Events

Visiting speaker

3:30 pm

Hybrid

An Overview of Network Research & An Illustrative Study Examining Collaborative Dynamics in Open-Source Software Development

Oct

2024

Jürgen Hackl

Visiting speaker

3:30 pm

Hybrid

Networked Systems: Going Beyond Topological Relations

Nov

2024

Diego Gómez-Zará

Visiting speaker

11:00 am

Hybrid

Teaming Up: How Technologies and Networks Can Support Us Assemble More Effective Teams

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Talk recording available

Oct

2024

2:00 pm

Dan Brennan

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Population-based Structural Health Monitoring: the Network of Structures

Oct

2024

2:00 pm

Nathan Matias

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How Cascades of Private Gratitude Sustain Public Goods Online

Oct

2024

3:30 pm

Sarah M. Preum

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In-Context Learning for Human-AI collaboration: Methods and Measures

Oct

2024

11:00 am

Jason Reifler

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Correction mismatch? Do inattention and selective exposure limit the effects of media-led voter fraud debunking?

Oct

2024

3:30 pm

Cristopher Moore

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Tensor Networks and Phase Transitions in Machine Learning

Oct

2024

1:00 pm

Abigail Horn

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Harnessing large-scale non-medical data to address public health problems in food systems and nutrition

Oct

2024

1:30 pm

Alyssa Smith

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Integrating Perspectives on Network Structure and Individual Agency for Civic Mobilization

Oct

2024

3:15 pm

Harald Schmidt

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To "first-neighbor" or not to "first-neighbor" in network medicine.

Oct

2024

2:00 pm

Jürgen Jost

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Curvature and Data

Oct

2024

11:00 am

Maddalena Torricelli

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Network Analytics and Data Science Insights from Social Systems to Sports

Sep

2024

3:00 pm

Fernando P. Santos

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The impacts of link recommendation algorithms on human social dynamics

Sep

2024

1:00 pm

Hamish Gibbs

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Addressing uncertainty in measurements of human mobility derived from mobile phones

Sep

2024

1:00 pm

Giulia Pullano

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Integration of High-Resolution Mobility Data into Mathematical Models for Disease Prevention and Control

Sep

2024

11:00 am

Michele Nardin

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Hormonal modulation and low-dimensional dynamics in spiking neural networks

Sep

2024

2:00 pm

Silvia De Sojo

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The Gender Gaps in Human Mobility

Sep

2024

12:00 pm

Lucas Almeida

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Guns, Drugs & Samba: Dark Networks of Rio de Janeiro

Sep

2024

2:00 pm

Burai Murayama

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Persistent Homology of Reaction Route Map

Sep

2024

10:00 am

Samuel Westby

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Focused and Panoramic Perspectives on the Future of Work

Sep

2024

1:30 pm

Yeonsu Jung

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Entanglement transition in random rod packings

Sep

2024

11:00 am

Alina Starovolsky Shitrit

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Value Transmission on TikTok (Adolescence)

Sep

2024

1:00 pm

Amanda Perofsky

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Impacts of human mobility on the citywide transmission dynamics of respiratory viruses in pre- and post-covid 19 pandemic years

Aug

2024

1:00 pm

Zhuangyuan Fan

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Urban visual intelligence: Uncovering hidden city profiles with street view images

Jul

2024

5:00 pm

IC2S2 Practice Talks

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Join us for an event for the institute members to practice their talks/posters for International Conference for Computational Social Sciences (IC2S2)!

Jul

2024

1:00 pm

Sara Venturini

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Optimization Methods for Community Detection and Graph Semi-Supervised Learning in Multiplex Networks, and Analysis of Scholarly Collaborations

Jul

2024

1:00 pm

Sune Lehmann

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Using sequences of life-events to predict human lives

Jun

2024

1:00 pm

Carolina Mattsson

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The circulation of digital money

Jun

2024

12:00 pm

Márton Karsai

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Socioeconomic networks, segregation patterns and their dynamics

Jun

2024

1:00 pm

Carlos Portela

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Mechanics of Architected Materials Across Length and Time Scales

May

2024

1:45 pm

Nir Grinberg

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Supersharers of Fake News on Twitter

May

2024

1:00 pm

Oren Tsur

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Context Dependent: Multimodal Architectures for Social Grounding of Language Models

