Statistical Physics of Networks and Complex Social Systems

Presentations

• Self-adaptive gating in associative memory networks

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 17, 2026, 3:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Daiki Goto

    • University of Chicago

  Authors

  • Daiki Goto

    • University of Chicago

  • Hector Manuel Lopez Rios

    • University of Chicago

  • Monika Scholz

    • Max Planck Institute for Neurobiology of Behavior – caesar

  • Suriyanarayanan Vaikuntanathan

    • University of Chicago

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• Gaussian Disorder Effects in Bravais Lattices

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 3:42 PM – March 17, 2026, 3:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Matheus Henrique Gusmão

    • Universidade de Pernambuco

  Authors

  • Matheus Henrique Gusmão

    • Universidade de Pernambuco

  • André L. Vilela

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• Opinion Dynamics on Activity-driven Networks

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 3:54 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Luís Kennedy Ramos da Silva

    • University of Pernambuco

  Authors

  • Luís Kennedy Ramos da Silva

    • University of Pernambuco

  • André L. Vilela

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• Collapse of Coordination in Multiobjective Frontier Dynamics

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Siddharth Patwardhan

    • Northwestern University

  Authors

  • Siddharth Patwardhan

    • Northwestern University

  • Chaoming Song

  • Dashun Wang

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• The Φ Index: Consolidating a Universal Citation Metric

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Publication: M. Antonoyiannakis. Φ index: A standardized scale-independent and field-normalized citation indicator (https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.00997)

  Presenters

  • Manolis Antonoyiannakis

    • American Physical Society

  Authors

  • Manolis Antonoyiannakis

    • American Physical Society

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• Back in Fashion: Modeling the Cyclical Dynamics of Trends

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Publication: Zajdela, E.R., White, J.H., Kohlberg, E., Caticha, A., & Abrams, D.M. Back in fashion: Modeling the cyclical dynamics of trends. (in preparation)

  Presenters

  • Emma Zajdela

    • Princeton University

  Authors

  • Emma Zajdela

    • Princeton University

  • Daniel Abrams

    • Northwestern University

  • Alicia Caticha

  • Jeremy White

  • Emily Kohlberg

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• Symmetry Breaking in Human Motion

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 17, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 17, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Publication: 1. Emergence of social phases in human movement. Physical Review E, 110, 044303 (2024). Editor's Suggestion, Featured in Physics. DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.110.04430
  2. Alignment phase transition in socially driven motion. Under review at Science Advances (2025).
  Preprint DOI: 10.48550/arXiv.2506.01550

  Presenters

  • Debasish Sarker

    • University of Miami

  Authors

  • Debasish Sarker

    • University of Miami

  • Yi Zhang

  • Lynn Perry

  • Daniel Messinger

  • Chaoming Song

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• Global and local preferential attachment in faculty hiring

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 17, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Carlton Smith

    • Yale University

  Authors

  • Carlton Smith

    • Yale University

  • Christopher Lynn

    • Yale University

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• Phase Transitions in Peer Review Systems Arising from Strategic Interactions

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 17, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Yufei Wu

    • Johns Hopkins University

  Authors

  • Yufei Wu

    • Johns Hopkins University

  • Sean Sun

    • Johns Hopkins University

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• Consensus dynamics under biased opinion filtering

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 17, 2026, 5:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Mateus Granha

    • Universidade de Pernambuco - UPE

  Authors

  • Mateus Granha

    • Universidade de Pernambuco - UPE

  • Luiz Felipe Pereira

    • Universidade de Pernambuco

  • André L. Vilela

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• Phase Transitions in Schelling Model Variants: Foundations for Exploring Positional Choice Models.

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 5:30 PM – March 17, 2026, 5:42 PM

  Publication: arXiv:2509.14462

  Presenters

  • Marlyn Mwita

    • University of Waterloo

  Authors

  • Marlyn Mwita

    • University of Waterloo

  • Alan Jamison

    • University of Waterloo

  • Jesse Anttila-Hughes

  • Timothy Sorochkin

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• When Does Population Diversity Matter? A Unified Framework for Binary-Choice Dynamics

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 5:42 PM – March 17, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Publication: Arkadiusz Jędrzejewski and José F. F. Mendes, Physica Review Letters, accepted

  Presenters

  • Jose Fernando Mendes

    • University of Aveiro

  Authors

  • Jose Fernando Mendes

    • University of Aveiro

  • Arkadiusz Jędrzejewski

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• Large-Scale Analysis and Modeling of Mobility Changes under Remote Work in the United States

  Oral-In-person

  March 17, 2026, 5:54 PM – March 17, 2026, 6:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Francois Gu

    • Massachussets Institute of Technology

  Authors

  • Francois Gu

    • Massachussets Institute of Technology

  • Pei Zhao

  • Yuebing Liang

  • Timur Abbiasov

  • Paolo Santi

  • Carlo Ratti

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