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Dr. Fregolent presented a Center seminar entitled "Limited Individual Attention and Virality of Low-Quality Information in Online Social Networks," and hosted by Prof. Boleslaw Szymanski

Mar. 19, 2018: Dr. Fregolent presented a talk on the advent of online social networks as major communication platforms for the exchange of information and opinions is having a significant impact on our lives by facilitating the sharing of ideas. Through networks such as Twitter and Facebook, users are exposed daily to a large number of transmissible pieces of information that compete to attain success. (more)

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Apr 18, 2018
Prof. David Skillicorn Queen’s University of Kingston, Canada, presented a joint NEST and Computer Science Department seminar titled: "Enriching Social Network Analysis for Adversarial Settings" hosted Prof. Boleslaw Szymanski
Apr 05, 2018
Prof. Boleslaw K. Szymanski presented Distinguished Lecture on “Failures, Dynamics, Evolution and Control of the Global Risk Network” at the Institute for System Research at the University of Maryland, College Park, MD.
Apr 04, 2018
Alaa Moussawi presented a poster "Evolution and Control in the Global Risk Network," by Xiang Niu, Alaa Moussawi, Gyorgy Korniss, Jianxi Gao, Boleslaw K. Szymanski at the SMA Conference
Mar 28, 2018
A paper entitled "Peer-to-peer lending and bias in crowd decision-making" co-authored by NEST researchers, Panagiotis Karampourniotis, Boleslaw Szymanski, and Gyorgy Korniss appeared today in PLoS One journal
Mar 28, 2018
Today Alaa Moussawi defended a Physics Ph.D. thesis entitled "Complex Systems: a Stability Analysis," supervised by NEST Professors Gyorgy Korniss and Boleslaw K. Szymanski
Mar 20, 2018
Prof. Sergio Pequito gave Center and CS seminar entitled "A Framework for Structural Input/Output and Control Configuration Selection of Complex Networks," hosted by Prof. Boleslaw Szymanski
Mar 19, 2018
Dr. Fregolent presented a Center seminar entitled "Limited Individual Attention and Virality of Low-Quality Information in Online Social Networks," and hosted by Prof. Boleslaw Szymanski
Mar 15, 2018
Prof. Zoltan Toroczkai from NDU presented today a NEST seminar entitled: "The physics of network inference" hosted by Prof. Gyorgy Korniss
Mar 07, 2018
ARL Yutube video discusses recent paper on Social Sensing by Dong Wang, Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Tarek Abdelzaher, Heng Ji, and Lance Kaplan.
Mar 07, 2018
Alaa Mousawi presented a talk on "CARP Model for Multi-Risk Dynamics" authored by him, Xiang Niu, Noemi Derzsy, Xin Lin, Gyorgy Korniss, Boleslaw K. Szymanski at APS March Meeting 2018 in Los Angeles, CA.