Urban Modelling & Complexity Science workshop
The MacArthur Workshop on Urban Modelling & Complexity Science
I’m delighted to be attending the MacArthur Workshop on Urban Modelling & Complexity Science at CASA, UCL, next week. It will be held in the J Z Young Lecture Theatre, Anatomy Building University College London on Thursday 19th to Friday 20th September 2019 from 8-45am to 5pm each day.
This event is free but please check the Eventbrite page: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-macarthur-workshop-on-urban-modelling-complexity-science-tickets-69983794413
The draft programme is:
| Time | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday 19th September | ||
| 8.30-8.45 | coffee | |
| 8.45-9am | Welcome and Introductions | |
| 9-9.30 | Chris Pettit | A Rapid Analytics Scenario Planning Toolkit |
| 9.30-10 | Carl Steinitz | Why Geodesign and Why Negotiation |
| 10-10.30 | Hrishi Ballal | Geodesign as Natural Language Processing and Semantic Analysis in Negotiated Outcomes. |
| 10.30-11 | coffee | |
| 11-11.30 | Janice Morphet | The Future of Analytics in Public Policy |
| 11.30-12 | Zhongwen Huang | Science of Cities: New Tools for Old Problems |
| 12-12.30 | Michael Batty | Smart Cities, Digital Twins and Urban Analytics |
| 12.30-1.30pm | lunch | |
| 1.30-2.10pm | Alan Wilson | The Future of Urban Analytics: Challenges and Opportunities |
| 2.10-2.40 | Michael Wegener | Modelling the energy transition in the Ruhr Area |
| 2.40-3.10pm | Diego Rybski | SDGs and Urban Scaling: A Proof of Concept |
| 3.10-3.30pm | coffee | |
| 3.30-4pm | Carlos Molinero | How the Geometry of Cities Explains Urban Scaling Laws and Determines their Exponents |
| 4-4.30 | Max Nathan | Does Light Touch Cluster Policy work? Evaluating the Tech City Programme |
| 4.30-5-00 | Srilalitha Gopalakrishnan and Manivannan Ajaykumar | Vertical Cities: Complex Emergent Patterns of Movement and Space Use in High-Density Urban Contexts |
| Friday 20th September | ||
| 8.45-9 | coffee | |
| 9-9.30 | Marc Barthélemy | Modelling Car Traffic in Cities |
| 9.30-10 | Laura Alessandretti | The Scales of Human Mobility |
| 10-10.30 | Filippo Simini | Scaling Laws in Urban Systems: Interrelationships and Applications |
| 10.30-11 | coffee | |
| 11-11.30 | Stuart Barr | Flood-PREPARED: A Real-Time Digital Twin Framework for Nowcasting the Impact of Extreme Rainfall Events on Cities |
| 11.30-12 | Alison Heppenstall | Understanding Urban Flows |
| 12-12.30 | Jon Reades | Predicting Neighbourhood Change? An Application of Machine Learning in Urban Analysis |
| 12.30-1.30pm | Lunch | |
| 1.30-2pm | Nick Malleson | Simulating Pedestrian Systems in Real Time using Agent-Based Models |
| 2-2.30 | Chen Zhong | Exploring the Interaction of Metro Vibrancy and the Built Environment Using Multi-Source Urban Data |
| 2.30-3pm | Tim Evans | Properties of Simple Models of Spatial Interaction |
| 3-3.30pm | coffee | |
| 3.30-4pm | Daniel Arribas-Bel | How the Geometry of Cities Explains Urban Scaling Laws and Determines their Exponents |
| 4-4.30 | Andrea Baronchelli | Evidence for a Conserved Quantity in Human Mobility |