CONFERENCE PROGRAM 

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​See below.
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​​PROGRAM AT A GLANCE

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Tuesday, April 23
Wednesday, April 24​
Thursday, April 25​
Friday, April 26
08:30 - 09:00
Registration
Registration
Registration
Registration
09:00 - 09:15
 Opening Remarks
Announcements
Announcements
 Announcements
09:15 - 10:00
 Keynote
Vittoria Colizza
Keynote
Iacopo Iacopini 
 Keynote
Robin Dunbar
Keynote
Elisa Bellotti
10:00 - 11:00
Session 1
​Human Behaviour
​and Social Influence
Session 5
Science of Science​​
Session 8
Network Evolution, Growth and 
Robustness
Session 11
Social Networks​
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
 Coffee Break
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30
Session 2  
Lightning Talks
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Session 6 
Lightning Talks
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Panel Discussion
Bridging Divides: Harnessing Network Science, AI, and Data Science for Social Equity
Session 12
Opinion Dynamics and Polarization in Social Networks​ ​
 12:30 - 14:00
 Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
Lunch
14:00 - 14:45
Keynote
Alessio Cardillo
Keynote
Giulia Cencetti
 Keynote
Filippo Radicchi
 Keynote
​Rafael Prieto-Curiel
14:45 - 16:00
Session 3 
Generative Network Models, Community Structure, Multiplex and Temporal Networks​
Session 7
Biological and Economical Networks​​ ​
Session 9
Applications of Network Science​ ​
Session 13
Network Topology and Geometry ​
 16:00 - 16:30
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
Coffee Break
Coffee Break 
 16:30 - 18:00
Session 4
Urban Systems and Mobility​
Poster Session
(Coffee and Cake)
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Session 10
Disease Spread in Populations and Social Networks ​
Session 14
Structures, Dynamics in and of Networks ​
19:30
Drinks Reception
  
Conference Dinner
Closing Remarks and Awards
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DAY 1: Tuesday, April 23
08:30 - 09:00
Registration
09:00 - 09:15
 Opening Remarks
09:15 - 10:00
THE INSTITUTE OF DATA SCIENCE AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE SPEAKER​
Keynote: Vittoria Colizza
Behavioral Aspects in the Individual and Spatial Transmission of Mpox​​
​​ Chair: Aline Villavicencio
10:00 - 11:00
Session 1: Human Behaviour and Social Influence
Chair: Massimiliano Luca
  • Antonio Desiderio, Riccardo Di Clemente, Giulio Cimini and Anna Mancini. Recurring Patterns in Online Social Media Interactions during Highly Engaging Events
  • Fernando Diaz-Diaz, Paolo Bartesaghi and Ernesto Estrada. Local Balance Reveals Major Historical Events in Signed Networks of International Relations
  • Tristan J.B. Cann, Ben Dennes, Travis Coan, Saffron O'Neill and Hywel T.P. Williams. Network Structure Reveals Polarised Responses to Strategic Messages​
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30
Session 2: Lightning Talks
Chair: Mariana Macedo
  • Ruaridh A Clark and Malcolm Macdonald. Path Detection and Tidal Channel Mapping using Nearest Neighbour Graphs
  • David Bowater and Emmanuel Stefanakis. Combining Local and Non-local Random Walk Dynamics via PageRank: Theory, Applications, and Opportunities​
  • Sven Benjamin Kozic, Salvatore Marco Giampaolo and Vinko Zlatic. Rewiring Driven Evolution of Quenched Frustrated Signed Network
  • Nan Chen and Doina Bucur. EleMi: A Robust Method to Infer Soil Ecological Networks with Better Community Structure
  • Ashkaan K. Fahimipour, Fanqi Zeng, Martin Homer, Arne Traulsen, Simon A. Levin and Thilo Gross. Sharp thresholds limit the benefit of defector avoidance in cooperation on networks
