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SUMMARY:Michele Coscia holds a tutorial at Complex Networks
DESCRIPTION:Node Vector Distances: Methods and Applications\nMichele is an associate professor at IT University of Copenhagen since 2020. He mainly works on algorithms for the analysis of complex networks\, with methods spanning from Computer Science to physics\, and on applying the extracted knowledge to a variety of problems\, including economic development\, human mobility\, and the analysis of ideological polarization. His background is in Digital Humanities\, connecting new technologies with a classical education. He has a PhD in CS\, obtained in 2012 at the University of Pisa. In the past\, he visited Barabasi’s CCNR at Northeastern University\, and worked with Ricardo Hausmann for 6 years at the Center for International Development\, Harvard University. \n– \nHow quickly is a disease spreading through a social network? How diversified is a country in a network of related exported products? How polarized is the online discourse on social media? These seemingly unrelated questions can be answered with a common toolbox: they all require to compare different types of node attributes. In this workshop\, you will learn how to apply Node Vector Distance techniques: given two node attributes — represented as vectors — how far the two are on a network structure? Are they correlated when we take into account not only the value of a node itself\, but also the values of its neighbors? Or simply: how spread out in the network is an attribute? The workshop will make you familiar with ways to translate concepts such as Euclidean distance\, Pearson correlation\, and variance\, when the vectors do not live in an Euclidean space\, but on the complex landscape that is the topology of a network.
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/michele-coscia-holds-a-tutorial-at-complex-networks/
LOCATION:University of Palermo\, Viale delle Scienze Building 19\, Palermo\, Italy
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221102T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221102T170000
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SUMMARY:Roberta Sinatra at Aarhus University\, The Science Studies Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:Quantifying biases and inequalities in science\nEvery day our life is made easier by efficient algorithms that search and rank scientific information. Yet\, these algorithms have an issue: they are trained on citation data that is ingrained with human biases. Therefore the output is inherently biased too\, creating inequalities\, raising concerns of discrimination\, and harming economic growth. In this talk\, I focus on recent quantitative efforts in science studies to (1) uncover bias mechanisms in science\, (2) use this knowledge about biases to uncover inequalities in the scientific enterprise\, and (3) create fair metrics and algorithms.
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/roberta-sinatra-at-aarhus-university-the-science-studies-colloquium/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221026T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221026T133000
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SUMMARY:NERDS Seminar with Nicole Lyons: Meta's Academic and Research Partnerships
DESCRIPTION:Meta’s Academic and Research Partnerships\nTalk \n\n\nNicole Lyons will provide an overview of the Academic and Research Partnerships team\, including Meta’s current tools and datasets to support independent research to study Meta’s impact on society. This will include the company’s URL Shares Dataset\, Data for Good tools\, the newly launched Ads Targeting Dataset and forthcoming Coordinated Inauthentic Behaviour Influence Operations Archive\, as well as how the team engages with independent researchers through feedback sessions\, conferences and at the monthly Meta Research Exchange. \n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nBio \n\n\nNicole Lyons is a Strategic Partner Manager\, as part of the Academic and Research Partnerships team at Meta. This team helps equip independent academic researchers with access and support to Meta’s products and data to better understand Meta’s impact on society. With a background in molecular biology\, Nicole led research programs in breast cancer biology in Canada and conducted stem cell research at the Hospital for Sick Children under world-renowned developmental biologist Dr Janet Rossant. Nicole relocated to the UK in 2017 and worked in the non-profit sector\, including launching the International Alliance for Cancer Early Detection (ACED) and publishing the Early Detection and Diagnosis of Cancer Roadmap at Cancer Research UK.
