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I was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers by President Bush in a ceremony at the White House on December 19, 2008. The award was for my work on computer models of human behavior in critical situations. Press releases: White House; Executive Office of the President, Office of Science and Technology Policy; National Science Foundation; Arizona State University. (Photo by Chris Greenberg.)
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An article about my Presidential Early Career Award was reported in the Saturday edition of the Irish Times: "US award for Dubliner's study of crowd behaviour", The Irish Times (Denis Staunton) (December 20, 2008) |
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My talk at USC on "Modeling megacity futures" got a mention in the write-up of the megacities workshop (which featured on the USC front page) (November 23, 2008) |
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I have joined the International Program Committee for the Third International Cartographic Association Workshop on Geospatial Analysis and Modeling, to be held in Gävle, Sweden, August 6-7 (November 14, 2008) |
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I joined the International Program Committee for GEOWeb 2009: 3D Cityscapes, to be held this summer in Vancouver, B.C., Canada. (The CFP is here.) (November 12, 2008) |
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I was invited to give a talk on "Modeling megacity futures" at a symposium on megacities organized by the Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering in the Viterbi School of Engineering at the University of Southern California. The symposium was a prelude to their upcoming establishment of a center on megacities (November 11, 2008) |
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I just gave an invited talk on "Modeling complex urban systems" at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Department of Computer and Information Science, following an invitation from the Center for Human Modeling and Simulation. I also had the good fortune to visit with the Ackoff Collaboratory for the Advancement of the Systems Approach and the TC Chan Center for Building Simulation and Energy Studies (October 6, 2008) |
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Torrens, P.M. (2008). "Modeling megacity futures". Symposium on Megacities, Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, November 10-11, 2008 |
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Shiode, N. & Torrens, P. M. (2008) “Comparing the growth dynamics of real and virtual cities”. In Understanding Dynamics of Geographic Domains, Hornsby, K. & Yuan, M., (Eds.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. |
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Torrens, P.M. (2008) “A toolkit for measuring sprawl”. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 1(1): 5-36 (DOI: 10.1007/s12061-008-9000-x) |
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Torrens, P.M. (2008) "Wi-Fi geographies". Annals of the Association of American Geographers 98(1): 59-84 (DOI: 10.1007/s12061-008-9000-x) |
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Torrens, P.M. (2007) “CAREER: Exploring the dynamics of individual pedestrian and crowd behavior in dense urban settings: a computational approach”. National Science Foundation (Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER); Geography & Regional Science/ Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics) |
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Crittenden,
J.; Torrens, P.M.; Sawhney, A.; Perrings, C.; Guhathakurta, S.; Guston,
D.; Chen, Y.; Li, K.; Stanzione, D.; Ariaratnam, S.; Fernando, H.; Liu,
H.; Allenby, B.; Konjevod, G.; Lant, T.; Williams, E.; Grimm, N.;
Garcia, A.; Golden, J.; Kaloush, K. (2007) “Environmental and economic
impacts of material used in future urban development”. Science Foundation Arizona (Competitive Advantage Award) |
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Griffin, W.; Torrens, P.M.; Fewell, J. (2006) “Modeling time, space, and behavior: Combining ABM & GIS to create typologies of playgroup dynamics in preschool children”. National Science Foundation (Human and Social Dynamics) |
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Guhathakurta, S.; Bender, D.; Crittenden, J.; Collins, D.; Holston, J.; Kobayashi, Y.; Konjevod, G.; Li, K.; Lant, T.; Morton, T.; Patel, M.; Torrens, P.M. (2006) “Digial Phoenix”. Herberger Foundation |
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Torrens, P.M. (2006) “Urban simulation at the micro-level”. Autodesk, Inc. |
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