Events
Keynote at the XI Conference of the Committee of Migration Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences - 21 September 2022
On 21 September 2022, Jakub Bijak delivered a keynote lecture at the XI Conference of the Committee of Migration Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, which took place in Lodz, Poland. Th...
Qual2Rule Webinar - 6 September 2022
On 6 September 2022, the BAPS project team gave a webinar as a part of the Qual2Rule initiative: Using qualitative data to inform behavioural rules. The presentation, given jointly by (in the o...
Talks at the IMISCOE 2022 conference, 29 June - 1 July 2022
On 29 June - 1 July 2022, Jakub Bijak took part in the 19th Annual Conference...
Presentation at the ISBA 2002 Conference, 28 June - 1 July 2022
On 28 June - 1 July 2022, Jason Hilton and Peter Smith attended the 2022 Conference of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA). Among other activities, on 1 July Jason presented a p...
End-of-project Team Meeting, 26 May 2022
On 26 May 2022, after nearly five years since we started, the full BAPS project team held the final formal project meeting at the Lakeside Centre, Eastleigh, Southampton. Besides enjoying a warm sp...
Presentation at the ASN 2022 Convention, 4 - 7 May 2022
On 4-7 May 2022, Souhila Belabbas attended the virtual 2022 Annual World Convention of the Association for the Study of Nationalities (ASN). Among other activities, on 6 May Souhila presented a pro...
Book launch: Towards Bayesian Model-Based Demography
We are delighted to announce the publication of the project's monograph, "Towards Bayesian Model-Based Demography Agency, Complexity and Uncertainty in Migration Studies", summaris...
Talk at the Winter Simulation Conference 2021, 13 - 17 December 2021
On 13-17 December 2021, Jakub Bijak, Oliver Reinhardt and Adelinde Uhrmacher attended the virtual Winter Simulation Conference 2021. Among other activities, the team presented a project pape...
Presentation at the MIMODE 2021 conference, 27 October 2021
On 27 October 2021, Jakub Bijak gave a talk at a hybrid conference on "Migration and Mobility Research in the Digital Era" (MIMODE 2021), organised by the Max Planck Institute of Demographic Resear...
Presentation at the Winter Simulation Conference 2020 - 14 - 18 December 2020
On 14-18 December 2020, Jakub Bijak, Jason Hilton, Martin Hinsch and Oliver Reinhardt attended the virtual Winter Simulation Conference 2020. The team presented a paper on "Modelling Migration: Dec...
Presentation at the 61st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society - 19 - 22 November 2020
On 19-22 November 2020, Toby Prike attended the 61st Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, held virtually. Toby presented research from the second round of psychological experiments conducted ...
Short course - Agent-based modelling for social research - 3-25 November 2020
We are delighted to announce that the course on Agent-based Modelling for Social Research, originally envisaged as a short summer course, was su...
Presentations at the Royal Statistical Society conference and Isaac Newton Institute workshop - 7 - 9 September 2020
On 7-9 September 2020, Jakub Bijak gave two slightly different versions of a talk summarising the current state of the project work. The talks were delivered at the 2020 online conference of the Ro...
Workshop - Modelling migration and decisions - 21 January 2020
On 21 January 2020, we have hosted a workshop on "Modelling migration and decisions". The aim of the workshop was to discuss, in an informal setting, some promising avenues of modelling migration a...
Presentation at the Winter Simulation Conference 2019
On 8-11 December 2019, Oliver Reinhardt attended the Winter Simulation Conference in National Harbor, Maryland. Oliver presented a paper on "Developing Agent-based Migration Models in Pairs", coaut...
Presentation at the Strategic Organization Design Unit at the University of Southern Denmark - 22 November 2019
On 22 November 2019, Toby Prike gave an invited talk to the Strategic Organization Design Unit at the University of Southern Denmark. During the talk he presented an overview of the project, along ...
Talks at the Annual Meetings of the Psychonomic Society and the Society for Judgment and Decision Making - 14 - 18 November 2019
On the 14th-18th of November 2019, Toby Prike and Phil Higham attended the Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society and the Annual Meeting of the Society for Judgment and Decision Making, both hel...
JRC Workshop on Transdisciplinary Science in a Digital World - 15 - 16 October 2019
On 15 October 2019, Martin Hinsch took part in a workshop on Transdisciplinary Science in a Digital World, organised by the Joint Research Centre of the EC in Ispra, Italy. Martin's talk, showcasin...
