Events

Modelling Individual Mobility Behaviours

Date:

19 Apr 2022

Time:

16:00 – 17:30 (UTC+8, HKT)

Venue:

Webinar

Speaker(s):

Dr. Laura Alessandretti, Assistant Professor, Technical University of Denmark

Biography of Speaker:

Dr. Alessandretti is an Assistant Professor in Modeling of Human Dynamics at the Technical University of Denmark and holds visiting positions at the Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science and at Denmark Statistics. Dr. Alessandretti got PhD in Mathematics at City, University of London, and Master degree in Physics of Complex Systems at École normale supérieure de Lyon.

Enquiries:

For enquiries, please contact us at fssc06@cuhk.edu.hk.

Event Details:

ZOOM

·         Meeting Link:    
https://cuhk.zoom.us/j/99032267565?pwd=UzB2OGVobHU4cEo0TGQzRUZTNlFOQT09

·         Meeting ID: 990 3226 7565

·         Passcode: 470173

YouTube Live

https://www.youtube.com/c/CUHKSocialScienceSoundbox

Bilibili

https://live.bilibili.com/2112611

Douyu

https://www.douyu.com/1406512

Synopsis of Lecture:

From choosing a restaurant for dinner to deciding how to get there, spatial decisions are ubiquitous in human day-to-day lives. Taken together, these choices underlie critical societal phenomena, including the spread of epidemics, the emergence of traffic congestion, and urban segregation. In this talk, Dr. Alessandretti will present recent research that leverages high-resolution large-scale mobility data to understand the mechanisms underlying individual mobility. The talk will touch upon key aspects, such as the interplay between exploration and exploitation, the effect of cognitive constraints, the relation between social and spatial behavior, the effect of spatial scales, and differences across genders and age-groups.