Seminar

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.

Hey NetPals, did you miss the netPLACE seminar with Giacomo Livan from UCL? He presented an intriguing talk titled ‘Leveraging bibliometric data to understand academic impact’, exploring what factors may boost and enhance the early stages of an academic career.

Hey NetPals, did you miss the last netPLACE talk of April? Antoine Vendeville from University College London gave a talk titled ‘Opening up echo chambers via optimal content recommendation’, emphasising that the existence of echo chambers in social networks is a problem of primary relevance.

Hey NetPeople! On Thursday, April 6th, we had Naomi Arnold from Northeastern University in London as our speaker. She gave a refreshing talk titled ‘Temporal Graph Motifs and How to Find Them: Or How I Inadvertently Got into Big Data Engineering’

Hey NetPeople! Did you miss last Thursday’s talk? Lasse Mohr from the Technical University of Denmark (Lyngby, Denmark) was our speaker, with his captivating talk, titled ‘The Growth of a Nation-Spanning Family’

Hi netFollower! Two weeks ago we had an amazing talk from Alessandro Lonardi (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems) about optimal transport in networks for design and flux optimization, giving examples of energy optimising systems in both natural and human realms.

Hi NetFollowers, last week we had Hanlin Sun from Queen Mary University of London as our speaker, talking about a theoretical approach with both percolation and message-passing techniques used for mitigating an epidemic wave.

Hey NetPeople! Do you remember Arash Badie-Modiri? Two weeks ago Arash, from Aalto University. gave an amazing talk with the title ‘Reticula: A temporal network and hypergraph analysis software package’.