The aim of the colloquium is to bring together mathematically-inclined scientists working on topics inspired by human society, with a view to developing links and fostering research at the interfaces.

The meeting will take place in Paris from 1:30pm on Monday, May 30th to 4:30pm on Tuesday, May 31st.

It will be hosted by the University of Paris Panthéon-Sorbonne, at the Pierre Mendès-France Centre.

Invited speakers

 1st session [Monday 2pm] : Cities

• • "Visualising Social Complexity : Scaling, Size and Space-Time Dynamics"
    Michael Batty (CASA, UCL, London)
  • "Modeling Urban Housing Market Dynamics : Can Socio-Spatial Segregation Preserve Some Social Diversity ?"
    Laetitia Gauvin (LPS, ENS Paris)

 2nd session [Monday 4.15pm] : Networks

• • "Evolution of Transportation Networks"
    Marc Barthélémy (CAMS, EHESS, Paris / IPhT, CEA, Saclay)

 3rd session [Tuesday 10am] : Circulations

• • "Management of Urban Congestion Through Macroscopic Models"
    Jack Haddad (LUTS, EPF Lausanne)
  • "Transport Modelling for Road, Pedestrian, and Intra-cellular Traffic"
    Cécile Appert-Rolland (LPT, CNRS - Univ. Paris-Sud, Orsay)

 4th session [Tuesday 2pm] : Opinions

• • "Leviathans and General Distrust Can Emerge From Mixing Gossips and Vanity"
    Guillaume Deffuant (LISC, CEMAGREF, Clermont-Ferrand)
  • "On PDE Models for Some Socio-Economic Problems : Price Formation, Opinion Formation and Human Crowds"
    Peter Markowich (DAMTP, Cambridge)

Organization

CAMS Centre d’Analyse et de Mathématique Sociales

Survey And Perspectives INtegrating ENvironment & Society

SAMM Statistique,
Analyse et Modélisation Multidisciplinaire

Contacts :

Julien Randon-Furling, Jean-Pierre Nadal