Network science and the human brain

Our group is looking for #PhD students in the area of network science. Our current work spans the development of network approaches for understanding brain functioning, characterizing neurological diseases, and discovering predictive biomarkers.

· Basic Qualifications
We seek students motivated to explore the complexity of biological systems from a network viewpoint. The ideal candidate has a physics, mathematics, computer science or statistics MS. Familiarity with network science and neuroscience/imaging is expected.

· Application Instructions‍
Prospective students should submit an application consisting of i) a current CV with university grades list, ii) a brief statement of research experience and interests, and iii) one letter of recommendation sent by the writer to: fabrizio.de-vico-fallani@inria.fr

Team Website www.sites.google.com/site/devicofallanifabrizio/

Lab Website www.aramislab.fr/
🔗 https://cssociety.org/job-openings/236/attachments/PhD-scholarships.pdf

💰3 junior #postdoc positions on Complex Systems, IFISC, Mallorca, Spain

https://cssociety.org/job-openings/230

🦾 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01166-2

💰 We have a #postdoc opening on investigating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on illicit online trade. Position is to be filled as soon as possible.

https://t.co/gc6FqQSx9j

You will work with: Dr. Andrea Baronchelli, based in the Mathematics Department, Dr. Angela Gallo, from Cass Business School, and Alex Teytelboym, from the Economics Department of Oxford University.

دوره کامل فیزیک حالت جامد دانشگاه آکسفورد:

روی آپارات:
https://www.aparat.com/playlist/381117

سایت اصلی:
https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/oxford-solid-state-basics

💡 What progress has been made in terms of understanding the Ising model in three dimensions?

https://www.quora.com/What-progress-has-been-made-in-terms-of-understanding-the-Ising-model-in-three-dimensions

Bitcoin Transaction Networks: an overview of recent results.
(arXiv:2005.00114v1 [physics.soc-ph]) http://arxiv.org/abs/2005.00114

چهارشنبه ساعت ۵/۵ عصر به وقت تهران.
http://indico.ictp.it/event/9357/overview

Abstract
The data science revolution is finally enabling the development of large-scale data-driven models that provide real- or near-real-time forecasts and risk analysis for infectious disease threats. These models also provide rationales and quantitative analysis to support policy making decisions and intervention plans. At the same time, the non-incremental advance of the field presents a broad range challenges: algorithmic (multiscale constitutive equations, scalability, parallelization), real time integration of novel digital data stream (social networks, participatory platform, human mobility etc.). I will review and discuss recent results and challenges in the area, and focus on ongoing work aimed at responding to the COVID-19 pandemic.

📺 Online CSH Workshop: “Stochastic thermodynamics of complex systems”

May 27, 2020—May 29, 2020

https://www.csh.ac.at/event/csh-workshop-stochastic-thermodynamics-complex-systems/

Modeling the impact of social distancing, testing, contact tracing and household quarantine on second-wave scenarios of the COVID-19 epidemic
https://t.co/W5QPrgmKln

Interested in #InfectiousDiseases #statistics #modeling?

Check out #SISMID Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases @UWBiostat - offered online this year!

https://t.co/dz9EGnfJeF

Would you like to become an #highperformancecomputing expert? Would you like to become a #MachineLearning geek?

Join the @mhpc_sissa_ictp master held in Trieste by Sissa and ictp, two amazing scientific institutions! #Science #innovation #MachineLearning #aiforgood

standard #Applications for MHPC 2020/2021 are now open!
Here you can find the link to submit your application: https://t.co/aVPjQkT4bX

Two #PhD Positions in Experimental Condensed Matter Physics (f/m/d)
https://bit.ly/2ylYfIS

JOB DESCRIPTION
(part-time 75%, E 13 TV-L)
Two doctoral positions are available in the research field of superconducting spintronics and superconducting devices for technological applications. The research projects focus on combining superconductor and ferromagnet materials to fabricate electronic devices with high energy efficiency for large data centers and quantum technology applications. The doctoral positions are funded by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation through a Sofja Kovalevskaja research grant and by the DFG SPP2244 program “2D Materials – Physics of van der Waals [hetero]structures (2DMP)”, respectively. The research has a strong interdisciplinary focus, at the intersection between materials science, condensed matter physics and low-temperature physics. The working language is English.

🧠 https://comdig.unam.mx/2020/05/05/complexity-weekend-virtual-covid-19-hackathon-may-22-24-2020

💰 Applications for the Ph.D. program in Computer Science or Modeling and Data Science at @unito are now open (deadline June 4th).
Feel free to reach out if you need more information. https://t.co/VLAt5ttRlx #phd

💡 https://ai.googleblog.com/2020/05/understanding-shape-of-large-scale-data.html?m=1

The effect of social balance on social fragmentation

Tuan Minh Pham, Imre Kondor, Rudolf Hanel, Stefan Thurner

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With the availability of cell phones, internet, social media etc. the interconnectedness of people within most societies has increased drastically over the past three decades. Across the same timespan, we are observing the phenomenon of increasing levels of fragmentation in society into relatively small and isolated groups that have been termed filter bubbles, or echo chambers. These pose a number of threats to open societies, in particular, a radicalisation in political, social or cultural issues, and a limited access to facts. In this paper we show that these two phenomena might be tightly related. We study a simple stochastic co-evolutionary model of a society of interacting people. People are not only able to update their opinions within their social context, but can also update their social links from collaborative to hostile, and vice versa. The latter is implemented such that social balance is realised. We find that there exists a critical level of interconnectedness, above which society fragments into small sub-communities that are positively linked within and hostile towards other groups. We argue that the existence of a critical communication density is a universal phenomenon in all societies that exhibit social balance. The necessity arises from the underlying mathematical structure of a phase transition phenomenon that is known from the theory of a kind of disordered magnets called spin glasses. We discuss the consequences of this phase transition for social fragmentation in society.

A 2020 Vision of Linear Algebra

These six brief videos, recorded in 2020, contain ideas and suggestions from Professor Strang about the recommended order of topics in teaching and learning linear algebra.

https://ocw.mit.edu/resources/res-18-010-a-2020-vision-of-linear-algebra-spring-2020/index.htm

https://youtu.be/YrHlHbtiSM0

💰 2-year #postdoc in quant. social science for a project on knowledge hierarchies and careers in science:

https://t.co/Fab1olVaix
The postdoc will work at Dept. of Sociology uni copenhagen

🦠 سخنرانی الساندرو وسپینانی با موضوع «همه‌گیرشناسی محاسباتی در زمان کوید-۱۹» بهترین و جامع‌ترین سخنرانی بود که در مورد مدل‌سازی همه‌گیری کرونا در این مدت دیده‌ام. این سخنرانی برای افراد با پیش‌زمینه‌های علمی متفاوت یقینا سودمند خواهد بود. برای دنبال کردن این سخنرانی، نیازی نیست که حتما دانشمند شبکه یا فیزیکدان باشید! اگر در جایگاه مدیریت و سیاست‌گذاری هم باشید، این ویدیو حرف‌های مهمی برای شما دارد!

🎞 ویدیو ضبط شده:
https://youtu.be/chgW1Kg-GsE
https://www.aparat.com/v/XxIpE

💡 همین‌طور این نوشته که در Nature Reviews Physics منتشر شده به عنوان متن به شدت مرتبط با این سخنرانی رو از دست ندین:

Modelling COVID-19
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, mathematical epidemiologists share their views on what models reveal about how the disease has spread, the current state of play and what work still needs to be done.

🔗 https://www.nature.com/articles/s42254-020-0178-4