#NERCCS2026 Day 2 keynote speaker Filippo Radicchi (who unfortunately got stranded in a NYC airport due to flight cancellation) delivering an online keynote talk in optimal transportation networks
After ☕ break, Kenric P. Nelson opens the Information, Entropy, and Behavioral Signals session by discussing how couple entropy is related to other entropy measures, proposing the former as a general metric to characterize complex systems.
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Now Ted Bi presents his project on modeling the stock market using network science and information theory.
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Jacqueline Blake closes the first day of #NERCCS2026 by giving us an overview of her work with @hirokisayama.bsky.social, where they apply information theory to analyze human random keystroke dynamics.
Shaunette Ferguson studies how collective movement emerges over time on social platforms
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Remote speaker Sofia Sciangula studies how the network of Italian news articles evolved over time
(BTW the hybrid session is going extremely well!)
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Sriniwas Pandey closes the session by presenting his research on how to develop a simple diagnostic to detect sampling-induced distortion in different network metrics. See you after the coffee break!
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Sriniwas Pandey proposes a unified diagnostic of distortion levels of network sampling methods
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James Hartz continues the conversation at #NERCCS2026 by giving us an introduction to his work, consisting of a clear methodology to transform raw brain data to meaningful structured networks. This of course has broad applications beyond neuroscience!
James Hartz mathematically analyzes the sensitivity of various network diagnostics to measurement uncertainty
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Now @hirokisayama.bsky.social is starting the Network Control, Measurement, and Bias parallel session by discussing his work on adaptive networks, with broad applications from modeling social dynamics to biological robustness.
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Juan Pérez-Mercader kicks off #NERCCS2026 by giving us a general overview on the origin of life, from biochemistry-free computation to quasi-autonomous protocells. Overall, his work shows how physics and biology can be integrated in a fundamental theory of life. 🧬➡️🦠
#NERCCS2026 keynote speaker Juan Perez-Mercader discusses chemical evolution, the origin of life, and experimental synthesis of living systems
Sean, Gourab and Carlos officially kick off #NERCCS2026!!
Moved from Dresden to Rochester
#NERCCS2026 starting soon!!
What can a 70-year-old idea about digital organisms teach us about the future of AI and artificial life? 🧬💡
📄 Read our report: arxiv.org/abs/2603.08463
#ArtificialLife #ComplexSystems #OpenEndedEvolution #ArtificialIntelligence #ALife
@hirokisayama.bsky.social
giving a fantastic talk at the DPG talking about Open-Endedness and Community-Based Approaches to Sustainability Challenges
Got three large bottles of beer at the DPG Dresden 26 reception
German beer quality is so good that I am sure I won't get any hangover, so this should be fine
Delivering an invited talk tomorrow
dresden26.dpg-tagungen.de
The Distributed Maple Leaves -- a special session at ALIFE 2026
Please submit your cutting-edge work!
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Sonntag
Grant submitted
SYR -> EWR -> BER -> DRS
Come join us at the Spring 2026 CoCo Student-Faculty Mixer on March 18th!
💸 Financial barriers often lock researchers from lower-income nations out of conferences.
Our open arms grant supports researchers from low and middle-income countries by providing financial aid to attend #CCS2026 ! 💰🤑
Spread the word! 🔁
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Reminder: Amanda's online CoCo talk tomorrow!
Conferences are pricey, so not everyone can attend.
@css-conference.bsky.social will offer an #OpenArms grant for researchers working on low- & middle-income countries, covering registration, travel, and extras.
I am happy to be part of this community!
Details:
ccs26.cssociety.org#open-arms-gr...
Graz, Austria
Grant rejected
Next CoCo seminar by Amanda Goodrick on March 4th (fully online)
