BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Google Inc//Google Calendar 70.9054//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:REQUEST BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles X-LIC-LOCATION:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:19700308T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:19701101T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261014T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261014T125000 DTSTAMP:20260930T155229Z ORGANIZER;CN=Janet Reyes:mailto:janetre@ucr.edu UID:44v3asdiijb1fpc1u98mi8atq7@google.com ATTENDEE;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP= TRUE;CN=Matt Vaughn;X-NUM-GUESTS=0:mailto:mvaug015@ucr.edu ATTENDEE;CUTYPE=INDIVIDUAL;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP= TRUE;CN=Xing Shi;X-NUM-GUESTS=0:mailto:xshi068@ucr.edu 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Hello everyone\,

Our first Geospatial/GIS meetup of the academic year will be held on Wednes day\, October 14 from 12:00-12:50 pm.

The meetup will take place on Z oom\, and will be recorded.

The topic will be Can a Browser Beat G eoPandas? Rethinking geospatial computing for modern hardware


Presentation description
Much of modern GIS still rests on comp utational foundations designed more than two decades ago. Since then\, proc essors have become massively parallel\, new approaches to memory management and data layout have reshaped high-performance computing\, columnar data h as transformed analytics\, and web browsers have become serious computing p latforms. Yet many spatial workflows still inherit assumptions from an earl ier era.

This talk asks a simple question: if GIS were redesigned today from a blank slate using modern hardware\, data structures\, and pro gramming tools\, what would it look like?


Using rgSpa tial\, a new geospatial engine built from scratch in Rust and Apache Arrow\ , we’ll explore how rethinking data representation\, memory layout\, I/O\, and parallel execution can produce order-of-magnitude improvements in perfo rmance and memory efficiency. More surprisingly\, the same engine compiles to WebAssembly and runs entirely in the browser - with no server\, no insta llation\, and no data leaving the user’s device - while substantially outpe rforming widely used GIS tools such as GeoPandas\, R sf\, and QGIS.

We’ll look at what this architecture makes possible. Large spatial datasets that traditionally require desktop software or cloud infrastructure can be analyzed interactively in a browser tab. Sensitive workflows can run entir ely on-device\, without sending data to a third party — an important capabi lity in healthcare\, law enforcement\, defense\, and critical infrastructur e. And because the same engine runs across Python\, R\, and the browser\, h igh-performance spatial computing no longer has to be tied to a particular application or deployment model.

Our presenter
Alex Jorion is the founder of Rapid Geospatial Systems\, an Irvine\, California–based technology startup developing high-performance GIS software. He has a backg round in engineering\, energy\, and software development\, with experience building large-scale data analytics tools\, web-based mapping and analytics dashboards\, and automated market intelligence systems. Alex holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from UCLA and an MBA from the UCLA Anderson Schoo l of Management.

 

Mary-Michelle Moore\, our STE M Teaching Librarian at UCR\, will facilitate the meetup and will share a f ew announcements at the beginning.

To register\, please re spond to this calendar invitation\, or register through Eventbrite. Registration is appreciated but not required.

Here is the Zoom information you will need to attend:

https://ucr.zoom.us/j/97764 550317?pwd=gi7TZbbVCvlY9iyyNQ1uea6sKK4hxh.1

Meeting ID: 977 6455 0317

Passcode: 613355

Feel free to forward this invitation to anyone\, especially those with an i nterest in geospatial computing.

 

Best\,

-Janet Reyes
Geospatial Information Librarian

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