- Events:
- GeoComputation 2009
- ComputationWorld 2009
- Random Hacks of Kindness
- Where2.0Now?
- The impact and influence of Web 2.0-based Services on e-Research
- Those I plan to attend/attended:
- Events on the horizon:
- GIScience 2010
- JISC Inovation Forum 2010
- Workshop on Urban Dynamics URBANICS
- International Symposium on Grid Computing (ISGC) 2010
- The 2nd International Conference on Computer modeling and simulation (ICCMS 2010)
- Leeds Social Sciences Institute Workshop: Disciplining the Social Sciences? Inter / disciplinarity, impact and a strategy for the future
- UK e-Science AHM 2009
- GeoComputation 2009
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- Helped Jonathan Carrivick with some simple data formatting using awk.
- e-Science
- e-ISS
- Early preparation for JISC Inovation Forum 2010
- NeSS
- Preparing documentation on the Simulation Demonstrator
- GENESIS
- Testing OutOfMemoryHandling code
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- Updating publications database
- http://publications.leeds.ac.uk/
- HR changed my name from A.G.D.T.Turner to A.G.D.Turner, this should filter through to the publciations database (Symplectic) system.
- e-Science
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- PC Crash :-(
- Blocking Twitter followers that are obviously wrong!
- Starting with Google Wave
- e-Science
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- 5m DEM Grid and Orthophotos for a part of Spain freely available:
- MASS Catch up Meeting
- Constraining traffic simulations/estimating traffic flows on networks...
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- e-Science
- GSI-SSHTerm works having updated Java on PC
- GENESIS
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- e-Science
- NeSS
- Preparing a simple overview of the simulation demonstrator system
- Virtual Meeting with Rob Procter using Skype
- We went over the proposal together and clarified the scope, as in what would and would not be part of the demonstrator...
- Drafting something of a narrative quickly for Rob
- The background motivation is to provide an authority, policy maker or a researcher with access to better information and in this instance we are dealing with better information about people and households. A topical subject for today might be how to divide up the country into more efficient policing forces. So given a set of new boundaries how many people and of what types do these contain. How equal in size are the demands for a particular type of police force. Now it is likely that the police have a better information resource for dealing with this example (incidence and crime reporting databases), but still, they may have some use for some data on population and households generally. There are many other examples of where access to information about the residential population and households might be useful including health care and education planning.
- However, what these things want is data for now and things have changed since 2001 and the next census outputs may not be around until 2013. With a start population for 2001 and a means of dynamically simulating change and incorporating interim measures as constraints, it is possible to make some estimates.
- So this work is to support that in a way.
- The steps of using the system typically involve accessing it having a look, if what you want is not there, configuring the system to generate what you want, getting it to do this and collecting the result. Metadata for the result might include visualisations such as graphs of observed versus expected count statistics and geographical maps of residuals as well as detailed of how the results were generated.
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- Issue with gsissh...
- Work Placement and Dissertation topic consideration for students
- Teaching
- e-Science
- NeSS
- Preparing a simple overview of the simulation demonstrator system
- Looking for the type of diagram I have in mind:
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- e-Science
- OneVRE meeting
- People
- Tobias Schiebeck
- Meik Poschen
- Andy Turner
- NCeSS Sakai Portal and Hosting a PAG Server
- Discussion on micro-blogging, JISC and Web2.0 Impacts on eResearch meetings and thinking about potential Access Grid uses and enhancements
- e-ISS
- GENESIS
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- Research collaboration with Olugboyega Onimole (Gboyega) MSc Student
- Gboyega is interested in studying the prevailing traffic patterns in Victoria Island, Lagos, Nigeria and consider how to reduce congestion and public transport more available for commuters.
- Gboyega's plan is:
- Select specific major streets in Victoria Island for analysis.
- Divide the selected streets into segments.
- Obtain data for each segment (on an (hourly) basis for a (three-week) period):
- the average 'demand level', ie. the average number of commuters that require transportation in a specified direction
- the average 'service level' for each direction along each segment, ie. the average amount of time it takes to move from a specified point to another along each segment
- other useful data
- Decide how to improve the service levels observed in step 3
- consider introducing bus services, and encouraging commuters to do less driving and use buses more of the time.
- Hypothetically, this should result in a lower volume of cars and thereby a lower of intensity of traffic jams on the average
- Decide what would be a reasonable service level for each direction.
