What is NetPlace?
The aim of the Networks, Phd Life And ComplExity Seminars, or simply NetPLACE Seminars, is to provide a friendly and cosy place for graduate and postgraduate students from all over the world to interact, to present new/interesting developments from their areas of interest in the complex systems and networks field, as well as their difficulties during the PhD study.
Thus, differently from usual seminars, our speakers are also encouraged to talk about certain difficulties encountered doing their research, so as to help and prepare everyone in the audience in these peculiar situations. To favour this exchange of ideas, in the second half of each seminar we will discuss together one or more difficulties that PhD students may confront, trying to provide some plausible solutions.
Our meetings are informal and questions from the audience are encouraged at all times. This cycle of seminars is organized by graduate students, and is intended for a student in the broad area of complex systems in the early stages of their careers.
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Details
Seminars are held online and run fortnightly on Thursday at 16:00 UK Time on Zoom. Check our schedule for more details. Are you interested? Do not miss the NetPLACE events and join our discussions! No registration is required.
Check past video recordings and much more in Past Talks section.
NetPLACE Seminars will take a break during Christmas time, but we will start again on the 11th of January 2024. Fill in our form if you want to give a talk and join the discussion!
You thought we only organise seminars? No! The point of each seminar is to create a community, where we know each other's research topic and can start to collaborate, but also, more importantly, discuss the various problems that we find and face in our journey in Academia!
Thanks to the various discussions in our seminars and our previous two panels at NetSci 2023, we bring another topic of discussion at NetSciX 2024! Check it out in the dedicated section of our website.
Next Seminar: 2nd May (4pm UK Time)
(#34) Max Falkenberg
City University London (United Kingdom)
City University London (United Kingdom)
RESEARCH TALK
"A network scientist's perspective on polarization in social networks"
"A network scientist's perspective on polarization in social networks"
Abstract:
In this talk I will discuss the contribution network scientists can make to the study of political polarization. I will discuss some of my recent work including on the polarization of climate politics online, and on how online discussions across countries show a common pattern of affective polarization (i.e., negative attitudes towards partisans' political out-group). As part of the talk, I will discuss how network scientists fit into the wider study of political polarization across disciplines, and why I believe our community has to make greater efforts to understand the contributions of researchers from non-technical backgrounds.
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If you are interested in organising NetPLACE activities, get in touch and send us an email at
organisers@netplace.site
organisers@netplace.site
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Check our latest blog!
Based on the talk by Matteo Bruno (Sony CSL Rome) on the 23rd of November, 2023.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube), Blog post, Blog thread (Twitter)
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