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/nerds-seminar-with-nicole-lyons-metas-academic-and-research-partnerships/
LOCATION:ITU\, 3F07\, Kaj Munks Vej 11\, Copenhagen\, 2300\, Denmark
CATEGORIES:NERDS home
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221025T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221025T151500
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SUMMARY:Luca Rossi chairing and moderating NLP\, Fake News and Social Media @ Digital Tech Summit
DESCRIPTION:Program:\nWelcoming talk: The many faces of Fake News\, by session chair\, Luca Rossi \nNLP\, Fake News and Social Media\nScientific Talk: NLP and social media\, Marina Charquero Ballestar\, Postdoc\, AU \nScientific Talk: Editorial media and social media platforms: it’s complicated\, Aske Kammer\, RUC \nBusiness Talk: Daniel Hanse\, tjekdet.dk \nBusiness Talk: Complexities of tacking the challenge of misinformation at scale: tools and possibilities for researchers\, Nicole Lyon\, Meta \nDebate:\nWill be announced \nChair: Luca Rossi\, Associate Professor\, ITU \nModerator: Luca Rossi\, Associate Professor\, ITU \nSession coordinator: Nikolaj Oppermann\, Network\, Innovation & Collaboration manager\, ITU
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/luca-rossi-chairing-and-moderating-nlp-fake-news-and-social-media-digital-tech-summit/
LOCATION:Bella Center\, Center Blvd. 5\, København\, 2300\, Denmark
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221022T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221022T110000
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SUMMARY:Roberta Sinatra at Danish Data Science Academy / Pioneer Centre for AI
DESCRIPTION:Keynote to: Science of Science for Data Scientists
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/roberta-sinatra-at-danish-data-science-academy-pioneer-centre-for-ai/
LOCATION:Frederiksdal Sinatur Hotel\, Frederiksdalsvej 360\, Frederiksdal\, Denmark
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221019T170000
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SUMMARY:Michele Coscia at DINS Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Quantifying Political Polarization on a Network Using Generalized Euclidean Distance
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/michele-coscia-at-dins-seminar-series/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221018T170000
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SUMMARY:Roberta Sinatra at Women in Network Science Seminar
DESCRIPTION:Pathways in Network Science – A seminar with Roberta Sinatra
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/roberta-at-women-in-network-science-seminar/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221011T090000
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SUMMARY:Keynote by Luca Aiello at International Conference on Discovery Science 2022
DESCRIPTION:Coloring Social Relationships\nSocial relationships are the key determinant of crucial societal outcomes\, including diffusion of innovation\, productivity\, happiness\, and life expectancy. To better attain such outcomes at scale\, it is therefore paramount to have technologies that can effectively capture the type of social relationships from digital data. NLP researchers have tried to do so from conversational text but mostly focusing on sentiment or topic mining\, techniques that fall short on either conciseness or exhaustiveness. We propose a theoretical model of 10 dimensions (colors) of social relationships that is backed by decades of research in social sciences and that captures most of the common relationship types. We trained a deep-learning model to classify text along these ten dimensions\, and we reached performance up to 0.98 AUC. By applying this tool on large-scale conversational data\, we show that the combination of the predicted dimensions suggests both the types of relationships people entertain and the types of real-world communities they shape.  \nWe believe that the ability of capturing interpretable social dimensions from language using AI will help closing the gap between the oversimplified social constructs that existing social network analysis methods can measure and the multifaceted understanding of social dynamics that has been developed by decades of theoretical research.
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/keynote-by-luca-aiello-at-international-conference-on-discovery-science-2022/
LOCATION:Campus St Priest\, 161 Rue Ada\, 34095\, Montpellier\, France
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221006T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221006T143000
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SUMMARY:Anastassia Vybornova at CRBAM 2022
DESCRIPTION:The Cycle Node Network Planner: A data-driven decision support tool
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/anastassia-vybornova-at-crbam-2022/
LOCATION:University of Amsterdam\, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 237\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221006T103000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20221006T120000
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SUMMARY:Ane Rahbek Vierø at CRBAM 2022
DESCRIPTION:Reproducible Quality Assessment of OSM Data for Cycling\nApplications
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/ane-rahbek-viero-at-crbam-2022/
LOCATION:University of Amsterdam\, Oudezijds Achterburgwal 237\, Amsterdam\, Netherlands
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20220922T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20220922T170000
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SUMMARY:Invited talk Ane\, Anastassia\, Michael at University of Liverpool\, Geographic Data Science Lab
DESCRIPTION:Note 3PM BST is 4PM Copenhagen time.
