Andy Turner's CSAP Meeting 2007-05-09 Web Page @ School of Geography, University of Leeds

Introduction
- This web page is for organising information about the CSAP meeting on 2007-05-09.
- Contents
Documentation
- agenda.txt
- minutes.doc
Agenda
1. Post-microsimulation discussion
2. Updates
  - AAG - Mark to summarise/other attendees to contribute
  - ASAP journal
3. Web analysis
4. School cluster meeting 2007-05-14
5. Event planning
6. AOB
People
- Martin Clarke
- Adam Dennett
- Andy Evans
- Kirk Harland
- Alison Heppenstall
- Ryszard Luter (Visitor)
- Gordon Mitchell
- Paul Norman
- Phil Rees
- Linda See (Organiser, Chair)
- Dianna Smith (Organiser)
- John Stillwell
- Melanie Tomlintz
- Andy Turner
- Any Others?
Notes
- Points on the agenda:
  1. Post-microsimulation discussion
    - Andy Turner's CSAP Seminar on MicroSimulation : Problems and Solutions Web Page
    - Code Repository
      - How to reference each others code?
        
        For example, how do those using Kirk's code acknowledge this?
      - Source Forge
      - Using personal web pages
      - Using a private shared repository on a server using software like:
        
        Subversion
    - Phil suggested using cluster funds to employ somebody to organise the software.
    - What is needed?
      - A review of software...
    - Action: Linda to ask Mark to organise a draft of a Job Specification
    - Follow up meeting planned for 2007-05-16 14:00-15:00
  2. Updates
    - AAG - Mark to summarise/other attendees to contribute
      - John Stillwell reported:
        
        CSAP sessions were well attended...
    - ASAP journal
      - Web site up and running
      - Manuscript submission instructions
      - Mark Birkin invited 25 people to submit for first issue.
      - John invited 25 people to submit for first issue.
      - First issue planned for March 2008.
  3. Web analysis
    - Our web pages need much work and would look better with more images depicting some of the results of our research.
    - Pod and Vod Casts
      - Alison has funding to develop these and wants ideas.
      - She has some adobe software and is trained to use it.
    - Improving our web pages can be a job for a cluster support person.
    - Every project can benefit from better web pages.
  4. School cluster meeting 2007-05-14
    - Do we want a pre meeting meeting?
    - Two research areas of interest:
      - Coupling Socio-economic and biophysical models
      - Housing demand and availability
  5. Event planning
    - Time to plan the next half away day
      - Agenda:
        
        Support
        
        Teaching
        
        Research
    - John planning to host a social this summer and will get back to us with a saturday night date.
    - Social tonight meet in the Original Oak in Headingley, Dinner 7pm in Mexican round the corner. All welcome!
  6. AOB
    - Discussion
      - Martin's three components of Micro-simulation modelling:
        
        Population initialisation
        
        List processing: Enrichment by adding variables
        
        Dynamic simulation
      - Martin mentioned Chris Duley's work on ageing:
        
        Rees, Philip; Clarke, Martin; Duley, Chris. A model for updating individual and household populations. School of Geography Working Paper, No. 486, Mar 1987. iv, 44 pp. University of Leeds, School of Geography: Leeds, England.
      - Martin mentioned Richald Culf from GMap...
      - Martin noted that at the AAG of all the quantitative submissions most were (co)authored by people with Chinese names.
    - Book and Report Reviews
      - Alison wants feedback on where to look for these.
      - Much work is done in government and organisations like IPPR, JRF and published in reports.
    - John met with Gill Valentine and others from LSSI, LUBS CAVA and FLAG to discuss putting in a bid to the ESRC's centres call
      - Idea is to have a vehicle to draw together Interdisciplinary quantitative and qualitative skills on campus with a population theme:
        
        Intergenerational work care relationships in labout, care, housing market.
        
        European scale and Global relations
        
        Projecting population trends
        
        First meeting today
    - Phil going to Census Program Call upcoming Town Hall meeting
    - ESRC population data resources in India, China, Brazil, South Africa
    - Next meeting
      - 2007-06-20 Melanie and Andy planning something?
References
- Andy Turner's CSAP Research Cluster Page
- CSAP

Andy Turner's CSAP Meeting 2007-05-09 Web Page

Introduction

Documentation

Agenda

People

Notes

References

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