Events

The Network Science Institute hosts a variety of talks, workshops, conferences and other events throughout the year.
Special Event

Hybrid

Thu
May 1
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Join or Die: A documentary film about Prof. Robert Putnam's "Bowling Alone" theory

Location
440 Egan Research Center
Network Science Institute
Visiting speaker
Tue
Apr 1
Regulation along the AI Development Pipeline for Fairness, Safety and Related Goals
Speaker
Ben Laufer
Visiting speaker
Wed
Apr 2
Large Language Models: Impact on Online Labor Markets and Economic Modeling
Speaker
Maria Del Rio-Chanona
Complexity Speaker Series
Fri
Apr 4
Community Notes Reduce Engagement With and Diffusion of False Information Online
Speaker
Johan Ugander
Visiting speaker
Mon
Apr 7
Preparing for the Apocalypse: public health data and decision making in the 21st century
Speaker
Caroline Buckee
Dissertation defense
Mon
Apr 7
Dissertation Defense: Focused and Panoramic Perspectives on the Future of Work
Speaker
Samuel Westby
Dissertation defense
Tue
Apr 8
On Panic and Power: Disruption and Dissent in Youth Digital Networks
Speaker
Adina Gitomer
Complexity Speaker Series
Fri
Apr 11
Talk Title: Coming Soon
Speaker
Abigail Jacobs
Visiting speaker
Thu
Apr 17
The Pointillistic City
Speaker
Dan O'Brien
Complexity Speaker Series
Fri
Apr 18
Governance as a complex, networked, democratic, satisfiability problem
Speaker
Juniper Lovato
Dissertation proposal
Wed
Apr 30
From Local Rules to Global Structures: Entanglement, Design, and Reconstruction in Complex Networks
Speaker
Cory Glover
Complexity Speaker Series
Fri
May 2
Talk Title: Coming Soon
Speaker
James Gleeson
Visiting speaker
Thu
May 29
Urban Mobility, City Structure, and Segregation
Speaker
Arianna Salazar-Miranda
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Join or Die: A documentary film about Prof. Robert Putnam's "Bowling Alone" theory
May 1, 2025
May 1
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Special Event

440 Egan Research Center

Boston, MA

Past events

Symposium
2025 Network Science Research Symposium
Mar 13, 2025
Mar 13
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The Network Science Institute Student Council is thrilled to announce the upcoming Network Science Research Symposium on March 13th, hosted at our Institute. This exciting event will feature student research presentations, along with keynote talks from esteemed faculty members.
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Boston

Symposium

177 Huntington Ave. Boston MA 02115

Symposium
Network Science Research Symposium
Mar 13, 2025
Mar 13
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The Network Science Institute Student Council is thrilled to announce the upcoming Network Science Research Symposium on March 13th, hosted at our Institute. This exciting event will feature student research presentations, along with keynote talks from esteemed faculty members.
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Boston

Symposium

Workshop
Paper Unwind featuring Andreia Sofia Teixeira
Mar 10, 2025
Mar 10
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Boston

Workshop

Collabathon
Future Directions in Multilayer Network Science Summit & Collabathon
Mar 3, 2025
Mar 3
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Mar 7, 2025
The third and final Future of Network Science Summit & Collabathon, a week-long event where junior scholars from US and European research institutions and universities worked to document, compare, and advance methods for coarse-graining complex networks
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Boston

Collabathon

Panel
Navigating Peer Review: Insights from Experienced Reviewers
Feb 25, 2025
Feb 25
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This two-part event series will provide a comprehensive exploration of peer review, featuring a panel discussion with experienced reviewers and editors, followed by a hands-on workshop where participants will put their learning into practice.
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Boston

Panel

Collabathon
Rt-Collabathon: An Epidemic Rt estimate Collaborative
Sep 24, 2024
Sep 24
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Sep 26, 2024
Join us in Boston for the Rt-Collabathon, a collaborative marathon from September 24-26, 2024. This event, supported by Insight Net, brings together researchers from diverse fields to advance methodologies and computational tools for estimating the effective reproductive number (Rt) in epidemic modeling.
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Boston

Collabathon

Boston, MA

Conference
2024 Conference on Complex Systems
Aug 30, 2024
Aug 30
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Sep 6, 2024
The CCS is the flagship annual meeting for the complex systems research community, operating within the framework of the Complex Systems Society. This special 20th anniversary conference is jointly organised by Northeastern University London and the University of Exeter.
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London