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/invited-talk-ane-anastassia-michael-at-university-of-liverpool-geographic-data-science-lab/
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220919
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SUMMARY:Luca Aiello lecturing at Summer School Ghent Summer of DANS 2022
DESCRIPTION:Introduction to Data Science
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/luca-aiello-lecturing-at-summer-school-ghent-summer-of-dans-2022/
LOCATION:Ghent University\, Tweekerkenstraat 2\, Ghent\, Belgium
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20220825T140000
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SUMMARY:NERDS SEMINAR: Arda Halu
DESCRIPTION: Tackling biological context\, one network at a time: Examples from network biology and network pharmacology\nArda Halu\, Channing Division of Network Medicine\, Brigham/ Women’s Hospital (BWH)/Harvard Medical School (HMS)\n\n\nAbstract\nNetworks have proven time and again to be highly versatile tools in modeling biological interactions\, finding useful applications in basic and clinical research alike. In the majority of these applications\, however\, the inherently context-specific nature of these interactions remains largely unaccounted for\, despite increasingly granular and\nmulti-dimensional biomedical data. In this seminar\, I will present two network-based methods that we are currently developing to address\, in a context-aware manner\, present challenges related to computational drug discovery and cellular signaling. I will first talk about our method that uses a large-scale pharmacogenomic database to build over 50 cell type-specific gene-perturbation networks and integrates these networks with diverse disease phenotypes and cheminformatic data for a nested prioritization of cell lines and perturbations. I will demonstrate that our method outperforms currently available techniques in terms of predictive power and offers the potential to be a feasible blueprint for a cell type-specific drug discovery and repositioning platform. I will then switch over to a multilayer network-based statistical framework that we are building that uses high-dimensional edges\, or multilinks\, to model crosstalk between signaling pathways. I will show that using statistically overrepresented multilinks as proxies of crosstalk results in better identification of signaling crosstalk compared to single layer-based methods\, suggesting the utility of the multilayer modeling of signaling crosstalk\, with potential future applications to extend our approach to tissue- and disease-specific crosstalk.\n \n  \nBio\n\nArda Halu is an Instructor in Medicine and Associate Scientist at the Channing Division of Network Medicine\, Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) and Harvard Medical School (HMS). His research interests lie at the intersection of network science\, computational biology\, genomics and systems medicine. Prior to joining the Faculty of Medicine at HMS\, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow at BWH/HMS (2015-2020) and a Postdoctoral Associate at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (2014-2015). He obtained his PhD in Physics at Northeastern University\, Boston\, in 2014 (supervised by Dr. Ginestra Bianconi)\, and holds MS and BS degrees in Physics from Bogazici University in Istanbul\, Turkey. Dr. Halu is a recipient (2020-2025) of the Mentored Quantitative Research Career Development Award (K25) from the National Heart\, Lung\, and Blood Institute\, National Institutes of Health.
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/nerds-seminar-arda-halu/
LOCATION:ITU\, 3F07\, Kaj Munks Vej 11\, Copenhagen\, 2300\, Denmark
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20220809T150000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20220810T210000
DTSTAMP:20260425T234401
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SUMMARY:Roberta is a mentor and speaker at the Science of Science Summer school
DESCRIPTION:Roberta is one of the invited speakers and mentors at the (online) Science of Science Summer school. On August 9th\, 2022 she will give a talk and participate in a panel\, and she will mentor students on August 9th and 10th
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/roberta-is-a-mentore-and-speaker-at-the-science-of-science-summer-school/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20220725T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20220725T173000
DTSTAMP:20260425T234401
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SUMMARY:Invited talk: Roberta Sinatra at SICSS-Aachen-Graz (online)
DESCRIPTION:Roberta will give an invited talk at the (virtual) Summer Institutes of Computational Social Science – Graz Aachen edition: \nQuantifying the dynamics of impact in science and art. The unprecedented availability of large-scale datasets about human dynamics has advanced our understanding of social collective phenomena quantitatively.\nIn this talk\, we study the collective phenomenon of success and present a series of findings from the analysis of large-scale datasets of careers in science and art. By using concepts of statistical physics\, complex systems\, network science\, and data science\, we will tackle these three questions:\nHow does impact evolve in a career? How can we untangle luck from ability? What is the role of social networks in achieving high impact? \n 
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/invited-talk-roberta-sinatra-at-sicss-aachen-graz-online/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20220706T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20220708T170000
DTSTAMP:20260425T234401
CREATED:20220725T180612Z
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SUMMARY:Roberta is an invited speaker and faculty at the Complexity-GAINs International Summer School
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URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/roberta-is-an-invited-speaker-and-faculty-at-the-complexity-gains-international-summer-school/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20220615T112000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20220615T120500
DTSTAMP:20260425T234401
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SUMMARY:Keynote talk Michael Szell at Alan Turing Institute
DESCRIPTION:Establishing a quantitative science of bicycle networks\nMaking transportation in cities sustainable is one major key to solving the climate\, urban livability\, and urban transport crises. To this end\, urban data science offers new tools to quantify societal problems in cities and to guide policy makers with human-centric solutions. In this talk I outline our recent and ongoing efforts towards that end\, focusing on vulnerable road users and active travel\, in particular towards establishing a data-driven science of bicycle networks. I first discuss inequalities between transport modes through mobility space and collision threat analysis\, then present new computational methods based on network science to grow and plan bicycle networks optimally and equitably for various urban development stages. All research comes with open code and data\, and with concrete policy recommendations towards better urban livability\, public health\, and decarbonization.
