Invited Speakers
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Antoine Allard | Université Laval
Three tales about percolation on real complex networks Antoine Allard is an Assistant Professor at the Physics Department at Université Laval in Québec and holder of the Sentinelle Nord Research Chair for the Application and Theory of Network Analysis. His research combines statistical mechanics, graph theory, nonlinear dynamics and geometry to develop mathematical models of complex networks and to study the structure/function relationship specific to complex systems. His recent projects involve the mapping of real complex networks unto hyperbolic space to characterize the evolution of international trade, the use of greedy routing to unveil the spatial organization of the brain at various scales and across species, and the analytical solution of percolation on networks with a strong induced core-periphery structure to assess the potential of the Zika virus as a sexually transmitted infection. |
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Manlio De Domenico | Center for Information and Communication Technology, Fondazione Bruno Kessler
Collective behavior in socio-technical systems during exceptional events Manlio De Domenico is a physicist, Senior Researcher at Fondazione Bruno Kessler (Italy), where he leads the Complex Multilayer Network (CoMuNe) Lab. He obtained his PhD from Scuola Superiore di Catania in February 2012. His research is focused on the study of phenomena emerging from natural and artificial interdependent systems, with leading contributions to modeling and analysis of multilayer networks, the study of their structure, dynamics, information capacity and resilience to perturbations. His applications to empirical systems include social networks (human behavior, communication), biological systems (human brain, multi-omics), personalized medicine, smart city engineering and policy-making in response to epidemics spreading. De Domenico has co-authored 90 papers, published in prestigious journals including Nature Physics, Nature Communications, PNAS, Physical Review X and Physical Review Letters. He is Director of the Mediterranean School of Complex Networks, Associate Editor of Complexity and Journal of Complex Networks, an elected member of the Complex Systems Society (CSS) council and national coordinator of CSS/Italy. |
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Raissa M. D'Souza | University of California Davis
Talk title: TBA Raissa D'Souza is Professor of Computer Science and of Mechanical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, as well as an External Professor at the Santa Fe Institute. She received a PhD in Statistical Physics from MIT in 1999, then was a postdoctoral fellow, first at Bell Laboratories, and then in the Theory Group at Microsoft Research. Her work spans the fields of statistical physics, computer science, and applied math. She is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, recipient of the 2017 Outstanding mid-career research award from the UC Davis College of Engineering, serves on the editorial board of numerous mathematics and physics journals, has organized key scientific meetings like NetSci 2014, was a member of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Complex Systems, and served as the first elected President of the Network Science Society from June 2015 - June 2018. |
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James Gleeson | University of Limerick
Mathematical modeling of social spreading phenomena Professor James Gleeson holds the Chair in Industrial and Applied Mathematics at the University of Limerick in Ireland. He is a graduate of University College Dublin in Mathematical Sciences and Mathematical Physics and received his PhD in Applied Mathematics from Caltech in 1999. Following his graduation from Caltech, he was a visiting assistant professor in Arizona State University, and then moved to University College Cork for 7 years, before taking up his current position at the University of Limerick. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Complex Networks, a member of the editorial board of Physical Review E, and he was appointed to the Irish Research Council in 2013. As co-director of MACSI, the Mathematics Applications Consortium for Science and Industry, he leads research into applications of mathematics to real-world problems with significant economic and social impact. His research interests include stochastic dynamics and contagion on complex networks. |
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Marta C. González | University of California Berkeley
Cases of study in Computational Urban Science Marta C. González is Associate Professor of City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley, and a Physics Research faculty in the Energy Technology Area (ETA) at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). With the support of several companies, cities and foundations, her research team develops computer models to analyze digital traces of information mediated by devices. They process this information to manage the demand in urban infrastructures in relation to energy and mobility. Her recent research uses billions of mobile phone records to understand the appearance of traffic jams and the integration of electric vehicles into the grid, smart meter data records to compare the policy of solar energy adoption and card transactions to identify habits in spending behavior. Prior to joining Berkeley, Marta worked as an Associate Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at MIT, a member of the Operations Research Center and the Center for Advanced Urbanism. She is a member of the scientific council of technology companies such as Gran Data, PTV and the Pecan Street Project consortium. |
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Roger Guimerà | Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Bayesian network inference for prediction in network and non-network systems: From human behavior to machine scientists Roger Guimerà is ICREA Research Professor of Experimental Sciences and Mathematics at Universitat Rovira i Virgili, in Tarragona, Spain. Roger's research is devoted to the development and application of probabilistic and computational tools for the analysis of complex systems and, particularly, of complex networks. During his career, he has: (i) made methodological contributions to the study of complex networks (e.g. identification of communities and roles, Bayesian network inference, and rigorous model comparison), and (ii) used complex network analysis and network models to gain understanding on specific systems (e.g. social communication and collaboration networks, critical infrastructures such as the air transportation system, and biological systems such as metabolism). These contributions have won him the Erdos-Renyi Prize of the Network Science Society in 2012, and the Young Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics of the German Physical Society in 2014. |
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Philipp Hövel | University College Cork
