[agents] Crowd 2014 Summer School - Call for Participation

[Giuseppe Vizzari]

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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

2014 International Summer School on

THE COMPLEXITY OF CROWD DYNAMICS: ANALYSIS, MODELING, SIMULATION

September 15th - 19th, 2014

Como Lake School of Avanced Studies, Villa del Grumello (Como, ITALY)
http://www.csai.disco.unimib.it/CSAI/Crowd2014


We are pleased to invite you to participate in the "2014 International
Summer School on The Complexity of Crowd Dynamics: analysis, modeling,
simulation" that will take place at the Villa del Grumello (Como, ITALY)
from September 15th to 19th, 2014.

The International School is open to PhD students, researchers,
practitioners and decision makers from academia, industry, crowd and
security managers, designers of collective space for big events.

THE FOCUS

The study of the complex dynamical behavior of crowd and pedestrians is
becoming an attractor of scientific and application interest. Moreover, the
role of innovative technologies supporting the computer-based simulation
and analysis of people flows scenarios is producing a revolution in the
design and optimization of public and private collective spaces in order to
offer safe, secure and comfortable fruition of spaces and events to the
citizens and innovative solution for crowd managers. The scientific
framework of the Science of Complex Systems only recently offered a
reference for the convergence of interdisciplinary knowledge about crowd
and pedestrian dynamics phenomena, allowing the development of advanced
computational models and solutions. Crowd understanding calls for both
contributions from the humanities (e.g. anthropology, psychology,
sociology, architecture) as well as the hard sciences (e.g. physics,
engineering, applied mathematics, computer science). Theoretical
contributions require evaluation and expertise from field observations and
experience.

The main purpose of the School is to collect, in an intensive and pleasant
context, scholars, experts, students and practitioners, decision
makers,crowd and security managers, and designers of collective space for
big events to provide a comprehensive picture of the different facets,
disciplines, methods and techniques that, in a different way, contribute to
the overall understanding of the phenomenon and the possibility to manage
it. Without such a complete and multi-faceted comprehension of the
complexity of crowd dynamical behavior it is not realistic to pretend to
face the actual challenges of the planning, organization, management of
collective events and environments subject to significant crowding
conditions. This perspective is a mandatory element of higher level
strategies such as those for achieving resilience against disasters,
supporting big events (e.g. concerts, sport, religious, large expositions,
gatherings), management of facilities and transports in a smart city
perspective, implementation of age friendly city policies. In particular,
this crucial background global trend will be discussed in the context of
the final day of the School which will be organized in collaboration with
the ALIAS project. <http://www.alias.disco.unimib.it/> The organization of
the courses includes both a presentation and discussion of the most
advanced theories, models, case studies and contributions from the
different relevant disciplines, which will also propose the current
research challenges and open issues, as well as concrete case studies
related to research and application projects. Participants will be asked to
actively contribute in the discussions and PhD students will be required to
develop a final project proposing a novel integrated research or
application proposal exploiting the knowledge and information acquired
throughout the courses.


LECTURERS

- Stefania Bandini (University of Milano-Bicocca - ITALY)
- Viola Cavallo (IFSTTAR - FRANCE)
- Simone Calderara (University of Modena - Reggio Emilia - ITALY)
- Rita Cucchiara(University of Modena - Reggio Emilia - ITALY)
- Barbara Diana(University of Milano-Bicocca - ITALY)
- Mizar Luca Federici (CROWDYXITY s.r.l. - ITALY)
- Andrea Gorrini(CROWDYXITY s.r.l. - ITALY)
- Hiroko Kudo (Chuo University, Tokyo - JAPAN)
- Gregor Lammel(Institute for Advanced Simulations, Julich - GERMANY)
- Eugenio Morello (Politecnico di Milano - ITALY)
- Barbara Piga(Politecnico di Milano - ITALY)
- Olivia Realdon(University of Milano-Bicocca - ITALY)
- Majid Sarvi (Monash University, Melbourne - AUSTRALIA)
- Kenichiro Shimura(The University of Tokyo - JAPAN)
- Giuseppe Vizzari(University of Milano-Bicocca - ITALY)
- Ulrich Wagoum(Institute for Advanced Simulations, Julich - GERMANY)