- Estimate the incremental improvements achievable with the introduction of each bus for example, and determine how many buses (and what bus routing formula) would be required to achieve the target service level.
- Create forecasts using a wide range of demand levels. For each demand level, estimate the optimal bus routing formula required in order to achieve the desired service level. Estimate also the maximum allowable volume of other vehicles (ie. other than the buses) if the desired service levels are to be achieved.
- Gboyega has looked at Open Street Map and seen the streets he is most interested in:
- Ozumba Mbadiwe Road
- Lekki Expressway
- CSAP Business Meeting focussing on MSc in GIS
- It makes sense to me to be collaborating more across the Faculty of Enviornement and with the School of Computing and Health Informatics/Biology
- For some resource centre preservation reason this does not seem to be generally appreciated by some in the School of Geography...
- I suggested Ant Beck as potential replacement for Jim Hogg and thought that Avi Gupta acould fill some part on the Digital Image Processing module along with Andy Shepherd...
- Work Placements and Dissertation
- I wondered if anyone would like to help out Jin and follow on from Sadhvi with Ordnance Survey work...
- I should contact Paul Norman/Helen Durham and try to feed the list of proposed topics.
- Datasets for teaching and research
- Doctoral training centres
- Following the lead of Nottingham CGS who I think are way ahead :-)
- Completed leeds library survey
- Submitted registration for Leeds Social Sciences Institute Workshop: Disciplining the Social Sciences? Inter / disciplinarity, impact and a strategy for the future
- e-Science
- NeSS
- Preparing a simple overview of the simulation demonstrator system
- Rob Procter wants Pascal Ekin and me to work with him to produce a graphical diagram.
- A step-by-step use case/scenario type diagram of how users might interact.
- The idea is to illustrate how the demonstrator integrates different project deliverables...
- Wanted for an International review talk for the AHM and required by 2009-12-01...
- I made a first attempt which had coloured boxes and text, but no arrows and emailed it to Rob and Pascal...
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- Teaching
- GEOG1300 Essay Marking meeting with Paul Waley
- e-Science
- e-ISS
- Liferay portal
- Jason Lander has set us up a Liferay instance to use for NeISS. It is based on Tomcat and the following is the URL:
- It will not currently restart correctly if the hosting computer (svc01.ngs) fails, but Jason can restart it.
- Jason is looking into how we can access the logs we may need to diagnose problems.
- I tried adding Jianhui Jin's NeISSSpatialPopulationEngine as an application by uploading the war files from dist, but it fails to do anything much with this. I wonder if this is a Tomcat issue...
- Adding Paul Townend's GENESIS application was a bit more successful.
- Paul has seen this and is working on a data configuration so that it should work (using SRB).
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- Where are the SPIN!-Project web pages now?
- Junaid Arshad end of fixed term contract meeting
- Adrian Bailey, Junaid and myself
- Originally it was intended that there would be others from Human Resources, but we managed without.
- Adrian mentioned a visiting researcher role that the University/School may offer to Junaid following his PhD
- This would allow him to keep a university email address, use the libarary and be represented as a university affiliate on grant proposals.
- As Junaid is around for perhaps another half year or more, further opportunities might be passed his way, but we know of nothing currently for when his current contract expires.
- Junaid deserves a good reference.
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- School of Geography All School Meeting
- Comings and goings
- 2009-12-17 is the date for the School Christmas Party
- Economies exercise
- REF
- 2012
- Will Geography survive as a discipline?
- Activity analysis
- How do we get to a 37 hour week?
- e-Science
- water@leeds launch event
- http://www.wateratleeds.org/
- http://www.wateratleeds.org/water-research-news-and-events.php
- http://www.wateratleeds.org/water-confluences.php
- People
- Reception
- Programme of Talks
- Welcome and introduction
- University of Leeds Research
- Andrew Thompson
- Key to think of impact on the outset of undertaking research.
- Consumer Council for Water
- Drinking water Inspectorate
- Water at the Environment Agency
- Ian Barker
- Head of Water at the Environment Agency
- Sharing problems/raising issues
- Despite the fact that it rains quite a lot in England, there is less water per person than in the mediterranean.
- We are already over exploiting our resources.
- The problem is getting worse with increases in population and households.