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/keynote-talk-michael-szell-at-alan-turing-institute/
CATEGORIES:NERDS away
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20220613T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20220613T140000
DTSTAMP:20260425T234401
CREATED:20220613T091436Z
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SUMMARY:Roberta gives a Keynote at Nordic Network for Science of Science
DESCRIPTION:The Nordic research councils in the Humanities and Social Sciences have provided generous funding to establish the Nordic Network for Science of Science and to run a series of workshops about the latest research on the science of science\, focusing on the research scene within the nordic countries. Roberta is giving a keynote at the first workshop\, hosted in Helsinki\, about “Quantifying the biases of scientific impact“.
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/roberta-gives-a-keynote-at-nordic-network-for-science-of-science/
LOCATION:center for philosophy at University of Helsinki\, Helsinki\, Finland
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20220608T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20220608T133000
DTSTAMP:20260425T234401
CREATED:20220530T085009Z
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SUMMARY:NERDS SEMINAR: Rossano Schifanella\, University of Turin
DESCRIPTION:Revealing the determinants of gender inequality in urban cycling with large-scale data\nby Rossano Schifanella\, Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Turin. \nAbstract\nCycling is an outdoor activity with massive health benefits and an effective solution for sustainable urban transport. Despite these benefits and the recent rising popularity of cycling\, most countries still have a negligible uptake. This uptake is especially low for women: there is a largely unexplained\, persistent gender gap in cycling. To understand the determinants of this gender gap in cycling at scale\, here we use massive\, automatically collected data from the tracking application Strava on outdoor cycling for 61 cities across the United States\, the United Kingdom\, Italy\, and the Benelux area. Leveraging the associated gender and usage information\, we first quantify the emerging gender gap in recreational cycling at city level. A comparison of cycling rates of women across cities within similar geographical areas unveils a broad range of gender gaps. On a macroscopic level\, we link this heterogeneity to a variety of urban indicators and provide evidence for traditional hypotheses on the determinants of the gender-cycling gap. We find a positive association between the female cycling rate and urban road safety. On a microscopic level\, we identify female preferences for street-specific features in the city of New York. Enhancing the quality of the dedicated cycling infrastructure may be a way to make urban environments more accessible for women\, thereby making urban transport more sustainable for everyone.
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/nerds-seminar-rossano-schifanella-university-of-turin/
LOCATION:ITU\, 3F07\, Kaj Munks Vej 11\, Copenhagen\, 2300\, Denmark
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20220601T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20220601T133000
DTSTAMP:20260425T234401
CREATED:20220505T112148Z
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SUMMARY:NERDS SEMINAR: Marina Georgati\, AAU
DESCRIPTION:Machine learning for cohort-based high-resolution spatial population projections\nMarina Georgati\, Aalborg University CPH\nAbstract\nCities expand rapidly with international migration significantly contributing to urban growth and urban population change. However\, cities miss out on a great opportunity of reclaiming valuable knowledge on future population distribution due to the lack of established tools and methodologies to project where it is more likely for people of specific socio-demographic groups to set up home. The present work suggests that spatially explicit projections can play a significant role as a tool for urban planning and for managing diversity creatively\, especially when a combination of social\, demographic\, and topographic data is utilized. Machine learning techniques have demonstrated capabilities to capture relationships among this plethora of urban features to estimate future population distribution. We present a flexible\, ML-based methodology for high-resolution gridded population projections by demographic characteristics\, while combining various socio-demographic and topographic input layers. \n\n\nBio\nPhD fellow with background in architecture and geoinformation. I am interested on working at the intersection of socio-economic studies and computer sciences. I am currently exploring Machine Learning solutions for cohort-based spatial population projections. Passionate with urban analysis\, demography and programming\, I focus on migration patterns and their spatio-temporal variations at local level in European cities within the scope of the H2020 FUME Project.
