ANN: Europe and its Regions Conference
I've been asked to circulate a call for papers for a meeting in Berlin 30 June and 1 July on "Europe and its Regions: The Usage of European Regionalized Social Science Data" by Wenzel Matiaske: "I'm writing you as maintainer of the R spatial projects. We - Gerd Groezinger, Katharina Spiess and myself are organising a conference entitled: "Europe and its Regions: The Usage of European Regionalized Social Science Data" (6/30/06 and 7/1/06 DIW Berlin). The conference should inform about data sets, applications and specialized methods for regionalized data. Actually we are missing the last point: We have no contributions on methods or software packages in the area to spatial data analysis. I am writing to ask if you would circulate our call for papers and this mail to R-sig-Geo to encourage proposals in methods or software packages; particularly we are interested in an overview paper on R spatial projects and other software projects. In ignorance of the deadline mentioned in our call for papers, proposals (max. 1 page) should be send in until the 31st of January." I thought it worth passing this on because there are probably a number of social science researchers using European regional data on the list, who might feel like taking up the challenge of presenting how R and these kinds of data might work together. I've put the CFP on: http://spatial.nhh.no/misc/europe-regional.pdf
Roger Bivand Economic Geography Section, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration, Helleveien 30, N-5045 Bergen, Norway. voice: +47 55 95 93 55; fax +47 55 95 95 43 e-mail: Roger.Bivand at nhh.no