of island resource exploitation	Graduate webinar series on Agent-based models, University of Minnesota. These are the same slides as a talk at Stanford a couple of years earlier…
2017 September	Some translation required, or: A city is not a network either!	International Symposium on The Future of Urban Network Research, University of Ghent, Belgium
2017 April	‘Same only different’: rethinking the practice of digital urban geographies	113th Meeting of the American Association of Geographers, Boston, MA
2016 November	Simple spatial models: Building blocks for a process-based GIS?	Geolunch Series, Geospatial Innovation Facility (GIF), University of California, Berkeley
2016 September	Searching for common ground (again)	(with Jim Thatcher and Luke Bergmann) Presented at 9th International Conference on Geographical Information Science (GIScience 2016), Montreal, Canada
2016 September	Simple simulation models as a complexity ‘pattern language’	Lightning talk at Rethinking the ABCs: Agent-Based Models and Complexity Science in the age of Big Data, CyberGIS, and Sensor Networks pre-conference workshop at GIScience 2016, Montreal, Canada
2016 March	Spatiality, maps, mathematics and critical human geography	University of Uppsala, Department of Social and Economic Geography
2016 January	Future GIS	(with Matt Wilson) University of British Columbia, Department of Geography
2015 December	Thinking with and about models in geography	University of California, Davis. Geography Graduate Group seminar series.
2015 August	(with Alex Singleton and Seth Spielman) Our town: How socioeconomics shape functional neighborhoods in American cities	Geocomputation 2015, UT Dallas
2015 May	Spatial simulation: Exploring pattern and process	UNIGIS Salzburg Webinar
2015 May	Simple spatial models: Building blocks for process-based GIS?	Stanford University
2015 May	Identifying ‘narrative arcs’ to explain outcomes in an agent-based model of island resource exploitation	Stanford University Libraries’ Center for Interdisciplinary Digital Research
2015 April	Identifying ‘narrative arcs’ to explain outcomes in an agent-based model of island resource exploitation	(with George Perry) presented at the 110th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL
2014 November	‘Play well’: Learning about the world using spatial models	University of Oregon, Department of Geography and Complexity Science conference
2014 September	Using Personal Names to Explore Cultural, Ethnic and Linguistic Structure in Populations	UC Berkeley, Department of Demography
2014 June	Simple spatial models: building blocks for process-based GIS?	Institute of Australian Geographers – New Zealand Geographical Society Joint Conference, University of Melbourne
2013 August	Towards a ‘pattern language’ for spatial simulation models	(with George Perry) presented at SIRC NZ 2013, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. Extended abstract available here
2013 April	Towards a ‘pattern language’ for spatial simulation models	(with George Perry) presented at the 109th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA
2013 February	Towards a ‘pattern language’ for spatial simulation models	Department of Geography, University of California Santa Barbara
2012 May	Naming networks and population structure	Department of Urban Engineering, University of Tokyo
2012 May	Spatial Simulation: Exploring Pattern and Process – A Work in progress	Centre for Spatial Information Science, University of Tokyo
2012 February	Agent-based models: what are they good for? Or: did Schelling really need an ABM?	Presented at the 108th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, New York, NY
2011 September	Model Histories: The Generative Properties of Agent-Based Modelling	Presented by James Millington (also with George Perry) at Annual Conference of the Royal Geographical Society with the Institute of British Geographers, Royal Geographical Society, London
2011 April	Naming networks and population structure	(with Pablo Mateos) presented at the 107th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, WA
2011 April	Do physicists have geography envy?	with Steve Manson (who presented) at the 107th Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Seattle, WA. This paper was eventually published in much different form in the Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
2009 December	Simulating long distance dispersal processes in spatially heterogeneous landscapes	(with George Perry) presented at Geocomputation 2009, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia. A version of this work was published in Ecological Informatics.