BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Columba Systems Ltd//NONSGML CPNG/SpringViewer/ICal Output/3.3- M3//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20160908T094314Z DTSTART:20160913T080000Z DTEND:20160913T093000Z SUMMARY:ESRC Strategic Network DACAS: Denise Pumain on Urban Dynamics and Geo-diversity: from Theory to Modeling UID:{http://www.columbasystems.com/customers/uom/gpp/eventid/}lsq-is91drz t-w1mkhu DESCRIPTION:The ESRC Strategic Network Data and Cities as Complex Adaptiv e Systems (DACAS) is hosting its third event\, the international summer school Understanding Urban Transformations through Data. The aim of DACA S is to promote an interdisciplinary complexity science approach to the study of urban data and the links between soft and hard systems as the b asis for the development of innovative technological applications. Denis e Pumain will deliver a keynote as part of the summer school: \n\nUrban Dynamics and Geo-diversity: from Theory to Modeling\n\nThe evolution of cities is a major issue because it affects the majority of the world pop ulation. It is in cities that solutions must be invented to solve the pr oblems of sustainable development in terms of quality of life\, of resou rce management\, of intelligent integration of technological and cultura l innovation and of social cohesion\, at the local and the global scales . The diversity of cities is such that it might seem difficult to develo p a scientific knowledge about them for sustaining policies. However\, c ities have long been interdependent and organized into systems of cities \, they co-evolve through the multiple relationships which connect them into networks for the exchange of materials\, investments\, people or in formation. These interdependencies drive and constrain the evolution of each city in the system\, according to a complex set of dynamics which e xhibit patterns regular enough to help understanding and even predicting certain trends.\n\nFor anticipating urban future\, geographers have sin ce long developed a theoretical framework relying on the observation\, n ot only of the few megacities global stars but of thousands of cities an d towns taken in a variety of world regions. These empirical observation s were scrutinized through analytic methods inspired from the dynamics o f complex systems and data and processes are now integrated into compute r simulation models which are able to reconstruct the stylized facts and trends observed. The theory and the results of these modeling experimen ts emphasize the importance of interactions between the cities in the ev olution of their size and the effects of the spatial diffusion of large innovations waves\, which tend to reinforce the hierarchical unevenness and explain the reversal of trajectories in the specialized cities. The path-dependent role of the precocity and sustainability of settlement sy stems is confirmed as well as the bifurcations associated with colonizat ion in having created at world scale a diversity of systems of cities wh ich has been maintained for decades in terms of hierarchical inequality and the primacy of their metropolises. Adapted urban policies might part ly counteract such self-organized trends. In any case\, the urban geodiv ersity has to be taken into account in order to continue the major funct ion of cities and towns which still are altogether remarkably efficient socio-spatial adaptors on the long run in the human history.\n\nDenise P umain \n\nPumain trained in geography at Ecole Normale Supérieure\, she was lecturer at University Paris I from 1970\, researcher at the Nationa l Institute of Demography (1981-86)\, Professor at University Paris 13 ( 1986-89) then at University Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne\, member of the In stitut Universitaire de France. Former Chair of the Commission on Urban Development and Urban Life of the IGU (1992-2000)\, founder of the resea rch laboratory P.A.R.I.S. (1984)\, Director of the UMR Géographie-cités (CNRS 1992-2000)\, the European Research Group S4 (Spatial Simulation f or Social Sciences\, 2006-2013)\, Cybergeo\, European Journal of Geograp hy (founded 1996)\, Principal Investigator of the ERC advanced grant Ge oDiverCity\, http://geodivercity.parisgeo.cnrs.fr/blog/ (2011-2016). Her main scientific contribution is about building an evolutionary theory o f urban systems and transferring concepts and models from self-organisin g complex systems towards social sciences. She was chief executive of ed ucation and research for the Académie de Grenoble (2000-2001) and first scientific coordinator for social sciences at the French Agency for rese arch assessment (2007-2008). Doctor honoris causa at University of Lausa nne and Liege\, silver medal of the CNRS and Vautrin Lud International p rize in Geography in 2010. Corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences since 2009 and corresponding fellow of the British Academy s ince 2012. Officer in French Order “Legion d’honneur” and “Ordre du meri te”.\n\nAmong recent publications:\n\nPumain D. (ed.) 2006\, Hierarchy i n natural and social sciences. Dordrecht\, Springer.\nLane D.\, Pumain D .\, van der Leeuw S.\, West G. (eds.)\, 2009\, Complexity perspectives o n innovation and social change\, ISCOM\, Springer.\nPumain D. 2012\, Mul ti-agents System Modelling for Urban Systems : the Series of SIMPOP mode ls\, in Heppenstall A. J.\, Crooks A.T.\, See L.M.\, Batty M. (eds)\, Ag ent-based Models of Geographical Systems. Springer..\nPumain D.\, Swerts E.\, Cottineau C. Vacchiani-Marcuzzo C.\, Ignazzi A.\, Bretagnolle A.\, Delisle F.\, Cura R.\, Lizzi L\, Baffi S. 2015 : Multi-level compariso n of large urban systems. Cybergeo\, 706.\n\nPlaces are limited and book ing well in advance is advised: http://goo.gl/wcRd99 STATUS:TENTATIVE TRANSP:TRANSPARENT CLASS:PUBLIC LOCATION:Lecture Theatre C\, Simon Building\, Manchester END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR