Crime Hot Spots: Behavioral, Computational and Mathematical Models - IPAM

Crime Hot Spots: Behavioral, Computational and Mathematical Models

January 29 - February 2, 2007

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, January 29, 2007

Morning Session

08:00
General Concepts
08:00-08:50
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:50-09:00
P. Jeffrey Brantingham (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Title not available
09:00-10:00
Patricia Brantingham (Simon Fraser University)
Crime Hot Spots: Joining theory and practice through computational and mathematical modeling
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Marcus Felson (Rutgers University-Newark)
Parsing and Modeling Crime Routines
11:30-13:30
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:30-14:30
John Eck (University of Cincinnati)
Simulating Police Outcomes: A Framework for Understanding Policing Strategies
14:30-15:30
William Newman (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Gang Recruitment and Growth: A Cellular Automata and Directed Graph Approach to the Statistics of Gang Sizes
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Ira Schwartz (United States Naval Research Laboratory)
The dynamics of epidemics:An overview of social modeling and analysis methods
17:00-18:30
Wine/Cheese Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, January 30, 2007

Morning Session

08:00
Environments & Aggregation
08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
Bill Hillier (University College London)
BEYOND HOT SPOTS: using space syntax to understand dispersed patterns of crime risk in the built environment
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Gabriel Istrate (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Towards Synthetic Activity-based Models for Large-scale Socio-technical Simulations
11:30-13:30
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:30-14:30
Kate Bowers (University College London)
Crime Risk Models Specifying Boundaries and Environmental Backcloths
14:30-15:30
Sid Redner (Boston University)
Social Balance on Networks: The Dynamics of Friendship and Hatred
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Eli Ben-Naim (Los Alamos National Laboratory)
Randomness in Competitions

Wednesday, January 31, 2007

Morning Session

08:00
Patterns in Time & Policing
08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
Shane Johnson (University College London)
The Timing of Repeat-Victimization: Theory and Utility
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Rick Schoenberg (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Applications of space-time point processes in wildfire forecasting
11:30-13:30
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:30-14:30
Chief George Gascon (City of Mesa)
Title not available
14:30-15:30
Neil Johnson (University of Oxford)
Common patterns in violent crime, conflict and terrorism: From Colombia to Iraq
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Michael Townsley (University College London)
Near repeat burglary chains: describing the physical and network properties of a network of close burglary pairs

Thursday, February 1, 2007

Morning Session

08:00
Patterns in Time & Space
08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
Richard A. Berk (University of Pennsylvania)
Forecasting Murder and Other Serious Crimes
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Wim Bernasco (Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement)
Foraging Strategies Of Homo Criminalis: Lessons From Behavioral Ecology
11:30-13:30
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:30-14:30
Henri Berestycki (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales)
Modelling spatial propagation: From flames to the diffusion of crime
14:30-15:30
Henk Elffers (Netherlands Institute for the Study of Crime and Law Enforcement)
Back to basics in spatial criminology
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Igor Mezic (University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB))
Alcohol and Violence: Agent-Based Models

Friday, February 2, 2007

Morning Session

08:00
Patterns in Space
08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-10:00
George Rengert (Temple University)
Spatial Clustering of Illegal Drug Dealers: Swarming for Safety or Agglomeration for Profit
10:00-10:30
Break
10:30-11:30
Uwe Glaesser (Simon Fraser University)
Computational Modeling and Simulation of Spatiotemporal Characteristics of Crime in Urban Environments
11:30-13:30
Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

13:30-14:30
Lin Liu (University of Cincinnati)
The Role of Street Patterns in Crime Simulation and Analysis
14:30-15:30
Clayton Morrison (University of Southern California (USC))
Using Large-scale Multi-agent Simulation to Study Methods for the Detection, Tracking and Prediction of Threats
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Michael O'Leary (Towson University)
Title not available
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