May

2024

11:00 am

Nicolò Gozzi

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Epidemic-behavior feedback loop: a post-COVID perspective

May

2024

5:30 pm

NetSI London Faculty

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Riccardo Di Clemente and Iacopo Iacopini

May

2024

11:00 am

Ayan Chatterjee

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Advancing Graph Machine Learning through Network Science with Applications in Drug Discovery

May

2024

12:00 pm

Haily Merritt

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Brain Network Organization Varies across Social Environments (12pm Eastern Time)

May

2024

12:30 pm

Hasan Alp Boz

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Employing Mobility Networks to Address Societal Challenges

May

2024

1:00 pm

Sándor Juhász

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Urban highways are barriers to social ties

May

2024

4:00 pm

Nandini Iyer

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Understanding Spatial Inequalities in Public Transportation Systems: Three Urban Perspectives (11am Eastern Time)

May

2024

9:00 am

Alec Kirkley

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From Hubs to Hypergraphs: Nonparametric Inference for Network Data with the MDL Principle

May

2024

11:00 am

Paul Expert

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Using complexity science to improve healthcare systems, from natural to social sciences

May

2024

10:00 am

Evelyn Panagakou, PhD

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Charting Your Career Course: Maximize Success with an Individualized Development Plan

May

2024

12:00 pm

Irene Ferri

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From Individual to Collective: Three-State Opinion Dynamics on Single and Multilayer Topologies

Apr

2024

4:30 pm

Thilo Gross

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Phase Transitions in Network Robustness

Apr

2024

2:30 pm

Kishore Vasan

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Unifying puzzles in social, technical, and biological systems using networks

Apr

2024

11:00 am

Clara Stegehuis

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Optimal network structures

Apr

2024

4:00 pm

Ki-Bong Yoo

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All you need is trajectories: personal health management with health utilization data

Apr

2024

11:00 am

Kiran Garimella

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Misinformation on Encrypted Platforms: Prevalence and Solutions

Apr

2024

11:00 am

Tiago Peixoto

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Network reconstruction for the masses

Apr

2024

4:00 pm

Hoda Heidari

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Red-Teaming for Generative AI: Silver Bullet or Security Theater?

Apr

2024

1:00 pm

Andrea Musso

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How networks shape diversity for better or worse

Apr

2024

11:00 am

Zachary Fulker

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Self-Organizing Social Systems: Boundaries of Cooperation and Coordination

Apr

2024

1:00 pm

Bruno Lepri

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Visiting speaker

Understanding human behaviors: A computational social science perspective

Apr

2024

10:30 am

Kimberly Wong

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Communicating with Purpose: strategies for connection, navigating conflict, and self-advocacy

Mar

2024

11:00 am

Sandra González-Bailón

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Networks as Maps of the Information Environment

Mar

2024

11:30 am

Dr. John Palowitch

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Fake Graphs, Real Results: Learning with Synthetic Graphs

Mar

2024

11:00 am

Jean-Gabriel Young

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What can we learn from low-dimensional representations of networks?

Mar

2024

5:30 pm

Jean-Gabriel Young

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"Phase Transition in the Recoverability of Network History"

Mar

2024

1:00 pm

Abdullahi Ibrahim

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Sustainable Optimal Transport in Multilayer Networks

Mar

2024

10:30 am

Alexi Quintana Mathé

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From followers to close ties: homophily in population level social networks

Mar

2024

12:00 pm

Katherine Ognyanova

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False beliefs in an uncertain environment: the role of trust in science and partisanship

Mar

2024

2:00 pm

Kayla de la Haye

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Building healthy and sustainable local food systems using network and systems science

Mar

2024

1:00 pm

Yury Polyanskiy

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Clustering and phase transitions in transformers

Mar

2024

3:30 pm

Kim Albrecht

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Artificial Worldviews

Mar

2024

1:00 pm

Chen Xia

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Spatial-Temporal Building Energy Vulnerability Analysis: A Human-Centered Approach

Feb

2024

2:00 pm

Amina Abdu

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Upstream Assumptions in Responsible AI: An Empirical Assessment of Racial Categories in the Algorithmic Fairness Literature

Feb

2024

2:30 pm

Alondra Nelson

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Governing the Future: On AI and Democracy

Feb

2024

10:00 am

Mariah Boudreau

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Modeling interventions and uncertainty using probability generating functions

