Urban Physics Summer School - UPSS 2027

Urban Physics Summer School 2027

An international specialized workshop for PhD students, postdocs and young academic staff

This 8^th edition of the Urban Physics School is organized by Dominique Derome Université de Sherbrooke, Bert Blocken LUT University, Alessio Ricci IUSS Pavia and Jan Carmeliet, ETH Zurich.

Urban Physics is the science and engineering of the physical processes in urban areas. It basically refers to the transfer of heat and mass in the outdoor and indoor urban environment, and its interaction with humans, fauna, flora and materials. Urban Physics is a rapidly increasing focus area as it is key to understanding and addressing the grand societal challenges that are linked to sustainability: climate change, energy, health, security, transport and ageing. The main assessment tools in Urban Physics are field measuremens, full-scale and reduced-scale laboratory measurements and numerical simulation including computational fluid dynamics (CFD). Urban Physics is intrinsically mutidisciplinary and multiscale, as reflected by the topics of the program.

Urban Physics Summer School 2027 will be held on June 18-25, at the nature Resort Jouvence, in the vicinity of the Université de Sherbrooke. https://jouvence.com/en/

Preliminary program Arrival on June 18, Presentations and Workshops over 6 days June 19-24, Departure June 25.

Registration includes: course registration, course materials, accommodation (7 nights in double rooms (single room available with separate charge), all meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner), transport from/to Montreal airport, activities on the resort by a lake. Go to the Registration page for more information.

Programme content and lecturers

Jan Carmeliet, ETH Zurich CH : on urban heat island, heat wave mitigation, and urban microclimate modeling (urbanMicroclimateFOAM)

Bert Blocken, LUT University, Finland : on CFD guidelines, wind comfort studies, CFD simulation (Fluent Ansys), wind tunnel measurements

Alessio Ricci, IUSS of Pavia IT : on geometrical simplification, non-synoptic wind modeling, thunderstorm downburst and tornadoes

Dominique Derome, Université de Sherbrooke Canada : on trees for urban microclimate heat mitigation, and development of guidelines for stakeholders

Giorgia Chinazzo, Northwestern University USA : on indoor thermal comfort and associated thermal conditions and heat stress

Christopher Holst, Karlsruher Institut für Techn. DE : on Lidar characterization of urban boundary layer, and urban simulations (PALM4U)

Negin Nazarian, University New South Wales Australia : on urban climate change, IPCC report, machine learning and AI as it relates to urban climate

Djordje Romanic, McGill University Canada : on atmospheric boundary layer meteorology

Alessandro Rotto Loria, Northwestern University USA : on underground urban heat island

James Voogt, Western  University Canada : on microclimate static and dynamic measurement methodology, hands-on workshop of in-situ measurements

Yuan Chao, National University of Singapore: on designing with climate: a studio-ready platform for urban microclimate modeling

Registration

Super Early Bird: Until September 30, 2026 - 11:59 PM / 2 250,00 $CAD or ~1 400 € + Tax / Limit: 10

Early Bird: Until March 14, 2027 - 11:59 PM / 2 995,00 $CAD or ~1 850 € + Tax

Standard: Until June 11, 2027 - 11:59 PM / 3 750,00 $CAD or ~2 300 € + Tax