Past Seminars

Exploration or exploitation, that is the question! Hey, NetPALS, we have all faced the dilemma: whether to stick to our research or expand our expertise. Guillaume discussed this at our last seminar with his talk “How to efficiently expand your interdisciplinary “expertise”.

Hey, NetPALS, we are back with our blogs! Are you curious about how social media shapes our opinions? From vaccines to climate change, Alessandro Galeazzi discussed this at our last seminar with his talk “The evolution of polarization in online debates”.

Have you ever wondered about the pros and cons of research in a company versus academia? In our last seminar, Matteo Bruno gave insight into his experience at Sony CSL Rome, in his talk titled “How compact should my city be?”

Are you looking for a postdoc position but also desire independence? Have you heard about independent fellowships? Francesco Coghi from Nordita, Sweden, discussed them in our last seminar with a talk titled “Rare (but maybe not so much after all) events in science and academia.

Hey NetPALS, have you ever wondered what Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) are? In our last seminar, Veronica Lachi from the University of Siena covered this topic extensively in her talk “Machine Learning for Graphs: Hot Trends and Emerging Frontiers.”

Alright, NetPALS! Let’s dive into the crux of our latest NetPLACE seminar. Recently, we had the privilege to host Yuanzhao Zhang from the Santa Fe Institute. His presentation was on Twisted landscapes: higher-order interactions make basins deeper but smaller.

WE’RE BACK, NetPALS!!! New format, new faces, and ready to start again. In the last seminar, we had our first round table, our new format of NetPLACE seminars, led by Danilo Riccio from Queen Mary University of London. Danilo made a short presentation, titled Using Typewriters in the Era of Laptops: A Glimpse into the Future of Academia.

Hello NetPLACErs, did you miss our biweekly blog updates? Some weeks ago, Alessandra Corso from the University of Catania closed our series of seminars this year, giving a talk titled How to efficiently explain a technical study: the case of generative models of power-grid topologies.

Hello NetPLACErs, we couldn’t have had a better June start! On the 1st, Onkar Sadekar from Central European University in Vienna gave a talk focused on higher-order interactions in game theory, where higher-order interactions are game-changing, and explosive cooperation emerges from competitiveness.

Hey NetPals, have you watched the netPLACE seminar by Niccolò Zagli from Nordita? His talk highlighted the link between response theory, reaction coordinates, and critical phenomena in noisy systems with mean-field interactions.