Spread the word, applications are now open for CNWW 2020! The Complex Networks Winter Workshop will be in Québec City from December 13-18. https://t.co/JjejSkbOQp

سازمان جهانی بهداشت:
آمار مرگ و میر کرونا ۲ درصد نیست، ۳/۴ درصد است!

3.4% Mortality Rate estimate by the World Health Organization (WHO) as of March 3

“Globally, about 3.4% of reported COVID-19 cases have died. By comparison, seasonal flu generally kills far fewer than 1% of those infected.”

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/coronavirus-death-rate/

Total: 100,291 2,020 3,408 51 40,895 55,988 6,280

https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/

How to Write an Excellent Master's Thesis — slides: http://users.aalto.fi/~jsaramak/HowToWriteMastersThesis.pdf

"Dynamic Processes Spreading in Networks" at the #AMSISS20 summer school.

🦠 lecture notes (Python Jupyter Notebooks) at https://github.com/joelmiller/DynamicProcessesOnNetworks

Topics include #Kuramoto, #PageRank, #SIS, #SIR, #ComplexContagions

💰 We are seeking applicants for a #PhD 3-year scholarship for an interdisciplinary project funded by CNRS

This project seeks to combine the neuroscience and the economic methods to study how humans behave in strategic environments. Economics has developed different models of learning in repeated games. Recent advances in human reinforcement learning suggest systematic distortions in value update. The project will look for ways to intertwine these aspects from a theoretical, computational and experimental perspectives.

Applicants will have a strong quantitative background, a taste for game theory and experimental methods and be open to work with both neuro-scientists and economists. The successful candidate will be based at the Laboratoire de Neurosciences Cognitives et Computationelles (DEC) and the Paris School of Economics (PSE).

If you are interested, please address before March 31th an email (with detailed CV) to:
stefano.palmineteri@ens.fr and jean-marc.tallon@psemail.eu

🧠 1. A very short thread on the power of data graphics and scientific communication.

Roughly a week ago, some very smart person* sat down, drew this graph, and saved lives.

(*It's 2 AM. Without an economist subnoscription, I can't quickly discover whom. Maybe someone can help.) https://t.co/eU71Eu60eS

توی این مقاله راجع به استراتژی پارک کردن ماشین حرف زدن!

"Simple Parking Strategies"

(by P. L. Krapivsky, S. Redner): https://arxiv.org/abs/1904.06612
"We investigate simple strategies that embody the decisions that one faces when trying to park near a popular destination."
"We analyze three parking strategies—meek, prudent, and optimistic"

اگه حوصله ندارین که مقاله رو بخونید، می‌تونید سر کلاسی برین که سید ریدنر در مورد این چیزها حرف می‌زنه:

جلسه ۳ و ۴ این دوره:
A Kinetic View of Statistical Physics
Speaker: Sidney Redner (Santa Fe Institute) Spring College on the Physics of Complex Systems | (smr 3427)

https://www.aparat.com/playlist/307535

🦠 Good Q&A about the #math of #coronavirus, with ⁦Adam J Kucharski⁩

https://t.co/rWEWKXMzqH

With recorded COVID-19 cases (outside china) so eerily matching an exponential, I couldn't resist making a primer on exponential/logistic growth. At least 3 counterintuitive things about this kind of growth seem worth putting into the discussion.

https://t.co/UNqvsybiAL

Exponential growth and epidemics

If you only learn one thing about #COVID19 today make it this: everyone's job is to help FLATTEN THE CURVE.

https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/09-03-2020/the-three-phases-of-covid-19-and-how-we-can-make-it-manageable/

این روزها که در خانه‌ هستیم، اگر قرار باشد سراغ کتابی بروم که هم فال باشد و تماشا، چه کتابی بهتر از «حتما شوخی می‌کنید آقای فاینمن؟!»

http://bit.ly/2IAmjuq

کتاب «حتما شوخی می‌کنید آقای فاینمن!» ماجرای زندگی فاینمن رو از دوران کودکی تا زمانی که جایزه نوبل رو می‌گیره شامل میشه (بقیه‌ی زندگی فاینمن توی کتاب «چه اهمیتی داره که مردم چی فکر میکنند؟» نوشته شده! اونم کتاب خوبیه، ولی به جذابیت این نیست!). «حتما شوخی می‌کنید آقای فاینمن!» جزو اون دسته از کتاب‌هاییه که واقعا جذابه، جوری که شما همه‌ش دوست دارید ببینید بعدش چی میشه! قول میدم خوندن این کتاب حسابی هیجان زده تون کنه!
http://bit.ly/2IAmjuq

📺 https://youtu.be/4grniCh1JPs

Statistical mechanics of magnet balls

http://bit-player.org/2012/statistical-mechanics-of-magnet-balls