Michelle T. Cirunay, a graduate from the Complex Systems Group of Dr. Rene C. Batac, joins this year's virtual edition of the Conference on Complex Systems (CCS), held on 7-11 December 2020. 

She presented a poster on a paper titled Shapes of Road-Bounded Blocks as Indicators of Degree of Urbanization, which looked at the road network features of all the chartered cities in the Philippines and correlated them with their corresponding socio-economic classification. Highly urbanized cities (HUCs) generally have more fragmented space and less occurrences of very large packets of contiguous areas due to densification, i.e. the formation of more roads and finer, more regular blocks. The extended abstract of the paper is now available from the CCS2020 organizing committee. 

• M.T. Cirunay and R.C. Batac, Shapes of Road-Bounded Blocks as Indicators of Degree of Urbanization, in Argyrakis Panos. (2020). CCS2020 - Conference on Complex System 2020 - Book of Abstracts. Presented at the Conference on Complex Systems 2020 (CCS2020), online: Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4419178, pp. 84. 

She also attended the virtual Warm-Up session of the Young Researchers Complex Systems Society (yrCSS) held prior to the conference, on 4 December 2020. 

The CCS is one of the major events sponsored by the Complex Systems Society (CSS). More information about the society can be found at cssociety.org. The CCS2020 website is at ccs2020.web.auth.gr.

Cirunay is a Ph.D. Physics student from the Physics Department, College of Science, De La Salle University. She is currently on her first year under the doctoral program, and is working on quantifying the complex signatures of road networks in urban zones.