Last week, PhD student Simon Lizotte won the best poster award at NetSci 2025 for our work on symmetry-driven embedding of networks in hyperbolic space. We uploaded the paper to arXiv.org as the conference ramped up, and you can find it here: arxiv.org/abs/2406.10711

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Announcing a focus Issue on Statistical Inference and Machine Learning for Complex Networks at the Journal of Physics: Complexity. Edited by Alec Kirkley George Cantwell Cate De Bacco and myself. iopscience.iop.org/collections/jp… Submission by May 2025.

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Network compression with configuration models and the minimum description length, Laurent Hébert-Dufresne, Jean-Gabriel Young, Alexander Daniels, Alec Kirkley, and Antoine Allard #Networks @UVMcomplexity Laurent Hébert-Dufresne Jean-Gabriel Young Alec Kirkley Antoine Allard go.aps.org/3MAd6St

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Artificial Intelligence may not be up for the Fields Medal any time soon, but it may act as an intermediary for mathematicians working on proofs. However, something is lacking for AI to get down to it. Terry Tao looks to the positives. Full lecture: youtube.com/watch?v=_sTDSO…

👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Congratulations to Jean-Gabriel Young on his new NSF grant 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 "Altruistic stress, economic networks, and endogenous organizational change" nsf.gov/awardsearch/sh…

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General wisdom is that college gives students skills for good careers but what are those skills? In a new study led by Alireza Javadian Sabet in Scientific Data, we offer skills data based on millions of college course syllabi from US educational institutions. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Terry Tao on math and AI, in The Atlantic. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

Registration for DeepMath is now *open*! deepmath-conference.com

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