Author: Sune Lehmann
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Public Lecture
I’m giving a public lecture tomorrow, Tuesday May 20th at 8pm. It’ll be at Byens Lys on Christiania. Full details are available here: http://www.scienceandcocktails.org/2014/ComplexNetworks.html
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Dirk Brockmann Visit
Next week, we’re very lucky to have Dirk Brockmann visiting the lab. If you’re anywhere near Copenhagen there’s no excuse not to come and see him. He’s a world class scientist (see below) and in addition to mind-expanding content, his talks often feature subtle humor, as well as legendary slideshows. Date: Thursday, February 27th Time:…
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The paper itself is Big Data
With 29 pages of text and 9 pages of references, the new paper we’ve just put on arXiv is almost big data in its own right (ok, not quite, but it’s still a nice, big chunk of work). The paper outlines all the work we’ve done over the past couple of years to put together…
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PostDoc opportunity
PostDoc opportunity If you’re a PhD student or young PostDoc interested in a “curiosity-driven, bottom-up research project” in my lab, the Ørsted Postdoc positions linked here are a great opportunity. Let me know, and we can consider designing a project together. And don’t forget, the Danish PostDoc salaries are great.
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Some years ago,…
Some years ago (…), I said that our networked future was bracketed by the dystopian nightmares of two old-Etonian novelists, George Orwell and Aldous Huxley. Orwell thought we would be destroyed by the things we fear, while Huxley thought that we would be controlled by the things that delight us. What Snowden has taught us…
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Influential Bots!
A couple of days I wrote (with Piotr Sapieżyński) about our influential Twitterbots [click here to read more]. We know the bots are great at getting followers, but what about other measures of influence? Today, on a whim, I checked the bots’ Klout scores, and was both surprised & impressed. I’m fairly certain that the bots…
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You’re here because of a robot
Note: This post is co-written with Piotr Sapieżyński Is it possible for a small computer science course to exert measurable influence (trending topics) on Twitter, a massive social network with hundreds of millions of users? The surprising answer to that question is “yes”. That’s exactly what we did this year, using simple Python scripts and the…
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Dynamic Network Talks
This Thursday (Nov 21st) from 14-16, we’re delighted to present two exciting talks on dynamic & complex networks. Tanya Berger-Wolf from University of Illinois at Chicago will discuss collective dynamics in the social network of primates, and Joachim Mathiesen from the Niels Bohr Institute will talk about excitable dynamics on Twitter. Location: DTU, Building 306,…
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Public talk at Danish Royal Academy
If you’re in Copenhagen, if you speak Danish, and if you’re not already an expert on networks, I’ve got a public lecture on Complex Networks coming up at the Danish Royal Academy. The abstract is Der er netværk overalt. Dybt inde i vore celler regulerer generne hinanden som del af et komplekst netværk. Tegner man…
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Case Closed
This morning, when I entered my office I was greeted by hundreds of Nexus 4 cases. Yesterday our team of hardworking, thoughtful & highly intelligent grad students were wasting their years of education, doing sweat-shop level work at an undisclosed location in the greater Copenhagen area. Their task: rooting & flashing more than one thousand…
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