Conference

London & Exeter

Conference
ACM Collective Intelligence 2024
Jun 27, 2024
Jun 27
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Jun 28, 2024
ACM Collective Intelligence 2024 explores the impact of technology and AI on human intelligence through human-autonomy teaming and augmented intelligence.
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Boston

Conference

Boston, MA

Symposium
1st British NetSci Symposium
May 30, 2024
May 30
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May 31, 2024
The British chapter of the Network Science Society (NetSci) was founded in 2023 with a mission firmly rooted in the unification of UK-based researchers who share interest in the world of networks. The goal is to foster a vibrant, cohesive, and all-encompassing community that thrives on diversity and inclusivity.
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London

Symposium

London, UK

Collabathon
Jul 18, 2022
Jul 18, 2022
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Jul 20, 2022
AccelNet Multinet 2022: Collabathon
Speaker
Portland, ME
Satellite
Jul 15, 2022
Jul 15, 2022
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MultiNet 2022: Future Directions in Multilayer Network Science
Speaker
Workshop
Jun 6, 2022
Jun 6, 2022
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Jun 10, 2022
Workshop on Critical and Collective Effects in Graphs and Networks (CCEGN-5)
Speaker
St. Barnabas's Episcopal Church, Cape Cod, MA
Apr 8, 2022
Apr 8, 2022
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Roundtable on COVID-19 misinformation: the state of the research
Speaker
Webinar
Collabathon
Oct 6, 2021
Oct 6, 2021
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Speed Data-ing
Speaker
Conference
Jul 5, 2021
Jul 5, 2021
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Jul 10, 2021
NetSI@Neworks2021
Speaker
Virtual
Jul 2, 2021
Jul 2, 2021
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Quantifying Success - Quantifying Systemic Gender Inequality in Visual Art
Speaker
Online
Jul 2, 2021
Jul 2, 2021
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Special Panel: Computational social science, a Nature’s special issue
Speaker
Online
Conference
Jul 1, 2021
Jul 1, 2021
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MultiNet: Accelerating Multilayer Network Science
Speaker
Online
Conference
Jun 30, 2021
Jun 30, 2021
–
Jul 1, 2021
WiNS: Women in Network Science
Speaker
Online
Symposium
Jun 28, 2021
Jun 28, 2021
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Networked Justice
Speaker
Online
Oct 15, 2020
Oct 15, 2020
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Panel : “Social Dimensions Of The Pandemic”
Speaker
Oct 13, 2020
Oct 13, 2020
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MultiNet Webinar Series Kickoff: Alessandro Vespignani
Speaker
Conference
Sep 18, 2020
Sep 18, 2020
–
Sep 19, 2020
Diversify NetSci 2020
Speaker
Workshop
May 18, 2020
May 18, 2020
–
May 22, 2020
CCEGN2020: Critical and Collective Effects in Graphs and Networks
Speaker
Cape Cod, MA
Symposium
Mar 20, 2020
Mar 20, 2020
–
Mar 21, 2020
Computation + Journalism Symposium
Speaker
805 Columbus Ave, Boston, MA 02120
Mar 5, 2020
Mar 5, 2020
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Coronovirus (COVID-19) Modeling Updates
Speaker
177 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115
Symposium
Oct 25, 2019
Oct 25, 2019
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Network Science Institute Student Research Symposium
Speaker
177 Huntington Ave

Past talks

Talk recording available
Misinformation Speaker Series
Mar 21, 2025
The power law hypothesis and local weak convergence for PageRank
Speaker
Nelly Litvak

Boston

Boston

Dissertation proposal
Mar 21, 2025
Revisiting Representation Learning in Complex Networks with Applications to Recommender Systems
Speaker
David Liu

Boston

Boston

Complexity Speaker Series
Mar 21, 2025
Tailored Forecasts from Short Time Series Using Meta-Learning and Reservoir Computing
Speaker
Michelle Girvan

Boston

Boston

Visiting speaker
Mar 20, 2025
Urban Mobility, Inequality, and Environmental Justice: Insights from Big Data
Speaker
Ryan Qi Wang

Boston

Boston

Visiting speaker
Mar 19, 2025
Feeding contact data into models of epidemic spread for actionable insights
Speaker
Alain Barrat

London

Boston

Visiting speaker
Mar 18, 2025
Extracting Values from Youth-Targeted TikTok: A Large Language Model Comparison
Speaker
Alina Strovolsky-Shitrit

Boston

Boston

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