Laurent Hébert-Dufresne
News
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The Effective Structure of Complex Networks
Antoine Allard and I recently published our latest project, Percolation and the Effective Structure of Complex Networks, in Physical Review X. Premiering at NetSci 2019, Jean-Gabriel Young will present some recent work on the same topic: Compression of treelike complex networks using layered configuration models. Altogether, the concept of network layers appears to be an efficient model (or compression) of real sparse networks. We are very excited about some of the possible applications, from temporal inference on phylogenetic data to network comparison. Stay tuned!
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Big news and big projects!
The Vermont Complex Systems announced two large funding news over the last two weeks. First, we are partnering with MassMutual to expend our research on the data science of public health under their generous $5 million gift. Second, NIH has granted us a $12.3 million COBRE award to fund our new Translational Global Infectious Disease Research (TGIR) Center for the multidisciplinary study of infectious diseases. This award will fund my group’s continued effort to better understand the role of contact structure and human behavior on epidemics. You can expect us to open new PhD and Postdoctoral positions soon!
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Vermont Complex Systems Center to host NetSci 2019
There is a storm brewing in Vermont! We have so many incredible projects in the pipeline, including the organization of NetSci 2019! It will be a pleasure to host the world’s leading experts in network science in Burlington. The conference will be organized by Juniper Lovato while Peter Dodds and myself will serve as co-chairs. You can expect the conference to reflect our center: open, kind and fun.
Our other events are also listed on our website at http://vermontcomplexsystems.org/events/, and you can also find the various degrees we offer (undergraduate to PhD) by using the education tab of our website.
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Complex Networks Winter Workshop
I am very excited to announce the inaugural Complex Networks Winter Workshop (CNWW) in beautiful Québec city. The CNWW is a collaboration between the University of Vermont Complex Systems Center, the Sentinel North Program of the Université Laval and the Network Science Institute of the Northeastern University. The program is designed for advanced graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, young faculty and professionals. The lectures will present open problems and recent advances in the field of complex networks. Participants will collaborate in small transdisciplinary research groups involving other participants as well as faculty.
This will be a fun and intense experience! Culturally, intellectually, socially, and maybe even weatherwise!
The call for applications will be open until 6 August 2018. Visit our website and help us spread the word!
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How the forest got its shape
Our paper on forest ecology, and probably my first project without networks, was just published in Ecology Letters. This work was started in 2014 with Andrew Berdahl, Uttam Bhat and Sid Redner at the Santa Fe Institute. We demonstrate the link between forest shape and forest stability to help people infer the resilience of individual forests to fires in surrounding grasslands based on their shape! See the UVM press release for more details!