  • Andrea Colombo and Geng Liu. Extending Network Tools to Explore Trends in Temporal Granular Trade Networks
 12:30 - 14:00
 Lunch
14:00 - 14:45
JPhys COMPLEXITY JOURNAL SPEAKER
​Keynote: Alessio Cardillo
A New Opportunity for Network Science: Digital Humanities
Chair:  Jesus Gomez Gardenes
14:45 - 16:00
Session 3: Generative Network Models, Community Structure, Multiplex and Temporal Networks​
​Chair: Tristan Cann​
  • Nicola Pedreschi, Renaud Lambiotte and Alexandre Bovet. Flow stability for Community Detection on Directed Networks with Missing Edges
  • Benjamin Dayan, Marc Kaufmann and Ulysse Schaller. Expressivity of Geometric Inhomogeneous Random Graphs-Metric and Non-Metric
  • Michelle Roost, Karel Devriendt, Giulio Zucal and Jürgen Jost. Exploring the Space of Graphs with a Fixed Discrete Curvature
  • Lorenzo Cirigliano, Claudio Castellano, Gareth Baxter and Gàbor Timár. Exactly Solvable Model of Highly Clustered Random Graphs via Triadic Closure
 16:00 - 16:30
Coffee Break
 16:30 - 18:15
Session 4: Urban Systems and Mobility​
Chair: Alessio Cardillo
  • Bibandhan Poudyal, Diogo Pacheco, Marcos Oliveira, Zexun Chen, Hugo Barbosa, Ronaldo Menezes and Gourab Ghoshal. Dynamic Predictability and Spatio-Temporal Contexts in Human Mobility
  • Bastien Legay and Matthieu Latapy. Mapping Low-Resolution Edges to High-Resolution Paths: the Case of Traffic Measurements in Cities
  • Pau Esteve and Massimiliano Zanin. Unveiling the Airspace Structure and Aircraft Mobility in Europe: a Complex Network Perspective
  • Carmen Cabrera-Arnau, Miguel González-Leonardo, Andrea Nasuto, Ruth Neville, Francisco Rowe.The influence of socioeconomic deprivation on the recovery of urban mobility after COVID-19 in Latin America
  • Nandini Iyer, Ronaldo Menezes and Hugo Barbosa. Public Transit Inequality in the Context of the Built Environment
  • Gabriel Cwilich and Sergey V. Buldyrev. Vehicular Traffic Congestion Considered as a Cascade of Failures​
19:30
Drinks Reception
Open to all registered attendees who indicated attendance in the form sent
Please take your conference badge with you
This event is not available to guests. Paid guests are for the conference dinner only

Venue
Positive Lights Project
​184-187 Sidwell St, Exeter EX4 6RD
(we will walk to the venue soon after the conference ends) 
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DAY 2: Wednesday, April 24
08:30 - 09:00
Registration
09:00 - 09:15
General Announcements
09:15 - 10:00
THE COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT @ EXETER SPEAKER​
Keynote: Iacopo Iacopini
Title: The Social Dynamics of Group Interactions​
​​ Chair: Andrew Howes
10:00 - 11:00
Session 5: Science of Science​
Chair: Mariana Macedo
  • Luís G. Pinto, Luís Cavique, Orlando Gomes, and Jorge M.A. Santos. Inhomogenous Marketing Mix Diffusion
  • Mingrong She, Jan Bachmann, Fariba Karimi, and Leto Peel. Gender differences in collaboration and career progression in physics
  • Owen Saunders, Chico Camargo and Massimo Stella. Unraveling the Structure of Knowledge: Consistency in Everyday Networks, Diversity in Scientific
  • Rubén Rodríguez Casañ, María J. Palazzi, Albert Solé-Ribalta, Markus Nordberg, Agustí Canals and Javier Borge-Holthoefer. Emerging collaboration patterns within the ATLAS experiment at CERN
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30
Session 6: Lightning Talks
Chair: Federico Botta
  • Thomas Collins, Diogo Pacheco, Riccardo Di Clemente, and Federico Botta. Unveiling social vibrancy in urban spaces with app usage
  • Sebastiano Bontorin, Riccardo Gallotti, Luca Pappalardo, Simone Centellegher, Manlio De Domenico, Bruno Lepri, and Massimiliano Luca. Mixing Individual and Collective Behaviours in Mobility Models
  • Pedro Duarte, Joana Gonçalves-Sá, Lília Perfeito. The diffusion of information in social media - How complex is it?
