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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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May 26, 2018
On May 23, Kshiteesh Hegde defended a Ph.D. thesis on "Applications of Deep Network Signatures to Subgraph Classification, Quantification of Network Structure and Topologically Heterogeneous Node Classification," advised by Prof Malik Magdon-Ismail
May 04, 2018
An article on "Dual-regularized one-class collaborative filtering with implicit feedback," by Y. Yao, H. Tong, G. Yan, F. Xu, X. Zhang, B. K. Szymanski, and J. Lu appeared in World Wide Web journal.
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 "Failure Mitigation, Vulnerability Detection and Persistence of Network Flows in Complex Systems," 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