’Let’s Talk Solutions, lecture #1′, an AMS event on 15 January

AMS, the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions, in cooperation with the Centre for Urban Studies (UvA), is organising a series of lectures, starting on 15 January at 4 PM. The lectures are free, and open to anyone with an active interest in current and ongoing developments in the field of Urban Studies and complex urban issues.

Cities are considered to be truly complex systems; the intricate interplay between the social and physical structures results in endless patterns of self-organization and adaptation, both being fundamental characteristics of such systems. Recent insights in allometric scaling by West and Bettencourt are tell-tales of a new science of cities build on this notion of complexity. In this special CUS lecture, professor Peter Sloot (UvA), Sloot will summarize and explain the results of that study, and argue that the driving force behind this complexity is the concept of Networks. He will then show preliminary results he recently obtained by developing computational models that can absorb information on all scales to simulate the dynamics of urban crime and sexual transmittable diseases in dense urban systems.

• Start: 15 January 2015 16:00
• Venue: AMS home
• Address: Mauritskade 62 · 1092 AD · Amsterdam

More information on the AMS website