Events

The Network Science Institute hosts a variety of talks, workshops, conferences and other events throughout the year.
Event category
Event location
Conference

Hybrid

Mon
Jun 1
–
Jun 5

NetSci 2026 International School & Conference on Network Science

Location
Hyatt Regency Boston / Cambridge
In-person
Network Science Institute
Conference

Hybrid

Mon
Jun 1
–
Jun 5

NetSci 2026 International School & Conference on Network Science

Location
Hyatt Regency Boston / Cambridge
Network Science Institute
Dissertation defense
Mar 16
,
11:00 am
Emergent Power in Information Ecosystems on Social Media
Speaker
Alyssa Smith
Visiting speaker
Mar 16
,
1:00 pm
Brain-inspired sparse network science for next generation efficient and sustainable AI
Speaker
Carlo Vittorio Cannistraci
Visiting speaker
Mar 26
,
1:30 pm
Cities Under Stress: How Relatedness and Economic Complexity Shape Urban Resilience
Speaker
Bogang Jun
Dissertation defense
Apr 3
,
11:00 am
From followers to close ties: homophily in population level social networks
Speaker
Alexi Quintana Mathé
Complexity Speaker Series
Apr 3
,
1:30 pm
Emergent Directedness in Social Contagion
Speaker
Douglas Guilbeault
Dissertation defense
Apr 6
,
12:00 pm
From Local Rules to Global Structures: Entanglement, Design, and Reconstruction in Complex Networks
Speaker
Cory Glover
Dissertation defense
Apr 10
,
12:30 pm
From Prediction to Policy: Advancing Epidemic Model Evaluation and Scenario Analysis
Speaker
Clara Bay
Complexity Speaker Series
Apr 23
,
1:30 pm
Title TBD
Speaker
Raissa D'Souza
Misinformation Speaker Series
May 7
,
11:00 am
The Focus on Misinformation in Science and Society
Speaker
Dan Williams
NetSI talks
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Conference
NetSci 2026 International School & Conference on Network Science
Jun 1, 2026
Jun 1
—
Jun 5, 2026
NetSci is the flagship conference of the Network Science Society, and it remains an unparalleled venue for sharing and discussing discoveries, ideas, and emerging challenges in Network Science.
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Boston

Conference

Hyatt Regency Boston / Cambridge

Cambridge, MA

Past events

Conference
Northeastern Open Sports Data & Analytics Conference + Hackathon
Feb 27, 2026
Feb 27
—
Feb 28, 2026
This two-day event is co-organized by NetSI and Northeastern’s Sports Analytics Club. It’s free and open to students from Boston-area universities. The program includes a soccer data analytics hackathon, student presentations, a conference, and industry talks.
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Boston

Conference

Conference
PolNet-PaCSS Conference 2025
Aug 11, 2025
Aug 11
—
Aug 14, 2025
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Boston

Conference

Cambridge and Boston

Workshop
2025 Complexity 72h Workshop
Jun 22, 2025
Jun 22
—
Jun 26, 2025
Complexity72h is an interdisciplinary workshop for young researchers in complex systems. Participants form teams and carry out projects in a three-day period, i.e. 72 hours. The goal of each team is to finalize a report of their work by the end of the event.
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London

Workshop

London, UK

Symposium
Data | Art Symposium
Jun 11, 2025
Jun 11
—
Jun 12, 2025
Data | Art symposium explores the entanglements of data and artistic, scientific, and curatorial practices as a critical examination of how data configures aesthetic, social, and epistemic structures.
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Boston

Symposium

Cambridge, MA

Conference
Charting Complexity
Jun 10, 2025
Jun 10
—
Jun 12, 2025
Website

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London

Conference

London, UK

Webinar
Webinar: Complex Network Analysis MS Info Session
May 28, 2025
May 28
—
Website

About

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Boston

Webinar

Webinar
Webinar: Complex Network Analysis MS Info Session
May 27, 2025
May 27
—
Website

