The 6th Mobile Tartu conference will be held in Tartu on June 27th–29th, bringing together more than 70 researchers from 24 countries. The role of spatial big data has become fundamentally important in the contemporary society. New data sources provide additional information on people’s behavior and the functioning of cities, and help to apply smart…
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The University of Tartu confers the title of Honorary Doctor of Geography on Professor Frank Witlox of Ghent University
On Saturday, 1 December, the University of Tartu celebrated the 99th anniversary of the Estonian national university. At the anniversary ceremony honorary doctorates were conferred. In recognition of his long-term productive collaboration with researchers of the University of Tartu and Mobility Lab, Professor Frank Witlox received the degree of Honorary Doctor of Geography. In recognition of…
Public lecture by Prof. Frank Witlox on Smart Cities on March 6th at 4 pm
Prof. Frank Witlox, the Honorary Doctor of Geography of the University of Tartu and the Professor in Geography of the University of Ghent, gives a public lecture on Wednesday, March 6th. The lecture is scheduled at 4 pm and is held in Vanemuise Str 46 Granö lecture hall (room 327). On urban indicators for monitoring…
In memoriam Rein Ahas
In Memoriam Estonian academia has suffered a heavy loss. Rein Ahas (10.12.1966 – 18.02.2018), professor in human geography at the University of Tartu, passed away on Sunday, February 18 at the age of just 51. Professor Ahas was an embodiment of the ideal geographer. He graduated in physical geography and nature conservation at the University…
Workshop on data processing and analytics of smartphone and GPS data
11-12 September 2017, Tartu Estonia will be held “Workshop on data processing and analytics of smartphone and GPS data”. The aim of the workshop is to exchange ideas and develop research methods for processing, cleaning and analysing smartphone and GPS data. This could be the platform for developing European comparative study and H2020 project proposal with…
Age Poom defended successfully her PhD thesis
Our Mobility Lab member Age Poom defended her doctoral thesis titled ”Spatial aspects of the environmental load of consumption and mobility” on 2 March 2017 at University of Tartu Senate Hall.Supervisors: Professor PhD Rein Ahas, PhD Kati Orru;Opponent: Associate Professor PhD Tuuli Toivonen (University of Helsinki) The thesis addresses the dilemma between the environmental benefits…
Invitation to the Livable City Forum Tartu
Dear Livable City Forum Friend, University of Tartu and Tartu City Government are happy to welcome all of you to the 3rd Livable City Forum that will be held in Tartu, Estonia, on March 7-8th! The forum will address following questions: – Which are the principles of the spatial planning of university space?– How do…
14th Global Forum on Tourism Statistics
Rein Ahas and Janika Raun from UT’s Mobility Lab introduced new ways of determining usual environment based on passive mobile positioning data (CDR) and smartphone based GPS data on the 14th Global Forum on Tourism Statistics. Usual environment-is important because tourism is defined by traveling outside the usual environment. Therefore, the size of usual environment affects…
Infotechnological Mobility Observatory
Very good news! Our database “Infotechnological Mobility Observatory” (IMO) was added to Estonian Research Infrastructures Roadmap by Estonian Government on 27.10.2016 as “nationally important research infrastructure unit” http://www.etag.ee/en/funding/infrastructure-funding/estonian-research-infrastructures-roadmap/
Prof Matthew Zook visiting us in Tartu
This week visited us prof Matthew Zook from University of Kentucky.Prof Zook had lectures in the course of “Geography, communication and spatial mobility” which belongs to our “Urban Planning:Changing Cities and ICT” module. His research focuses on technological change and shifting geographies of globalisation, geography and e-commerce.