Events

Dissertation Defense

2:00 pm

Remote Participation via Zoom

Reasoning Together: Network Methods for Political Talk and Normative Reasoning

Apr

2020

Michael Foley

Dissertation Defense

2:00 pm

Remote Participation via Zoom

The Network Dynamics of Intragroup Conflict

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Talk recording available

Nov

2019

10:00 am

Zachary Chase Lipton

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Visiting Speaker

Robust Deep Learning Under Distribution Shift

Nov

2019

1:00 pm

Miriam J. Metzger

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Visiting Speaker

How Bad is Fake News? Motivations for Sharing Misinformation Online

Nov

2019

10:00 am

Giovanni Petri

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Visiting Speaker

The Impact of Higher Order Descriptions On Structural Analysis and Dynamical Processes

Nov

2019

10:00 am

Nicola Perra

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Visiting Speaker

The Spreading of Computer Viruses on Time-varying Networks

Oct

2019

2:00 pm

Helder Nakaya

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Visiting Speaker

Integrative Biology Applied to Neglected Infectious Diseases

Oct

2019

2:00 pm

Pedro Rodríguez

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Visiting Speaker

Political Semantics: Methods and Applications in the Study of Meaning for Political Science

Oct

2019

2:00 pm

Giancarlo Ruffo

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Visiting Speaker

Divided We Stand: Methods and Tools to Represent, Understand, and Analyze a Digital Society

Oct

2019

10:30 am

Bruno Ribeiro

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Visiting Speaker

Unearthing the Relationship Between Graph Neural Networks and Matrix Factorization

Oct

2019

2:00 pm

Mary Elizabeth Sutherland

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Visiting Speaker

How Nature will make a systematic investment of effort into the social sciences

Oct

2019

12:00 pm

Jamie Settle

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Visiting Speaker

Frenemies: How Social Media Polarizes America

Sep

2019

10:30 am

Juniper Lovato

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Visiting Speaker

Heterotopia in Multi-disciplinary Scientific Generative Processes

Sep

2019

2:00 pm

Roman Alpatov

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Visiting Speaker

Opportunities for epigenetic network analysis in biomarker discovery and exosomal histones as a potential diagnostic and therapeutic platform for autoimmune disorders and cancer

Sep

2019

2:00 pm

Remco van der Hofstad

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Visiting Speaker

Scale-free percolation

Sep

2019

2:00 pm

Magdalena Skipper

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Visiting Speaker

150 Years of Nature: A Century and a Half of Research and Its Influence

Sep

2019

2:30 pm

Mattia Prosperi

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Visiting Speaker

Big Data Hurdles in Precision Medicine and Precision Public Health

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Talk recording available

Mar

2019

Mark Newman

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Patterns and surprises in rich but noisy network data

Jan

2019

Jure Leskovec

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Deep Learning on Graphs

Apr

2018

László Lovász

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Hyperfiniteness, a decomposition principle for networks

Apr

2018

Duncan Watts

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Computational Social Science: Exciting Progress and Future Challenges

Jan

2018

Boleslaw K. Szymanski

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Failures, Dynamics, Evolution and Control of the Global Risk Network

Nov

2017

Sidney Redner

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Densification, Emergent Modularity, and Related Mysteries of Complex Networks

Nov

2017

Mario Small

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Understanding Personal Networks: The Limits of Big Data and the Perils of Common Sense

Sep

2017

Nicholas Christakis

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Social Network Experiments

Jun

2017

Neo Martinez

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Synthesizing Ecology with Ecological Networks

Apr

2017

Danielle Bassett

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The Network Architecture of Human Thought

Mar

2017

Sandra González-Bailón

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Networks and the Unintended Consequences of Communication

Feb

2017

Michael Macy

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Can We At Least Agree on Science?

Dec

2016

David Jensen

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Inferring Causal Models of Complex Relational and Dynamic Systems

Apr

2016

Jon Kleinberg

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Network Models for Long-Range Planning with Behavioral Biases

Apr

2016

Lise Getoor

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Collective Graph Identification

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May

2020

CCEGN2020: Critical and Collective Effects in Graphs and Networks

NetSI, in conjunction with DK-Lab and NSF, is sponsoring the Fifth Workshop on Critical and Collective Effects in Graphs and Networks (CCEGN-V). The workshop aims at facilitating the transfer of ideas, insights and interdisciplinary approaches to tackle new and exciting problems in random graph theory and its applications to real networks.

Jun

Jul

2020

SINSA2020: Summer Institute in Network Science and its Applications

NetSI is hosting a summer institute with eight network science courses offered over two weeks. The 2020 Summer Institute in Network Science and its Applications (SINSA) will be a two-week long program offering (8) short, intensive courses that explore fundamental network science and special applications of network approaches.

Mar

2020

CANCELLED: Mini-Workshop on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics & Field Theory

Harvard University will be leading an afternoon mini-workshop on foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory. Speakers will include Chip Sebens, Assistant Professor of Philosphy at CalTech, Jacob Barandes, Co-Director of Graduate Studies for Physics at Harvard, and Ned Hall, Norman E. Vuilleumier Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University.

Mar

2020

Computation + Journalism Symposium

The Computation + Journalism Symposium is a celebration and synthesis of new ways to find and tell news stories with, by, and about data and algorithms. It is a venue to seed new collaborations between journalists and computer and data scientists: a bazaar for the exchange of ideas between industry/practice and academia/research. This year, it will be hosted by Northeastern University in Boston on March 20-21, Friday-Saturday.

Feb