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Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers >> |
I was awarded the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers by President Bush in a ceremony at the White House on December 19, 2008. The award was for my work on computer models of human behavior in critical situations. Press releases: White House; Executive Office of the President, Office of Science and Technology Policy; National Science Foundation; Arizona State University; The Association of American Geographers; UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA); UCL Department of Geography; Engineering News Record; The Irish Times. (Photo by Chris Greenberg.)
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My research on agent-based modeling was highlighted in a report by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy's National Science and Technology Council (my work was highlighted on the front cover.) The report, entitled "Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences in the Federal Context" is "a distillation of the most pressing scientific challenges in the SBE sciences, and their policy implications for Federal agencies. It outlines the specific tools, methodology, and infrastructure
that are changing our understanding of how these challenges in the social and behavioral arenas may be addressed." The NTSC is tasked by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy with coordinating science and technology policy. (June 27, 2009) |
| A paper that I wrote with Itzhak Benenson in 2005, introducing the idea of Geographic Automata Systems, is one of the top-20 most-cited articles in the International Journal of Geographic Information Science. (June 25, 2009) |
| I was invited by ESRI to compose an article for ArcNews. It has now been published and it featured on the front page: “Process models and next-generation geographic information technology”, ArcNews, 31(2) (summer): 1-4 (June 12, 2009) |
| Der Spiegel, the German weekly news magazine has a feature on my behavior modeling work in the science and technology section of the May 4 issue: "Verhaltensforschung: Weisheit der menge (Behavior research: The wisdom of the many)”, written by Frank Thadeusz. Der Spiegel has a circulation of > 1 million readers (May 4, 2009) |
| The National Science Foundation's new Flash-based portal, Science 360, has a feature on my crowd modeling work (March 31, 2009) |
| BBC Focus magazine, "the world's best science and technology monthly", featured my research on crowd behavior in their April issue (with a mention on the front page), with a story entitled, "The trouble with crowds: The scientists working to prevent another Hillsborough", that discusses crowd behavior and critical events on the twentieth anniversary of the Hillsborough diasaster (Edward Chipperfield) (March 10, 2009) |
| LiveScience's Research in Action section has featured my work on crowd and riot modeling, with a piece entitled, "Riot dynamics modeled". Currently, the story is featured on the front page (Diane Banegas) (March 8, 2009) |
| My work (and my photograph!) is featured on the front page of Engineering News Record: "Researchers in ‘early career’ lauded for work to revolutionize engineering and industry" (Debra K. Rubin) (February 22, 2009) |
| The Association of American Geographers newsletter has a feature on my Presidential Award in this month's issue (February 16, 2009) |
| Popular Mechanics interviewed me for a feature on crowds at today's presidential inauguration: "How officials will control the crowds at obama's inauguration" (Philip Taylor) (January 20, 2009) |
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Torrens, P.M. (2009). “Process models and next-generation geographic information technology”, ArcNews, 31(2) (summer): 1-4 |
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Torrens, P.M. (2008). "Modeling megacity futures". Symposium on Megacities, Sonny Astani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Viterbi School of Engineering, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, November 10-11, 2008 |
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Shiode, N. & Torrens, P. M. (2008) “Comparing the growth dynamics of real and virtual cities”. In Understanding Dynamics of Geographic Domains, Hornsby, K. & Yuan, M., (Eds.). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press. |
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Torrens, P.M. (2008) “A toolkit for measuring sprawl”. Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy, 1(1): 5-36 (DOI: 10.1007/s12061-008-9000-x) |
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Torrens, P.M. (2008) "Wi-Fi geographies". Annals of the Association of American Geographers 98(1): 59-84 (DOI: 10.1007/s12061-008-9000-x) |
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Torrens, P.M. (2007) “CAREER: Exploring the dynamics of individual pedestrian and crowd behavior in dense urban settings: a computational approach”. National Science Foundation (Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER); Geography & Regional Science/ Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics) |
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Crittenden,
J.; Torrens, P.M.; Sawhney, A.; Perrings, C.; Guhathakurta, S.; Guston,
D.; Chen, Y.; Li, K.; Stanzione, D.; Ariaratnam, S.; Fernando, H.; Liu,
H.; Allenby, B.; Konjevod, G.; Lant, T.; Williams, E.; Grimm, N.;
Garcia, A.; Golden, J.; Kaloush, K. (2007) “Environmental and economic
impacts of material used in future urban development”. Science Foundation Arizona (Competitive Advantage Award) |
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Griffin, W.; Torrens, P.M.; Fewell, J. (2006) “Modeling time, space, and behavior: Combining ABM & GIS to create typologies of playgroup dynamics in preschool children”. National Science Foundation (Human and Social Dynamics) |
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Guhathakurta, S.; Bender, D.; Crittenden, J.; Collins, D.; Holston, J.; Kobayashi, Y.; Konjevod, G.; Li, K.; Lant, T.; Morton, T.; Patel, M.; Torrens, P.M. (2006) “Digial Phoenix”. Herberger Foundation |
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Torrens, P.M. (2006) “Urban simulation at the micro-level”. Autodesk, Inc. |
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