sunelehmann.com — intermittent updates

New PhD student in my lab [Piotr Sapieżyński](http://dk.linkedin.com/pub/piotr-sapie%C5%BCy%C5%84ski/23/1a9/253) has been working on creating a new logo/header for SensibleDTU and I think what we've ended up with is pretty awesome!

Phew.

The 9th and final reason is an obvious one (but after all, probably still the best reason for attending the conference).

We're nearing the end of the list of reasons to go to NetSci ([and the call for abstracts ends this friday, so go and submit something!]

When I started the "Nine reasons" series of posts, I had planned a single Letterman top-ten style "silly" reason.

In today's list of reasons that you should head over to the NetSci website [and submit an abstract right away](http://netsci2013.net/wordpress/call-for-papers/ "CFP") (**the deadline is this friday people!

Now that the weekend is over, it's back to the reasons I think you should head straight over to the NetSci 2013 website and [submit an abstract](http://netsci2013.net/wordpress/call-for-papers/ "CFP").

With only *one week left for submissions*, the list of reasons to visit NetSci continues.

Wow.

Following up [on past promises](http://sunelehmann.com/2013/03/05/netsci-2013-nine-reasons-to-go-reason-1/ "NetSci 2013: Nine reasons to go (Reason 1)"), here's reason two that I think NetSci 2013 is going to excellent. ## Reason 2: The NetSci School This…

Ok, so this June we're having the [NetSci conference](http://netsci2013.net/wordpress/ "NetSci2014") right here in Copenhagen.

Earlier this year, I was lucky enough to be awarded a Villum Foundation Young Investigator grant.

Slowly but surely [NetSci 2013](http://netsci2013.net/) is coming to life!

Another great guest is visiting my group this week: [Conrad Lee](http://sociograph.blogspot.dk).

This week, we have another exciting guest, Bruno Gonçalves (twitter: @bgoncalves) will be visiting the lab Monday 24th of September, and Tuesday the 25th.

This week, we'll have two exciting visitors.

So catching up on recent developments, a big item from last month is that I made the cover of the local university paper [DTU avisen](http://www.dtu.dk/Nyheder/DTU_Avisen.aspx) - with nice photos and everything. [!

Just a quick post to note that I'm in Boston and will be around for much of the summer (the rest of July and the first part of August).

Just back from a great [NetSci conference](http://netsci2012.net/) at Northwestern University.

This week, my [collaborator](http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7307/full/nature09182.html)/friend from [Barabasilab](http://www.barabasilab.com/)/[award winning physicist](http://www.akpa.org/oyra-award.html), [Yong-Yeol Ahn](http://www.yongyeol.…

This week I'm visiting the [Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems](http://www.mpipks-dresden.mpg.de/ "mpi pks") in Dresden, participating in the workshop *[Mathematical Physics of Complex Networks: From Graph Theory to Biological Physics…

This week I'm heading out to [CompleNet 2012](http://2012.complenet.org/) in [Melbourne Florida](http://maps.google.com/maps?

[Renaud Lambiotte](http://www.lambiotte.be/) is visiting for a few days.

Three pieces of excellent news since I last posted here: On December 13th, I received The Jorck Foundation's research prize, which is awarded to three young researchers annually (as is evident from the photo, "young-ish researchers" might be more appropri…

The program for our workshop on December 15th is finally available for your reading pleasure.

According to the best of my calculations, the growth of Gmail storage is linear in time.

A while ago I [wrote about beauty in Nature](http://sunelehmann.com/2011/03/20/whitman/) (seen from the perspective of a physicist), and posted a video with Richard Feynman's insightful reflections on the topic.

If you like sharing everything and if you think that pressing a 'like'-button is too much work, you're going to love Facebook's new frictionless sharing.

A few days ago, I wrote (with Alan Mislove) about our TweetQuake visualization (read the relevant post [here](http://www.iq.harvard.edu/blog/netgov/2011/08/tweetquake.html)).

*This is a joint post with [Alan Mislove](http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/amislove/), based on our work with [Yong-Yeol Ahn](http://yongyeol.com/) and Chloe Kliman-Silver.* On on August 23, 2011, at 1:51 PM EDT a magnitude 5.8 earthquake hit the Piedmont regi…

A while ago, I [wrote](http://sunelehmann.com/2010/11/03/visualizing-link-communities/) about Rob Spencer over at [Scaled Innovation](http://scaledinnovation.com/)'s implementation of the algorithm for detecting link communities.

I'm excited to leave Boston for a bit to participate in [ARS'11](http://www.ars2011.unisa.it/uploads/2825/homears1305.gif "Ars Website"): The Third International Workshop on Social Network Analysis, Collaboration Networks and Knowledge diffusion: Theory,…

I'm delighted to report that I'm back in Boston for the summer.

I recently came across the following Whitman poem: ### When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer > When I heard the learn’d astronomer,\ > When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me,\ > When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divid…

It's time to get out your pencils and mark your 2013 calendars: *NetSci 2013 will take place June 3rd - 7th at the new [The Royal Library](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Danish_Library) (the [Black Diamond)](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Diamond_…

Just a quick advertisement for an exciting European conference co-organized by my fellow NetSci 2013 organizer [Petter Holme](http://www.tp.umu.se/~holme/).

Although I'm trying to cut down on my podcasts use -- to see if a bit of mind-wandering might be good for my brain [1] -- I still allow myself to listen to podcasts to alleviate the pain of some of the dreariest of chores (e.g. cleaning the bathroom).

The artificial intelligence engine at WordPress (who hosts this page) sent me an email with some stats on how the site has been doing since I set it up back in June.

When [YY Ahn](http://yongyeol.com/), [Jim Bagrow](http://bagrow.com/), and I published our [paper on communities of links in complex networks](http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7307/abs/nature09182.html), we did share the [code](http://barabasila…

The midterm elections are coming up, so we decided to create our own little twitter mood election center.

Maybe this is how it happens: You see an interesting (seemingly innocuous) paper and decide to read it.

I guess my research is slowly changing focus and is more and more about some kind of [data science](http://radar.oreilly.com/2010/06/what-is-data-science.html) (although I still bill myself as a physicist turned network scientist).

Back in March, I wrote a post entitled [Worlds Colliding](http://www.iq.harvard.edu/blog/netgov/2010/03/worlds_colliding.html) explaining the failure of [Google Buzz](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Buzz) as a failure to understand the fundamental str…

Twitter is a gigantic repository for our collective state of mind.

The scientific version of the [Bacon number](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacon_number) is the [Erdös number](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erd%C5%91s_number).

Just recently, I came across the following video showing [LinkedIn](http://www.linkedin.com/) chief scientist [DJ Patil](http://www.linkedin.com/in/dpatil) explaining the egocentric networks (networks consisting of an individual and their immediate friend…

A couple of days ago, [David Lazer](http://www.hks.harvard.edu/davidlazer/html/) asked me to help him generate an animation of the spread of MFN (trade) treaties in the 1860s.

I wanted to start a real page, to upgrade from my somewhat one-dimensional page over on .

Note: This post was originally posted on the [Complexity and Social Networks Blog](http://www.iq.harvard.edu/blog/netgov/2010/04/).

During a [press conference at last week's SxSW conference](http://lifehacker.com/5493475/what-the-gmail-team-is-working-on), product manager of Google's gmail team, Todd Jackson, revealed an interesting bit of information about the company's [problem-ridd…