Keynote Speakers

HUGO SPIERS

Senior Lecturer

Department of Experimental Psychology

University College London

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/spierslab/People/tabs/Hugo_J_Spiers

Vectors, Paths and Geospatial Topology in the Human Brain

ABSTRACT I am interested in how our brain constructs representations of the world and uses them to navigate, imagine the future and remember the past. I use brain imaging, neuropsychological testing, virtual reality, eye-tracking and single cell recording as methods to understand brain function and spatial cognition.

KEYNOTES

CONFERENCE ON SPATIAL INFORMATION THEORY XII

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CLAUDIA BAUZER MEDEIROS

Professor

Head of the Laboratory of Information Systems

Institute of Computing, UNICAMP

http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~cmbm/

Forecasting and Backcasting: Time, Space and Sustainability

ABSTRACT Sustainability is a multidisciplinary research domain that means different things to distinct researchers, depending on their field of interest - and which can range from the (A)rts to (Z)oology. In a broad sense, it can be seen as efforts towards saving our planet, from a micro point of view (a home) to a macro perspective (the Earth and the biosphere). The term "backcasting" has been associated with research on sustainability and involves many different analyses of spatio-temporal events, in many scales, that consider the future taking the past into account. Backcasting and forecasting are being combined in sustainability studies in particular in problems involving the environment (e.g., climate change, green energy, biodiversity and others). This talk will discuss a few research directions and potential(s) for opportunities for research in this "new" field of sustainability.