2024

Invited talk “Humans and Recommender Systems: Towards a Mutual Understanding” by Marta Moscati (Johannes Kepler University Linz), 2024-12-03, 10:30, ETH Zurich, Social Networks Lab, room WEP H 11.

Alvaro Uzaheta Berdugo successfully defended his dissertation Modeling Heterogeneity in the Dynamics of Relational Events: Extensions of the Dynamic Network Actor Models

María Eugenia Gil Pallares, MSc in Statistics, joins as a doctoral student for a project on network statistics, supervised by Prof. Christoph Stadtfeld. Welcome to the SN-LAB!

Annina Stahl successfully defended her dissertation Positioning Texts in the “Great Unread”.

Meher Pindiprolu successfully defended his dissertation Influence Processes on Networks.

Hugo Fabrègues, MSc in Applied Mathematics, joins as a doctoral student for a project on soccer analytics, supervised by Prof. Ulrik Brandes. Welcome to the SN-LAB!

Gordana Marmulla successfully defended her dissertation Social Influence as a Base for Centrality in Directed Networks.

Wei Zhang successfully defended her dissertation Game Dynamics on Networks: Exploring Behaviour Evolution with Multi-type Interactions.

Ulrik Brandes received the 2024 Georg Simmel Award of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA), their lifetime achievement award for major contributions to the study of social networks.

The SN-LAB is present at this year's Sunbelt conference in Edinburgh with eight presentations. Among those is Ulrik Brandes' Simmel Award lecture on Friday 28 June, 4.20 pm CET (watch here!)

Invited talk "Network reconstruction for the masses" by Tiago de Paula Peixoto (Central European University Vienna), 2024-05-16, 13:30, ETH Zurich, Social Networks Lab, room WEP H 11.

Invited talk "The Many Mysterious Lives of Graph Fibrations (and Their Fabulous Applications to Computer Science and Beyond)" by Paolo Boldi (University of Milan), 2024-05-22, 13:30, ETH Zurich, Social Networks Lab, room WEP H 11.