Blog
In this blog you will find highlights of the key points of the talks, useful resources for everyday PhD life and some food for thoughts from our biweekly conversations. Each blog is also posted on Twitter, and we encourage you to add your thoughts there!
Notice that the conversations had during our seminars are mostly unrelated to the title of the talk. They are actually related to problems in Academia and PhD life.
RESEARCH TALK: "A network scientist's perspective on polarization in social networks"
DISCUSSION: "Writing for fellowship applications"
Based on the NetPLACE seminar with Max Falkenberg (City, University of London, United Kingdom) on the 2nd May, 2024.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube)
RESEARCH TALK: "The role of Egocentric Perspective in Temporal Networks"
DISCUSSION: "Journals vs Conferences (with proceedings)"
Based on the NetPLACE seminar with Antonio Longa (University of Trento, Italy) on the 18th April, 2024.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube)
RESEARCH TALK: "Spreading and Structural Balance on Signed Networks"
DISCUSSION: "How to survive when reality is far from your expectation?"
Based on the NetPLACE seminar with Gonzalo Contreras-Aso (Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain) on the 7th March, 2024.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube)
RESEARCH TALK: "Evaluating Urban Accessibility: A New Approach using Fitness and Complexity Metrics"
DISCUSSION: "Trying to survive as a frog in a world of birds"
Based on the NetPLACE seminar with Hygor Piaget Monteiro Melo (Sony CSL - Rome, Centro Ricerche Enrico Fermi, Rome, Italy) on the 22nd February, 2024.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube)
RESEARCH TALK: "Spreading and Structural Balance on Signed Networks"
DISCUSSION: "How to survive when reality is far from your expectation?"
Based on the NetPLACE seminar with Yu Tian (Nordita) on the 8th February, 2024.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube)
RESEARCH TALK: "The evolution of polarization in online debates"
DISCUSSION: "How to get most out of your research visits?"
Based on the NetPLACE seminar with Alessandro Galeazzi (University of Padua) on the 11th of January, 2024.
Other links:Talk recording (YouTube), Blog thread (Twitter)
RESEARCH TALK: "Navigating wastewater surveillance at airports with probability generating functions"
DISCUSSION: "How to efficiently expand your interdisciplinary «expertise»"
Based on the NetPLACE seminar with Guillaume St-Onge (Northeastern University) on the 7th of December, 2023.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube), Blog post, Blog thread (Twitter)
RESEARCH TALK: "How compact should my city be?"
DISCUSSION: "Should I stay (in academia) or should I go (to a company)?"
Based on the NetPLACE seminar with Matteo Bruno (Sony CSL Rome) on the 23rd of November, 2023.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube), Blog post, Blog thread (Twitter)
Based on the talk by Francesco Coghi (Nordita) on the 9th of November, 2023.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube), Blog post, Blog thread (Twitter)
Based on the talk by Veronica Lachi (University of Siena) on the 26th of October, 2023.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube), Blog post, Slides, Blog thread (Twitter)
BlogPost #024 (link): "Twisted landscapes: higher-order interactions make basins deeper but smaller."
Based on the talk by Yuanzhao Zhang (Santa Fe Institute) on the 12th of October, 2023.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube), Blog post, Slides, Blog thread (Twitter)
BlogPost #023 (link): "Using typewriters in the era of laptops: a glimpse into the future of academia"
Based on the talk by Danilo Salvatore Riccio (Queen Mary University of London) on the 28th of September, 2023.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube), Blog post, Slides, Blog thread
BlogPost #022 (link): "How to efficiently explain a technical study: the case of generative models of power-grid topologies."
Based on the talk by Alessandra Corso (University of Catania) on the 15th of June, 2023.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube), Blog post, Blog thread (Twitter)
Based on the talk by Onkar Sadekar (Central European University) on the 1st of June, 2023.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube), Blog post, Blog thread (Twitter)
BlogPost #020 (link): "Response Theory, Reaction Coordinates and Critical Phenomena for interacting systems"
Based on the talk by Niccolò Zagli (Nordita) on the 18th of May, 2023.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube), Blog post, Blog thread (Twitter)
Based on the talk by Giacomo Livan (University College London) on the 4th of May, 2023.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube), Blog post, Blog thread (Twitter)
Based on the talk by Antoine Vendeville (University College London) on the 20th of April, 2023.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube), Blog post, Blog thread (Twitter)
BlogPost #017 (link): "Temporal graph motifs and how to find them: or how I inadvertently got into big data engineering"
Based on the talk by Naomi Arnold (Northeastern University of London) on the 6th of April, 2023.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube), Slides, Blog thread (Twitter)
Based on the talk by Lasse Mohr (Technical University of Denmark) on the 23rd of March, 2023.
