The Ninth International Conference on Geographic Information Science will be held in Montreal, Canada from September 27 to 30, 2016. Held every two years and alternating between US and Europe, this is the first time that a venue has been selected in Canada. The Convergence Network will be highly implicated in the organisation by three of its members especially Renée Sieber as a general chair. More details are on the GIScience web site.

Sustainable development of mining sector- Social perception component of mining industry and social acceptability of mining projects: This project is offered thanks to a contribution of Energy and Natural Resources ministry (MERN) and Research fund of Quebec – Nature and Technologies (FRQNT).

For more details and application, visit the FQRNT web site

As part of the student activities, the Technical Program Committee is offering a 3 Minutes Thesis (3MT) contest, where Ph. D. students have three minutes to present a compelling oration on their theses and the significance to an audience specialized in different image processing fields. This unique opportunity aims at developing academic, presentation, and research communication skills and supports the development of research students’ capacity to explain their research in a language appropriate to an educated but non-specialist audience.