“Where do great ideas come from?” Starting with this question in mind, Vittorio Loreto takes us on a journey to explore a possible mathematical scheme that explains the birth of the new. Learn more about the “adjacent possible” — the crossroads of what’s actual and what’s possible — and how studying the math that drives …
Vittorio Loreto is Head of the research group Social Dynamics Lab. Learn more about his research projects at Social Dynamics Lab website
The Institute for Scientific Interchange Foundation (ISI) welcomes applications to fill one postdoctoral fellowship. The candidate is expected to work in the broad area of socio-technical and biological systems, where we expect to strengthen the interplay between data science, theoretical modelling and web-based experiments. Applications are welcome from candidates with a PhD in Physics, Computer …
Partecipate alla seconda sessione di esperimenti di Copystree, un gioco-esperimento sull’evoluzione dei testi. Cimentatevi con la copia di un testo al meglio delle vostre possibilità, superando difficoltà legate al poco tempo a disposizione e alla difficoltà e scarsa leggibilità del testo stesso. Giovedì 24 e Venerdì 25 Giugno ore 10-18 Laboratorio di calcolo del Nuovo …
Our PNAS paper Modeling the emergence of universality in color naming patterns by A. Baronchelli, T. Gong, A. Puglisi and V. Loreto, has been featured in Physics Today.
Statistical physics of social dynamics C. Castellano, S. Fortunato, V. Loreto Rev. Mod. Phys. 81, 591-646 (2009)
Modeling the emergence of universality in color naming patterns A. Baronchelli, T. Gong, A. Puglisi and V. Loreto Published (just online, at the moment) in PNAS. *Featured in: spektrumdirect (in German)
