My Internship
Preliminaries to studying new form of protests
A glimpse at my work 📖
The main question I tackle is the following : Can an impacting urban network disruption emerge from a simple and decentralized collective action ?
In other words, imagine people following the same walking rules. Can they spontaneously gather and move in mobile groups that will block roads and disturb traffic? Have I aroused your curiosity ? Then you can download my intership thesis presenting our first investigations regarding the quantitative impact of protests. Our job has mainly been to establish the state of the art concerning this question. More precisly, we connected it with an already existing litterature regarding random walks and city models.
Here is my internship thesis
Some networks I studied and ran simulations on. On the left, the networks of *drive* roads of Paris. Middle shows a Kleinberg model. On the right, a percolated 2D grid, on which active particles have gathered.