CONFERENCE PROGRAM 
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​​PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

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Tuesday, April 25
Wednesday, April 26​
Thursday, April 27​
Friday, April 28
08:30 - 09:00
Registration
Registration
Registration
Registration
09:00 - 09:15
 Opening Remarks
 General Announcements
 General Announcements
 General Announcements
09:15 - 10:00
 Keynote: Alexandre Bovet
Keynote: ​Tina Eliassi-Rad
 Keynote: Yamir Moreno
Keynote: Fariba Karimi
10:00 - 11:00
 Social I
Structure I
Structure IV
 Epidemiology II
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30
Social II
Structure II
Economy
Structure V
 12:30 - 14:00
 Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
14:00 - 14:45
Keynote: Filippo Radicchi
Keynote: Clara Granell
 Keynote: Anxo Sanchez
Closing Remarks & Awards
​(14:00 - 14:30)
14:45 - 16:00
Social III
Structure III
Biology & Brain
 
 16:00 - 16:30
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
 
 16:30 - 18:00
Social IV
Lightning Talks
Epidemiology I
 
18:00 - 20:00
 
 Conference Dinner
 Poster Session & Cocktail
 
 20:00 - 22:00
 
Conference Dinner
 
 
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DAY 1: Tuesday, April 25
08:30 - 09:00
Registration
09:00 - 09:15
 Opening Remarks
09:15 - 10:00
 Keynote: Iacopo Iacopini (CANCELLED DUE TO COVID)
Title: The Role of Higher-Order Interactions in the Dynamics of Social Contagion and Norm Change
​Keynote: Alexandre Bovet
Title: Uncovering the Multiscale Dynamics of Temporal Networks​
​​ Chair: José Mendes
10:00 - 11:00
 Social I, Chair: Alessio Cardillo
  • Alessandra Corso, Lucia Valentina Gambuzza and Mattia Frasca. Mitigating cascading failures in the Italian power grid model via intentional edge disconnection
  • Nandini Iyer, Ronaldo Menezes and Hugo Barbosa. Network Entropy as a Measure of Socioeconomic Segregation in Residential and Employment Landscapes
  • Bas Chatel, Rick Quax and Vitor Vasconcelos. Alone in the crowd: a computational social network model uncovering the clustering mechanisms of loneliness
  • ​Michele Benzi, Isabella Daidone, Chiara Faccio and Laura Zanetti-Polzi. Structural analysis of water networks
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30
Social II, Chair: Gareth Baxter
  • Daniel Rhoads, Albert Solé-Ribalta and Javier Borge-Holthoefer. The inclusive 15-minute city: walkability analysis with sidewalk networks
  • Onkar Sadekar, Andrea Civilini, Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes, Vito Latora and Federico Battiston. Evolutionary game selection creates competitive environments
  • Filipi Silva. Helios-Web: An interactive framework to explore large complex networks on the web
  • Mariana Macedo, Ana Maria Jaramillo and Ronaldo Menezes. Academic Mobility as a Driver of Productivity: A Gender-centric Approach
 12:30 - 14:00
 Lunch
14:00 - 14:45
Keynote: Filippo Radicchi
Title: Influence maximization in Boolean networks
Chair: Giuseppe Mangioni
14:45 - 16:00
Social III, Chair: Mariana Macedo
  • Rafael Prieto-Curiel, Gian Maria Campedelli and Alejandro Hope. Modelling and countering Mexican cartels through complex systems
  • Rubén Rodríguez Casañ, Elisabet Carbó Catalan, Alessio Cardillo, Diana Roig Sanz and Javier Borge-Holthoefer. Characterizing the geographical organization of the International Institute of Intellectual Cooperation via network cartography
  • Samuel Martin-Gutierrez and Fariba Karimi. Impact of multidimensional homophily on intersectional minorities​
  • Vitor V. Vasconcelos, Dhruv Mittal and Flavio L. Pinheiro. The influence of social networks in heterogeneous and variable environments​
 16:00 - 16:30
Coffee Break
 16:30 - 17:30
Social IV, Chair: Rafael Pietro Curiel
