Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
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News and Views by Thilo Gross
The always eloquent Thilo Gross wrote a really simple and interesting piece for Nature Physics titled Complex networks: Don’t call in sick. The article covers our recent Nature Physics paper as well as the role of applied network science in general. Highly recommended.
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New paper out in Nature Physics
My new paper, with Sam Scarpino and Antoine Allard, is now out in Nature Physics. Main result: Institutions replacing sick workers who stay at home might be driving the spread of influenza. The paper has been gathering a lot of attention, and I especially like the the news articles from The Irish Times, Pacific Standard, and Nature Microbiology.
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I'll be at NetSci 2016 this summer in Seoul
I’ll be talking about a new voter model project (with Dynamica alumni and Eric Libby) that has been getting a lot of attention here at SFI. I’ll also present the Onion Decomposition in one of the parallel sessions. Jean-Gabriel Young will talk about our recent work on the stochastic block model, Dan Larremore will unveil our secret project on the detection of dominance and influence hierarchies in networks, and Sam Scarpino will talk about our somewhat controversial influenza model.
Should be fun!
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Old friends, new papers
Back from SFI’s Complex Systems Winter School in India where I lecture on statistical physics and network theory. Two new projects were published while I was away: our Hierarchical Preferential Attachment model (with a figure highlighted by PRE) and our most exhaustive and hardcore network ensemble allowing exact solution of bond percolation to date.
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New projects in the pipeline
I have two new projects on the arXiv, both with only very good friends. The first is a new adaptive network project to describe novel patterns that we found in influenza transmission. The second is a new network analysis algorithm which helps us look at different scales of organization at a glance. We have a lot of cool ideas in the work using this algorithm. Finally, a very interesting ecology project should be online soon. Stay tuned!