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/nerds-seminar-marina-georgati-aau/
LOCATION:ITU\, 3F07\, Kaj Munks Vej 11\, Copenhagen\, 2300\, Denmark
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220526
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220528
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SUMMARY:Roberta giving a keynote at INAS
DESCRIPTION:Roberta gives a keynote talk entitled Quantifying the biases of scientific success at the 14th annual  International Conference of Analytical Sociology 
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/roberta-giving-a-keynote-at-inas/
LOCATION:eui florence\, Italy
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20220518T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20220518T170000
DTSTAMP:20260425T234401
CREATED:20220615T122134Z
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SUMMARY:Invited Talk Anastassia Vybornova at Citizens Collective (CUSP\, TU Delft)
DESCRIPTION:Will Cycling Save Our Cities? A Story of Love and Panic\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe climate crisis is putting our future in danger. Cycling is often described as the go-to “green bullet” to make transportation in cities more sustainable and to reduce our exacerbated fossil fuel consumption. But can we still win the global war on cars\, or are our beloved cities (and with them\, their inhabitants) doomed anyways? I will share a personal account of my journey into cycling research\, which is a story of reciprocated love and well-founded panic. I invite you to join me on a bumpy ride to rethink urban mobility: Let’s pet the elephants in the room – and share our visions of being on the road.
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/invited-talk-anastassia-vybornova-at-citizens-collective-cusp-tu-delft/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20220419T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20220419T182000
DTSTAMP:20260425T234401
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SUMMARY:Roberta talking about Complex Systems for Mondadori Scuola (in Italian)
DESCRIPTION:The talk will be streamed realtime here:  \n \nDetails of the event:  \nhttps://www.mondadorieducation.it/formazione-e-aggiornamento/appuntamenti/la-fisica-dei-sistemi-complessi-il-tutto-e-piu-della-somma-delle-parti/
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/roberta-talking-about-complex-systems-for-mondadori-scuola-in-italian/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20220401T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20220401T110000
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SUMMARY:Talk: Luca Maria Aiello at ANET Lab Seminar Series
DESCRIPTION:Abstract \nSocial relationships are the key determinant of crucial societal outcomes\, including diffusion of innovation\, productivity\, happiness\, and life expectancy. To better attain such outcomes at scale\, it is therefore paramount to have technologies that can effectively capture the type of social relationships from digital data. NLP researchers have tried to do so from conversational text but mostly focusing on sentiment or topic mining\, techniques that fall short on either conciseness or exhaustiveness. We propose a theoretical model of 10 dimensions (colors) of social relationships that is backed by decades of research in social sciences and that captures most of the common relationship types. We trained a deep-learning model to classify text along these ten dimensions\, and we reached performance up to 0.98 AUC. By applying this tool on large-scale conversational data\, we show that the combination of the predicted dimensions suggests both the types of relationships people entertain and the types of real-world communities they shape. \nBio \nLuca Aiello is an Associate Professor at the IT University of Copenhagen. Previously\, he worked for 10 years as a Research Scientist in the industry: at Yahoo Labs in Barcelona\, and at Bell Labs in Cambridge (UK). He conducts research in Computational Social Science\, a field of studies that uses Social Science theories to inform solutions to Data Science problems. His work focuses on the analysis of conversations and collective behavior through the lens of machine-learning algorithms applied to large scale data. He was recently awarded the Carlsberg Young Investigator Fellowship to study how to build technologies to support collective cooperation in the face of societal dilemmas. \nSign up at: http://anet.krtk.mta.hu/seminars/
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/talk-luca-maria-aiello-at-anet-lab-seminar-series/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20220323T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20220323T133000
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SUMMARY:NERDS Seminar: Giulia Reggiani
