Speaker：Jose Javier Ramasco
Time：October 16, Wednesday,10:00-11:30
Venue：Lecture Hall of Conference Center on the Second Floor
Abstract:
The recent trend of rapid urbanization makes it imperative to understand urban characteristics such as infrastructure, population distribution, jobs, and services that play a key role in urban livability and sustainability. A healthy debate exists on what constitutes optimal structure regarding livability in cities, interpolating, for instance, between mono- and poly-centric organization. In this presentation, I will review several of the works that we have in the last year on this question: From data acquisition, data treatment and analysis to relations between the mobility of cities and parameters characterizing the transportation modes, the emissions per capita and the health of the population. I will show how it is possible to connect the structure of mobility and key urban indicators, but also that the mobility at that scale can be described by a field. This opens the door to use all the machinery developed in field theory for the description of cities at a mesoscopic scale ranging between neighborhoods and full urban areas.
Jose is a research professor of the National Research Council of Spain, CSIC, at the Institute for Cross-disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems IFISC placed in Palma de Mallorca Spain. Jose has been at IFISC since 2010, before he was a senior researcher at the ISI Foundation in Turin, Italy, from 2006 to 2010. A postdoc at Emory University, Atlanta, USA, from 2004 to 2006 and a postdoc at the University of Oporto in Portugal from 2002 to 2004. Jose obtained his PhD in Physics by the University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain, in 2002. Jose is the coordinator of the platform Mobility 2030 of CSIC. He is author of 115+ papers in high-profile journals, including Physics Reports, Nature Computational Science, PNAS, Nature Communications, PRL, cited over 14000 times according to google scholar. He has presented more than 70+ talks in conferences and was the general chair for the Conference on Complex Systems CCS2022, the most important conference in the area. Research areas: complex systems, networks, mobility, urban systems and transport networks.