Category: Past Events

Join NYU CUSP’s Applied Urban Science Group (AUSG) for speaker events and lightning talks this summer! The Applied Urban Science Group is the student and alumni association of NYU CUSP. AUSG events are for all members of CUSP and the… Continue Reading Applied Urban Science Group (AUSG) presents Linking data for the greater good: Entity Resolution, Graph Databases and the EPA Toxic Release Inventory

April 26, 2018 For the first time in history, more than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas. In just a few more decades, 70 percent of the world will live in cities. Enabling those cities to deliver… Continue Reading Kavli Futures Symposium: Sensing the City

October 6, 2017 Please join us for a CUSP seminar with Trevor Bowen, 5th year PhD student (Physics) and NASA Earth and Space Science Fellow (Heliophysics) from the University of California, Berkeley. Extracting Maximal Information from Urban Magnetic Fields Abstract… Continue Reading Research Seminar Series with Trevor Bowen

September 28, 2017 Please join us for a CUSP seminar with Kenneth Steif, Ph.D, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of Pennsylvania. Spatial Data Science and City Planning Abstract City planners design, implement and evaluate place-based investments — and have traditionally used data… Continue Reading Research Seminar Series with Kenneth Steif

June 15, 2017 Please join us for a brown bag research seminar with Paul Jensen from The University of Melbourne. Policy Implications of Global Patent Examination Outcomes Abstract Patents play a central role in the global innovation system: providing important incentives for R&D investment decisions… Continue Reading CUSP Research Seminar Series Brown Bag with Paul Jensen

May 30, 2017 Please join us for a CUSP research seminar to be followed by a networking reception and student Q&A with CUSP alumni Patrick Atwater from ARGO Labs, who serves as project manager for the California Data Collaborative coalition… Continue Reading Research Seminar and Happy Hour with CUSP Alumni Patrick Atwater

May 8, 2017 Join New York University’s Center for Urban Science and Progress for an exciting research seminar with Professor Zorica Nedovi?-Budi? from the University of Illinois, Chicago. Abstract: Crowd-sourced Data for Urban Planning and Emergency Response: Potential and Value: Since mid-1980s the advances… Continue Reading NYU CUSP Research Seminar with Zorica Nedovi?-Budi?

April 25, 2017 Join New York University’s Center for Urban Science and Progress for an exciting research seminar and happy hour!   Agenda: 4:00pm – 5:00pm – research seminar with Nigel Wilson, Professor at MIT’s Department Civil and Environmental Engineering. Using Automated Data Sources… Continue Reading NYU CUSP Research Seminar and Happy Hour with Nigel Wilson

March 30, 2017 Join New York University’s Center for Urban Science and Progress for an exciting research seminar and happy hour!   Agenda: 4:00pm – 5:00pm – research seminar with Jeremy Mennis, Professor of Geography and Urban Studies at Temple University Urban Ecologies… Continue Reading NYU CUSP Research Seminar and Happy Hour with Jeremy Mennis

March 21, 2017 Join New York University’s Center for Urban Science and Progress for an exciting research seminar and happy hour!   Agenda: 4:00pm – 5:00pm – research seminar with Lorna Thorpe, Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Epidemiology Division at… Continue Reading NYU CUSP Research Seminar and Happy Hour with Lorna Thorpe

February 21, 2017 Join New York University’s Center for Urban Science and Progress for an exciting research seminar and happy hour! ***The optional research seminar will begin promptly at 4:00pm, and the happy hour will begin at 5:30pm. You are… Continue Reading NYU CUSP February Research Seminar and Happy Hour: Dr. Hendrik F. Hamann

November 9, 2016 In August 2016 NYU launched a new program called Litmus. Litmus is an interdisciplinary team of 20 researchers, who stimulate innovation in the public sector. BetaGov is a key initiative of the Litmus group. Most of our… Continue Reading Introducing BetaGov to NYU

July 28, 2016 Join NYU’s Center for Urban Science and Progress at Civic Hall for the Class of 2016’s Urban Science Intensive Capstone Projects. NYU CUSP’s Urban Science Intensive (USI) program partners student teams with government agencies or research partners… Continue Reading 2016 Urban Science Intensive Capstone Projects

July 7, 2016 Please join us for a postdoc candidate research seminar with Wei Huang, currently a PhD candidate at Ryerson University. Understanding Human Activity Patterns in Urban Environments Abstract The way people live, work, and play in cities indeed shapes human activity patterns,… Continue Reading NYU CUSP Research Seminar Series: Understanding Human Activity Patterns in Urban Environments

June 15, 2016 Please join us for NYU CUSP’s Research Seminar Series, featuring Jeff Jonas from IBM. The seminar will be hosted by Rebecca Rosen, Associate Director for Data Resources and Data Strategy at CUSP. CONTEXT COMPUTING AND THE RISE OF… Continue Reading CUSP Research Seminar Series: Jeff Jonas, IBM