Conference Program

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Workshop I (July 29 - August 1, 2017)	International Conference on Geoinformatics (August 2-4, 2017)				Workshop II (August 5-8, 2017)
	Day 0	Day 1	Day 2	Day 3

Workshop I: Geography in Public Health (July 29 - August 1, 2017)

Date	Morning	Afternoon	Evening
July 29 2017	Welcome Keynote speaker	Session I. Current state of geo-spatial services	Welcome Reception
July 30 2017	Section II. Research Findings	Research Findings	On your own
July 31 2017	Section II. Research Findings	Research Findings	On your own
Aug 1 2017	Section III. Future Challenges	Workshop wrap-up

Day 0: Tuesday, August 1

12:00 PM - 7:00 PM, Registration (Marriott Hotel)Tuesday, August 1

Day 1: Wednesday, August 2

7:30 AM - 12:00 PM, Registration (UB Center for Tomorrow)Wednesday, August 2
7:30 AM - 8:30 AM, Breakfast (UB Center for Tomorrow)Wednesday, August 2
8:30 AM - 9:00 AM, Opening (UB Center for Tomorrow) --- To be introduced by Yongmei Lu, Program CommitteeWednesday, August 2
Ling Bian (Director of NCGIA Buffalo; Local Organization Committee)  Hui Lin (CPGIS Founder and Inaugural President) Steven Dunnett (SUNY Buffalo Vice Provost for International Education) Yuemin Ding (CPGIS Inaugural Vice President, CPGIS History Committee) Xinyue Ye (CPGIS President)
9:00 AM - 11:00 AM, Keynote Speeches (UB Center for Tomorrow)Wednesday, August 2
Chair: Hui Lin, CPGIS Founder Michael Goodchild (Member of the US National Academy of Sciences) Rethinking the History of GIS Michael Batty (Fellow of the Royal Society of UK) Geo-temporal Analytics in the Age of the Smart City Luc Anselin (Member of the US National Academy of Sciences) The Many Faces of Spatial Clustering Deren Li (Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering) From Earth Observation Satellite to Earth Observation Brain
11:00 AM - 11:10 AM, Coffee / Tea Break (UB Center for Tomorrow)Wednesday, August 2
11:10 AM - 12:00 PM, Group Photo (UB Center for Tomorrow)Wednesday, August 2
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Lunch (UB Center for Tomorrow)Wednesday, August 2
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Daniel Sui (Ohio State University and NSF) ---To be introduced by Leo Wang Does GIScience Have Its Own Replication Crisis? Thoughts on Making GIScience More Robust and Reliable
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM, Registration (Marriott Hotel)Wednesday, August 2
2:00 PM - 3:20 PM, Paper Sessions 1-6 (Marriott Hotel)Wednesday, August 2
3:20 PM - 3:30 PM, Coffee / Tea Break (Marriott Hotel)Wednesday, August 2
3:30 PM - 4:50 PM, Parallel Panel Sessions (Marriott Hotel)Wednesday, August 2
Career Development Panel Panel Organizer: Wendy Guan Panelists: Jay Lee, Bin Li, Lin Liu, Shih-Lung Shaw, Daniel Sui, Gary Zhang	Health & GIS Panel Panel Organizer: Mei-Po Kwan Panelists: Ling Bian, Richardson Douglas, Jianya Gong, Yongmei Lu, Xun Shi, Li Yin
3:30 PM - 4:50 PM, Paper Sessions 7-10 (Marriott Hotel)Wednesday, August 2
5:00 PM - 10:00 PM, Dinner & Evening at Niagara Falls TourWednesday, August 2
5:00 PM, Board tour buses at Marriott hotel entrance for Niagara Falls evening 5:40 PM - 6:40 PM, Dinner at Chu's, Niagara Falls 6:50 PM, Boat ride on Maid of the Mist 8:30 PM, IMAX Movie 9:00 PM, Night Lights 10:00 PM, Return to Marriott