Meetings on migration scenarios in Brussels - 9 - 10 October 2019
On 9 and 10 October Jakub Bijak attended as an invited expert a workshop on migration scenarios organised by the H2020 CrossMigration project in Brussels, a subsequent seminar on the methodology fo...
Talks at the British Society for Population Studies conference - 9 - 11 September 2019
The 45th annual conference of the British Society of Population Studies, which took place on 9-11 September 2019 in Cardiff, featured a talk on "How does information spread affect migration routes?...
Paper at the ALife 2019 conference in Newcastle-upon-Tyne - 29 July 2019 - 2 August 2019
On 31 July 2019, Martin Hinsch will present a paper on the first migration model developed within the project at the Workshop on Agent-Based Modelling of Human Behaviour, organised as a part of the...
Workshop - Agent-Based Models for Exploring Public Policy Planning at the Lorentz Center - 15 - 19 July 2019
On 15-19 July 2019, Martin Hinsch and Jakub Bijak will take part in the workshop on "Agent-Based Models for Exploring Public Policy Planning", organised at the Lorentz Center @ Snellius in Leiden, ...
Team meeting and evening lecture - 3 - 5 July 2019
On 4-5 July, the team will hold its full annual meeting at the University of Rostock. The meeting will be preceded by a public evening lecture on 3 July, when Jakub Bijak will talk about "New Avenu...
Participation in the Rostock Retreat on Simulation - 1 - 3 July 2019
On 1-3 July 2019, Martin Hinsch, Oliver Reinhardt and Jason Hilton will take part in the Rostock Retreat on Simulation, presenting various aspects of the project work and participating in discussio...
CMI Afternoon Seminar - 4 June 2019
On 4 June 2019, Jakub Bijak gave a seminar talk at the Cathie Marsh Institute, University of Manchester, on "Modelling international migration: State of the art, and new research frontiers"
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Presentations at the Winter Simulation Conference 2018 - 9 - 12 December 2018
On 9-12 December 2018, Adelinde Uhrmacher and Oliver Reinhardt attended the Winter Simulation Conference 2018 in Gothenburg, Sweden. Oliver has presented papers on "Supporting Agent-based Modeling ...
Workshop: Uncertainty and Complexity of Migration - 20 - 21 November 2018
Migration is multidimensional, complex and uncertain. These features, alongside with the underpinning agency of actors involved in migration, have been recently gaining promi...
Talk at the Eurostat Seminar on Population Projections - 13 November 2018
On 13 November 2018, Jakub Bijak will give an invited talk on "Modelling the unforeseeable: Limits and advances in migration forecasting" at the Eurostat Seminar on Population Projections and Demog...
Team awayday - 9 August 2018
On 9 August 2018, the project team organised an away day, combining a research meeting devoted to specific computational aspects of migration modelling with a homemade picnic. The meeting was then ...
Public talk at the Science Cafe Winchester - 2 July 2018
On 2 July 2018, Jakub Bijak gave a public lecture on "The Uncertain World of International Migration" at the Science Cafe Winchester.
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...Presentation at the Conference of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, ISBA 2018, Edinburgh - 25 - 29 June 2018
On 27 June 2018, Jakub Bijak will give a talk on "Bayesian Agent-Based Population Studies: Uncertainty quantification for complex migration modelling" in the Contributed Member Session on "Populati...
Expert panel at the Berliner Demografie Forum 2018 - 10 - 11 April 2018
On 11 April 2018, Jakub Bijak took part in the 7th Berlin Demography Forum, organised under the theme "Shaping the Future: Domestic and International Migration in Europe", by participating in an ex...
Talk on - Uncertainty quantification in demography - at the Isaac Newton Institute, Cambridge - 8 - 12 January 2018
On 9 January 2018, Jakub Bijak will give a talk on "Uncertainty quantification in demography: Challenges and possible solutions" at the Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, University ...
Participation in Quetelet Conference 2017: The demography of refugees and displaced populations - 29 - 30 November 2017
On 29-30 November 2017, Jakub Bijak took part in the Quetelet Conference (Chaire Quetelet) 2017, devoted to "The demography of refugees and displaced populations", held at the Center for Demographi...
Kick-off meeting - 30 June 2017
The kick-off meeting of the project, involving all team members, took place on 30 June 2017 in Southampton. The agenda included a presentation of the project and its overall objectives, discussions...
Seminar talk on: Towards model-based migration studies - at CED, Barcelona - 30 May 2017
On 30 May 2017, Jakub Bijak gave a seminar talk "Towards model-based migration studies" at the Centre of Demographic Studies (CED), Autonomous University of Barcelona, presenting the main ideas beh...
