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Centrality measures: who is the most important in a network?

June 2, 2023

In this article, we discuss several ways to quantify the importance of nodes in a network. We will discuss how a simple game can help study this special property, and how it can help us in cases like reducing fake news.

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Back to school!May 26, 2023 A wonderful journey immersing in discrete mathematicsMay 12, 2023 IMAGINARY goes to Amsterdam!April 28, 2023 Abel prize 2023 to Luis A. CaffarelliMarch 31, 2023 New breakthrough about Ramsey numbers?March 17, 2023

The Versatility of Reinforcement Learning

What does a working week, vacation, board games, football and faulty machines all have in common? In the not so…

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Wessel Blomerus May 19, 2023

Is it easier to find half a needle than a full needle in a random network?

Common sense tells us that objects of comparable size should be equally hard to find. Yet, when searching inside a…

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Noela Müller May 3, 2023

Distributed consensus: What do money transactions and attacking armies have in common?

In February 2014, a big bank in the Netherlands suffered from an internet banking malfunction which led many costumers to…

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Andres López Martínez April 21, 2023

New Dutch National Center for Science Communication comes to life

Almost one year ago the Minister of Education, Culture, and Science Robbert Dijkgraaf announced that a national center for science…

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Nicos Starreveld April 14, 2023

Masterclass NETWORKS goes to school 2023 - A look back

NETWORKS goes to school 2023

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Nicos Starreveld, Mehmet Akif Yildiz April 7, 2023

Networks behind riots: help reduce riots just by following a "riot".

Since 2016 the world has been witnessing the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar, in 2021 we all saw the Capitol riots…

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Rounak Ray March 24, 2023

AI thinks my dog is a Pig! Want to know why?

The results of supposedly perfect and accurate machine learning models can be deceived by slight perturbations in the data. Let's…

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Bharti March 10, 2023

The importance of LGBTQ+ visibility in mathematics

Beyond the rainbow crossing: on issues, questions, and opportunities for LGBTQ+ researchers.

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Rowel Gündlach February 24, 2023
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