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Minisymposium: Caught in your own web

in the Atrium

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It's there, but can you see it? In examining the World Wide Web, 
physicist Albert-László Barabási posed this very question. In so doing, 
he discovered that the Web is less random than he, or anyone else, ever 
expected. In fact, there is a remarkable degree of similarity in the way 
components are connected, be they computers on the Web, neurons in our 
brains, members in a group of friends, or even words in a text. Only now 
are scientists beginning to identify these so-called ‘complex networks.' 
‘Caught in your own web' provides a first glimpse into the new and 
fascinating field of complex networks. Over the course of a single 
afternoon, participants will be exposed to a multilayered perspective on 
complex networks from disciplines spanning from computer science to 
neurology and text analysis to sociology. A brief experiment, at the 
hand of electronic badges, will illustrate how social networks can be 
revealed. By the symposium's end, participants will be better suited to 
explore how they too can disentangle the webs of their own making. 

/Date: March 18/
/Time: 15.00 - 18.00
Location: Atrium 
/For full programma and registration, click here. 
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