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The 2017 Purdue GIS Day Conference is set from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9 in Stewart Center, rooms 206 and 214. The daylong event is open free to Purdue students, faculty, staff, and to the public.<\/p>\n
The Purdue GIS Day Conference 2017 includes a variety of events and activities, including the 10 a.m. keynote presentation, \u201cSpatiotemporal Computing for Enabling Scientific Research and Engineering Development\u201d by Chaowei (Phil) Yang, Professor of Geography and Geoinformation Science, George Mason University, and Purdue University Honor College\u2019s Visiting Scholar.<\/p>\n
The conference also includes career discussions, a GIS Career Luncheon, student lightning talk presentations, a poster competition, and, new this year<\/em>, the Esri Development Center (EDC) Student of the Year Award at Purdue<\/a>, which will recognize one Purdue University student who demonstrates advanced GIS knowledge and innovation with an emphasis on development and programming (see below or www.lib.purdue.edu\/gis\/edc <\/a>for more information).<\/p>\n The full 2017 Purdue GIS Day Conference schedule is below, with links to: the Career Luncheon registration (required)<\/strong> and the instructions and entry form for lightning talk and poster presentations, which are due by 11:59 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3.<\/strong><\/p>\n More information about the EDC Student of the Year at Purdue Award competition is available at www.lib.purdue.edu\/gis\/edc<\/a>.<\/p>\n Entries are due by 11:59 p.m. Friday, Nov. 3 and should be entered via the online form at https:\/\/purdue.qualtrics.com\/jfe\/form\/SV_6mtqdiq7mvDG6tT<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n The winner of the EDC Student of the Year at Purdue contest will be awarded limited travel reimbursement (from Purdue Libraries) to attend the Esri International Developer Summit in Palm Springs, CA, during the spring of 2018.<\/p>\n Across the globe, GIS Day is a celebration of geospatial research and geographic information systems technology. At Purdue University, Purdue Libraries faculty and staff work with the GIS Day planning committee, which is comprised of faculty, staff, and graduate students from various departments across the University, to organize this multidisciplinary, campus-wide event.<\/p>\n For more information, contact Nicole Kong, GIS specialist at Purdue Libraries, at geohelp@purdue.edu.<\/p>\n 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9<\/strong> The 2017 Purdue GIS Day Conference is set from 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 9 in Stewart Center, rooms 206 and 214. The daylong event is open free to Purdue students, faculty, staff, and to the public. The Purdue GIS Day Conference 2017 includes a variety of events and activities, including the 10 a.m. keynote […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13,92],"tags":[4883,6984,6976,4838],"class_list":["post-5872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-press_release","tag-gis","tag-gis-day-conference","tag-purdue-university","tag-purdue-university-libraries"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pT6ms-1wI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5872"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5923,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5872\/revisions\/5923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}EDC Student of the Year Award Competition<\/h2>\n
GIS Day: A Global Celebration<\/h2>\n
\nPurdue GIS Day Conference 2017 Schedule<\/h1>\n
\n Stewart Center, rooms 206 and 214<\/strong><\/p>\n\n
\nPresented by Purdue University Libraries and Information Technology at Purdue (ITaP)<\/li>\n* Featured roundtable discussions include:<\/h3>\n
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