City Center
Research Center for Cities and Urbanism
Tel Aviv University
Research Students Forum / Conferences
Since its inception, a main objectives of City Center has been to promote research students and support their academic progress. The research students forum is one activity created to serve that purpose, where students can meet fellow scholars, share their work and receive constructive feedback.
4 June 2024
The renewed initiative of the City Center's research students' forum welcomed the first forum meeting for the year 2024. Three research students presented their work to the forum. For more information, Click here>
Coming up...
Join City Center's research students forum and present your research at the first forum meeting for 2024. This is an opportunity to join the university database of researchers and activity on cities and urbanism at Tel Aviv University. Click here>
27 May 2021
The IITM & TAU Students' Forum brings together students from IITM and TAU whose research is linked to cities and urbanism. The students' forum aims to generate a diverse discussion among students from India and Israel under the main theme of cities.
22 January 2020
The second gathering of the research students' forum included lectures from two students on the topics of thermal comfort in public spaces and spatial elements' influence on social functionality of neighborhood gardens.
18 December 2019
The First gathering of the research students' forum included lectures from two students on the topics of urban scaling of cities and on navigation in the fractal city.
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22 January 2018
TAU City Center invites you to the 3rd Annual Conference for Research Students, 22 January 2018, 10:00-14:00,.
22 November 2017
TAU City Center invites you to a special scholarships seminar at the Sourasky Central Library, Tel Aviv University.
18 January 2016
A first-of-its-kind meeting of young urban researchers of all disciplines at Tel Aviv University.
About City Center Research Students Forum
City Center invites research students from all departments whom research is related to cities and urbanism to join the Research Students Forum. The Forum is City Center's initiative. City Center is a TAU research center for cities and urbanism, founded and headed by Prof. Juval Portugali. City Center’s activities include international conferences and workshops, guest workshops and other events.
The forum aims to create an academic and social connection between students from different departments of TAU and other universities in Israel and abroad, for the purpose of stimulating and supporting urban oriented research. The forum will gather several times in each academic year and hold lectures and discussion around a specific themes. Apart from the research students, the audience will include faculty members and senior researchers.
We seek to constitute an interdisciplinary collaboration between research students and to promote research students via exposure to new methodologies, networks and feedback. All TAU Master's degree students and PhD students are invited to join the Research Students’ Forum. Invitation is also open for post-doctoral students.
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The Research Students' Forum will gather every academic year in the format of short lectures and discussions on issues dealing with cities and urbanism, where senior faculty members will also be listening and commenting. We aspire to a platform for discussion and constructive criticism towards specific works and studies, and more.
Who is the forum for?
Master and PhD students, and Post-doctorals at Tel Aviv University who are engaged in research that deals directly or indirectly with cities and urbanism.
To join the forum, please fill out this electronic form > or contact us at: urban@tauex.tau.ac.il​​
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