DESCRIPTION:Understanding bikeability of urban networks\nGiulia Reggiani\, Delft University of Technology\n\n\nAbout the author:\nGiulia Reggiani is ending her PhD in the department of Transport and Planning\, Delft University of Technology. Her research in the last 4 years focused on structural properties of bicycle networks worldwide and on data driven methods for assessing bikeability. Her current interests lie in the broad domains of smart mobility\, data analysis\, and sustainability. \nAbout the presentation:\nHaving a bicycle network that is fully separated from vehicular traffic is not realistic even for top-performing cities. Thus\, cycling in most countries entails switching between streets with different length\, safety\, and comfort levels. As a consequence\, the quality of bicycle networks should not be evaluated based on one but multiple factors and by considering the different preferences of the users between the factors.In this presentation I will define and analyse different types of bicycle networks and present findings on bicycle infrastructure development across 47 cities. Then\, I present a multi-objective methodology to assess bikeability per origin-destination (OD) pair and for the entire network\, useful for evaluation and planning of bicycle networks. I do so by introducing the concept of “bikeability curves” which allows to assess how bikeable a network is for for its heterogeneity of users. This methodology is showcased on two cities with different bike cultures: Amsterdam and Melbourne. \n\n 
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/nerds-seminar-giulia-reggiani/
CATEGORIES:NERDS home
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20220311T093000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20220311T100000
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SUMMARY:Invited Talk Michael Szell at PhyMo22
DESCRIPTION:Towards a human-centric urban data science\nMaking our cities better and sustainable is key to solving the climate and urban transport crises. To this end\, urban data science offers new tools to quantify societal problems in cities and to propose human-centric solutions to policy makers. In this talk I outline our recent and ongoing efforts towards that end\, focusing on urban transport and vulnerable road users. I discuss inequalities between transport modes through mobility space and collision threat distributions\, and automated methods based on network science to generate and merge bicycle networks and to identify their gaps\, for different urban development stages. All research comes with concrete policy recommendations that significantly increase urban livability\, public health\, and decarbonization.
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/invited-talk-michael-szell-at-phymo22/
CATEGORIES:NERDS away
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20220302T123000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20220302T133000
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SUMMARY:NERDS Seminar: Tom Brughmans
DESCRIPTION:Tom Brughmans\, Aarhus University: Archaeological Network Research\, illustrated through a study on visual signalling networks of Medieval strongholds in Garhwal Himalaya\, India.  \nThis presentation provides a brief overview of network research in archaeology. What are the past phenomena typically studied using network methods in archaeology\, and what empirical datasets tend to be represented as network data? When were these approaches adopted and how did the popularity in their application change over time? \nIt will illustrate some aspects if this field through a recent study of network Medieval strongholds in the Himalayas (co-authored with Nagendra Singh Rawat and Vinod Nautiyal; Rawat et al. 2021). Hundreds of strongholds are dotted throughout Garhwal Himalaya\, Uttarakhand\, India\, occupying elevated positions on ridges and mountain tops in the Central Himalayan region. We show that new survey data allows for more complex theories about the fortification phenomenon in Garhwal Himalaya to be addressed for the first time\, and we focus in particular on theories concerning visual signalling: the use of fire\, smoke or light for communicating between Medieval strongholds in this Himalayan region. Do sets of strongholds form communities of small local-scale communication networks and can these be identified as small administrative units or independent chiefdoms? Can an integrated visual signalling network have existed to allow for efficient communication throughout the entirety of Garhwal Himalaya? \n\nRelevant references \nRawat\, N. S.\, Brughmans\, T.\, Nautiyal\, V.\, & Chauniyal\, D. D. (2021). Networked medieval strongholds in Garhwal Himalaya\, India. Antiquity\, 95(381)\, 753–772. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2021.4 \n\nBrughmans\, T.\, & Brandes\, U. (2017). Visibility network patterns and methods for studying visual relational phenomena in archaeology. Frontiers in Digital Humanities: Digital Archaeology\, 4(17). doi:10.3389/fdigh.2017.00017 \n  \nBio\nTom Brughmans is an associate professor at Aarhus University’s Centre for Urban Network Evolutions (UrbNet) and Classical Archaeology. His research interests include the study of Roman economic and urban phenomena\, past social networks\, and visual signalling systems. He performs much of his work by applying computational methods such as network science\, agent-based simulation and geographical information systems. His research projects MERCURY and SIMREC developed educational resources and case studies to make simulation studies of the Roman economy more common (Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship and Marie-Curie Individual Fellowship). His ongoing project MINERVA aims to develop a highly detailed network model of the Roman road system\, and perform simulation experiments to explore the centuries-long distribution patterns revealed by Roman tableware and amphora data. Tom’s research blog houses resources for archaeological network research.
