20 MAY 2025 (TUE) 10:30-11:30

GEOG HKU
May 20
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Geography Distinguished Seminars Series

Spatial Analytics to Achieve Sustainable Systems

Date: 20 MAY 2025 (Tuesday)

Time: 10:30-11:30 (HKT)

Mode: Hybrid (For RPG students, only in-person attendance will be counted)

Venue: CLL, Department of Geography, 10/F, The Jockey Club Tower, Centennial Campus, HKU

Via Zoom: Zoom link will be provided after successful registration

Registration link: https://hkuems1.hku.hk/hkuems/ec_hdetail.aspx?guest=Y&ueid=100260

Abstract:

A range of spatial analytics can be conceived to address issues of sustainability. The significance of spatial optimization is demonstrated through current analysis, management, planning and policy contexts focused on emergency response, food production, wildfire risk mitigation and public health monitoring. Further, mathematical formalization in spatial optimization offers a theoretical framework to establish findings as significant. The ways in which GIScience perspectives can directly and indirectly support progress towards more sustainable systems are highlighted.

Professor Alan T Murray

Yardi Endowed Chair in Geography; Director, Wildfire Resilience Initiative; University of California at Santa Barbara

Alan Murray is a Professor in the Department of Geography. He earned a BS in Mathematics, a Master’s in Statistics and Applied Probability and a PhD in Geography, all from UC Santa Barbara. After his PhD, he was Professor in the Department of Geography at Ohio State University (as well as Director of the Center for Urban and Regional Analysis), Professor in the School of Geographical Sciences and Urban Planning at Arizona State University and Professor in the College of Computing and Informatics as well as the School of Public Health at Drexel University prior to his return to UC Santa Barbara at the end of 2015.