  • Niall Rodgers, Peter Tiño and Samuel Johnson. Influence and influenceability: Global Directionality in Directed Complex Networks
  • Diana Riazi and Giacomo Livan. Public and private beliefs under disinformation in Social Networks
  • Hugo Pérez-Martinez, F.J. Bauzá, David Soriano-Paños, Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes, L. M. Floría. Emergence of opinion polarization driven by limited information horizons in weighted contact structures
  • Antoine Vendeville, Anastasios Giovanidis, Effrosyni Papanastasiou and Benjamin Guedj Recommendation of content to mitigate the echo chamber effect
 12:30 - 14:00
 Lunch
14:00 - 14:45
STEERING COMMITTEE-CHOICE SPEAKER​
Keynote: Giulia Cencetti
Title: Temporal network Generation: from Small to Large Scale in Time and Topology
Chair: Giuseppe Mangioni
14:45 - 16:00
Session 7: Biological and Economical Networks​​
​Chair: Antonio Desiderio
  • Vinko Zlatic, Guido Caldarelli, Stefano Battiston, Hrvoje,Hrvoje Stefancic, Irena Barjasic and Luka Klincic. Analysis of initial shocks effect on systemic risk
  • Jose Camacho-Mateu, Aniello Lampo, Matteo Sireci, M.A. Muñoz and JA Cuesta. Species interactions reproduce abundance correlation patterns in microbial communities
  • Thomas Eisermann, Carlo Campajola, Claudio J. Tessone, and Andreia Sofia Teixeira. Deciphering Centralisation: An Analysis of Cliques across Governance Tokens
  • Jeremy B. Goetz, Naruepon Weerawongphrom, Rashid V. Williams-García, John M. Beggs and Gerardo Ortiz. Hierarchy of Mean Field Approximations to Neural Network Dynamics
 16:00 - 16:30
Coffee Break
 16:30 - 18:30
Poster Session
  • Cliff Moser. AI Enabled Mediated Discernment-Resolving variance in AEC Building Information Modeling (BIM)
  • Aditi Dutta, Susan Banducci and Chico Q Camargo. Impact of Heterogenous Terminologies in Study of Sexism across Disciplines
  • Antonio Longa, Massimiliano Luca, Gabriel Lopez Veronesi and Joe Kaul. Constructing a Temporal Multipartite Network from News Articles
  • Gaia Trebucchi, Antonio Longa, Nicolò Alessandro Girardini, Giulia Cencetti, Andrea Passerini, Bruno Lepri. Community Aware Temporal Network Generation
  • Ruaridh A Clark, Malcolm Macdonald, Szu-Ching Lu and Jonathan Delafield-Butt. Characterising Gameplay and Autism Spectrum Disorder Development with Swipe Pattern Networks
  • Matthew Jackson, Stephen Nei, Erik Snowberg and Leeat Yariv. A Hedonic Model of the Evolution of Networks and Homophily
  • Rana Shojaei and Thilo Gross. Counting Molecules
  • Joana G Sa, Lilia Perfeito, Paulo David Dias Almeida and João Pedro dos Santos Franco. Evaluating Political Salience Using Topic Modeling Approaches
  • Melvyn Tyloo. Byzantine Attacks on Networked Phase Oscillators
  • Charalampos Salis and Katia Papakonstantinopoulou. Deep Graph Machine Learning Models for Epidemic Spread Prediction and Prevention
  • Angelika Tsivinskaya. Co-authorship Strategies and Peer Recognition in Sociology
  • Antoine Vendeville, Benjamin Guedj and Shi Zhou. Discord in the Voter Model on Complex Networks
  • Moyi Li, Chuqiao Yan, Aleksandra Urman, Ancsa Hannak and Stefania Ionescu. The Impact of 'Dr.' Titled Users on Reaching Consensus: a Data-driven Simulation
  • Liam Jordan Berrisford, Eraldo Ribeiro and Ronaldo Menezes. Estimating Ambient Air Pollution Using the Structural Properties of Road Networks
  • Juan C. Rocha and Anne-Sophie Crépin. Structural Controllability of Cascading Regime Shifts
  • Ricardo S. Alencar, Horacio Samaniego, Fabiano L. Ribeiro, Ronaldo Menezes and Alexandre Evsukoff. Unraveling Scaling Laws in Human Interaction across Brazil’s Major Urban Centres
  • Angelika Tsivinskaya. Academic Publishing Culture through Higher-Order Motif Analysis
  • Andrew Schendl, Simon Willcock, James Bullock and Ronaldo Menezes. Urban Greenspace Dynamics: Evaluating Usage and Accessibility in UK Cities
