NBIA Colloquium by Roberta Sinatra (IT University of Copenhagen, ISI, and Complex Systems Hub)

We would like to invite you to this week’s (Zoom) Colloquium on Friday, Jan 29 at 3:15 PM 

Speaker: Roberta Sinatra (IT University of Copenhagen, ISI, and Complex Systems Hub) 

Title: Quantifying the dynamics of impact in science and art 

Quantifying the dynamics of impact in science and art

Abstract: The unprecedented availability of large scale datasets about human dynamics has advanced quantitatively our understanding of social collective phenomena.

In this talk we study the collective phenomenon of success and present a series of findings from the analysis of large-scale datasets of careers in science and art. By using concepts of statistical physics, complex systems, network science, and data science, we will tackle these three questions: 

How does impact evolve in a career? How can we untangle luck from ability? What is the role of social networks in achieving high impact? 

Bio: Roberta Sinatra is Associate Professor at IT University of Copenhagen and holds visiting positions at ISI (Italy) and Complexity Science Hub (Austria). Her research is at the forefront of network science, data science and computational social science. Roberta completed her studies in Physics at the University of Catania, Italy, and was first a postdoctoral fellow, then a research faculty at Northeastern University (Boston, USA). Her research has been published in general audience journals such as Nature and Science, and has been featured in The New York Times and The Economist, among other major media outlets. Her research has been awarded the Complex Systems Society Junior prize, the DPG Young Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics, and a Villum Young Investigator grant.

To participate on Friday, click on

https://ucph-ku.zoom.us/j/61333932427

The colloquium will be moderated by Evert van Nieuwenburg and we strongly encourage you to participate actively by asking questions during the talk. Evert will briefly remind you how this can be done just before the colloquium starts.