Four seminars will be held over the spring and summer of 2009 which will provide an opportunity to evaluate the state of play and research opportunities in the field. The first two seminars will be held in London on April 2nd and May 6th, and the others in Leeds (July 2nd) and Brighton (September 16th). The full programme is shown below.�
The first seminar deals with the theme of ‘scaling up, scaling down’. Major speakers include Neil Ferguson (Imperial College) and Holly Sutherland (University of Essex). There will also be contributions on the MoSeS dynamic model, and on the GENeSIS e-infrastructure. The second seminar on the theme of ‘adding behaviour’ looks of particular interest to the GENeSIS community. The presenters include Edmund Chattoe-Brown (co-investigator of the SIMIAN project), Gary Polhill (Macauley Institute) and our own Alison Heppenstall. Seminar 3 is concerned with land-use and transportation modelling, while the final seminar will adopt a more agenda-setting theme.
The series is organised by Dr Paul Williamson (University of Liverpool) . Paul began his academic career at Leeds working with Phil Rees on problems relating to simulation and the delivery of social care. His work on the development and evaluation of simulation algorithms is particularly well-regarded (Williamson et al, 1998; Voas and Williamson, 2001). Paul has also written on the theme of geodemographics: another heavily cited paper with David Voas highlights the spatial diversity which is typically assumed away by geodemographic classifications ). Paul Williamson is editor of the International Journal of Microsimulation.
- pooling of effort
- sharing of existing solutions
- collaborative research grant applications
| Planned programme
Seminar 1 ‘Scaling up; scaling down’
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| Thursday 2nd April; London | |
| Invited speaker / Team
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| Prof Neil Ferguson (Imperial) | Large scale modelling of flu epidemics |
| James Carpenter (LSHTM) | Bootstrapping and multiple imputation |
| Holly Sutherland / EUROMOD | Flexing to add more countries/tax-benefit systems |
| Mark Birkin / MOSES | GRID/parallel computing |
| Mark Birkin / MOSES | Dealing with migration in sub-national dynamic msms |
| Chris Drane / DWP | Bigger vs. faster |
| Paul Williamson (Liverpool) | Creating synthetic sub-regional baseline populations |
| Seminar 2 ‘Adding Behaviour’ | |
| Wednesday 6th May; London | |
| Invited speaker / Team
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Topic
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| Prof Alan Duncan (Nottingham) | Economic behavioural response:state of the art |
| DWP / IFS | Economic behavioural response: practical challenges |
| Mike Murphy (MAP2030) | Modelling kinship |
| Ruth Hancock (MAP2030) | Modelling demand for care |
| Edmund Chattoe-Brown | Agent-based modelling |
| Alison Heppenstall | Agent-based modelling |
| Gary Polhill / FEARLUS | Modelling evolving patterns of land-use |
| Seminar 3 ‘Moving beyond tax-benefit and demographic modelling’
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| Thursday 2nd July; Leeds | |
| Inivited speaker / team
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Topic
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| SParamics | Transport microsimulation |
| Kai Nagel (Berlin) | Transport microsimulation |
| David Simmonds | Transport microsimulation |
| Ben Anderson / Chimera | Retail / expenditure |
| Dimitris Ballas (Sheffield) | Happiness |
| David Bell (Stirling) | Demand for care |
| Gary Polhill / FEARLUS | Modelling evolving patterns of land-use |
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Seminar 4 ‘Bridging the gaps’ / ‘Setting the agenda’
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| Friday 11th September; Brighton (as part of BSPS annual conference) | |
| Invited speaker / team
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Topic
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| NATSEM
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How to build a coherent national msm effort
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| Statistics Canada
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How to build a coherent national msm effort
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| MAP2030
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What we are doing; what we can share; where next?
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| SAGE
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Ditto
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| EUROMOD
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Ditto
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| MOSES
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Ditto
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| DWP
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Ditto
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| HMRC
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Ditto
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| IFS
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Ditto
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| Sheffield
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Ditto
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| Liverpool
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Ditto
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| Aberdeen
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Ditto
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