Schedule
Schedule will be adjusted as needed during the semester.| Week | Lecture/Assignment Topic and Project Tasks | Assignment due date |
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| January 8 |
Course logistics and
Course Moodle site
1.A Introduction to geocomputation: Foundations
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February 7 |
| January 15 |
1.B Dynamic spatial phenomena
optional topic: 2.A Data simulation Work on dissertation related project proposal, submit it February 7 |
February 7 |
| January 22 | 2.B Open source software and version control system 3.A Surface water: geometry driven simulations of flow and flooding | n/a
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| January 29 |
3.B Surface water: process based simulations
Work on project proposal and its 3 minute presentation |
February 5 |
| February 7 | 4. Tangible Landscape as a geosimulation environment, Project proposal 3 minute presentations | February 28 |
| February 12 |
4. Tangible Landscape as a geosimulation environment,
Continue working on the project: perform modeling, analysis, write draft paper section on methods |
February 28 |
| February 19 |
3.C Geostatistical simulations and error propagation
Continue working on the project |
February 28 |
| February 26 |
Work on the project and outline your progress lightning talk |
March 20 |
| March 5 |
Work on the project and outline your progress lightning talk, include TL application |
March 20 |
| March 10 - 14 | Spring Break | |
| March 19 | Project progress talks: II 10 min., include Title, Introduction with objectives, Study site, Data, Methods, Preliminary and Expected results, Challenges; Tangible Landscape application demonstrations | |
| March 26 |
5.A Spread simulations
Work on projecti: develop workflows, process data |
April 17 |
| April 2 |
5.B Urban growth simulations
Continue working on the project: analyze, evaluate and visualize results |
April 17 |
| April 9 |
5.C Urban growth simulations on HPC
Continue working on the project: prepare your presentation |
April 17 |
| April 16 |
IALE 2025
2023 Project presentations I
Prepare project presentation and write draft of the paper |
Paper due April 29 |
| April 23 |
Finish project paper following the instructions and upload it to Moodle as LastnameFirstname_Paper.pdf |
Paper due April 29 |
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Open topics
Agent based modeling Modeling with kernel densities in social sciences |
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