SCHOOL VENUE

The International School will take place at the Villa del Grumello (Como,
ITALY), within the Como Lake School of Avanced Studies Program. Villa del
Grumellois looking the first basin of Como Lake. It is framed by
century-old trees and enchants its visitors with its delicate atmospheres
and its harmonious setting. Driving force of the development of the Lariano
area, Villa del Grumello is a reference point for culture, science and the
business community.

APPLICATION AND REGISTRATION

To apply for the School, please contact us on the School website
www.csai.disco.unimib.it/CSAI/Crowd2014/contact-us-2.html

- School Registration Fee: 720€, including School Registration and ALIAS
Workshop attendance, teaching material and coffee breaks, lunches, dinners
and accommodation for 5 nights (*).
- School Registration Fee without accommodation: 600€, including School
registration and ALIAS Workshop attendance, teaching material and coffee
breaks, lunches, dinners.
- School Registration Fee without accommodation and dinners: 500€,
including School registration and ALIAS Workshop attendance, teaching
material and coffee breaks, lunches, dinners.
- Single Day Registration Fee: 150€, including coffee breaks, lunch and
teaching material.

(*) Accommodation: double-room occupancy in 2-star or 3-star hotels is
scheduled for student accommodation. Specific requirements about room
accommodation (single-room request or double occupancy with other
registered student) must be notified via e.mail. The cost of the double
with single use room will be notified on explicit request.

INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS

The School welcomes international participants from around the world. Some
international applicants might need to obtain an entry visa to come to
Italy. In order to find out which documents are required to apply for
visiting student visa, you can query the database of the "Italian Ministry
of Foreign Affairs" availabe at http://www.esteri.it/visti/home_eng.asp. If
you are required to apply for a visiting visa, you may need a School
invitation letter. In this case, to receive this document, please send your
detailed information along with a digitised copy of the identification page
of your passport (name and photo) via e-mail (to giuseppe.vizzari at unimib.it
).


DIPLOMA AND CREDITS

At the end of the School, the Scientific Committee can provide
participation certificates, and award the course diploma to students who
have passed the final exam. For those students, the school can be
considered as 2 ECTS (European Credit Transfer System) credits. We
recommend that you check with your home institution before applying to the
School, to be sure that the credits are actually recognized.

SUPPORTS AND COLLABORATIONS

- Complex Systems & Artificial Intelligence Research Center (University of
Milano-Bicocca)
- Fondazione CARIPLO
- CROWDYXITY (Milan, ITALY)


SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE

- Stefania Bandini(University of Milano-Bicocca – ITALY) - Chair
- Viola Cavallo (French Institute of Science and Technology for
Transportation, Development and Networks, Versailles – FRANCE)
- Florian Coulmas (German Institute for Japanese Studies – JAPAN)
- Fabrizia Mantovani(University of Milano-Bicocca – ITALY)
- Katsuhiro Nishinari(Research Center of Advanced Science and Technology,
The University of Tokyo – JAPAN)
- Majid Sarvi(Monash University, Melboune – AUSTRALIA)
- Armin Seyfried (Institute for Advanced Simulations Julich – GERMANY)
- Mubarak Shah(University of Central Florida – USA)
- Georgios Sirakoulis(Democritus University of Thrace – GREECE)
- Simone Sterlacchini(National Research Council of Italy)


FURTHER INFORMATION

Please check out the School website

http://www.csai.disco.unimib.it/CSAI/Crowd2014

If you need further information, please send an email to both
manzoni at disco.unimib.it and bandini at disco.unimib.it with subject "CROWD
SCHOOL COMO”.