SAM Plenary Sessions
Since 2000, in cooperation with Geographical Analysis 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. The following table summarizes the speakers and their lecture titles to date, by AAG annual meeting year/location.
 
Year Location Speaker Title
2000 Pittsburgh Michael Goodchild Spatial analysis in a communicating world
2001 New York Michael Batty Generating urban landscapes at the fine-scale: cells, agents, form and development
2002 Los Angeles Arthur Getis Invention as the mother of necessity: a brief history of quantitative methods in geography
2003 New Orleans Nina Lam Challenges in spatial analysis: an assessment
2004 Philadelphia
2005 Denver Richard Church Beyond 9-11: the new challenges for spatial analysts
2006 Chicago K. Haynes Innovation, technology and latecomer strategies: evidence from the mobile handset manufacturing sector in China
2007 San Francisco Luc Anselin Spatial econometrics: retrospect and prospect
2008 Boston
2009 Las Vegas Denis Pumain Modeling spatial evolution: the example of urban systems
2010 Washington, D.C. Peter Nijkamp Behavior of Humans and Behavior of Models: A Cognitive Perspective
2011 Seattle, WA Geoffrey Jacquez Key problems and some solutions in geospatial health analysis
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