Understanding trends and popularity in online topics Dr. Philipp Hövel is a trained mathematician and physicist and is currently working as permanent lecturer in the Department of Applied Mathematics at University College Cork, Ireland. His research mission is to lift the boundaries between data-oriented science, theoretical approaches, and numerical simulations addressing interdisciplinary questions based on an overlap of nonlinear dynamics, network science, and control theory. His areas of mathematical expertise include complex systems, bifurcation theory, delay differential equations, and complex networks. Besides mathematical modeling and analytical investigations, he has always looked for experimental validation of his theoretical findings and a combination of the models with empirical data. His interdisciplinary research concept leads to better insight and fundamental understanding of synchronization processes and other dynamical phenomena. In addition, the combination with empirical data sets will allow for investigations of real-world relevance in areas such as neuroscience, epidemiology, and beyond. |
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Sonia Kéfi | Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier, CNRS
The dynamics and resilience of ecological networks Sonia Kéfi is an ecologist at the CNRS at the Institut des Sciences de l'Evolution de Montpellier (ISEM), France. She investigates, both empirically and theoretically, how the interactions that link species to each other in nature affect the functioning of ecological systems. In the current context of global changes, it is becoming increasingly important for us to better understand what makes ecological systems resilient to changes (i.e. able to recover after perturbation), and what makes them fragile. In particular, how do the type, strength and structure of ecological interactions contribute to the dynamics and resilience of ecological networks? She received the van Marum prize for environmental sciences in 2011 and the Bronze medal of the CNRS in 2017. |
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Susanna Manrubia | National Center for Biotechnology, CSIC
On the networked architecture of genotype spaces and the dynamics of molecular evolution Susanna Manrubia studied physics at the Universitat de Barcelona, and received her doctoral degree from UPC in 1996. She was a Humboldt fellow of the Max Planck Society at the Fritz-Haber-Institut in Berlin and a postdoctoral researcher at the MPI of Colloids and Interfaces in Golm. After several years at the Center for Astrobiology in Madrid, she is since 2014 associate professor of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology at the National Centre for Biotechnology (CSIC, Madrid). She focuses on developing theoretical and computational descriptions of biological phenomena, from the genome to large-scale evolution, and maintains close collaborations with experimentalists. Her interests include as well the emergence of cultural patterns and collective social behaviour. She has published over 120 peer reviewed articles and three books, was Section Editor for BMC Evolutionary Biology and is current member of the Editorial Board of Virus Evolution. |
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Chiara Poletto | INSERM & Université Pierre et Marie Curie
Multi-pathogen co-circulation on networks: capturing the complexity of pathogen ecology Chiara Poletto is a researcher at the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) in Paris (France), working on the spreading of infectious diseases seen as a complex system phenomenon. Epidemics are mediated by human contacts and, on a different scale, by human mobility patterns. Therefore, the role of network structure on infection risk, its persistence and impact on the population is a central question of her research work. Within this broad context, she is dedicating increasing attention to the physics of interacting spreading processes underlying important problems in disease ecology. Poletto received her PhD in Physics from the University of Padova (Italy) in 2009 and was then Post Doc at the Computational Epidemiology Laboratory, ISI Foundation, Torino (Italy), before joining the INSERM in 2012. She received the Junior Scientific Award of the Complex Systems Society for extraordinary scientific achievements. Her studies on emerging pathogens’ epidemics (from Ebola outbreak to Zika) have translated into expert advices for public health decision makers. |
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Mason Porter | University of California Los Angeles
Networks, Politics, and Voting Mason Porter earned a B.S. in applied mathematics from Caltech in 1998 and a Ph.D. from the Center for Applied Mathematics from Cornell University in 2002. He was a postdoc at Georgia Tech (math), Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, and Caltech (physics) before joining the faculty of the Mathematical Institute at University of Oxford in 2007. He was named Professor of Nonlinear and Complex Systems in 2014. He moved to UCLA as a Professor of Mathematics in 2016. Porter is known for the diversity and interdisciplinarity of his research (and for his sharp wit). He has made contributions to mesoscale structures in networks, social contagions, granular force networks, social networks, multilayer networks, navigation in transportation systems, granular crystals, Bose-Einstein condensates, numerical evaluation of hypergeometric functions, synchronization of cows, and many other topics. His awards include the Erdös-Renyi Prize in network science (2014), a London Mathematical Society Whitehead Prize (2015), the Young Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics from the German Physical Society (2016), and the Council on Undergraduate Research (CUR) Faculty Mentoring Award (Advanced Career Category; Mathematics and Computer Science Division) in 2017 in recognition of his mentorship of undergraduate research projects. He is Fellow of both the American Physical Society and the American Mathematical Society. |
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H. Eugene Stanley | University of Boston
Talk title: TBA Eugene Stanley was born in Oklahoma City and obtained a BA degree in Physics from the Wesleyan University in 1962 and his PhD from Harvard University in 1967. He was appointed Assistant Professor of Physics at MIT in 1969 and was promoted to Associate Professor in 1971. He was appointed Hermann von Helmholtz Associate Professor in 1973, in recognition of his inter-departmental teaching and research with the Harvard-MIT Program in Health Sciences and Technology. In 1976, he joined Boston University as Professor of Physics and Associate Professor of Physiology. In 1978 he was promoted to Professor of Physiology and in 1979 to University Professor. His main research focus has been the anomalous behaviour of liquid water in bulk, nano-confined, and biological environments. Since 2007 he has held joint appointments with the Chemistry and Biomedical Engineering Departments at Boston. In 2011, he was appointed William F. Warren Distinguished Professor. He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the Brazilian Academy of Sciences, and is an Honorary Member of the Hungarian Physical Society and an Honorary Professor at Eotvos Lorand University (Budapest). He is also Honorary Professor at the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Pavia, and at Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest. He is chair of the National Academy of Sciences/Keck Centre Futures Initiative on Complexity, and is an active member of the NAS Committee on Forefronts of Science at the Interface of Physical and Life Sciences, charged with finding ways of fostering useful collaborations between physicists and life scientists. |