The UK's premier Geographic Information Science research conference series, established in 1993,
was hosted in 2006 by the University of Nottingham. Many thanks to everyone involved for making it a great event!

Prize winners at GISRUK 2006 were:

AGI Prize for Best Overall Presentation at GISRUK 2006 (voted by attendees)
Alastair Jardine (Univ of Edinburgh)
Visualising Risk for Hill Walkers

CadCorp/OS/QMRG/GIScRG Prizes for Best Young Researchers (Indentified by Steering Committee)
First prize: Eliyahu Safra (Technion, Israel)
Integrating a Sequence of Geo-Spatial Datasets
Second Prize: Jenna Panter (UEA)
Using GIS to model population physical activity levels and the quality of urban green space
Third Prize: Sandrine Balley (IGN, France)
A web interface to explore and restructure geographical datasets

Best Poster (voted by attendees)
Alex Singleton (UCL)
Bespoke versus general purpose discrete classifications for the segmentation of
Higher Education market data.

Some photos from the event (not all as good as this one) can be found HERE.

Thanks again to the band, now under the name of the Jonny Slater Jazz Quartet.

The rest of this site will be left up as a reference, as with previous GISRUK conference websites.

GISRUK 2006 is extremely grateful for the support and sponsorship of the following organisations:

To find out more about the GISRUK conference series or to join the mailing list
please visit www.geo.ed.ac.uk/gisruk/gisruk.html

Getting Here

Maps showing the location of the University of Nottingham 'University Park' campus can be found on the School of Geography web site here

Local Map: The location of the GISRUK 2006 registration and Hugh Stewart Hall of residence is shown here.

Bus from railway station: To get to GISRUK from Nottingham Station (by bus) leave the station through main entrance by the taxi rank (Carrington Street not Station Street). Turn right and walk about 300 yards, cross over Canal Street and enter the Broadmarsh Bus Station. Take the number 4 bus (greeny blue colour, cost £1.20) and get off at the LENTON HALL stop on Derby Road (past the QMC hospital, the next stop after the roundabout near the campus North Entrance). Enter campus through the path in the wall just behind the bus stop, and walk straight ahead towards Lenton Hall. This bus stop is marked in the upper left corner of the local map (linked to above) so use this map to follow your way through to Hugh Stewart Hall.

By car: For those arriving by car, free parking tokens for the Main Visitor Car Park, Lenton and Wortley Hall car park and Lenton Hall Drive are available from Hugh Stewart Hall Reception. In the main visitors car park, parking tokens are only valid in the marked visitor ("V") bays. Anyone parking in other spaces in the Car Park will need to pay and display as normal.

To find out more about the GISRUK conference series or to join the mailing list
please visit www.geo.ed.ac.uk/gisruk/gisruk.html

Conference Programme
A provisional academic programme is now available here.

Invited speakers
Professor Paul Longley Agent-Based Modelling and Simulation using REPAST: A Gallery of GIS Applications	Professor Steve Benford Pervasive Games: Experiences from the Equator project.	Professor Terry Moore Galileo and the future of Satellite Positioning

Instructions for authors
The first two oral presentations in each session are 20 minutes (including time for questions), the remaining presentations should be 15 minutes (including time for questions). Presenters of oral papers are requested to bring their presentation along to the conference on either CD or USB stick to be loaded onto conference machines. If you have any special requirements in terms of running demos then please contact us in advance of the conference.

Posters
Posters should be A1 in size in portrait format (59cm wide by 84 cm tall). Poster boards will be available in the main conference area of the Clive Granger building from the morning of Wednesday 5th April. A poster session is scheduled for Thursday 6th at 5pm although presenters are asked to leave their posters displayed for the duration of the conference.

To find out more about the GISRUK conference series or to join the mailing list
please visit www.geo.ed.ac.uk/gisruk/gisruk.html

Venue for GISRUK06

The main conference will be hosted by the School of Geography, located in the Sir Clive Granger building which is located centrally withing the main University Park Campus, 3 miles to the West of Nottingham City Centre.

Accomodation, the conference meal and the Young Researchers Forum will be in Hugh Stewart Hall adjacent to the Sir Clive Granger building.

A buffet reception will be held in the Derek Randall Suite of the Trent Bridge Cricket ground on the evening of Wednesday 5th April.	Evening entertainment after the conference meal on Thursday will be provided by a local Jazz Quartet

To find out more about the GISRUK conference series or to join the mailing list
please visit www.geo.ed.ac.uk/gisruk/gisruk.html

For any information about the 2006 GISRUK conference or this website please contact: gary.priestnall@.nottingham.ac.uk

To find out more about the GISRUK conference series or to join the mailing list
please visit www.geo.ed.ac.uk/gisruk/gisruk.html