Professor Marta Gonzalez recently spoke in Lucca, Italy in conjunction with ECCS ’14 (the European Conference on Complex Systems), a major international gathering devoted to complex systems and interdisciplinary science. She presented two papers on the topic of “Urban Social Networks: the Interplay of Social Distance and Geographic Proximity.” One paper explored the implications on using of cell phone data versus surveys for estimating travel times in Latin American cities, and the other presented new discoveries in the way social network groups are distributed in space within 150 cities.

Read about ECCS: www.eccs14.eu