  • Sharaj Kunjar, Nico Gradwohl, Ariana Strandburg-Peshkin, Sumantra Sarkar, Mohit Kumar Jolly and Helge Giese. Link updating strategies influence consensus decisions as a function of the direction of communication
  • Sima Farokhnejad, Marcos Oliveira, Eraldo Ribeiro and Ronaldo Menezes. Using Vector Fields in the Modelling of Movements as Flows: A Case Study with Cattle Trade Networks​
  • Samuel Martin-Gutierrez, Juan Carlos Losada and Rosa M. Benito. Polarization Metrics in multipolar social systems​
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DAY 2​: Wednesday, April 26​​
08:30 - 09:00
Registration
09:00 - 09:15
 General Announcements
09:15 - 10:00
Keynote: ​Tina Eliassi-Rad
Title: Trustworthy Network Science​
 Chair: Federico Botta
10:00 - 11:00
Structure I, Chair: Hugo Barbosa
  • Alex Arenas and Per Sebastian Skardal. Dual control of coupled oscillator networks
  • Anna Poggialini, Pablo Villegas, Tommaso Gili and Andrea Gabrielli. Rethinking community detection in the light of the Laplacian Renormalization Group
  • Rui A. da Costa, Gareth Baxter, Sergey Dorogovtsev and Jose Fernando Mendes. Hidden phase transition in multiplex networks​
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30
Structure II, Chair: Alex Arenas
  • Gábor Timár, Sergey Dorogovtsev and José Mendes. Localization of nonbacktracking centrality on dense subgraphs of sparse networks
  • Vincenza Carchiolo, Marco Grassia, Michele Malgeri and Giuseppe Mangioni. Efficient Node PageRank Improvement via Link Building using Geometric Deep Learning​
  • Harrison Hartle, Fragkiskos Papadopoulos and Dmitri Krioukov. Dynamic hidden-variable network models
  • Hriday Chheda, Mahdi Mostajabdaveh and Samin Aref. A Branch-and-Cut Method for Globally Maximizing Modularity and Discovering Network Communities
 12:30 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 14:45
Keynote: Clara Granell
Title: Modeling COVID-19 Transmission: From Toy Models to Real-World Applications
Chair: Filippo Radicchi
14:45 - 16:00
Structure III, Chair: Filippo Radicchi
  • Jeremy Paton, Harrison Hartle, Huck Stepanyants, Pim van der Hoorn and Dmitri Krioukov. Entropy of labeled versus unlabeled networks
  • Lorenzo Cirigliano, Claudio Castellano and Gábor Timár. Extended-range percolation on complex networks
  • Lucas Böttcher and Mason Porter. Complex networks with complex weights
  • Marco Grassia and Giuseppe Mangioni. CoreGDM: Geometric Deep Learning network decycling and dismantling
  • Naoki Masuda and Prosenjit Kundu. Reducing the dimension of dynamical systems on networks using non-leading eigenvectors of adjacency matrices
 16:00 - 16:30
Coffee Break
 16:30 - 18:00
Lightening Talks, Chairs: Sima Farokhnejad, Nandini Iyer, Ana Jaramillo, Guilherme Machado
  • Stephany Rajeh and Hocine Cherifi. A community-aware ranking scheme to identify influential nodes in complex networks
  • Marta Zava. Investing in Minorities: A Complexity Approach to Venture Capital Funding
  • Hamza Çoban and Alkan Kabakçıoğlu. Criticality of gene regulation networks and an exact bound on stability of Boolean systems
  • Elena Candellone, Alberto Aleta, Henrique Ferraz de Arruda and Yamir Moreno. Data-driven characterization of viral events on social networks: sustainability issues in vegetable oils production​
  • Duarte Magano, João Moutinho and Bruno Coutinho. Quantum simulation of complex networks, an open problem
  • Francisco Richter, Ernst Wit and Rampal Etienne. Detecting complex diversity-dependent diversification with a novel phylogenetic inference framework
  • Mattia Mattei and Alex Arenas. Biases in prediction of COVID-19 cases through the analysis of genetic copies concentration in wastewater plants
  • Erica Cau, Virginia Morini and Giulio Rossetti. A framework for the diachronic and linguistic analysis of online polarized discussions
  • Mariane Barros Neiva and Odemir Martinez Bruno. Adjacent Matrix Ordination, an alternative to complex networks visualization
