News & Media

  • March 4, 2013. Dr. Yamir Moreno joins the Advisory Board of the WHO Collaborative Center initiative “Complexity Sciences for Health Systems” (CS4HS), which is based on the Division of Mathematical Modeling at the University of British Columbia Centre for Disease Control, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  • February 2013. COSNET members Dr. Sandro Meloni and Dr. Yamir Moreno will co-organize a Satellite Meeting at the European Conference on Complex Systems 2013 (ECCS2013), to be held in Barcelona from September 16 to September 20, 2013.
  • January 2013. New paper in  Physical Review Letters ["Diffusion dynamics on multiplex networks", PRL 110, 028701 (2013)] by COSNET members. Check it out in Publications.
  • November 27, 2012. Dr. Carlos Gracia-Lázaro successfully defended his Ph.D Thesis entitled “Dynamics and Collective Phenomena of Social Systems” under the supervision of Prof. Luis M. Floría and Dr. Yamir Moreno. He will continue his work as a postdoc within COSNET.
  • November 19 and 20, 2012. The kick-off meeting of MULTIPLEX took place at IMT in Lucca, Italy. Joaquín Sanz, Dr. Sandro Meloni and  PI Dr. Yamir Moreno attended the meeting.
  • November 16, 2012. Gripenet.es has been launched. This is a platform to monitor the evolution of influenza and is part of the European Consortium Influenzanet. Help us to spread the word!.
  • November 6 and 7, 2012. The kick-off meeting of PLEXMATH took place in Tarragona. Emanuele Cozzo, Dr. Javier Borge, Dr. Jesus Gómez and  PI Dr. Yamir Moreno attended the meeting.
  • October 2012. Dr. Yamir Moreno, elected member of the Executive Committee of the Complex Systems Society.
  • September 2012. Dr. Yamir Moreno, elected as a Council Member of the Complex Systems Society.
  • September 2012. Pablo Piedrahita joined COSNET Lab to perform his PhD studies. He will work under the supervision of Dr. Javier Borge and Dr. Yamir Moreno.
  • September 2012. COSNET Lab will join the Influenzanet platform hosting the Spanish node of the project. More news soon.
  • August 2012. COSNET Lab will take part in two European Projects under the call FET-Proactive: the STREP “PLEXMATH” and the IP “MULTIPLEX” funded by the European Commission. Group Leader Yamir Moreno will be the PI of the Zaragoza node in both projects. More news soon.
  • August 7, 2012. New paper in  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA by BIFI researchers, including C. Gracia-Lazaro and Y. Moreno, from COSNET, together with A. Cuesta and A. Sanchez from UC3M and also BIFI external members. Check it out in Publications.
  • June 2, 2012. Our work reported in “Informe Semanal”, a short-documentary program of the National Public Television. Find the video here.
  • May 16, 2012. Our work about the Spanish 15M Movement featured in the national newspaper El Mundo through an interview to Y. Moreno.
  • May 8, 2012. COSNET research activities featured in El Heraldo de Aragón, de most important newspaper in Aragón.
  • April 20, 2012. New paper in Physical Review Letters by J. Gomez-Gardeñes and Y. Moreno, from COSNET, together with A. Arenas and S. Gomez from URV and also BIFI external members and S. Boccaletti and his colleagues at CTB in Madrid.
  • March 21, 2012. New paper in  Nature Scientific Reports by C. Gracia-Lazaro and Y. Moreno, from COSNET, together with A. Cuesta and A. Sanchez from UC3M and also BIFI external members.
  • March 21, 2012. Dr. Matjaz Perc visited our group for a few days.
  • February 27, 2012. Our recent work on the absence of influential spreaders in rumor dynamics (authored by Javier Borge and Yamir Moreno) has been featured in Physics Today. It will also appear in the April’s printed version.
  • February 1-4, 2012. The Group has participated in the BIFI 2012 International Conference, where Dr. Yamir Moreno has given a plenary talk entitled “Use and Misuse of Networks in Biology”.
  • December 15, 2011. New paper in Nature Scientific Reports by S. González-Bailón, from the Oxford Internet Institute and J. Borge-Holthoefer, A. Rivero and Y. Moreno from COSNET.
  • November 19, 2011. Dr. Yamir Moreno gave a public lecture at “Sinergia”, organized by Arts Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain. 2011. Check out the interview that followed the lecture.
  • November 14-17, 2011. Dr. Yamir Moreno, Keynote Speaker at “Third Course on Network Science”, organized by the Orange Chair at UPM, Madrid, Spain. 2011.
  • October 5-7, 2011. BIFI attended the meeting of the Spanish node of the FuturICT EU Flagship project. Dr. Alfonso Tarancón, the Institute’s director, gave an overview of BIFI’s research activities in relation to FuturICT. Additionally, Dr. Yamir Moreno gave one of the two Keynote public lectures of the meeting. The talk discussed our recent work on social movements and social media. At the end of the meeting, Dr. Moreno, among others, joined the Spanish Steering Committee representing BIFI.
  • September 28, 2011. Dr. Yamir Moreno joined Nature Scientific Reports as an Editorial Board Member.
  • September 23, 2011. BIFI was attending the Researchers in Life Night in Zaragoza. Dr. Yamir Moreno gave a public lecture at Ibercaja Zentrum about BIFI’s study on the structure and dynamics of the 15-M social movement on an online social platform.
  • September 11 to September 23, 2011. PhD candidates Emanuele Cozzo and Joaquín Sanz were among the 45 students that were involved in the Summer School on Statistical Physics of Complex and Small Systems organized by the Group on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics of the Royal Spanish Physical Society and hosted by IFISC in Palma de Mallorca. Moreover, Dr. Yamir Moreno gave a course entitled “Critical Phenomena in Complex Networks” at the School.
  • September 8, 2011. Dr. Javier Borge-Holthoefer and Dr. Yamir Moreno participated in a public colloquium at Caixa Forum Madrid about the recent mobilizations in Spain around the 15-M movement. Dr. Moreno gave a public lecture about BIFI’s study on the structure and dynamics of the 15-M social movement as seen on online social networks and both researchers participated in the round table that followed the lecture. We were also interviewed by FECYT. Check the interview here.
  • June 17, 2011. BIFI completes the first study about the 15-M movement on online social networks and releases a video representing users’ interactions in a known online social platform.

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