Featured Speakers
Susan Wachter
Professor, Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
Tuesday, April 29,
8:00 a.m.–8:30 a.m.
Susan Wachter is the Richard B. Worley Professor of Financial Management and Professor of Real Estate at Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Her interests are in the modeling of housing defaults, homeownership affordability, GIS, neighborhood change, and methods for pricing real estate. She is the author of 10 books and more than 100 publications and serves on five journal editorial boards.
She founded the GIS Lab at Wharton in 1998 and currently serves as its director. From 1998 to 2001, Dr. Wachter served as Assistant Secretary for Policy Development and Research of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Among her awards are the American Real Estate and Urban Economics Lifetime Achievement Award and distinguished teaching awards from the University of Pennsylvania.
Grant Thrall
Professor, Department of Geography
University of Florida
Wednesday, April 30,
8:30 a.m.–9:00 a.m.
Grant Thrall holds a Ph.D. in geography and economics from Ohio State University.
He serves on the board of the American Real Estate Society and is coeditor
of the Journal of Real Estate Literature. His publications include more than a dozen
books including the 10-volume Scientific Geography Series (1984–1987) and Business
Geography and Real Estate Market Analysis (2002, Oxford University Press), as
well as more than 100 articles. He has been advisor to Fannie Mae, the Centers
for Disease Control, and the U.S. Department of Justice as well as providing volunteer
expertise to his own town of Gainesville, Florida. Dr. Thrall's research interests
are business geography and market analysis, GIS applications for urban systems,
economic geography, and land-use theory.
Brady Foust
Professor, Department of Geography
University of Wisconsin–Eau Clair
Tuesday, April 29,
11:30 a.m.–12:30 p.m.
Brady Foust has close to 40 years of theoretical and applied research in the areas of retail site location, insurance and tax geospatial solutions, and the design and implementation of large spatial databases.
His academic research has ranged from technical articles on the uses of GIS to monitor the expansion of the rural/urban interface, the definition of primary and secondary retail market areas, and the effects of cultural and natural barriers on market areas to cultural geography topics such as the geographic origins of American Thoroughbred bloodlines, the spatial dimensions of Vietnam War casualties, and the origins of NCAA Division I football players.
Dr. Foust was a founding senior partner of Matrix Research, which helped ESRI develop the ArcView 3.x versions of Business Analyst, and for many years he was an executive vice president of Proxix Solutions, a leading provider of insurance and tax solutions and a robust, parcel-level geocoder, PxPoint.
James Pick
Professor, School of Business
University of Redlands
James Pick received his B.A. from Northwestern University and Ph.D. from the
University of California, Irvine. He was a Senior Fulbright Scholar at Universidad
Iberoamericana in Mexico City in 2001 and Visiting Researcher at the University
of California, Irvine, in 2005.
Dr. Pick has received teaching and research awards
from the University of Redlands, where he serves on four journal editorial boards.
He is past chair of the Department of Management and Business and past assembly
chair of the School of Business. He is the author of more than 100 scientific papers
and book chapters in the research areas of management information systems,
geographic information systems, population, and urban studies and the author of
10 books including Geo-Business: GIS in the Digital Organization (December 2007, John Wiley and Sons).
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