Preparations are almost complete for WRSA’s 40th Annual Meeting, scheduled to take place February 25 – 28, 2001 in sunny Palm Springs, California. The conference will be held in the lovely conference center of the Palm Springs Riviera Resort and Racquet Club (which was also the site of WRSA’s 14th Annual Meeting in 1975). This year’s program will feature three full days of sessions, as well as WRSA’s 40th Anniversary birthday celebration. As in previous years, the Preliminary Program can be found on the WRSA web site at http://geog.arizona.edu/wrsa. Full details about the conference site and travel arrangements can also be found on the web site. All participants should check the site frequently between now and the meeting to obtain the most up-to-date information about session schedules, conference arrangements, and chair and discussant assignments.
The Annual Meeting begins with our Registration Desk opening for participant check-in on Sunday, February 25 from 2:00 – 5:30 PM. The Opening Session will take place from 3:45 – 5:30 PM, directly followed by an opening reception, at which we will drink a toast to the Association’s first 40 years. The opening session will feature a panel of previous WRSA presidents. Registration reopens at 8:00 AM on Monday morning, and the first slate of paper sessions gets underway at 8:15 or 9:00 AM. The annual Luncheon Banquet will be held on Tuesday, when the Tiebout and Springer-Verlag Prize winners will be announced. Incoming WRSA President, Brenda Moscove, will present her Presidential Address at the Luncheon. Tuesday evening President Moscove will host a cocktail reception for all participants and their spouses. Concurrent paper sessions continue all-day Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday. In all, the Preliminary Program lists some 35 regular paper sessions with over 100 individual presentations scheduled.
In addition, the Applied Econometrics Association will be meeting in conjunction with WRSA this year. AEA has scheduled a total of 12 sessions, including papers on econometric methodologies as well as applications. All WRSA conference attendees will be free to attend the AEA sessions, and vice versa.
If you have not yet made all your arrangements to attend, do so soon! We expect our anniversary meeting to have a high turnout and our room block at the Riviera Resort and Racquet Club to fill early. For information on hotel reservations, car rentals and travel arrangements, see related articles in this Newsletter or check the WRSA website, http://geog.arizona.edu/wrsa, for complete details. Pictures of the Riviera Resort, links to their and a Palm Springs tourist information web site, travel and rental car information, and the hotel reservation and conference preregistration forms are now on the site.
Payment of
Annual Meeting Pre-registration Fees and 2001 WRSA Dues may be sent up
until February 1 to the Association office in Tucson. The Combined
Annual Meeting Pre-registration and Membership Form may be printed out
from the web-site and mailed or faxed.
After February 1 we request that you pay on-site at the
conference. Receipts for all payments will be given at the conference.
For those persons unable to attend the 2001 conference, please renew your
WRSA membership prior to February 1 and receive a $5 discount off the regular
$55 US annual dues.
We wish all
participants a safe trip to Palm Springs. For those unable to attend
the 40th Annual Meeting, consider submitting an abstract for the 17th Pacific
Conference of the RSAI, scheduled for June 30 – July 4, 2001 in Portland,
Oregon.
Palm Springs Checklist
Participants who would like help in making their travel plans may contact Bon Voyage Travel in Tucson. Our Bon Voyage agent is Ms. Clarissa Taiafi. You may phone her at 1-520-795-8991 or e-mail her at: ctaiafi@bvtravel.com and she will get immediately back in touch with you regarding your needs.
Click here for additional information on travel to the Annual Meeting in Palm Springs.
Alamo is offering
WRSA participants extremely attractive special conference rates on all
sizes of vehicles with free unlimited mileage and frequent flyer credits
with most major airline programs. Conference rates will be effective
from February 18 through March 6.
To reserve your rental car you may use Bon Voyage Travel
in Tucson, or book your car through your own agent or directly with Alamo.
Our Bon Voyage contact is Ms. Clarissa Taiafi. You may phone her at 1-520-795-8991
or e-mail her at: ctaiafi@bvtravel.com and she will get immediately back
in touch with you regarding your needs.
If you wish to contact Alamo directly or have your own travel agent do so, from the U.S. call 1-800-732-3232 and request Group I.D. Number 69420, Rate Code: GR.
International attendees may fax their reservations directly to Alamo at 1-561-912-2601.
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here for additional information on Rental Cars.
A
hotel reservation form is also available on the WRSA web site (Click Here!).
This form can be printed out and faxed to 760-327-4323 or mailed to Palm
Springs Riviera Resort and Racquet Club, Attn: Reservations, 1600 North
Indian Canyon Drive, Palm Springs, CA 92262-4602 USA. Reservations
must be made by February 5, 2001. However, we highly recommend making
necessary reservations early, as our room block tends to fill quickly.
Meeting rooms will include OVERHEAD PROJECTORS ONLY. Prepare your talk on transparencies. We cannot afford the exorbitant rental fees for slide projectors or Video Projection Units.
For more Details
see the “Notes
to 2001 WRSA Annual Meeting Program Participants” on the web site (click
here).
The 2001 WRSA Turnbull Cup Golf Tournament will be held on Saturday, February 24th at the Mesquite Country Club in Palm Springs. Tee times will begin at 12:00 noon. The $105 entry fee includes green fees, cart, range balls, lunch, and prizes.
