CPC project launched

The UCL CPC Launch Workshop took place on Friday 18 May 2012, and we are pleased to report that it was a great success!

Photos of the event are available here.  Presentations from the day can be downloaded by clicking on the relevant entry in the programme below.

09:30-10:00
Registration and Coffee
10:00-10:15

Welcome Address
Chair: Tao Cheng, UCL CEGE

Prof. Anthony Finkelstein (Dean of Faculty of Engineering, UCL)
10:15-11.30
11:30-12:00
Coffee Break
12:00-13:15 Session 2: Intelligent Policing & Crime Prevention
Chair: Kate Bowers, UCL Crime Science

12:00 Trevor Adams: (Met Police Service): Challenges in MPS GIS Services

12:20 Shane Johnson (UCL Crime Science): Moving towards predictive policing

12:40 Chris Brunsdon (University of Liverpool): Visualising crime patterns

13:00 Short Presentations

Ryan Davenport: Public perceptions of crime and policing

Leto Peel: Analysis of GPS traces of police vehicles

Matt Ashby: The temporal analysis of aoristic crimes
13:15-14:00
Buffet Lunch
14:00-15:15 Session 3: Spatio-Temporal Data Mining & Network Complexity
Chair: Paul Longley, UCL Geography

14:00 John Shawe-Taylor (UCL CS): Statistical modelling & computational learning

14:20 Shi Zhou (UCL CS): – Modelling spreading phenomena on real-world networks

14:40 Tao Cheng (UCL CEGE): Integrated spatio-temporal data mining

15:00 Short Presentations

James Haworth: Spatio-temporal modelling of network data

Ed Manley: Agent-based simulation of non-recurrent traffic congestion

Dawn Williams: Multi-scale analysis of crime and incident patterns in Camden

Suzy Moat: Space-time analysis of ‘999’ calls in London
15:20-15:45
Coffee Break
15:45-17:00 Session 4: CPC
Chair: John Shawe-Taylor, UCL Computer Science

15:45 Prof. Dirk Helbing (ETH Zurich)
Keynote address: Modelling and simulation of social phenomena

16:30 Tao Cheng (UCL CEGE): An introduction to the CPC project

16:50 Discussion and concluding comments
17:00-19:00
Reception & Exhibition (UCL Wilkins South Cloisters)

CPC project receives £1.4 million from EPSRC

We are very pleased to announce that the UCL Crime, Policing and Citizenship project has been awarded £1.4 million by the EPSRC.  The project will be carried out over 3.5 years in collaboration with the Metropolitan Police. You can read more about the project here.