CASA Smart Cities Conference

25 April 2012

On Friday 20th April over 350 members of the public attended our Smart Cities ‘Bridging Physical and Digital’ open day and conference at Senate House, London. The full day of talks, accompanied by the Smart Cities exhibition, was aimed at opening a discussion on the meaning behind the Smart City ...

ENFOLDing Researcher wins £1000 funding prize

25 April 2012

Dr Hannah Fry, Research Associate in the department of Mathematics and member of the ENFOLDing project at CASA has won the £1000 prize at the ‘Focus on the Positive’ event.

CASA GISRUK Award in memory of Sinesio Alves Junior

The Annual CASA prize award in memory of Sinesio Alves Junior for the best research paper was presented at GISRUK 2012 held at Lancaster University on 13th April 2012. Mike Batty is here ...

Bartlett lecturer wins I'm a Scientist...get me out of here!

A lecturer from the Bartlett Centre of Advanced Spatial Analysis has been crowned the ‘King’ of the Quantum Zone after winning science competition ‘I’m a Scientist, get me out of here!’.

Oxfam Shelflife: Making Charity Shops Social Museums via the Internet of Things

As reported on today's BBC Technology, Oxfam has launched its new Shelflife system linking goods with the past using QRCodes. 

The Science of Cities and Regions

Alan Wilson was in Turin at the Italian Regional Science Association Conference in September to give a paper at a seminar in memory of Georgio Leonardi. It was the 25th anniversary of his ...

CSRW PhD Launch Event - 27th January

The Complexity Science in the Real World (CSRW) network held its PhD Programme launch at UCL on Friday 27th January. The aim of the network is to enhance the potential of the cross ...

Steven Gray wins Provost Award for Public Engagement

The Provost's Awards for Public Engagement have once again recognised the fantastic work that UCL's staff and students are doing to open up what happens at UCL, creating two-way conversations with ...

New Bartlett research suggests crowd-movement technology could help prevent spread of infection at mass gatherings

A Bartlett-led interdisciplinary research paper, published in leading medical journal The Lancet, has found crowd simulation technology could be used to prevent the spread of infectious diseases at mass gatherings.

London (Re)generation AD: Architectural Design

Professor Mike Batty has contributed to the latest edition of Architectural Design, which focuses on the regeneration of London ahead of the 2012 Olympic Games. In his article, Professor Batty discusses urban regeneration ...

Merry Christmas from All @ CASA

The image above is of the winning entry in the first ever CASA SACKINGS contest (firSt Annual Casa desK decoratING conteSt).  Thanks go to our ...

CASA named 'Geo Developers of the Year' by JISC

The GEMMA team at CASA won 'Developers of the Year' at last nights Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) Geo event. Steven Gray, Oliver O'Brien and Richard Milton were commended for their innovative ...

TOTeM wins RCUK Digital Economy Award

The Tales of Things and Electronic Memory (TOTeM) project won a prize in the Research Councils UK Digital Economy Theme 'Telling Tales of Engagement' Competition 2011 at the Digital Engagement Workshop, 15th-17th November ...

The Alonso Prize

Mike Batty, Chair of CASA, received the Alonso Memorial Prize of the Regional Science Association in 2011 for his book Cities and Complexity (MIT Press, 2005). His prize lecture was given 10th November ...

CASA work featuring at the London Transport Museum

The 'Sense and the City: smart, connected and on the move' exhibition at the London Transport Museum which started in July 2011 and runs until March 2012 features work from CASA. The exhibition ...

New Faces at CASA

CASA has been busy on the recruitment front over the last few months, with Helen Goodwin recently joining the administrative team as project co-ordinator for Enfolding, George MacKerron and Paolo Masucci joining the ...

CASA to host AGI Annual Education Lecture

CASA is delighted to once again be hosting the AGI Annual Education Lecture on Thursday 8th December 2011 at 18.15.  The lecture, by Professor David Martin, will be held in the Gustave ...

CASA welcomes new MRes students

Yesterday saw CASA's first intake of MRes students for its new course in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualisation.  With nine students, the CASA MRes is the most popular MRes in the Bartlett ...

Sir Alan Wilson Reappointed as AHRC Chair

CASA congratulates Professor Sir Alan Wilson who has been reappointed as the Chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).

Tall Tales launches

Tall tales has launched!  It's a UCL Public Engagement Unit initiative between CASA and UCL Urban Lab which invites the public to upload photographs, web-links, videos and personal stories about living or ...

The Global Lab Podcast from CASA is now available on iTunes

The Global Lab is a podcast about cities, global connectivity and the impact of technology produced by the UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA).

Remembering Junior in 2011

CASA has awarded the Prize for the Best Paper on Spatial Analysis, for the second time, at the annual GISRUK conference to remember Sinesio Alves Junior.

MRes in Advanced Spatial Analysis & Visualisation

CASA now offers a one-year course focussing on complexity, modelling, mapping and visualisation and pulling together the latest research in urban form, functionality and communication.

Follow us on Twitter

You can now follow us on Twitter.   @CASAUCL will bring you news and announcements from the department, whilst individual academics, researchers and students have their own accounts too.

Another PhD Success

Basak Demires Ozkul passed her PhD viva on 1st April 2011. The title of her thesis is "Changing settlement patterns for home and work in England and Wales: 1981 - 2001"