DERI Seminar with Prof Elsa Arcaute, Professor of Complexity Science, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL
When: Thursday, February 29, 2024, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Where: Empire House and/or Zoom
Speaker: Prof Elsa Arcaute, Professor of Complexity Science , UCL
This will be a hybrid event so if you can attend in-person, then register on Eventbrite. Hybrid event, please register on Eventbrite - https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/deri-seminar-with-elsa-arcaute-professor-of-complexity-science-ucl-tickets-845834743487?aff=oddtdtcreator
If you want to attend in-person the presentation will take place in the basement presentation space in Empire House, see attached map (building block 12)
Zoom link: https://qmul-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/81148100921
Please join us on Thursday 22nd February at 11am. We are delighted that our presenter will be Prof Elsa Arcaute, Professor of Complexity Science, Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL
Title: Multiscalarity in urban systems
Abstract: Processes in cities create patterns that give rise to hierarchical relationships between their elements. The processes can be modulated via top-down interventions, and such interventions can be decisive for the observed outputs. Nevertheless, the scale at which these interventions are performed, are not always obvious. In this lecture we look at commuting networks, and dive into the role of diversity at different scales. Such a framework allows to identify regional characteristics, these can be defined by specialisation in economic activity, the range of skills of individuals, and the functional complementarity between cities.
Bio: Elsa Arcaute is a Professor of Complexity Science at the Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, UCL, and an Honorary Professor at Hong Kong University. She holds a masters and a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of Cambridge. Before joining UCL, she investigated processes of self-organisation in ant-colonies and social systems at the Complexity and Networks group at Imperial College. For the past 10 years, her research has focused on cities and urban systems in general, such as the emergence of hierarchies, the characterisation of resilience, the emergence of innovation and the modelling of coupled systems.