Update: Joe Palca produced a story on this paper for the series "Joe's Big Idea". The story was broadcast today (15/12/14) in NPR's Morning Edition. We live in a world dominated by rankings. Besides soccer teams, movies and restaurants, rankings of Universities and researchers have become commonplace. The Scientific Wealth of Nations has been me... Read more 08 Oct 2014 - 2 minute read
This is a talk I gave at NetSci 2012 in Evanston. Recently, the videos were made available on youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6Q3t4as9VE Read more 26 Sep 2014 - less than 1 minute read
Matt and I are at the Bernoulli Center @ EFLP in Lausanne, Switzerland, for the workshop Non-adaptive selection: explaining macroscopic laws in ecology and evolution Tomorrow, I will also give the “Bernoulli Lecture” for the resident scientists Read more 09 Jul 2014 - less than 1 minute read
After studying the stability of large ecological networks, we wanted to try to describe the transient dynamics following a small perturbation of the equilibrium. We thus studied “reactivity”, which tells us whether perturbations of a stable equilibrium are going to be amplified before decaying. The paper is now out: Si Tang & Stefano Alles... Read more 18 Jun 2014 - less than 1 minute read
I am at the Abdus Salam International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP) in Trieste, Italy. I am teaching about 60 students from all over the world (really from all over, not only from Europe and North America) my class on scientific computing. It is really great to interact with these students, plus, this is the view from my room! (not to me... Read more 18 Jun 2014 - less than 1 minute read