  • Jason Smith, Jānis Lazovskis, Daniela Egas-Santander, Michael Reimann, András Ecker, Christoph Pokorny and Ran Levi. Efficiency and Reliability in Biological Neural Network
  • Halla Kim, Dongju Park, Sungpil Wang, Minsang Namgoong, Juyong Park, Tae Jung Park and Jon Woo Jung. Network of Republic of Korea's Legal Cods
  • Andrew Renninger. Finding Spatial Mismatch in Urban Settings with Embeddings and Transformer Models
  • Melanie Oyarzun, Mariana Macedo, Cristian Candia and Cesar Hidalgo. Homophily and Heterogeneity of Students' Preferences Increase Persistence in STEM
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DAY 3: Thursday, April 25
08:30 - 09:00
Registration
09:00 - 09:15
 Opening Remarks
09:15 - 10:00
Keynote: Robin Dunbar
The Dynamics of Optimally Structured Egocentric Networks
​​ Chair: Gourab Ghoshal
10:00 - 11:00
Session 8: Network Evolution, Growth and Robustness
Chair: Istvan Kiss
  • Marco Grassia and Giuseppe Mangioni. Edge Dismantling with Geometric Reinforcement Learning
  • Miguel A. González Casado, Andreia Sofia Teixeira and Angel Sánchez. The Temporal Evolution of Signed Social Networks
  • Melvyn Tyloo. Evolution of Robustness in Growing Random Networks
  • Oriol Artime, Marco Grassia, Manlio De Domenico, James Gleeson, Hernan Makse, Giuseppe Mangioni, Matjaz Perc and Filippo Radicchi. Robustness and Resilience of Complex Networks
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30
Panel Discussion
Bridging Divides: Harnessing Network Science, AI, and Data Science for Social Equity
Panelists: Elisa Belloti, Rafael Prieto-Curiel, Oliver Hauser and Aline Villavicencio
Chair: Taha Yasseri​
 12:30 - 14:00
 Lunch
14:00 - 14:45
APPLIED NETWORK SCIENCE JOURNAL SPEAKER​
Keynote: ​Filippo Radicchi
Title: Modeling Resource Consumption and Transit Efficiency in Transport Systems with Percolation and Multiplex Networks
Chair: Leo Ferres
14:45 - 16:00
Session 10: Applications of Network Science​
Chair: Sofia Teixeira
  • Lilia Perfeito, Sara Mesquita and Joana G Sa. A Method to Infer Diagnoses from Prescription Data
  • Rodrigo Cesar Lira, Mariana Macedo, Hugo Valadares Siqueira, Ronaldo Menezes and Carmelo Bastos-Filho. Social Interactions Matter: Is Grey Wolf Optimizer a Particle Swarm Optimization Variation?
  • Dmitry Zinoviev. Exploring Ingredient Variability in Classic Russian Cuisine Dishes through Complex Network Analysis
  • Filipe Barroso and Gareth Baxter. Practical Inference of Causal Networks using a Topological Threshold
  • Enrico Caprioglio and Luc Berthouze. Competition across Timescales: Emergence of Metastability in Large Networks of Oscillators
 16:00 - 16:30
Coffee Break
 16:30 - 18:00
Session 11: Disease Spread in Populations and Social Networks
Chair: Gareth Baxter
  • Javier Aguilar, Beatriz Arregui García, Raúl Toral, Sandro Meloni and José J. Ramasco. Endemic infectious states below the epidemic threshold and beyond herd immunity
  • Sarah Alahmadi, Rebecca Hoyle, Michael Head and Markus Brede. Combating Anti-Vaccine Social Contagion and its Impact on Infectious Disease Dynamics: A Computational Approach
  • Jesús Berríos, César Marín, Bernardo Gutierrez, Loreto Bravo and Leo Ferres. Evaluating the Effect of Interregional Mobility on the Spread of COVID-19 Cases in Chile
  • Pablo Valgañon, Andres Felipe Useche, Alex Arenas, David Soriano-Panos, and Jesus Gomez-Gardenes. Localization of epidemic control resources based on human mixing in urban areas
  • Takayuki Hiraoka, Abbas K. Rizi, Zahra Ghadiri, Mikko Kivelä and Jari Saramäki. The Strength and Weakness of Disease-Induced Herd Immunity
  • Lavinia Rossi Mori, Robert Eyre, Antonio Desiderio, Filippo Simini and Riccardo Di Clemente. How Spatial Proximity Affects Urban Activities Resilience: the Case of COVID-19
19:30
Conference Dinner
Open to all registered attendees who replied to the attendance form.
