2024 Plenary Speaker

Since 2000, in cooperation with Geographical Analysis (GA) and the Department of Geography, The Ohio State University, the Spatial Analysis and Modeling (SAM) Specialty Group of the Association of American Geographers (AAG) has established a tradition of co-sponsoring a plenary speaker at the annual AAG meetings.

Year	Location	Speaker	Title
2024	Honolulu, HI	Peter Rogerson	Testing Hypotheses When You Have a Few Too Many

Past Plenary Speakers

Year	Location	Speaker	Title
2023	Denver, CO	Jennifer Miller	On null models in spatial ecology
2022	Virtual
2021	Virtual	Sergio Rey	Big Code
2020	Virtual
2019	Washington, DC	Alan Murray	Spatial Analysis and Modeling: Analytics and Spatial Data Science
2018	New Orleans, LA	Harvey Miller	Some big thoughts about Spatial Analysis and Geographic Information Science in an era of plenty
2017	Boston, MA	Daniel Griffith	Some Robust Assessments of Eigenvector Spatial Filtering
2016	San Francisco, CA	Stewart Fotheringham	Dispelling some Myths about Geographically Weighted Regression
2015	Chicago, IL	Keith Clarke	On the topology of topography
2014	Tampa Bay, FL	Helen Couclelis	Ignorance in the Age of Information: Prediction and Uncertainty When the Numbers Just Aren't There
2013	Los Angeles, CA	Morton E. O'Kelly	Hub location: a geographic analysis
2012	New York, NY	Robert Haining	Space-time modelling to support local policing
2011	Seattle, WA	Geoffrey Jacquez	Key problems and some solutions in geospatial health analysis
2010	Washington, DC	Peter Nijkamp	Behavior of Humans and Behavior of Models: A Cognitive Perspective
2009	Las Vegas, NV	Denis Pumain	Modeling spatial evolution: the example of urban systems
2008	Boston, MA
2007	San Francisco, CA	Luc Anselin	Spatial econometrics: retrospect and prospect
2006	Chicago, IL	Kingsley Haynes	Innovation, technology and latecomer strategies: evidence from the mobile handset manufacturing sector in China
2005	Denver, CO	Richard Church	Beyond 9-11: the new challenges for spatial analysts
2004	Philadelphia, PA
2003	New Orleans, LA	Nina Lam	Challenges in spatial analysis: an assessment
2002	Los Angeles, CA	Arthur Getis	Invention as the mother of necessity: a brief history of quantitative methods in geography
2001	New York, NY	Michael Batty	Generating urban landscapes at the fine-scale: cells, agents, form and development
2000	Pittsburgh, PA	Michael Goodchild	Spatial analysis in a communicating world