Ph.D. Colloquium

Catalog description

A dynamic and interactive seminar course that promotes understanding the problems that city stakeholders face and identifying innovative urban solutions centered around them. This promotes communication and teamwork across disciplines in the Interdisciplinary doctoral Track in Urban Science: Complexity, Informatics, and Sensing at CUSP while building community in the student body. This seminar course will consist of a four-week rotation of activities. Twice a month, students will discuss the seminal papers on the emerging field of Urban Science (covering different theoretical and methodological perspectives from different disciplines at CUSP) with faculty. Once a month, there will be guest lecture workshops with professionals from the city and private sectors, and academics. Whenever possible, students will actively participate in lived-experience sessions, in which enrollees can gain hands-on experience on the issues faced by stakeholders. Finally, once a month, they will participate in internal presentations.