About

+

Boston

Webinar

Webinar
Webinar: Complex Network Analysis MS Info Session
May 23, 2025
May 23
—
Website

About

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Boston

Webinar

Webinar
Webinar: Complex Network Analysis MS Info Session
May 22, 2025
May 22
—
Website

About

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Boston

Webinar

Feb 9, 2023
Feb 9, 2023
–
Misinformation Meet-n-Greet
Speaker
Collabathon
Jul 18, 2022
Jul 18, 2022
–
Jul 20, 2022
AccelNet Multinet 2022: Collabathon
Speaker
Portland, ME
Satellite
Jul 15, 2022
Jul 15, 2022
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MultiNet 2022: Future Directions in Multilayer Network Science
Speaker
Workshop
Jun 6, 2022
Jun 6, 2022
–
Jun 10, 2022
Workshop on Critical and Collective Effects in Graphs and Networks (CCEGN-5)
Speaker
St. Barnabas's Episcopal Church, Cape Cod, MA
Apr 8, 2022
Apr 8, 2022
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Roundtable on COVID-19 misinformation: the state of the research
Speaker
Webinar
Collabathon
Oct 6, 2021
Oct 6, 2021
–
Speed Data-ing
Speaker
Conference
Jul 5, 2021
Jul 5, 2021
–
Jul 10, 2021
NetSI@Neworks2021
Speaker
Virtual
Jul 2, 2021
Jul 2, 2021
–
Quantifying Success - Quantifying Systemic Gender Inequality in Visual Art
Speaker
Online
Jul 2, 2021
Jul 2, 2021
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Special Panel: Computational social science, a Nature’s special issue
Speaker
Online
Conference
Jul 1, 2021
Jul 1, 2021
–
MultiNet: Accelerating Multilayer Network Science
Speaker
Online
Conference
Jun 30, 2021
Jun 30, 2021
–
Jul 1, 2021
WiNS: Women in Network Science
Speaker
Online
Symposium
Jun 28, 2021
Jun 28, 2021
–
Networked Justice
Speaker
Online
Oct 15, 2020
Oct 15, 2020
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Panel : “Social Dimensions Of The Pandemic”
Speaker
Oct 13, 2020
Oct 13, 2020
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MultiNet Webinar Series Kickoff: Alessandro Vespignani
Speaker
Conference
Sep 18, 2020
Sep 18, 2020
–
Sep 19, 2020
Diversify NetSci 2020
Speaker
Workshop
May 18, 2020
May 18, 2020
–
May 22, 2020
CCEGN2020: Critical and Collective Effects in Graphs and Networks
Speaker
Cape Cod, MA
Symposium
Mar 20, 2020
Mar 20, 2020
–
Mar 21, 2020
Computation + Journalism Symposium
Speaker
805 Columbus Ave, Boston, MA 02120
Mar 5, 2020
Mar 5, 2020
–
Coronovirus (COVID-19) Modeling Updates
Speaker
177 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115

Past talks

Talk recording available
Visiting speaker
Oct 16, 2025
On the Limits of Network Science
Speaker
Carlos Gershenson

Boston

Boston

Visiting speaker
Oct 15, 2025
Deep Learning for Temporal Graphs: Understanding the Expressivity of Causality-Aware Graph Neural Networks
Speaker
Ingo Scholtes

Boston

Boston

London Seminar Series
Oct 15, 2025
Spatial Relativity: Information and Selection as Distributional Measures of Urban Growth and Inequality
Speaker
Jordan Kemp

London

Boston

Misinformation Speaker Series
Oct 3, 2025
More Savvy than Swayed? Challenging Myths About Older Adults and Online Misinformation
Speaker
Eszter Hargittai

Boston

Boston

London Seminar Series
Oct 1, 2025
Stratifying Cancer Patients Using Visit Trajectory Analysis
Speaker
Simon D. Lindner

London

Boston

Visiting speaker
Sep 30, 2025
Thinking Outside the Ballot Box
Speaker
Ariel Procaccia

Boston

Boston

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