Written by Simon Garnier on June 10, 2010 – 10:12 am
• Filed Under Conference/Workshop, Events
On June 24th is organized in Paris a wrokshop about transportation networks in nature and technology. The theme of the workshop revolves around the properties of transportation networks found in natural systems and man-made infrastructures. The goal of the workshop is to bring together researchers at the forefront of research activity across disciplines, focusing on the recent developments which have made large amounts of data available, and on the specificities of those networks.
Hereafter is the list of the topics that will be discussed during this workshop:
- urban street patterns and urban area transportation
- foraging networks in animals
- optimality and constraints in transportation networks
- long distance air and maritime transportation
- spatial and planar networks
The following people will give a talk during this workshop:
- Thomas Courtat (Orange, France)
- Marc Barthélemy (Cea, Saclay, France)
- César Ducruet (Géographie-Cités, Paris, France)
- Mark Fricker (University of Oxford, UK)
- Michael Gastner (Imperial College, London, UK)
- Jacques Gautrais (CRCA Toulouse, France)
- Luke Heaton (Oxford)
- Christian Jost (CRCA Toulouse, France)
- Vito Latora (Università di Catania, Italy)
- Igor Lugo (postdoc, Géographie-Cités)
- Emanuele Strano (UDSU, Strathclyde Univesirsity, UK)
Registration to the workshop is free but mandatory, as the workshop attendance is limited. Details on registration and contributed talks can be found on http://iscpif.fr./tnnt2010.