Talks
Contributed and Invited Talks
Invited Computational Social Science Seminar at ETH Zurich, invited by Prof. Dirk Helbing, 2023/10
Invited Biology Department Seminar of the University of Fribourg, invited by Prof. Adria LeBoeuf, 2023/09
Swiss Center for Data + Network Sciences Workshop, University of Zurich, 2023/09
DSI Democracy Community Brownbag session, University of Zurich, 2023/05
Keynote Uncovering the multiscale dynamics of temporal networks, The International Conference on Complex Networks (CompleNet2023), 2023/04/25, Aveiro, Portugal. Slides available here
Structure and evolution of the UK far-right Telegram network, The 10th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, 2021/11/30-2021/12/02, Madrid, Spain
Flow stability for dynamic community detection, Conference on Complex Systems 2021, 2021/10/26, online.
Flow stability for dynamic community detection, ComNet@Networks2021, 2021/7/1, online.
Twitter influencers and increased polarization during two U.S. presidential elections, Political Communication Networks@Networks2021, 2021/6/24, online.
Invited Oxford Mathematical Institute Networks Seminar, 2021/5/25, Oxford, UK (online)
Flow stability for dynamic community detection, CompleNet 2021, 2021/4/24-26, online.
Invited North Meets South Oxford Mathematical Institute colloquia, 2021/3/12, Oxford, UK (online)
Invited Investigating misinformation and extremism in online social networks, Oxford-Warwick-Edinburgh Network Science Workshop, 2021/2/15, Warwick, UK (online)
Multi-scale Anomaly Detection on Attributed Networks, The 9th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, 2020/12/1-3, Madrid, Spain (online).
Flow stability for community detection in non-stationary temporal networks, NetSci2020, 2020/9/25, Rome, Italy (online)
Multi-scale Anomaly Detection on Attributed Networks, Machine Learning in Network Science Satellite @ Netsci2020, 2020/9/18, Rome, Italy (online)
Bringing Meaning into the Model: Opinion Dynamics as Associative Diffusion, International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2) Online conference, July 2020, with Anna Keuchenius, Mikołaj Biesaga, Irene Malvestio, Chico Camargo, Lea Hildebrandt and Sabin Roman.
Community detection in non-stationary temporal networks, The 8th International Conference on Complex Networks and their Applications, 2019/12/10-12, Lisbon, Portugal
Invited Investigating the dynamics of complex networks: bitcoin transactions network and temporal community detection, Chair of Statistical Field Theory Seminar, EPFL, 2019/10/7, Lausanne, Switzerland
Invited Diffusion in networks: fake news and anomaly detection, Information and Networks Dynamics Laboratory, EPFL, 2019/10/4, Lausanne, Switzerland
Invited Community detection in non-stationary temporal networks: Application to a wild mice population, University of Zurich, Animal Behavior Research Group, 2019/9/9, Zurich, Switzerland
Invited Diffusion in complex systems: fake news and random walks, EPFL Data Science Lab, 2019/9/6, Lausanne, Switzerland
Invited Diffusion in complex systems: fake news and random walks, Swiss Plasma Center Seminar, 2019/9/2, Lausanne, Switzerland
Dynamics and influence of misinformation and traditional fact-based news in Twitter, International Conference on Computational Social Science (IC2S2), 2019/7/18-20, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Invited Community detection in non-stationary temporal networks, Higher-Order Models in Network Science Satellite @ NetSci2019, 2019/5/27-31, Burlington, Vermont, USA
Spreading and influence of misinformation and traditional fact-based news in Twitter, NetSci2019, 2019/5/27-31, Burlington, Vermont, USA
Invited Uncovering the dynamics and influence of fake and traditional news in Twitter, 3rd workshop on the Understanding and Controlling of Complex Systems, 2019/3/18, KU Leuven, Belgium
Invited Spreading and influence of misinformation and traditional fact-based news in Twitter, SopraSteria Cyber Security Agency, 2019/3/12, Brussels, Belgium
Invited Diffusion in complex systems: random walks, fast ions and fake news, Department of Mathematical Engineering, 2019/3/5, UCLouvain, Belgium
Spreading and influence of misinformation and traditional fact-based news in Twitter, The 7th International Conference on Complex Networks and Their Applications, 2018/11/12, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
Spreading and influence of misinformation and traditional fact-based news in Twitter, Conference on Complex Systems 2018, 2018/9/25, Thessaloniki, Greece.
Spreading and influence of misinformation and traditional fact-based news in Twitter, 9th International Conference on Complex Systems, 2018/7/24, Cambridge MA, USA
Invited Finding Network Influencers and Understanding Opinion Dynamics in Twitter, Network Science CTA Technical Meeting, 2017/5/1, Newark DE, USA
Uncovering the Dynamics of Twitter Opinion Leaders in the US 2016 elections, Conference on Complex Systems, 2016/9/16, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Non-diffusive suprathermal ion transport associated with blobs in TORPEX plasmas, 56th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Plasma Physics, 2014/10/27, New Orleans LA, USA
Invited Experimental and numerical studies of suprathermal ion transport, 40th European Physical Society Conference on Plasma Physics, 2013/7/1, Helsinki, Finland
Investigation of fast in transport in TORPEX, Annual Meeting of the Swiss and Austrian Physical Societies, 2011/6/15, Lausanne, Switzerland
Tutorials
Influence of fake news in Twitter during the 2016 US presidential election, ICTEAM Tutorial Seminar, 2019/3/25, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Random walks in networks and community detections, Winter Workshop on Complex Systems, 2019/2/6, Zakopane, Poland
Uncovering memory patterns in temporal networks with higher-order Markov models, Complexity72h Workshop, 2018/5/9, IMT Lucca, Italy
Twitter Social Network and Sentiment Analysis, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York, 2017/4/27, New York, USA
Non-diffusive transport, fractional diffusion equations, Lévy stable distributions and all that jazz, Swiss Plasma Center PhD Seminar EPFL, 2014/4/2, Lausanne, Switzerland
Science Outreach
Demande d’établissement d’un rapport d’information concernant la nécessaire collaboration entre l’autorité fédérale et les Communautés en matière de lutte contre les infox (fake news), Audition by the Belgian Senate for the preparation of a report about the fight against fake news. Belgian Senate, 2020/11/09, Brussels, Belgium.
Investigating fake news and their influence in social media. AI4Belgium & Data Science Community Meetup, 2019/11/28, Brussels, Belgium.
Diffusion et influence des fake news sur Twitter, Friweek: manipulation de l’information, Chambre de commerce et d’industrie du canton de Fribourg (CCIF), 2019/5/15, Fribourg, Switzerland
Understanding the influence of fake news on Twitter, DataBeers Brussels, 2018/10/3, Brussels, Belgium