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Prof. Krzysztof Suchecki of Warsaw University of Technology presented today a seminar hosted by Prof. Szymanski on " Detecting the source of spread in complex networks"

Aug. 29, 2019: Prof. Krzysztof Suchecki of Warsaw University of Technology presented today a seminar hosted by Prof. Szymanski titled "Detecting the source of spread in complex networks". The talk presented the results of paper by R. Paluch, X. Lu, K. Suchecki, B.K. Szymański, J.A. (more)

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Today, Prof. Boleslaw K. Szymanski presented a talk titled "Finding Efficient Spreaders for Information Diffusion in Social Networks" at Google in Mountain View, CA.

Apr. 12, 2019: Today, Prof. Boleslaw K. Szymanski presented a talk titled "Finding Efficient Spreaders for Information Diffusion in Social Networks" at Google in Mountain View, CA. The research presented in the talk was inspired by recent global events and their poor predictability that are often attributed to the complexity of the world event dynamics. (more)

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The paper entitled, "Balancing Speed and Coverage by Sequential Seeding in Complex Networks," by J. Jankowski, P. Brodka, P. Kazienko, B. K. Szymanski, R. Michalski and T. Kajdanowicz has been published in Scientific Reports 7:891, April 18, 2017.

Apr. 18, 2017: The paper entitled "Balancing Speed and Coverage by Sequential Seeding in Complex Networks," by J. Jankowski, P. Brodka, P. Kazienko, B. K. Szymanski, R. Michalski and T. Kajdanowicz has been published in Scientific Reports 7:891, April 17, 2017. (more)

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Dr. Piotr Brodka presented a talk on “Current Challenges in the Area of Spreading Processes in Multilayer Networks”

Feb. 27, 2017: On February 23, 2017, Dr. Piotr Brodka while visiting RPI within the RENOIR project (http://renoirproject.eu/) presented a talk on “Current Challenges in the Area of Spreading Processes in Multilayer Networks”. The spreading processes in complex network and multilayer complex networks are among the fastest developing topics in modern network science. (more)

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Sep 17, 2019
A paper titled "An Experimental Approach to Identify Perceived Opinion Formation Thresholds from Social Media," coauthored by Gyorgy Korniss & Boleslaw Szymanski was posted as ARL TR
Sep 14, 2019
Dr. Ashwin Bahulkar presented a demo titled "Modeling and predicting human social behavior" co-authored by Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Kevin Chan and Omar Lizardo at KDD'2019 in Anchorage, AK, on August 3, 2019
Sep 13, 2019
A new paper titled "A Regularized Stochastic Block Model for the robust community detection in complex networks," by X. Lu and B.K. Szymanski was published in Scientific Reports, vol.9:13247 today.
Aug 29, 2019
Prof. Krzysztof Suchecki of Warsaw University of Technology presented today a seminar hosted by Prof. Szymanski on " Detecting the source of spread in complex networks"
Aug 10, 2019
Prof. Boleslaw K. Szymanski presented the keynote talk at the Political Polarization Workshop on "Political Polarization in Legislative Branches" in Princeton University on August 9, 2019
Aug 03, 2019
Prof. Boleslaw K. Szymanski presented the invited paper "A Reaction-Based Approach to Information Cascade Analysis," by James Flamino and himself at the 2019 IEEE ICCCN in Valencia, Spain.
Jul 27, 2019
Dr. Stephen Dipple supervised by Prof. Gyorgy Korniss and Prof. Bolesaw K. Szymanski defended the Ph.D. thesis on "Modeling Complex Human Behavior in Socio-Economic Networks" in Physics.
Jul 25, 2019
Dr. Ashwin Bahulkar supervised by Prof. Bolesaw K. Szymanski defended the Ph.D. thesis "Evolution Dynamics of Attribute-Rich Social Networks" and will join Facebook in August 2019.
Jul 19, 2019
A paper titled "The evolution of polarization in the legislative branch of government," by Xiaoyan Lu, Jianxi Gao, and Boleslaw K. Szymanski was published by J. R. Soc. Interface, vol. 16:20190010, 2019.
Jul 06, 2019
Dr. Xiang Niu supervised by Prof. Bolesaw K. Szymanski defended the Ph.D. thesis "The Dynamics in Opinion and Global Risk Networks: Modeling, Discovering and Control" and will join Google, Inc.