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MANSUETO INSTITUTE FOR URBAN INNOVATION</h3>
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The <a href="https://macss.uchicago.edu/content/computation-workshop" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.125s ease-in-out 0s;">Computation Workshop </a>at the University of Chicago cordially invites
you to attend this week’s talk:</p>
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SPATIAL SELECTION, AND THE STATISTICS OF NEIGHBORHOODS</a></h2>
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THURSDAY, 10/5/2017</h4>
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A light lunch will be provided by Pizza Capri.</p>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700;">Luís M. A. Bettencourt</span> is the Pritzker Director of the Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation at the University of Chicago. He is also a Professor of Ecology and Evolution at the University of
Chicago and External Professor of Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute.</p>
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He was trained as a theoretical physicist and obtained his Licenciatura from Instituto Superior Técnico (Lisbon, Portugal) in 1992, and his PhD from Imperial College (University of London, UK) in 1996 for research in statistical and high-energy physics models
of the early Universe. He has held postdoctoral positions at the University of Heidelberg (Germany), Los Alamos National Laboratory (Director’s Fellow and Slansky Fellow) and at MIT (Center for Theoretical Physics).</p>
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He has worked extensively on complex systems theory and on cities and urbanization, in particular. His research emphasizes the creation of new interdisciplinary synthesis to describe cities in quantitative and predictive ways, informed by classical theory from
various disciplines and the growing availability of empirical data worldwide.</p>
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He is the author of over 100 scientific papers and several edited books. His research has been featured in leading media venues, such as the New York Times, Nature, Wired, New Scientist, and the Smithsonian.</p>
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The 2017-2018 <a href="https://macss.uchicago.edu/content/computation-workshop" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.125s ease-in-out 0s;">Computation Workshop </a>meets each Thursday from 11 to 12:20
p.m. in Saieh 247. All interested faculty and graduate students are welcome.</p>
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Students in the Masters of Computational Social Science program are expected to attend and join the discussion by posting a comment on the <a href="https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/luis_bettencourt/issues" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.125s ease-in-out 0s;">issues
page </a>of the <a href="https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/luis_bettencourt" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.125s ease-in-out 0s;">workshop’s public repository on GitHub.</a></p>
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This week, Luís was kind enough to contribute two papers, one in development and a related publication in PNAS. MACSS students should focus their response on the project in development: <a href="https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/luis_bettencourt/blob/master/2017__bettencourt__statistics_of_neighborhoods.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.125s ease-in-out 0s;">Information,
Spatial Selection, and the Statistics of Neighborhoods</a>, since these comments will have a greater potential impact. Both papers are available <a href="https://github.com/uchicago-computation-workshop/luis_bettencourt" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(66, 139, 202); text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.125s ease-in-out 0s;">on
Github for review.</a></p>
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