Physics Approaches for Modeling Human Social Systems

Presentations

• Nonlinear dynamics of belief formation over social networks

  ORAL · Invited

  March 5, 2024, 12:30 PM – March 5, 2024, 1:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Anastasia Bizyaeva

    University of Washington

  Authors

  • Anastasia Bizyaeva

    University of Washington

  • Naomi Leonard

    Princeton University

  • Alessio Franci

    University of Liege

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• Dynamic Risk and Decision Making in Markov Models of Wildfire

  ORAL

  March 5, 2024, 1:06 PM – March 5, 2024, 1:18 PM

  Publication: Hulsey, G., Alderson, D. L., and Carlson, J. (2023). The birth-death-suppression Markov process and wildfires, Phys. Rev. E (submitted).

  Presenters

  • Jean M Carlson

    University of California, Santa Barbara

  Authors

  • Jean M Carlson

    University of California, Santa Barbara

  • George Hulsey

    University of California, Santa Barbara

  • David L Alderson

    Naval Postgraduate School

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• Cognitive biases can move opinion dynamics from consensus to chaos

  ORAL

  March 5, 2024, 1:18 PM – March 5, 2024, 1:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Emily Dong

    Scripps College

  Authors

  • Sarah Marzen

    Scripps, Pitzer & CMC

  • Emily Dong

    Scripps College

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• Dynamics of Innovation: From Particles to Ideas

  ORAL

  March 5, 2024, 1:30 PM – March 5, 2024, 1:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Carlo R daCunha

    Northern Arizona University

  Authors

  • Carlo R daCunha

    Northern Arizona University

  • Guilherme S Giardini

    Northern Arizona University

  • John F Hardy

    Northern Arizona University

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• Is groundbreaking research controversial during peer review?

  ORAL

  March 5, 2024, 1:42 PM – March 5, 2024, 1:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Manolis Antonoyiannakis

    (1) American Physical Society (2) Columbia University

  Authors

  • Manolis Antonoyiannakis

    (1) American Physical Society (2) Columbia University

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• Understanding the scaling of social organizations using Reddit

  ORAL

  March 5, 2024, 1:54 PM – March 5, 2024, 2:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Anna B Stephenson

    Princeton University

  Authors

  • Anna B Stephenson

    Princeton University

  • Guillaume M Falmagne

    Princeton University

  • Simon A Levin

    Princeton University

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• Learning about early warning signals and the structure of collaborations with a large-scale experiment on Reddit

  ORAL

  March 5, 2024, 2:06 PM – March 5, 2024, 2:18 PM

  Publication: Paper in preparation: Learning early warning signals with a large-scale online experiment
  Poster at Collective Intelligence Symposium 2023 at Santa Fe Institute: https://sfi-edu.s3.amazonaws.com/sfi-edu/production/uploads/ckeditor/2023/06/28/sfi_poster-falmagne-stephenson_s5nDFT7.pdf

  Presenters

  • Guillaume M Falmagne

    Princeton University

  Authors

  • Guillaume M Falmagne

    Princeton University

  • Anna B Stephenson

    Princeton University

  • Simon A Levin

    Princeton University

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• Humans efficiently predict in a sequence learning task

  ORAL

  March 5, 2024, 2:18 PM – March 5, 2024, 2:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Amy Yu

    Scripps College

  Authors

  • Sarah Marzen

    Scripps, Pitzer & CMC

  • Vanessa Ferdinand

    University of Melbourne

  • Amy Yu

    Scripps College

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• Physicalization of Social Experiments: Harnessing Large Language Models for Automated Exploration of Emergent Behaviors in Simulated Social Systems

  ORAL

  March 5, 2024, 2:30 PM – March 5, 2024, 2:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Kehang Zhu

    Harvard University

  Authors

  • Kehang Zhu

    Harvard University

  • Benjamin Manning

    MIT

  • John Horton

    MIT

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• The impact of bias on the accuracy of early and late deciders in groups

  ORAL

  March 5, 2024, 2:42 PM – March 5, 2024, 2:54 PM

  Publication: SD Lawley, S Linn, BR Karamched, ZP Kilpatrick, and K Josic, Fast decisions reflect biases, slow decisions do not. In preparation.
  S Linn and SD Lawley, Extreme hitting probabilities for diffusion. Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, 55(34):345002, 2022.

  Presenters

  • Samantha Linn

    University of Utah

  Authors

  • Samantha Linn

    University of Utah

  • Sean D Lawley

    University of Utah

  • Bhargav R Karamched

    Florida State University

  • Zachary Kilpatrick

    University of Colorado, Boulder

  • Kreso Josic

    University of Houston

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• Musical rhythm and meter as an ordered phase of sound

  ORAL

  March 5, 2024, 2:54 PM – March 5, 2024, 3:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Jesse A Berezovsky

    Case Western Reserve University

  Authors

  • Jesse A Berezovsky

    Case Western Reserve University

  • Robert St. Clair

    Case Western Reserve University

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• Extreme outbreak statistics in stochastic populations: large and small fluctuations

  ORAL

  March 5, 2024, 3:06 PM – March 5, 2024, 3:18 PM

  Publication: Outbreak Size Distribution in Stochastic Epidemic Models, J Hindes, M Assaf, IB Schwartz Physical Review Letters (Editor's suggestion) 128 (7), 078301
  Outbreak-size distributions under fluctuating rates J Hindes, L Mier-y-Teran-Romero, IB Schwartz, M Assaf, arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.13439

  Presenters

  • Ira B Schwartz

    United States Naval Research Laboratory

  Authors

  • Ira B Schwartz

    United States Naval Research Laboratory

  • Michael Assaf

    Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  • jason hindes

    US Naval Research Laboratory

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