Seminar

Should I specialize or should I stay generalist? In this seminar, we hosted William Thompson (University of Vermont, Burlington, USA), who presented his work on learning kernel-based opinion dynamics models from data and led a discussion on the challenges of navigating an interdisciplinary research path.

In this seminar, we had the pleasure of hosting Samuel Martin-Gutierrez (Complexity Science Hub) to discuss how social categories like race or socioeconomic status shape the way we form connections, and the challenges of publishing and presenting interdisciplinary research.

In our last seminar, we had the pleasure of hosting Helcio Felipe, a PhD candidate from the Central European University, as well as running our first (unofficial) hybrid seminar, with in-person attendees in Vienna!

Hey Netfollower, if you’re in that gray area of transitioning from your PhD to becoming an independent researcher, the last seminar was for you! Alessia Antelmi from the University of Turin talked about that transition on February 20th.

In this seminar, we had the pleasure of hosting Lucio LaCava (University of Calabria) to discuss the rise of decentralized social networks and the evolving landscape of scientific research.