Chicago-TAU Workshop

Organized by TAU City Center with Chicago University researchers

07 April 2019, 13:30

08 April 2019, 20:00 — Tel Aviv University

Chicago-TAU Workshop

Researchers, students and faculty are invited to join Chicago-TAU Workshop:

Sunday, April 7: Afternoon – Yad Avner Building, room 120
Monday, April 8: Morning – Faculty of Medicine, room 100
Monday, April 8: Afternoon – Yad Avner Building, room 120

The conference will be held with the support of Tel Aviv University; the Faculty of Exact Sciences at TAU; and CODATA – Committee on Data of the International Council for Science (ICSU) Task Group for “Data Integration & Data Science for Urban Life and Smart Cities”.

Registration form and the full program (pdf) can be found below.

University of Chicago—Tel Aviv University
Workshop on Cities and Urbanism

The 21^st century started as the age of cities. The Chicago-TAU Workshop will focus on five major aspects of current urbanism: Social inequality and justice; complexity and scaling; big-data, IoT and AoT; cognition; and migration.

The Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation at the University of Chicago aims to face this challenging reality in cities by bringing together “researchers … from the social, natural, and computational sciences, along with the humanities.”

In a similar way TAU City Center—Research Center for Cities and Urbanism at Tel Aviv University attempts to face the age of cities by bringing “… together the many TAU researchers – faculty members, graduate and postgraduate researchers – who study various aspects of cities and urbanism.”

The "University of Chicago—Tel Aviv University Workshop on Cities and Urbanism" is a first step toward the collaboration between urban researchers at the two universities.

Workshop program

Sunday, April 7 – Yad Avner Building, room 120

13.30-14.00 Gathering

Opening session | Chair: Juval Portugali

Greetings

14.00-14.30 Prof. Joseph Klafter President of Tel Aviv University

Overviews

14.30-15.00 Luis Bettencourt: Towards a Science of Cities

15.00-15.30 Charlie Catlett: Software-Defined Sensors and Virtual Sensing Instruments

15.30-16.00 Juval Portugali: Snow’s Pendulum and the City

16.00-16.30 Break

Complexity, scaling and the city | Chair: Ronit Purian

16.30-17.00 Luis Bettencourt: Complexity, Scaling and Development in Cities

17.00-17.30 Shlomo Havlin: Resilience of interdependent urban infrastructures

17.30-18.00 David Burg, Nir Kaplan & Itzhak Omer: Scaling of cities in Israel?

18.00-18.30 Hermann Haken, Guy Moshe Ross, Juval Portugali:
The cognitive dimension of urban allometry

20.30 Dinner

Monday, April 8:
Morning – Faculty of Medicine, room 100

09.00-09.30 Gathering

Social inequality, justice and the city | Chair: Tovi Fenster

09.30-10.00 Kate Cagney: Activity space, neighborhood context and health in later life

10.00-10.30 Michal Tzur: Effective and equitable logistics

10.30-11.00 Talia Margalit: Israeli planning in the media: New discourse, old borders

11.00-11.30    Ronit Purian, Nir Kaplan & Itzhak Omer:
                       The spatial shape of social segregation – Everything is related
                       but near things are more separated

11.30-12.00 Break

Big data, AoT, IoT and the city | Chair: Irad Ben-Gal

12.00-12.30 Charlie Catlett: Using computation and new sources of data
to understand cities

12.30-13.00 Itzhak Benenson & Eran Ben-Elia: Public transport in a Smart City:
Are commuters endangered species?

13.00-13.30    Efrat Blumenfeld-Lieberthal, Nimrod Serok, Orr Levy & Shlomo Havlin:
                       Unveiling the inter-relations between the urban streets network
                       and its dynamic traffic flows

13.30-14.00 Tal Raviv: New trends in city logistic – small parcel delivery

14.00-15.00 Lunch