  • Miroslav Mirchev, Lasko Basnarkov and Igor Mishkovski. Comparative study of random walks with one-step memory on complex networks
  • Timo Debono and Fernando P. Santos. The Effect of Link Recommendation Algorithms on Network Centrality Disparities
  • Mounir Attié, Diogo Pacheco and Marcos Oliveira. Getting the Boot? Predicting the Dismissal of Managers in Football
18:00-22:00
Conference Dinner
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DAY 3: Thursday, April 27
08:30 - 09:00
Registration
09:00 - 09:15
 General Announcements
09:15 - 10:00
 Keynote: Yamir Moreno
Title: Insights and Lessons From Data-Driven Modelling of COVID-19
​ Chair: Ronaldo Menezes
10:00 - 11:00
 Structure IV, Chair:  Filipi Nascimento
  • Niall Rodgers, Peter Tino and Samuel Johnson. Strong Connectivity and Influence in Real Directed Networks​
  • Andrea Gabrielli, Guido Caldarelli, Tommaso Gili and Pablo Villegas. Laplacian Renormalization Group for heterogeneous networks: information core and entropic transitions​
  • Silvia Rognone and Vincenzo Nicosia. Characterisation of spatial motifs on a 2D coloured lattice through random walks
  • Saumitra Kulkarni and Snehal Shekatkar. Detrimental role of fluctuations in resource dependency networks
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30
Economy, Chair: Andrea Gabrielli
  • Gabriele Di Bona, Alberto Bracci, Nicola Perra, Vito Latora and Andrea Baronchelli. The decentralized evolution of decentralization across fields: from Governance to Blockchain
  • Marco Grassia, Giuseppe Mangioni, Stefano Schiavo and Silvio Traverso. Insights into countries’ exposure and vulnerability to food trade shocks from network-based simulations
  • Marta Zava. Dynamic Network of Venture Capital: Get a Leader VC to Fund You First
  • Nishanth Kumar, Henrik Jeldtoft Jensen and Eduardo Viegas. Constructing Economic Networks using a measure of Mutual Influence
 12:30 - 14:00
 Lunch
14:00 - 14:45
Keynote: Anxo Sánchez
Title: Complex Networks in High School: Structure and Dynamics
Chair: Sofia Teixeira
14:45 - 16:00
Biology & Brain, Chair: Diogo Pacheco
  • Eleonora Auletta, Marta Gormicho, Mamede de Carvalho, Sara C. Madeira and Andreia Sofia Teixeira. ALS stratification using Patient Similarity Networks
  • Francisca Ayres-Ribeiro, Jonathan Wirsich, Rodolfo Abreu, João Jorge, Andreia Sofia Teixeira, Alexandre P. Francisco and Patrícia Figueiredo. Brain’s dynamic functional organization with simultaneous EEG-fMRI networks
  • Lucas Costa, Carlos Ribeiro and Emmanuel Dias-Neto. A Complex Networks Approach for Decision Support in Neoadjuvant Treatment for Gastric Cancer Patients
  • Mar Cuevas-Blanco, Victor M Eguíluz, Lucas Lacasa, Sandra Hervías-Parejo, Isabel Donoso and Anna Traveset. Networking the species-function in ecosystems
  • Victor Marquez-Rodriguez, Maria Paz Raveau, Patricia Soto-Icaza and Pablo Billeke. Oscillatory response to different networks topology of excitatory and inhibitory neuronal populations​
 16:00 - 16:30
Coffee Break
 16:30 - 18:00
Epidemiology I, Chair: Yamir Moreno
  • Alberto Aleta. Building data-driven contact structures and estimating the immunity thresholds in a population with individual contact pattern variation
  • Ariadna Fosch, Alberto Aleta and Yamir Moreno. Characterising the role of human behaviour in the effectiveness of contact-tracing applications
  • Dominik Schindler, Jonathan Clarke and Mauricio Barahona. Multiscale mobility patterns and the restriction of human movement
  • Claudio Castellano, Marco Mancastroppa, Alessandro Vezzani and Raffaella Burioni. Stochastic sampling effects favor manual over digital contact tracing
  • Federico Malizia, Luca Gallo, Vito Latora, Mattia Frasca and Giovanni Russo. A Pair-based approximation for simplicial contagion models
18:00-20:00
Poster Session and Cocktail:
  1. Filipe Barroso, Gareth Baxter. New Measures for Causal Network Inference