Day 2: Thursday, August 3

8:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Registration (Marriott Hotel)Thursday, August 3
7:00 AM - 8:00 AM, Breakfast (Marriott Hotel)Thursday, August 3
8:20 AM - 10:20 AM, Keynote Speeches (Marriott Hotel)Thursday, August 3
Chair: Xinyue Ye, CPGIS President Anthony Yeh (Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences) Navigation Paths as Polygons - Polygonization Method in Automatic Generation and Updating of Outdoor Vehicle and Indoor Pedestrian Navigation GIS Huadong Guo (Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences) Framework Research of a Big Earth Data Platform for Sustainable Development Jianya Gong (Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, CPGIS President-Elect) GISs Development in China During Recent 25 Years Jingming Chen (Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada) Mapping Leaf Chlorophyll Content: A New Way to Improve Global Carbon Cycle Estimation
10:20 AM - 10:40 AM, Coffee / Tea Break (Marriott Hotel)Thursday, August 3
10:40 AM - 12:00 PM, Parallel Panel Sessions (Marriott Hotel)Thursday, August 3
Supporting Women in GIS Panel Panel Organizer: Lan Mu Panelists: Wendy Guan, Mei-Po Kwan, Hui Lin, Yongmei Lu, Xun Shi, Fahui Wang, Xiaobai Yao	Smart City and Human Dynamics Panel Organizers: Shih-Lung Shaw, Daniel Sui Panelists: Michael Batty, Michael Goodchild, Deren Li, Anthony Yeh
10:40 AM - 12:00 PM, Paper Sessions 11-14 (Marriott Hotel)Thursday, August 3
12:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Lunch (Marriott Hotel)Thursday, August 3
12:30 PM - 1:00 PM, Liang Wu (President, Zondy Cyber) --- To be Introduced by Li Yin  Exploration and Innovation on Ecological Environment of Geospatial Information Service 1:00 PM - 1:30 PM, Qinge Du (Vice President, SuperMap) ---To be Introduced by Li Yin SuperMap Introduction and Technology Development
2:00 PM - 3:40 PM, Paper Sessions 15-21 (Marriott Hotel)Thursday, August 3
3:40 PM - 4:00 PM, Coffee / Tea break (Marriott Hotel)Thursday, August 3
4:00 PM - 5:20 PM, Paper Sessions 22-28 (Marriott Hotel)Thursday, August 3
6:00 PM - 10:00 PM, Dinner and CPGIS Night (Congregation Shir Shalom)Thursday, August 3
6:30 PM - 6:45 PM, Special Award Presentation (By Hui Lin) 6:45 PM - 7:00 PM, Video address by Guanhua Xu (Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences) 7:00 PM - 7:30 PM, Keynote (To be introduced by Hui Lin) Chuang Tao (Chairman, Z Ventures Group) Spatial Intelligence：A New Wave to the Geospatial Industry and Academia 7:30 PM - 7:45 PM, Photo Recognition Competition (Chair: Aijun Chen) 7:45 PM - 8:00 PM, Special Remarks & Acknowledgement (Ling Bian) 8:00 PM - 8:15 PM, Other Announcements Related to CPGIS Business / Achievements (Hui Lin) 8:15 PM - 10:00 PM, Entertainment

Day 3: Friday, August 4

8:00 AM - 12:00 PM, Registration (Marriott Hotel)Friday, August 4

7:30 AM - 8:45 AM, Breakfast (Marriott Hotel)Friday, August 4

9:00 AM - 10:40 AM, Paper Sessions 29-34 (Marriott Hotel)Friday, August 4

9:00 AM - 10:40 AM, Special Session of CPGIS Presidents – Retrospect and Prospect (Marriott Hotel)Friday, August 4

10:40 AM - 11:00 AM, Coffee / Tea Break (Marriott Hotel)Friday, August 4

11:00 AM - 12:00 PM, CPGIS BOD meeting (Marriott Hotel)Friday, August 4

12:00 PM - 1:45 PM, Lunch & Award Ceremony (Marriott Hotel)Friday, August 4

12:45 PM - 1:15 PM, Awards Presentation  CPGIS Awards (To be presented by Chuanrong Zhang, Award Committee) CPGIS Life-Time Achievement Award: Anthony Yeh, Chair Professor and Chan To-Haan Professor in Urban Planning and Design Department of Urban Planning and Design Faculty of Architecture, The University of Hong Kong. CPGIS Distinguished Scholar Award: Mei-Po Kwan, Professor, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. CPGIS Education Excellence Awards: Jay Lee, Professor of Geography, Kent State University, and A-Xing Zhu, Professor of Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison. Student Paper Competition Awards (To be presented by Xiang Chen, Student Paper Competition Committee) First-Place: Xiao Huang (University of South Carolina) A near real-time flood mapping approach by integrating post-event satellite imagery and flood-related tweets Second-Place: Dameng Yin (SUNY Buffalo) Individual mangrove crown delineation using UAV-LiDAR data Third-Place: Ruiting Zhai (University of Connecticut) Predicting land cover change in Long Island Sound Watersheds and its effect on invasive species: A case study for glossy buckthorn   Mingjie Song (Queen's University) A comparison of three heuristic optimization algorithms for solving the multi-objective land allocation problem Travel Awards: Yao Feng (Queen’s University) Ying Jin (Huazhong Agricultural University) Zhanghua Li (Tsinghua University) Jianjun Xia (Tsinghua University) Meifang Li (Sun Yat-Sen University) 1:15 PM - 1:30 PM, Presentation by the host of GeoInformatics 2018 (To be Introduced by Wei Luo, Conference Site Selection Committee) 1:30 PM, Concluding Remarks (Ling Bian)

Workshop II: Environmental Modeling (August 5-8, 2017)

Date	Morning	Afternoon	Evening
Aug 5 2017	Welcome Plenary Session	Session I. Current state of geo-processing modeling	Welcome Reception
Aug 6 2017	Plenary Session	Section II. Research Findings	On your own
Aug 7 2017	Section II. Research Findings	Section II. Research Findings	On your own
Aug 8 2017	Section III. Research Agenda	Workshop Conclusions