Your name should be on the table, please stay on the table assigned to you to avoid issues with allergens food restrictions.
If you paid extra for a guest, your guest will have a name next to you on your table.

Venue
Reed Hall
​University of Exeter, Streatham Dr, Exeter EX4 4QR
(we will walk to the venue soon after the conference ends) 
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DAY 4: Friday, April 26
08:30 - 09:00
Registration
09:00 - 09:15
 Opening Remarks
09:15 - 10:00
Keynote: Elisa Belotti
Multimode and Multilevel Networks in the Study of Science. Some Theoretical Considerations​​
​​ Chair: Federico Botta
10:00 - 11:00
Session 12: Social Networks
Chair: Elisa Bellotti
  • Mohsen Mosleh, Dean Eckles and David G. Rand. Tendencies toward triadic closure: Field-experimental evidence
  • Erica Cai, Olga Simek, Benjamin A. Miller, Danielle Sullivan-Pao, Evan D Young, Christopher L. Smith. From Low Resource Information Extraction to Identifying Influential Nodes in Knowledge Graphs
  • Chico Q Camargo. A Crowdsourced Map of YouTube Recommendations during the Brazilian 2022 Elections
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 - 12:30
Session 13: Opinion Dynamics and Polarization in Social Networks​
Chair: Chico Camargo
  • Duncan Cassells, Lionel Tabourier and Pedro Ramaciotti Morales. Modelling both Pairwise Interactions and Group Effects in Polarization on Interaction Networks
  • Szymon Talaga, Massimo Stella and Andreia Sofia Teixeira. Polarization and Multiscale Structural Balance in Signed Networks
  • Gabriela Juncosa, Saeedeh Mohammadi​, Taha Yasseri and Fil Menczer. Can Crowdsourcing Rescue the Social Marketplace of Ideas?
 12:30 - 14:00
 Lunch
14:00 - 14:45
COMPLENET 2023 BEST SPEAKER
Keynote: Rafael Prieto-Curiel
Title: ​Applying Complexity to Achieve Sustainable Urban Mobility
Chair: Hugo Barbosa
14:45 - 16:00
Session 14: Network Topology and Geometry
​​​Chair: José Mendes
  • Ofer Biham, Haggai bonneau, Ido Tishby, Eytan Katzav and Reimer Kuehn. The Giant Component, Articulation Points and Bredges in Configuration Model Networks
  • Anthony Baptista, Jun Yamamoto, Ruben Sanchez-Garcia and Ginestra Bianconi. Mining Higher-Order Triadic Interactions in Structured Missingness and Gene-Expression data
  • Timothy LaRock and Renaud Lambiotte. Exploring the Non-uniqueness of Hypergraph Adjacency Matrices
  • Hamidreza Lotfalizadeh and Mohammad Hasan. Kinetic-based Force-Directed Graph Embedding
  • Gergely Palla and Samuel G. Balogh. Node Embedding based on the Inherent Modular Structure of Hyperbolic Networks
 16:00 - 16:30
Coffee Break
 16:30 - 18:00
Session 15: Structures, Dynamics in and of Networks
Chair: Giulia Cencetti
  • João Gama Oliveira, Sergey Dorogovtsev and José Fernando Mendes. Statistics of Remote Regions of Networks
  • Didier Le Bail, Giulia Cencetti, Mathieu Génois and Alain Barrat. From Ego to Inter-Ego Motifs in Temporal Networks
  • Duarte Nóbrega and Pedro Manuel Pinto Ribeiro. Computing Motifs in Hypergraphs
  • Keith M Smith and Jason P. Smith. Statistical Complexity of Heterogeneous Geometric Networks
  • Didier Le Bail, Mathieu Génois and Alain Barrat. Flow of Temporal Network Properties under Local Aggregation and Time Shuffling
  • Dougal Shakespeare and Camille Roth. Interpreting Node Embedding Distances Through n-order Proximity Neighbourhoods
18:00 - 18:30
Closing Remarks and Awards