Other links: Talk recording (YouTube), Blog post, Blog thread (Twitter)
Based on the talk by Alessandro Lonardi (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems) on the 9th of March, 2023.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube), Slides, Blog thread (Twitter)
Based on the talk by Hanlin Sun (Queen Mary University of London) on the 23rd of February, 2023.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube), Slides, Blog thread (Twitter)
Based on the talk by Arash Badie-Modiri (Aalto University) on the 9th of February, 2023.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube), Slides, Blog thread (Twitter)
BlogPost #012 (link): "Weighted simplicial complexes and their representation power of higher-order network data and topology"
Based on the talk by Federica Baccini (University of Pisa) on the 26th of January, 2023.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube), Slides, Blog thread (Twitter)
Based on the talk by Elisa Scanu (Queen Mary University of London) on the 15th of December, 2022.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube), Blog thread (Twitter)
Based on the talk by Mateusz Wilinski (Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos, USA) on the 1st of December, 2022.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube), Blog thread (Twitter)
BlogPost #009 (link): " The roles of supervisor and student in different stages of a PhD in theoretical physics and applied mathematics"
Based on the talk by Tobias Galla (IFISC - Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems) on the 17th of November, 2022.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube), Notes, Blog thread (Twitter)
Based on the talk by Rachith Aiyappa (Indiana University Bloomington ) on the 27th of October, 2022.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube), Slides, Blog thread (Twitter)
BlogPost #007 (link): "Opinion Diversity and the Resilience of Cooperation in Dynamical Networks "
Model and reality
Model and reality
Based on the talk by Adam Miles (Manchester Metropolitan University) on the 30th of June, 2022.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube), Slides, Blog thread (Twitter)
Based on the talk by Mariah A. Knowles (University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States) on the 16th June, 2022.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube), Personal WebPage
BlogPost #005 (link): " Relaxing conditional independence assumptions in networks: the case of communities and reciprocity"
Building your thesis step by step
Building your thesis step by step
Based on the talk by Martina Contisciani (Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems) on the 2nd of June, 2022.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube), Slides, Blog thread (Twitter)
BlogPost #004 (link): " Residuality theory and the difficulty of finding a PhD"
A new idea and its struggle to be financed
A new idea and its struggle to be financed
Based on the talk by Barry O'Reilly (Black Tulip, Sweden) on the 19th of May, 2022.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube), Slides, Related Paper, Blog thread (Twitter)
BlogPost #003 (link): "Dealing with 3Ps: Procrastination, Productivity and PhD"
Distraction and productivity during academic life
Distraction and productivity during academic life
Based on the talk by Violeta Calleja Solanas (IFISC - Institute for Cross-Disciplinary Physics and Complex Systems) on the 5th of May, 2022.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube), Slides, Blog thread (Twitter), Collaborative Resources Spreadsheet.
BlogPost #002 (link): "Perception of Inequality and the authorship problem"
An Interdisciplinary Project struggling to find its Place in two different Disciplines
An Interdisciplinary Project struggling to find its Place in two different Disciplines
Based on the talk by Jan Schulz and Daniel Mayerhoffer (University of Bamberg, Germany) on the 21th April, 2022.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube), Slides, Related paper (Social Networks), arXiv postprint, Blog thread (Twitter), Authorship Determination Scorecard.
BlogPost #001 (link): "Homophily and Isolation during a Pandemic"
The difficulties of doing research on epidemic spreading in Covid time
The difficulties of doing research on epidemic spreading in Covid time
Based on the talk by Abbas K. Rizi (Aalto University, Finland) on the 7th of April, 2022.
Other links: Talk recording (Youtube), Slides, Blog thread (Twitter), Aalto Scientific Computing webpage.