I’m giving a talk at USC on May 20 for the quantum information and condensed matter physics seminar. It will be about phase transitions in the graph partitioning problem along with wild speculation about the implications for adiabatic quantum computation. I’m also going to the International Conference on Complex Systems this summer, talking about the […]

The last Big Bang Theory episode was about information diffusion in social networks. The science consultant for the show asked my colleague Kristina Lerman to write about the topic for the Big Bang Theory blog. She mentions our recent paper (previous post). Unfortunately, although she gave the science consultant some of our graphs to put […]

I have a new revision available on arxiv of the paper What stops social epidemics? I’ll be presenting the paper at ICWSM 2011 in Barcelona. How likely is it for a virus or piece of information to spread through a network? If, on average, each person spreads the virus to more than one person than […]

A lovely day at the Huntington.

I had posters in two sessions: Machine learning for social computing and Networks across disciplines I got some great feedback and actually managed to understand a few talks. One interesting thing that I saw a few presentations about involved decomposing a matrix as a sum of a low rank and a sparse matrix. This can […]

I almost missed my wordpress domain mapping expiring, I guess that’s what happens when you never blog. What has happened since March? Oh, we bought a house and moved. More friends got their PhDs and moved on. My sister got married. Lots of fun summer stuff in LA. I got rid of my car, got […]

I still haven’t done any updating. But I saw a great talk at the ISI retreat about maintaining your research web page. Bibbase automatically converts bibtex files into awesome dynamical web code.

My digital self needs a real facelift. I’m sort of annoyed that any institution specific research web page vanishes when you leave. Therefore I’m considering either keeping all research related notes on this website or on my nascent academia.edu web page. In the past year, I finished my PhD in physics at Caltech, did a […]

At the De Young museum, you change the art just by observing it!

In menlo park.