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/nerds-seminar-tom-brughmans/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20211028T090000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20211028T100000
DTSTAMP:20260425T234401
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SUMMARY:Talk Michael Szell at UrbanSys21
DESCRIPTION:Growing cohesive urban bicycle networks\nCity planners worldwide are increasingly realizing that cycling can be a promising solution to their unsustainable car-centric transport systems. However\, common bicycle network planning practices follow piecewise ad hoc approaches which do not take into account the transportation network and its structural complexity as a whole. Here we take a first step in exploring systematically the general geometric limitations in the development of urban bicycle networks\, using tools from network science. We study the process of growing a graph triangulation between an arbitrary set of points of interest routed on a city’s existing street network. We run different variations of this growth process on 62 diverse cities\, tested against a random null model. We find that growth phases tend to start with decreasing directness and connectedness followed by improvement\, implying fundamental consequences to sustainable urban planning policy: To be successful\, cities must invest into bicycle networks 1) with the right growth strategy\, and 2) persistently\, to overcome short-term deficiencies until a critical mass of bicycle infrastructure has been built up. Further\, we find distinct overlaps of our synthetically grown networks in cities with well-developed existing bicycle networks\, showing that our model is realistic and has the added potential to identify missing links. We grow networks from scratch because most cities on the planet have negligible bicycle infrastructure to start from\, thus making our approach a generally applicable starting point for sustainable urban bicycle network planning with minimal\, readily available data requirements. We release our network growth algorithms as open source\, thus making them arbitrarily extendable with refinements.
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/talk-michael-szell-at-urbansys21/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20211027T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20211027T120000
DTSTAMP:20260425T234401
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SUMMARY:Invited Talk Michael Szell at Urban Complex Systems
DESCRIPTION:Making cities better with human-centric urban data science\nMaking our cities better and sustainable is key to solving the climate and urban transport crises. To this end\, urban data science offers new tools to quantify societal problems in cities and to propose human-centric solutions to policy makers. In this talk I outline our recent and ongoing efforts towards that end\, focusing on urban transport and vulnerable road users. I discuss inequalities between transport modes through mobility space and collision threat distributions\, and automated methods based on network science to generate and merge bicycle networks and to identify their gaps\, for different urban development stages. All research comes with concrete policy recommendations that significantly increase urban livability\, public health\, and decarbonization.
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/invited-talk-michael-szell-at-urban-complex-systems/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20211015T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Copenhagen:20211015T111500
DTSTAMP:20260425T234401
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SUMMARY:Talk Michael Szell at CRBAM21
DESCRIPTION:The geometric limits of growing urban bicycle networks\nCity planners worldwide are increasingly realizing that cycling can be a promising solution to their unsustainable car-centric transport systems. However\, common bicycle network planning practices follow piecewise ad hoc approaches which do not take into account the transportation network and its structural complexity as a whole. Here we take a first step in exploring systematically the general geometric limitations in the development of urban bicycle networks. We study the process of growing a graph triangulation between an arbitrary set of points of interest routed on a city’s existing street network. We run different variations of this growth process on 62 diverse cities\, tested against a random null model. We find that growth phases tend to start with decreasing directness and connectedness followed by improvement\, implying fundamental consequences to sustainable urban planning policy: To be successful\, cities must invest into bicycle networks 1) with the right growth strategy\, and 2) boldly\, to overcome short-term deficiencies until a critical mass of bicycle infrastructure has been built up. Further\, we find distinct overlaps of our synthetically grown networks in cities with well-developed existing bicycle networks\, showing that our model is realistic and has the added potential to identify missing links. We grow networks from scratch because most cities on the planet have negligible bicycle infrastructure to start from\, thus making our approach a generally applicable starting point for sustainable urban bicycle network planning with minimal\, readily available data requirements. We release our network growth algorithms as open source\, thus making them arbitrarily extendable with refinements.
URL:https://nerds.itu.dk/event/talk-michael-szell-at-crbam21/
LOCATION:IDA CONFERENCE\, Kalvebod Brygge 31-33\, Copenhagen\, 1780\, Denmark
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