Public Events
Join us this Spring 2026 semester for urban science research seminars and our annual urban data science showcase.
Spring 2026 Public Programming
CUSP x Transit Techies
Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 6:30 PM – 8:30 PM
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Career Talk: Sharon Nunes in conversation with Jurij Paraszczak
Friday, January 30, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
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Career Talk: Dan Popadynec in conversation with Semiha Ergan, & Jurij Paraszczak
Wednesday, February 4, 2026, 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
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CUSP Urban Observatory Expansion Launch
Friday, February 13, 2026, 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
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Katia Lamer — Filling Data Deserts to Understand Urban Airflow and Heat Mitigation
Friday, February 27, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
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NYU-2026 PIT-UN Tech for Change Urban Informatics for Safe, Just, and Thriving Communities
Monday, March 5 – 7, 2026
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Nancy Rodriguez — Urban Science Research Seminar
Monday, March 2, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
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Burcak Ozludil — Simulating History: Agent-based Modeling, Machine Learning, and Spaces of Madness
Monday, March 30, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
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Maria D’Orsogna — Urban Science Research Seminar
Monday, April 13, 2026, 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM
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Urban Data Science Showcase
Friday, April 24, 2026
Registration details coming soon.
Visitor Information
External guests must register in advance through Luma to gain campus access at NYU. For directions and a campus map, please visit our Get in Touch page.
Previous Semesters
Fall 2025
Andrea Baronchelli — Social Conventions in Human and LLM Populations: Emergence, Robustness, and Bias
Monday, September 15, 2025 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Radley Horton — Climate Resilience and Complexity in Urban Contexts
Monday, September 15, 2025 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Technology-driven City Water Resilience
Monday, September 22, 2025 at 4:00pm - 6:00pm
Nicole Kennard — Food, Place, and Belonging: From Global Visions to Local Sustainability
Tuesday, September 23, 2025 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Climate Storytelling: A Community-Engaged Workshop
Wednesday, September 24, 2025 at 2:00pm - 5:00pm
GeoFlood Studio: Interactive 3D Flood Mapping for Decision-Making and Risk Management
Friday, September 26, 2025 at 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Zhong-Ren Peng — AI-Human Co-Creation in Urban Planning: The CORE Framework
Monday, September 29, 2025 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Will Payne — Measuring Urban Consumption Footprints in Changing Cities
Monday, October 27, 2025 at 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Urban AI Symposium
Tuesday, October 28, 2025 (all day)
From FDNY to Vice President at Morgan Stanley: A Conversation with Nicholas Gaudiosi on Career Resilience
Wednesday, November 5, 2025 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Zhaonan Wang — Beyond When & Where: Paradigm Shift of Geospatial AI from Predictive, to Generative and Adaptive
Friday, November 7, 2025 at 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Luís Bettencourt — Urban Science Research Seminar
Wednesday, November 12, 2025 at 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Danny Yuxing Huang — RouterSense: A Low-Cost, Unobtrusive, Privacy-Respecting Way to Monitor Health from Everyday Internet Use at Scale
Thursday, December 4, 2025 at 3:00pm - 4:00pm
Spring 2025
Vito Telesca — Using Machine Learning to Link Emergency Room Admissions & Environmental Factors
Wed, Mar 12, 2025 — 2:00 PM
Daniel T. O'Brien —The Pointillistic City
Mon, Mar 17, 2025 — 1:00 PM
Cynthia Zeng — Machine Learning for a Changing Climate: Forecast, Risk, Adapt
Wed, Apr 9, 2025 — 2:00 PM
Greg Morrisett
Mon, Apr 14, 2025 — 1:00 PM
Timon McPhearson — Anthropocene climate risks and resilience in cities
Tues, Apr 22 — 2:00 PM
Sybil Derrible — Solving the Biggest Infrastructure Challenges of This Century
Fri, Apr 25 — 4:40 PM
Ning Lin — Tropical Cyclone Hazards and Risk Analysis
Mon, Apr 28, 2025 — 1:00 PM
Saif Eddin Jabari — Investigating Vulnerabilities in Autonomous Vehicle Perception Algorithms
Mon, May 19, 2025 — 1:00 PM
Applied Urban Science Showcase
Fri, Apr 25 — 4:00 PM
Dr. Klaus-Dieter Weltmann — Plasma Medicine: Bridging Physics and Life Sciences for Medical Innovation
Wed, May 7, 10:00 AM – 11 AM
Christina Geldschläger — Best Practices in Entrepreneurship Education within the German Leibniz Association
Wed, May 7, 1:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Dr. Klaus-Dieter Weltmann — From Idea to Product: Knowledge and Technology Transfer at INP Greifswald as a Path to Technological Sovereignty
Wed, May 7, 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Listening for Bias: The Politics and Potential of Speech AI
Thu, Apr 10 — 3:30 PM
Christian Casazza on The Open Data Stack
Fri, Feb 21 — 6 PM
Bianca Ng on The Museum of Transversal Art
Fri, March 28 — 6 PM
Nissim Ram on Creating Heatmaps with Python
Fri, May 9 — 6 PM