Presentations

Presentations about, or relating to, the surf project (most recent first)

• 2018

  • Simulating Urban Flows of Daily Routines of Commuters. Presentation to the 3rd International Workshop on Agent-Based Modelling of Urban Systems (ABMUS), part of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018). 10-15 July, Stockholm. Full abstract (pdf). Slides (pdf).

  • Understanding Input Data Requirements and Quantifying Uncertainty for Successfully Modelling ‘Smart’ Cities. Presentation to the 3rd International Workshop on Agent-Based Modelling of Urban Systems (ABMUS), part of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018). Full abstract (pdf).

  • Agent-Based Models. Presentation to the Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds.

  • Dynamic Simulation Models for Crime Analysis and Urban Flows. Invited presentation to the Lancaster Environment Centre, University of Lancaster.

  • CDRC Research: Modelling Smart Cities. Presentation to the CDRC Innovation Forum. 27th April 2017, Leeds Institute for Data Analytics.

  • Calibrating an Agent-Based Model of the Ambient Population using Big Data. Presentation to the Association of American Geographers (AAG), 10th – 15th April, New Orleans, as part of the Special Sessions on Innovations in Urban Analytics.

  • Forecasting Short-Term Urban Dynamics: Emerging Research and Challenges. Presentation to the Association of American Geographers (AAG), 10th – 15th April, New Orleans, as part of the Special Sessions on Innovations in Urban Analytics.

• 2017

  • Crime Analytics and the Role of Dynamic Simulation Models. Invited presentation to the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSRC) - 21st November, 2017, Amsterdam.

  • Crime Analytics and the Role of Dynamic Simulation Models. Invited presentation to the Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement (NSCR) - 21st November, 2017, Amsterdam.

  • Forecasting Short-Term Urban Dynamics: Data Assimilation for Agent-Based Modelling. Presentation to the Social Simulation Conference - the 13th Annual Conference of the European Social Simulation Association (ESSA). 25-29 September 2017, Dublin, Ireland.

  • Quantifying the Ambient Population using Big Data and Agent-Based Modelling. Presentation to the European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography (ECTQG) 7-11 September, 2017, York, UK.

  • Quantifying Personal Pollution Impacts to Inform Transport Scheme Innovation through New Generation Mobility Data. Presentation to the European Colloquium on Theoretical and Quantitative Geography (ECTQG) 7-11 September, 2017, York, UK.

  • Simulating Urban Flows. Presentation to GeoComputation 2017, 4-7 September, Leeds, UK.

  • Urban Analytics: Example projects from LIDA. Invited presentation to the Office for National Statistics, 27th July, Titchfield.

  • Quantifying the Ambient Population. Presentation at the CDRC Data Partner Forum, 25th May, Leeds Institute for Data Analytics.

  • Simulation as the Catalyst for Geographical Data Science and Urban Policy Making. Presentation to the Association of American Geographers (AAG), 4th – 8th April, Boston, as part of the Special Sessions on Geographic Data Science.

• 2016

  • Dynamic, data-driven, agent-based modelling for simulating cities: Understanding Crime and Pollution Invited presentation to the Office for National Statistics (ONS) Big Data Campus, Titchfield. 1 December 2016.

  • Crime Mapping, Crime Predictors, and Crime Simulation Invited presentation to the Crime and Policing Analysis group at the Home Office, London. 15th November 2016.

  • Crime Analytics and the Role of Dynamic Simulation Models Presentation as part of the Crime Analytics LIDA Seminar. 20th October 2016.

  • Simulating Urban Flows to Estimate the Disease Burden of Air Pollution Presentation to the Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference. 30 August - 2 September. Urban Analytics session. (31st August 2016)

  • Agent-Based Modelling, the Next 20 Years: Dynamic Data Assimilation Presentation to the Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference. 30 August - 2 September. Session: The Future of Geocomputation. (31st August 2016)

  • SENSEable cities PK. A short presentation about the work I would like to do during my research visit to the SENSEable cities lab at MIT.

  • Dynamic, data-driven agent-based models for simulating cities. An invited presentation to the MIT Media Lab. (19th July 2016)

  • Exploring the Impact of Ambient Population Measures on Crime Hotspots. Presentation to the Association of American Geographers (AAG), 29th March – 2nd April, San Francisco.

  • Agent-Based Modelling, Ambient Populations and Models of Burglar Behaviour. Presentation to the N8 Policing Research Partnership Data Analysis, Management and Crime Mapping Workshop, 30 September 2017, Leeds UK

Conference sessions organised / chaired:

• 2018

  • Organiser: Special Sessions on Innovations in Urban Analytics at the Association of American Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting, 10th – 15th April, New Orleans. Also Chair of the panel session.

• 2017

  • Organiser: Special Sessions on: Geographic Data Science. Sessions organised as part of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Tue 4th - Sun 9th April 2017, Boston.

  • Also Chair of Geographic Data Science Panel Session. The panelists were: David O’Sullivan; Alex Singleton; Luc Anselin; Daniel Arribas-Bel; Mark Birkin; Cheng Zhong; Andrew Crooks; Ran Wei.

  • Symposium on Human Dynamics in Smart and Connected Communities: Agents - the ‘atomic unit’ of social systems?. Sessions organised as part of the Association of American Geographers (AAG), Tue 4th - Sun 9th April 2017, Boston.

• 2016

  • Urban Analytics (31st August 2016). Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference, 30 August - 2 September.

  • The Future of Geocomputation. (31st August 2016). Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference. 30 August - 2 September.

  • Urban Analytics. Association of American Geographers (AAG), 29th March – 2nd April, San Francisco.

  • Crime / Fear in Space and Time. Association of American Geographers (AAG), 29th March – 2nd April, San Francisco.

Other material

• 2017

  • AGILE PhD School 2017: Agent-Based Modelling.