Feb

2024

3:00 pm

Guy Stuart

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Introducing the Global Worker Dialogue, a Labor Rights Social Enterprise

Feb

2024

11:00 am

Guillaume St-Onge

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Principled Modeling of Contagion Dynamics Across Scales

Feb

2024

12:00 pm

Ayanna Thomas

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Strategically Regulating Knowledge: How Confidence, Belief, and Approaches to Learning Affect Memory Updating

Feb

2024

10:30 am

Emma Newcombe and Evelyn Panagakou

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Pitch Perfect: Building Your Professional Introduction

Feb

2024

2:30 pm

Huimin Cheng

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Graphon Cross-Validation with Application to Drug Repurposing

Feb

2024

10:00 am

Rui Oliveira

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Of fish and flies: studying the biological basis of sociality in two model organisms

Feb

2024

12:00 pm

Rui Oliveira

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In Leonardo's footsteps: bringing art and science back together in a post-modern world

Jan

2024

2:00 pm

Vincent Thibeault

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The low-rank hypothesis of complex systems

Jan

2024

10:30 am

Marilyn Gatica

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Applications of functional high-order interactions: healthy ageing and transcranial ultrasound stimulation.

Jan

2024

2:00 pm

Marco Jost

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Deciphering the chemical language of host-microbiome communication

Jan

2024

11:30 am

Adina Gitomer

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Therapy isn’t enough. I need a dissertation about youth online political participation.

Jan

2024

11:00 am

Benjamin M. Gyori

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Automated scientific knowledge assembly and modeling for rapid pandemic response

Dec

2023

1:30 pm

Victoria (Shu) Zhang

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Professional Networks, Regulation, and the Cessation of High-Risk Prescribing in the Prescription Opioid Crisis

Dec

2023

3:30 pm

Simone Daniotti

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Dynamics of Urban Systems and Public Transportation Networks

Dec

2023

3:30 pm

Tongjing Wang

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Revealing Multiplexity of Information-based City Relationships Using Collocation Analysis

Dec

2023

10:30 am

Emma Newcombe, PhD

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Negotiating Job Offers in Industry and Academia

Dec

2023

11:00 am

Serina Chang

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Inferring Networks and Behaviors from Data for High-stakes Decisions

Dec

2023

11:00 am

Joseph Walther

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A New Perspective on Online Hate: Prosocial Networks of Antisocial Behavior

Nov

2023

3:30 pm

Dániel Barabási

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Complex Computations from Developmental Priors

Nov

2023

10:00 am

Abbas K. Rizi

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Consequences of Social Network Structure for Epidemic Interventions

Nov

2023

3:30 pm

Eddie Lee

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A theory of innovation and obsolescence connecting markets and genetic evolution to science

Oct

2023

4:00 pm

Santo Fortunato

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Network Science is not scale invariant

Oct

2023

2:00 pm

Giovanni Petri

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Social learning across symbolic cultural barriers in non-human cultures

Oct

2023

11:00 am

Nicolò Gozzi

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Modeling the Impact of Inequalities on the Spread of Infectious Diseases

Oct

2023

4:00 pm

Jasper van der Kolk

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An Anomalous Topological phase transition in spatial random graphs

Oct

2023

3:00 pm

Ciro Cattuto

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High-Resolution Human Proximity Networks

Oct

2023

3:30 pm

Melanie Weber

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Discrete Curvature and Applications in Graph Machine Learning

Oct

2023

10:00 am

Max Jerdee

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Tuning up Normalized Mutual Information and pairwise ranking models

Oct

2023

11:00 am

Daniela Paolotti

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Non-traditional Data Sources for Innovation in Public Health during the COVID-19 Crises

Oct

2023

4:00 pm

Christina Theodoris

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Transfer learning to enable predictions in network biology

Sep

2023

2:15 pm

Randy Erb

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Directed assembly of microstructure to realize emergent material properties

Sep

2023

3:30 pm

Niek Mooij

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Approximating the Maximum Independent Set Problem Using Lotka-Volterra Dynamics

Sep

2023

1:00 pm

Ágnes Horvát

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How Science Is (Mis)Communicated in Online Media

Aug

2023

11:00 am

Istvan Kiss

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Fresh Perspectives on Network-Based Spreading Processes

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