  2. Ana Maria Jaramillo, Felipe Montes, Ronaldo Menezes. Nature vs. Nurture in Science: the Effect of Researchers Segregation on Papers' Citation Histories
  3. Salvatore Vilella, Alfonso Semeraro, Giancarlo Ruffo, Saif Mohammad, Massimo Stella. EmoAtlas: An Emotional Profiling Tool Merging Psychological Lexicons, Artificial Intelligence And Network Science
  4. Ardian Maulana, Hokky Situngkir. Scale-Free Correlation Within Geopolitics of Election Studies
  5. Paul Valcke, Gael Giraud. Deciphering Inflation and Logistic Tensions Through an out of Equilibrium Multisectoral Macroeconomic Model
  6. Rodrigo Siqueira Kazu, Kleber Neves, Suzana Herculano-Houzel, Bruno Mota. Scale Invariance In Neuronal Networks Through Selective Pruning And Neuronal Death
  7. Gorka Buenvaron-Campo, Victor M. Eguiluz. Inferring Networks From Microgenomic Abundance Data
  8. Issa Moussa Diop, Chantal Cherifi, Cherif Diallo, Hocine Cherifi. Targeted Attacks Based on Networks Component Structure
  9. João Paulo Cassucci dos Santos, Odemir Martinez Bruno. Application Of The Similarity Coefficient In Finding Relevant Metabolic Networks
  10. Gergely Mónus. Scaling of Community Structure in Internal Migration Networks
  11. Jisu Kim, Francesca Pratesi, Giulio Rossetti, Alina Sîrbu, Fosca Giannotti. Where Do Migrants And Natives Belong in a Community: a Twitter Case Study And Privacy Risk Analysis
  12. Adam Miles, Matteo Cavaliere. Cooperation Dynamics in Dynamical Networks With HistoryBased Decisions
  13. Thomas Eisermann, Carlo Campajola, Claudio J. Tessone, Andreia Sofia Teixeira. ERC20 Governance Token Ownership Across Decentralised Finance Protocols On Ethereum
  14. Fábio Cruz, Pedro T. Monteiro, Andreia Sofia Teixeira. Community Structure In Transcriptional Regulatory Networks Of Yeast Species
  15. Shosei Anegawa, Iris Ho, Khoa Ly, James Rounthwaite, Theresa Migler. Learned Monkeys: Emergent Properties of Deep Reinforcement Learning Generated Networks
  16.  Dhruv Mittal and Vítor Vasconcelos. Social Norms: Effects of Heterogeneity and Network Topology on Collective Decision-Making
  17. Esra C. S. de Groot, Reshmi G. Pillai & Fernando P. Santos. The Impact of a Crisis Event on Predicting Social Media Virality​
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DAY 4: Friday, April 28
08:30 - 09:00
Registration
09:00 - 09:15
 General Announcements
09:15 - 10:00
 Keynote: Fariba Karimi
Title: Structural Marginalization in Society and Algorithms
​ Chair: Clara Granell
10:00 - 11:00
Epidemiology II, Chair:  Fariba Karimi
  • Giulio Burgio, Sergio Gómez and Alex Arenas. Spreading dynamics under context-dependent behavior
  • Guilherme Machado and Gareth Baxter. Effect of initial infection size on a network susceptible-infected-recovered model
  • Piergiorgio Castioni, Sergio Gómez and Alex Arenas. A model analysis of vaccination strategies for COVID-19 when countering reinfections and waning immunity in the Omicron era
  • Ramona Ottow. Evaluating the Bayesian MRP Network Model for Estimating Heterogeneity in (Age-Stratified) Contact Patterns from Highly Selective Samples​​
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30
Structure V, Chair: Hocine Cherifi​
  • Gareth Baxter, Rui A. da Costa, Sergey Dorogovtsev and Jose Fernando Mendes. Weak percolation on multiplex networks with overlapping layers
  • Sooyeon Yoon, Jose Mendes, Alexander Goltsev and Kevin O'Keeffe. Solvable model of non-identical swarmalators
  • Tiago Peixoto and Alec Kirkley. Implicit models, latent compression, intrinsic biases, and cheap lunches in community detection
  • Yu Gao, Carlo Campajola, Nicolo Vallarano, Andreia Sofia Teixeira and Claudio J. Tessone. Heterogeneity- and homophily-induced vulnerability of a p2p network formation model: the IOTA autopeering protocol​​
 12:30 - 14:00
 Lunch
14:00 - 14:30
Closing Remarks and Awards