Guest lectures at TU Wien

This summer semester, we had the privilege to welcome 7 guest lecturers at TU Wien. Most of them not only offered public CartoTalks, but also in-depth classes for our students only. This way our students had the chance to meet and discuss with some of the leading researchers in the field of cartography.

  • Menno-Jan Kraak, University of Twente and President of ICA
    Temporal aspects of O-D matrix visualizations [abstract]
  • Sara Fabrikant, University of Zurich
    Responsive Geographic Information Displays to Support Mobility in the Digital Society [abstract]
  • Amy Griffin, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
    The user is the centre of the universe: Designing interactive maps for end users [abstract]
  • Evangelos Livieratos, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
    Digitisation and comparison of old and modern maps [abstract]
  • Lynn Usery, U.S. Geological Survey
    A Semantic Approach to Cartography [abstract]
  • Benjamin Hennig, University of Iceland
    Cartograms and the Worldmapper project. Tutorial on cartograms in QGIS.
  • Nico van de Weghe, Ghent University
    Enrichment, mapping and querying of European traces [abstract]

 

Group picture with Evangelos Livieratos
Benjamin Hennig receiving a Certificate of Appreciation for his contributions to the master programme
Group picture with Nico van de Weghe