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Hubs and communities
In most networks, there are elements that have a huge amount of direct connections to others, and these individuals tend to be rather important. They are called super-spreaders or hubs.
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Netsweeper: playing Minesweeper without the old-fashioned grid•
January 14 2022, by Martijn GösgensIf you were born in the previous century, then chances are high that you have spent quite some hours playing Minesweeper, the classic puzzle game that used to be installed on every computer. In this article, we will present a new network-based version of this game and show how network science can help you play this game.Read article - Article
Not all jet-lags are the same••
July 8 2021, by Janusz MeylahnThe part of the brain that controls the sleeping cycle is made up of two groups of neurons. In order for you to be able to sleep at night, the activity of these neurons needs to be synchronized with the cycle of the sun (e.g. active during the day and inactive at night). When you abruptly change the cycle of the sun (by flying to New York) these two groups need to re-synchronize to the new sun-cycle.Read article - Article
The two community Kuramoto model - Animation•
October 20 2020, by Janusz Meylahn and Martijn GösgensIn the interactive simulation in this article, developed by Martijn Gosgens, you can see how the two-community Kuramoto model works.Read article The two-community Kuramoto model - Mathematical approach•••
October 20 2020, by Janusz MeylahnWe can represent the interactions between the neurons in the body-clock as a network. In our case the network has two communities, where each community has many edges between the nodes, while there are only few edges between the nodes in different communities.Read article- Article
Financial Networks: "A complete overview of interbank exchanges would help prevent a new financial collapse"•••
August 7 2020, by Diego Garlaschelli and Tiziano SquartiniA complete overview of interbank exchanges would help prevent a new financial collapse. However, banks do not provide this information: this is why a “network reconstruction” methodology to infer the unobserved connections is needed.Read article