Please register
for the tournament by sending a check for the full entry fee to Terry Clower,
Center for Economic Development, P.O. Box 310469, Denton, Texas 76203 by
January 15th. One half of the entry fee becomes non-refundable after
January 24th. Information and a registration form are now available
for download at www.unt.edu/cedr/WRSAGolfTournament.htm.
The time is
NOW to organize special sessions or to submit an abstract for the 17th
Pacific Conference of the RSAI, hosted by WRSA in Portland, Oregon, June
30 – July 4, 2001. See the Call for Papers below for details.
...For those not making it
to Palm Springs, please renew your membership NOW for 2001!
Click
here for the membership form.
The WRSA 2001 Program Committee is very pleased to announce that the Applied Econometrics Association (AEA) will hold its annual meeting in conjunction with WRSA’s conference in Palm Springs. WRSA meeting attendees are welcome to attend the twelve sessions organized by Arthur Getis, Jean Paelinck, and Henri Zoller. AEA members will also be free to attend WRSA sessions.
Among the contributors to the AEA sessions are several longtime WRSA members, as well as a number of new faces. The AEA organizers have taken great care to draw papers from both sides of the Atlantic, resulting in a stellar line-up of papers related to the field of econometrics. The sessions have been organized around the core areas of methodology and econometric applications, so that there is guaranteed to be something of interest to everyone.
Following WRSA
procedure, we request that all AEA participants submit their pre-registration
forms and payments to our offices in Tucson, Arizona before February 1st,
2001. (Click
here for the special AEA WRSA Preregistration Form.) Those
paying after this date will be charged $170 and are requested to register
at the meeting. WRSA membership is not required for those participating
in the AEA sessions, but is strongly encouraged. The addition of
the AEA sessions to the regular WRSA Palm Springs program promises to strengthen
an already strong 40th Anniversary program, and we are grateful for all
the hard work put forth by the AEA organizers!
Regional Science Meeting Calendar
40th Anniversary Meeting of
the Western Regional Science Association, February 25 – 28, 2001, Palm
Springs, California
See articles,
Pages 1 & 2.
40th Annual Meeting of the
Southern Regional Science Association, April 5 – 7, 2001, Austin, Texas
The 40th Annual
Meeting of the Southern Regional Science Association will be held April
5 – 7, 2001 at the Driskill Hotel in Austin, Texas. For further information,
contact the 2001 Program Chair, Frank Hefner, Department of Economics and
Finance, College of Charleston, Charleston, SC 29424-0001. He can
also be reached via e-mail at hefnerf@cofc.edu or by phone at 843-953-8111,
or follow the link to SRSA’s web site on WRSA’s home page.
14th Advanced Studies Institute
of the European Regional Science Association, June 10 – 16, 2001, Groningen,
The Netherlands
ERSA’s
14th Advanced Studies Institute, “To Live and Work in Different Urban Systems,”
will be held in Groningen, The Netherlands, June 10 – 16, 2001. This
summer institute is geared towards providing 40 young scientists, including
PhD students, the opportunity to learn about the spatial behavior of entrepreneurs,
employees, and consumers in different urban contexts from experts in regional
science.
The deadline
for submitting abstracts is January 1, 2001. Authors of all accepted
papers will be notified by February 1, 2001, and the deadline for submitting
completed papers will be May 15, 2001.
Further
information on the Institute can be found at http://www.frw.rug.nl/si2001
or by contacting one of the local organizers: Jouke van Dijk (e-mail: j.van.dijk@frw.rug.nl),
Jan Oosterhaven, or Egbert Wever.
32nd Mid-Continent Regional
Science Association Annual Conference, May 31 – June 2, 2001, Duluth, Minnesota
The
32nd Annual Conference of the Mid-Continent Regional Science Association
will be held in Duluth, Minnesota from May 31 – June 2, 2001 at the Duluth
Holiday Inn Hotel and Suites.
The
deadline for submitting abstracts is March 31, 2001. Abstracts should
be sent to Dave Marcouiller at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
He can be reached via phone at 608-262-2998, by fax at 608-262-9307, or
by e-mail at dave@macc.wisc.edu. Organized sessions and papers are
welcome on any topic related to regional or urban areas, including Regional
Modeling, Rural Development, Environmental Quality, Migration, and Growth
Management.
Other questions
regarding the meeting can be directed to the local organizer, Rick Lichty,
at 218-726-7219, or follow the link to the Mid-Continent web site on WRSA’s
home page.
17th Pacific Conference of
the Regional Science Association International, June 30 – July 4, 2001,
Portland, Oregon
See Call for Papers, below...
Call for Papers!
17th
Pacific Conference
Regional Science Association
International
June 30 – July 4, 2001Portland,
Oregon USA
Embassy Suites Portland Downtown
Deadline for Abstracts and Special Session Plans: February 28, 2001
E-mail or Send Abstracts to:
Professor David A. Plane, Organizing Committee
PRSCO17
Department of Geography and Regional Development
/ University of Arizona
Harvill Building, Box 2 / Tucson, Arizona
85721 USA
plane@u.arizona.edu / fax: 520-621-2889 /
phone: 520-621-1738
Papers on Any Regional Science Topic Are Welcome!
Special Themes for the PRSCO17 Portland Conference:
Hosted by the Western Regional
Science Association
For full conference information visit our
website at http://geog.arizona.edu/wrsa