Physical Approaches to Social Modeling

Presentations

• Online Networks and the Diffusion of Protests

  COFFEE_KLATCH · Invited

  March 19, 2013, 8:00 AM – March 19, 2013, 8:36 AM

  Authors

  • Yamir Moreno

    • Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems, University of Zaragoza

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• Role of Committed Minorities in Times of Crisis

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 8:36 AM – March 19, 2013, 8:48 AM

  Authors

  • Malgorzata Turalska

    • Duke University

  • Paolo Grigolini

    • University of North Texas

  • Bruce J. West

    • Duke University

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• Beating the news using social media: the case study of American Idol

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 8:48 AM – March 19, 2013, 9:00 AM

  Authors

  • Fabio Ciulla

    • Northeastern University

  • Delia Mocanu

    • Northeastern University

  • Andrea Baronchelli

    • Northeastern University

  • Bruno Goncalves

    • Northeastern University
    • Aix-Marseille Universit\'e

  • Nicola Perra

    • Northeastern University

  • Alessandro Vespignani

    • Department of Physics, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Bouve' College of Health Sciences Northeastern University
    • Northeastern University

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• Heterogeneity of Human Activity Levels Gives Rise to Power-Law Distribution in Online Social Networks

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 9:00 AM – March 19, 2013, 9:12 AM

  Authors

  • Lev Muchnik

    • The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  • Sen Pei

    • City College of New York, Beihang University

  • Lucas Parra

    • City College of New York

  • Saulo Reis

    • Universidade Federal do Ceara

  • Jos\'e Andrade, Jr

    • Universidade Federal do Ceara

  • Shlomo Havlin

    • Minerva Center and Physics Department, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel
    • Bar-Ilan University

  • Hernan Makse

    • Levich Institute and Physics Department, City College of New York, New York, New York 10031, USA
    • City College of New York

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• Nonlinear Opinion Dynamics on Networks

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 9:12 AM – March 19, 2013, 9:24 AM

  Authors

  • Michael Gabbay

    • University of Washington

  • Arindam Das

    • University of Washington

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• Language Geography from Microblogging Platforms

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 9:24 AM – March 19, 2013, 9:36 AM

  Authors

  • Delia Mocanu

    • Northeastern University

  • Andrea Baronchelli

    • Northeastern University
    • MoBS Lab - Northeastern University

  • Nicola Perra

    • Northeastern University
    • Laboratory for the Modeling of Biological and Socio-Technical Systems,Northeastern University

  • Bruno Goncalves

    • Northeastern University
    • Aix-Marseille Universit\'e

  • Alessandro Vespignani

    • Department of Physics, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Bouve' College of Health Sciences Northeastern University
    • Northeastern University

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• The rise and fall of social communities: Cascades of followers triggered by innovators

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 9:36 AM – March 19, 2013, 9:48 AM

  Authors

  • Yanqing Hu

    • Levich Institute and Physics Department, City College of New York, New York, New York 10031, USA

  • Shlomo Havlin

    • Minerva Center and Physics Department, Bar-Ilan University, Ramat Gan 52900, Israel
    • Bar-Ilan University

  • Hernan Makse

    • Levich Institute and Physics Department, City College of New York, New York, New York 10031, USA
    • City College of New York

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• Extraordinary variability and sharp transitions in a maximally frustrated dynamic network

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 9:48 AM – March 19, 2013, 10:00 AM

  Authors

  • Wenjia Liu

    • Department of Physics, Virginia Tech and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University

  • Beate Schmittmann

    • Department of Physics, Virginia Tech and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University

  • R.K.P. Zia

    • Physics Department, Virginia Tech, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University
    • Virginia Tech and Iowa State University
    • Department of Physics, Virginia Tech and Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa State University

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• Self-organization of plutonomy in competitive societies

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 10:00 AM – March 19, 2013, 10:12 AM

  Authors

  • Takashi Odagaki

    • Tokyo Denki University

  • Yuuni Todate

    • Tokyo Denki University

  • Ryo Fujie

    • Tokyo University

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• Popularity-Driven Networking

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 10:12 AM – March 19, 2013, 10:24 AM

  Authors

  • Eli Ben-Naim

    • Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • Paul Krapivsky

    • Boston University

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• Threshold model with multiple initiators

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 10:24 AM – March 19, 2013, 10:36 AM

  Authors

  • P. Singh

    • RPI

  • S. Sreenivasan

    • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    • RPI

  • B. Szymanski

    • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    • RPI

  • G. Korniss

    • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
    • RPI

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• Spreading of infectious diseases considering age contact patterns for Latin America

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 10:36 AM – March 19, 2013, 10:48 AM

  Authors

  • Ana Pastore y Piontti

    • Department of Physics, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Bouve' College of Health Sciences Northeastern University

  • Marcelo F.C. Gomes

    • Department of Physics, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Bouve' College of Health Sciences Northeastern University
    • Department of Physics, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Bouve' College of Health Sciences, Northeastern University

  • Luca Rossi

    • Department of Physics, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Bouve' College of Health Sciences Northeastern University

  • Alessandro Vespignani

    • Department of Physics, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Bouve' College of Health Sciences Northeastern University
    • Northeastern University

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• S-curves and the Mechanism of Propagation in Language Change

  ORAL

  March 19, 2013, 10:48 AM – March 19, 2013, 11:00 AM

  Authors

  • Richard Blythe

    • University of Edinburgh

  • W. Croft

    • University of Edinburgh

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