Past Seminars

The archive of all our previous seminars

After every seminar, whether you were present or not, you want to come here! You will find all the information about each seminar below, including a fantastic blog. In this blog you will find highlights of the key points of the talks, useful resources for everyday PhD life and some food for thoughts from our biweekly conversations. Notice that the conversations had during our seminars are mostly unrelated to the research title of the talk. They are actually related to challenges in Academia and PhD life.

Moreover, if the speaker allows to record, the recording of the session is uploaded on Youtube, and available to access from our YouTube channel. Each blog is also posted on Twitter/X and Bluesky, and we encourage you to add your thoughts there!


List of past seminars

[#12] Weighted simplicial complexes and their representation power of higher-order network data and topology

Hey NetFOLLOWERS! What a talk from Federica Baccini! Federica, from the University of Pisa (Italy), was our previous speaker on the topic of weighted simplicial complexes and their representation power of higher-order network data and topology.

[#11] Investigating through mathematical model the evolutionary path on ecDNA

Hey NetFOLLOWERS! Did you enjoy the holidays? Our last speaker before the break was Elisa Scanu from Queen Mary University of London, who gave a talk on “Investigating through mathematical model the evolutionary path on ecDNA'

[#10] Statistical Inference, Learning and Optimization for Dynamics on Networks

Hello NetFOLLOWERS! Last Thursday Dr. Mateusz Wilinski from Los Alamos National Laboratory introduced us the powerful dynamic message-passing (DMP) algorithm, that makes possible to complete inference task on large networks and can be used on optimisation problems as well.

[#09] The roles of supervisor and student in different stages of a PhD in theoretical physics and applied mathematics

Hola NetFOLLOWERS! Last Thursday we had a very special seminar, with Tobias Galla from IFISC who shared with us his experience with the process of doing a PhD.

[#08] Human Belief Systems and Social Contagion

Hey NetFOLLOWERS, we are back with a bang ! Last Thursday we had our first seminar after the summer break. Our speaker was the energetic Rachith Aiyappa from Indiana University Bloomington, who gave a talk on Human Belief Systems and Social Contagions.

[#07] Opinion Diversity and the Resilience of Cooperation in Dynamical Networks

The last talk before the summer break was given by Adam Miles from Manchester Metropolitan University.

[#06] Coherence and Interdisciplinarity

During her talk, Mariah A. Knowles, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, raised some questions and provided advice for different methodological and justificatory concerns that can arise in the course of interdisciplinary research. The focal point of her investigation is that there are many ways for telling the same story, so why must ours have to be the right one?

[#05] Relaxing conditional independence assumptions in networks: the case of communities and reciprocity

What a nice talk last Thursday with our speaker Martina Contisciani from Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems!

[#04] Residuality theory and the difficulty of finding a PhD

Have you ever heard about the Residuality theory? If yes then you already know our last speaker, Barry O’Reilly from Black Tulip Technology and The Open University.

[#03] Dealing with 3Ps: Procrastination, Productivity and PhD

Hey NetPLACE readers! Are you surprised that we published the Blog Post early this time? Well, it’s because we had a great teacher last Thursday - of course! The speaker Violeta Calleja Solanas, from IFISC in Spain, proposed a new way of boosting productivity and giving a clear run to procrastination.