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- I am seeking a postdoctoral researcher (PhD completed) to join my group, working on mathematical modelling and/or data analytics for computational social science. The deadline for applications is 12 noon IST on 27th March 2018, see the advert for details. (Apply via the online portal using Recruitment Reference: 026049)
- New preprint: A. Kartun-Giles, D. Krioukov, J.P. Gleeson, Y. Moreno, G. Bianconi, “Sparse power-law network model for reliable statistical sampling”, arXiv:1803.00976.
- Appeared in Nature Communications: Gleeson JP and Durrett R, “Temporal profiles of avalanches on networks”, Nature Communications, 8:1227 (2017) open access; arXiv:1612.06477. The simulation codes and network data used in our paper can be downloaded from here.
- New preprint, with Peter Fennell: Peter G. Fennell and James P. Gleeson, “Multistate dynamical processes on networks: Analysis through degree-based approximation frameworks”, arXiv:1709.09969
- Appeared in Physical Review Letters: Tomokatsu Onaga, James P. Gleeson, Naoki Masuda, “Concurrency-induced transitions in epidemic dynamics on temporal networks”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 119, 108301 (2017); arXiv:1702.05054
- Our work is mentioned in this article in Scientific American: “How Fake News Goes Viral—Here’s the Math”.
- Appeared in Royal Society Open Science: David J.P. O'Sullivan, Guillermo Garduño-Hernández, James P. Gleeson, Mariano Beguerisse-Díaz, “Integrating sentiment and social structure to determine preference alignments: The Irish Marriage Referendum”, R. Soc. Open Sci, 4, 170154 (2017) open access; arXiv:1701.00289
- Appeared in Physical Review Letters: Michele Starnini, James P. Gleeson, Marián Boguñá, “Equivalence between non-Markovian and Markovian dynamics in epidemic spreading processes”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 128301 (2017); arXiv:1701.02805
- New preprint with Mason Porter (this is the pre-publication version of a chapter for the forthcoming Springer Nature book “Spreading Dynamics in Social Systems”, edited by Sune Lehmann and Yong-Yeol Ahn): James P. Gleeson and Mason A. Porter, “Message-passing methods for complex contagions”, arXiv:1703.08046
- I have been appointed to the Editorial Board of Physical Review E for 2017-2019.
- Appeared in PLoS ONE: Hurd TR, Gleeson JP and Melnik S,”A framework for analyzing contagion in assortative banking networks”, PLoS ONE 12(2), e0170579 (2017) open access.
- Our model (with Yamir Moreno’s group) for viral spreading on social networks that disentangles how human memory times, network structure and competition affect meme popularity has appeared in Physical Review X: Gleeson JP, O’Sullivan KP, Baños RA, Moreno Y, “The effects of network structure, competition and memory time on social spreading phenomena” (title changed from “Determinants of meme popularity”), Phys. Rev. X. 6, 021019 (2016) open access; arXiv:1501.05956. Data used for the paper can be downloaded from here.
- Mason Porter and I have co-authored a book that is now published by Springer: Porter MA and Gleeson JP, “Dynamical Systems on Networks: A Tutorial”, Springer, 2016: ISBN 978-3-319-26641-1 and ISBN 978-3-319-26640-4
- Our paper with Alex Arenas’s group on bond percolation on multiplex networks has appeared in Physical Review X: Hackett A, Cellai D, Gómez S, Arenas A, Gleeson JP, “Bond percolation on multiplex networks”, Phys. Rev. X, 6, 021002 (2016) [open access]; arXiv:1509.09132
- Peter Fennell (a former PhD student from our group) has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship (one of only 9 international awards) by the James S McDonnell Foundation, which will fund his postdoctoral work in Kristina Lerman’s group at the University of Southern California.
- Our paper on the competition between Facebook apps is now open access in PNAS: Gleeson JP, Cellai D, Onnela J-P, Porter MA, Reed-Tsochas F, A simple generative model of collective online behaviour, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 111, 10411-10415 (2014); arXiv:1305.7440
- We analyse a simple model of information diffusion on Twitter-like networks to show that competition between memes poises the system at criticality: Gleeson JP, Ward JA, O’Sullivan KP, Lee WT, “Competition-induced criticality in a model of meme popularity”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 048701 (2014) ; arXiv:1305.4328. This paper was selected for a Synopsis article in APS Physics.