- Predicted climate change will result in hotter drier summers and more extreme soakings in winter.
- Supply issues for currently low overall demand agricultural use, which will have highest demand at the driest times.
- Mitigation
- Stop using so much hot water in the home.
- Embedded water and carbon
- Are we sure about how green the production of goods from abroad is?
- I think this is the first time I've thought about a water footprint and a combined energy water/carbon cost for things...
- Change
- Mark Fletcher
- http://www.arup.com/
- Types of Change
- social
- technical
- economic
- environmental
- political
- Recommended book:
- Consumer Council for Water
- Panel questions
- What do we think of the privatisation of the water companies and is it the right model going forwards? Re-nationalisation?
- Is water a commodity or a right?
- Drinks reception
- Chat with Sarah Buckmaster
- Chat with Mark Fletcher
- Knows my friend Max Rooksby
- Mark took an interest in computational geography and I said I would email him...
- Mark wondered if I was interested in 3D fluid dynamics modelling of rivers and coastal zones
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- Browsing/references
- NeSS
- Description of Work Package 4.1 Demonstrator for Rob Procter
- This should be on the NCeSS Sakai Portal : ESRC e-IP Worksite : Wiki at the following page:
- For some reason the portal is not working...
- Rob wants something for this afternoon...
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- Sent Syed Irfanullah Azeezullah (Irfan) the following link as he emailed to ask for some clustering test data:
- MASS weekly catch-up meeting
- Teaching
- e-Science
- NeSS
- Read Junaid's progress report
- GENESIS
- Developing Agent and AgentCollection and AgentCollectionManagement code
- Testing creation and iteration over 1000000 Agents
- Hitting memory problems as I'm not swapping out collections...
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- Considering what to do about developing a Biography of Stan Openshaw...
- Got a ticket for the School of Geography 90th birthday celebrations and had a look back at the 80th birthday and some history
- Faculty of Environment, University of Leeds Coffee Morning Meeting
- Had a good chat with Jennifer Rivas Perez who works to develop researchers soft skills in Faculty Researcher Skills Development:
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- e-Science
- GENESIS
- Developing Agent and AgentCollection and AgentCollectionManagement code
- Testing creation and iteration over 1000000 Agents
- 1000000 files created in 1010101 directories containing agent information.
- Size is 421 MB, Size on disk (on Windows XP) is an order of magnitude bigger at is 3.81 GB.
- It took around 2 hours to generate this on my PC...
- Now to get a working demographic model version using a file cache for a large population...
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- The What Why and How of Developing Consultancy Activity in the School of Geography
- Martin Clarke
- 12 People
- MB, LS, MC, AB, GC, KA, PW, RU, PR, JS, AT, +
- What is consultancy?
- Providing expert advice
- Projects
- Usually short and not funded by a research council
- 2 consultancy models
- University
- Private
- North West Regional Development
- There was a proposal developed by Mark Birkin and Joe Holden
- Looked good and that it could help integrate the School of Geography
- Sadly, it didn't catch on...
- Yorkshire Futures
- John Stillwell knows about this...
- Consulting Leeds
- Phil Rees and Joe Holden have had good experience of these.
- Research Support Unit v Consulting Leeds
- Enterprise Knowledge Transfer
- Flexible Workforce Issue
- University does not have a good shop window?
- Work comes to the university through its organisations and people
- Office of Enterprise and Rapid Innovation
- Do we want [ENVMAP]?
- Teaching
- e-Science
- NeSS
- Meeting with June Finch
- Update on progress on Work Package 4.1...
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- Thought for the day
- Black holes are probably a natural recycler. I don't know how big one must get to become a critical mass size for a singularity like big bang explosion, but maybe one day someone can. How it all becomes a loop and whether it is, is a much harder conundrum. What is the universe?
- e-Science
- Meeting with Junaid
- GENESIS
- Developing Agent and AgentCollection and AgentCollectionManagement code
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- e-Science
- e-ISS
- GENESIS
- Developing Agent and AgentCollection and AgentCollectionManagement code
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- Miscellanea
- Considered (on-line) archive of School of Geography Newsletter and news with geo-news
- The following should link to the archive:
- The archive at the following are incomplete:
- Teaching
- GEOG1300 Preparation for Group Meeting 3
- e-Science
- GENESIS
- Developing Agent and AgentCollection and AgentCollectionManagement code
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