The first and newest postdoc of NERDS, Tiago Oliveira Cunha, will introduce and discuss his work in a lunch seminar on Friday, Jan 24th, 12:15-13:00 in the 4E wing. Are All Successful Communities Alike? Characterizing and Predicting the Success of Online Communities The proliferation of online communities has created exciting opportunities to study the mechanisms […]
Keynote: Quantifying the biases of scientific success International Day of Women and Girls in Science Dones en la recerca scientifica
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Thesis: "A Practical and Critical Look at the Problem of Community Discovery in Multi-layer Networks" Examination Committee: Associate Professor Barbara Plank, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark (Chair) Professor Vito Latora, University of London, England Dr. Luca Aiello, Nokia Bell Labs, England Supervisor: Associate Professor Luca Rossi, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Co-supervisor: Professor Irina Shklovski, […]
Maksim Kitsak (Delft University of Technology) Geometric Representations of Complementarity-Driven Networks Abstract: Complementarity-driven networks are routinely embedded into latent metric spaces with the purpose of data analysis. We argue that these traditional geometric representations, where connected nodes are embedded close to each other in the latent space, are not applicable to complementarity-driven networks due […]
Quantifying the dynamics of impact in science and art (Remote Colloquium)
(Event in Italian) Giovedì 11 febbraio 2021, con inizio alle ore 15:00, in occasione dell'International Day of Women and Girls in Science, il Dipartimento di Fisica e Astronomia "Ettore Majorana", in collaborazione con il Centro Siciliano di Fisica Nucleare e Struttura della Materia #CSFNSM, ospiterà (online) l'incontro con due scienziate per esplorare percorsi di donne […]
Luca Aiello, ITU (NERDS): Towards Health Surveillance with Social Media In today’s heavily interconnected world, health crises develop rapidly and spread afar. Health crises burden not only people’s biological health but also their psychological and social spheres. By monitoring the population’s behavior and health conditions, public health bodies can plan prevention campaigns, promptly deploy targeted […]