Promoting collaboration across the theoretical sciences
Promoting collaboration across the theoretical sciences
Network properties exist at many different levels: molecular reactions in biological systems, the creation of new ideas through social interactions, the diffusion of information through social media, and the factors that interact to create peace or violence. This session will explore both the similarities and differences in the structure and function of those networks at different levels: from molecules through social media, to peace. This is the final event in a series of three symposia this semester.
Friday 5 April 2019
9:30 AM Coffee & Bagels
10:00 AM Network-based Dynamic Modeling of Biological Systems: Toward Understanding and Control
Reka Albert, Pennsylvania State University
11:30 AM Where do new ideas come from, and what do we do when we get them?
Simon DeDeo, Carnegie Mellon University
1:00 PM Lunch
2:00 PM Tribal Networks and Diffusion of News on Social Media
Soroush Vosoughi, MIT
3:30 PM Coffee
4:00 PM Factors in Sustainable Peace: Dynamical Models and Data Science
Larry Liebovitch, Queens College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
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Sponsored by the Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences, and by the CUNY doctoral programs in Physics and Biology. For more information please visit https://itsatcuny.org
Lev Guzman-Vargas, Instituto Politecnico Nacional, Mexico
Larry Liebovitch, Queens College and The Graduate Center
Dana Weinberg, Queens College and The Graduate Center
Networks have been used to describe interactions at different levels of organization: between molecules in biological systems, between people in social systems, and even between parts of the brain that form an individual’s personality. Do the same rules apply at these different levels of organization? What can we learn from one level that helps us better understand other levels of organization? Professor Liebovitch will lead a panel discussion of these exciting questions with colleagues from different disciplines.
This is part of the City of Science series. See the CUNY Graduate Center Office of Public Programs for more information: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/All-GC-Events/GC-Presents. Register here.
This event is also part of the Network dynamics in society, culture, and politics series at the Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences. Download the full series PDF here.
Additional co-sponsorship provided by the CUNY doctoral programs in Physics and Biology.
This symposium, the second in a series of three this semester, focuses on the evolution of collective intelligence and cooperation in human society. We will examine how behavior spreads in social networks, how network stability can be maintained, and about how cooperation may evolve.
Friday 1 March 2019
9:30am: Coffee & Bagels
10am: How behavior spreads
Damon Centola, University of Pennsylvania
11:30am: Network influencers: Understanding information flow and stability in networks
Hernan Makse, CCNY and The Graduate Center, CUNY
1pm: Lunch
2pm: The evolution of cooperation in social systems
David Melamed, Ohio State University
3:30pm: Coffee
4pm: Crowd wisdom enhanced by costly signaling in a virtual rating system
Ofer Tchernichovski, Hunter College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
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Sponsored by the Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences, and by the CUNY doctoral programs in Physics and Biology. For more information please visit https://itsatcuny.org
Guy Theraulaz, University of Toulouse and CNRS
Sometimes the whole really is more than the sum of its parts. As humans, we organize ourselves into groups that accomplish more than any of us could alone, and so do many other animals. Professor Theraulaz will give us a guided tour of his influential work on these remarkable phenomena, from the construction of nests by ants and wasps, to the schooling of fish and the behavior of human crowds.
This is part of the City of Science series. For more information please visit the CUNY Graduate Center Office of Public Programs: https://www.gc.cuny.edu/All-GC-Events/GC-Presents. Register here.
This event is also part of the Network dynamics in society, culture, and politics series at the Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences. Download the full series PDF here.
Additional co-sponsorship provided by the CUNY doctoral programs in Physics and Biology.
This symposium, the first in a series of three this semester, explores the convergence among data sciences, network dynamics, and social sciences in studying the evolution of cooperation and segregation. We discuss both basic science and practical challenges, including real-world empirical studies, across a wide range of examples.
9:30 AM Coffee and bagels
10:00 AM Data science at The New York Times
Chris Wiggins, Columbia University and The New York Times
11:30 AM Coffee
12:00 PM Fashion dynamics: Cycles, shocks, and politics
Stefano Ghirlanda, Brooklyn College & The Graduate Center; Stockholm University
1:30 PM Lunch
2:30 PM Agency and structure in the genesis of network segregation
Kevin Lewis, University of California at San Diego
4:00 PM Coffee
4:30 PM Cooperation in complex societies: How do inter-ethnic relationships affect pro-social behavior?
Delia Baldassarri, New York University
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Download the event PDF here.
Sponsored by the Initiative for the Theoretical Sciences, and by the CUNY doctoral programs in Physics and Biology.
