Meeting Schedule 2017/18
Here is the schedule for all CSAP meetings for the 2017/18 academic year.
For past meetings, go to the middle of the page, and for abstracts go to the bottom of the page.
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| S2 | Wed 27 Jun | 1300-1400 | SR2 | Tomas Crols | Presentation. Modelling the Evolution of Urban Land Use and Population with a Cellular Automata Model
Tomas will talk about the work he was doing as a PhD student in Belgium, where he worked on an activity-based cellular automata (CA) model to simulate urban land-use change and population change. The presentation will focus on
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| S4 | Wed 11 Jul | 1200-1300 | SR2 | TBD |
Previous Meetings
| Teaching Week no. | Date | Time | Location | Speaker(s) | Topic | |
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| 8 | Wed 15 Nov | 1100-1200 | SR1 | Prof Ke Wang | Application of Spatial information technology on new deployment of rural and agriculture in Zhejiang Province | |
| 10 | Fri 1 Dec | 1200-1300 | LIDA 11.09 | Jon Corcoran | Population Matters: Weather and Mobility | |
| C1 | Tues 12 Dec | 1300-1400 | SR2 | Phil Rees and Paul Norman | Forecasting Water Demand Under Policy Scenarios For A UK Water Company, 2011 To 2101 (Phil)
People's trajectories through deprivation spaces: associations with health (Paul) Business: (i) MbR bursaries - update (ii) Seedcorn funding for UG's and TPGs (iii) Other ways to spend funds |
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| 14 | Thurs 25 Jan | 1300-1400 | LIDA 11.09 | Matthew Daws | Teach me something!
Bayesian programming in Python; a demo of simple linear regression. |
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| 16 | Tues 6 Feb | 1100-1200 | SR2 | Roger Beecham | Teach me something! Combining information visualization theory and the grammar of graphics to do and teach modern data analysis | |
| 18 | Wed 21 Feb | 1400-1500 | LIDA 11.87 | Pip Roddis | Teach me something!
PR: An introduction to spatial microsimulation and the wonderful things it can do: An applied example of public attitudes to renewable energy in the UK |
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| 20 | Fri 9 Mar | 1200-1330 | SR2 | Ged Hall, ODPL | Impact. Ged will come and give us feedback on our emerging impact case studies. | |
| E3 | Thurs 5 Apr | 1300-1400 | LIDA 11.87 | Cancelled | ||
| 23 | Wed 25 Apr | 1200-1300 | SR1 | Yoo Min Park Department of Geography and GIS University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign |
Visiting lecture Moving Beyond Residential Neighborhoods: A Fine-Scale Spatiotemporal Approach to Examining Environmental Inequalities | |
| 24 | Tues 1 May | 1100-1200 | SR1 | Nick Malleson | Teach me something! Machine Learning and Convolutional Neural Networks (and why their beauty is their simplicity) |
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| 26 | Tues 15 May | 1300-1400 | SR2 | Phil Rees | Presentation. Household Projections for Long-Term Water Demand Forecasts | |
| 28 | Thurs 31 May | 1100-1200 | SR2 | Cancelled | ||
| 30 | Mon 11 Jun | 1300-1400 | LIDA 11.87 | Anne Owen | Energy Demographics. To what extent does demographic change explain the change in the UK's demand for energy? Anne Owen will present the ideas behind her new EPSRC Fellowship grant. Anne has developed a model which makes the link between industrial energy use and final products meaning that it is possible to find the full supply chain energy associated with the goods and services bought by households. Anne plans to use small area estimates of household consumption patterns, to trace how changes in demography, changes in spending patterns and changes in spending volume have led to changes in the UK's energy footprint. |
Meeting Agendas / Abstracts
Fri 1 Dec, 1300-1400 - Population Matters: Weather and Mobility.
Jon Corcoran, School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Queensland
Abstract: Weather influences our daily travel decisions in a number of important ways. For individuals, weather has been shown to influence trip making behaviours where inclement conditions are responsible for re-scheduling, re-routing and cancellation of planned journeys. At the scale of the transit system, poor weather is known to increase traffic congestion and reduce operational efficiencies. While research has begun to examine the weather-transit relationship, focus on the spatial dimension remains in its infancy. In this presentation Jon will discuss a new program of research that adopts a spatial analytic approach to map, model and monitor the complex weather-transit relationship. He will highlight the utility of a micro geographic approach and the importance of spatially integrating a large disaggregate smart card database of bus ridership with hourly local weather measurements. He will reveal how this approach has the potential for broader application across other public and private transport and climatic contexts to unveil the way in which weather influences our daily travel behaviour.
Biography: Jonathan Corcoran is Professor in Human Geography within the Earth and Environmental Sciences at The University of Queensland, Australia and the director of the Queensland Centre for Population Research. Jonathan’s research interests lie in the fields of Population Geography, Spatial Science and Regional Science. His publications cover a broad suite of topics including human mobility and migration, human capital, crime and urban fires each of which has a focus on quantitative methods. He has co-authored more than 100 academic publications. His articles appear in journals such as Papers in Regional Science, International Regional Science Review, The Professional Geography, Environment and Planning C: Government and Policy and Computers, Environment and Urban Systems. Jonathan is the co-editor of Australian Population Studies, an editorial advisory board member of Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy and has been guest editor of special issues in the Journal of Transport Geography, Annals of Regional Science and the Fire Safety Journal.
For further information regarding the seminar please contact John Stillwell.