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Christian Bick @bickmath.bsky.social · 19h

Lots of higher-order interactions at the joint @beyondtheedge.network and RUNES workshop at AMU in Marseille this week. Thanks to @alainbarrat.bsky.social and @lordgrilo.bsky.social!

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Christian Bick @bickmath.bsky.social · 8d

Happening soon with the fantastic @haharrington.bsky.social. Join us!

BeyondTheEdge @beyondtheedge.network · 11d

Join us Tue, 30 Sept (11:00 CET) as the #BeyondTheEdge Seminar series returns after the summer break!

🎙 Prof. Heather Harrington (Oxford & MPI-CBG)
📖 Topological Data Analysis for Multiscale Biology
📍 Online → beyondtheedge.network/event/semina...

#TDA #ComplexSystems #Networks

BeyondTheEdge Seminar; Heather Harrington

Heather Harrington (Oxford & MPI-CBG Dresden) speaks in the BeyondTheEdge Seminar

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Christian Bick @bickmath.bsky.social · 16d

Ever wondered how many points converge to a heteroclinic network in an aperiodic way? doi.org/10.1080/1468...

How many points converge to a heteroclinic network in an aperiodic way?

Homoclinic and heteroclinic connections can form cycles and networks in phase space, which organize global phenomena in dynamical systems. On the one hand, stability notions for (omni)cycles give i...

doi.org

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BeyondTheEdge @beyondtheedge.network · Sep 8

BeyondTheEdge at the School of Complexity on "Higher-order interactions: mechanisms, behaviors, and networks" by our own @lordgrilo.bsky.social and @gin-bianconi.bsky.social with @aliceschwarze.bsky.social, @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social. Great perspectives! www.beyondtheedge.network/articles/bey...

BeyondTheEdge goes to Sicily

BeyondTheEdge researchers participated in the School of Complexity on

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Christian Bick @bickmath.bsky.social · Aug 28

Fun collaborative project with Istvan Z. Kiss (London) and Peter Simon to understand how higher-order interactions affect the dynamics of contagion processes now out in J Math Bio: doi.org/10.1007/s002...

Decoding how higher-order network interactions shape contagion dynamics - Journal of Mathematical Biology

Complex contagion models that involve contagion along higher-order structures, such as simplicial complexes and hypergraphs, yield new classes of mean-field models. Interestingly, the differential equ...

doi.org

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Christian Bick @bickmath.bsky.social · Aug 28

I am extremely excited that my Istvan Z. Kiss number now is one with multiplicity 2!

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Christian Bick @bickmath.bsky.social · Aug 12

Going #BeyondTheEdge in Aachen! Great fun catching up with @beyondtheedge.network colleagues at the HOOC workshop organized by M Schaub: conf.netsci.rwth-aachen.de

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Christian Bick @bickmath.bsky.social · Jul 14

"Free yourself with constraints" is a good summary of the work.

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Christian Bick @bickmath.bsky.social · Jul 14

Adaptive network dynamics are too high dimensional? Constrain! Or maybe adaptation may be naturally constrained to low-dimensional dynamics? Joint work with
@math-martens.bsky.social
now on the arXiv at arxiv.org/abs/2507.06359.

Multiple Timescale Dynamics of Network Adaptation with Constraints

Adaptive network dynamical systems describe the co-evolution of dynamical quantities on the nodes as well as dynamics of the network connections themselves. For dense networks of many nodes, the resul...

arxiv.org

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Christian Bick @bickmath.bsky.social · Jun 30

Maybe I should use generative AI to plot any vector field in the style of ancient nails...

Christian Bick @bickmath.bsky.social · Jun 28

Ancient vector fields excavated close to Dynamics Days Europe 2025 in Thessaloniki. It was a fun conference (just too short), see you in Lisbon next year!

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Christian Bick @bickmath.bsky.social · Jun 23

If you couple two systems with bistability between oscillations of distinct effective frequencies, you have to make them different for the distinct states to synchronize in frequency. Some theory and experiments now in Science Advances. doi.org/10.1126/scia...

Frequency synchronization induced by frequency detuning

Analyses and experiments on multistable networks show that frequency detuning can promote synchronization.

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Christian Bick @bickmath.bsky.social · Jun 9

Indeed, great to see so many of you! And of course thanks to @andai.bsky.social and @piratepeel.bsky.social for making NetSci 2025 happen.

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BeyondTheEdge @beyondtheedge.network · Jun 6

Can a network be physically be a graph but effectively be a hypergraph? Tiago Pereira is speaking about emergent hypernetworks in the focus session “Network Dynamical Systems” at @netsciconf.bsky.social.

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Christian Bick @bickmath.bsky.social · Jun 4

Come to the Focus Session "Network Dynamical Systems" at @netsciconf.bsky.social Friday afternoon for a free copy of Bear Networks! www.beyondtheedge.network/resources/be... #NetSci2025

Bear Networks

BeyondTheEdge publication: Bear Networks, mathematics of networks introduced by soccer-loving bears

www.beyondtheedge.network

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Christian Bick @bickmath.bsky.social · May 30

Join us July 9-11 at the Amsterdam Center for Dynamics and Computation to celebrate dynamical systems theory and application as well as two 0 mod 10 birthdays! Register now at www.amsterdam-dynamics.nl/zero-mod-ten/

0 mod 10 workshop

We are excited to announce a Workshop on Dynamical Systems at the Amsterdam Center of Dynamics and Computation of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The workshop, organised by Chris Bick and Bob Rink, ...

www.amsterdam-dynamics.nl

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Oxford Mathematics @oxfordmathematics.bsky.social · May 28

You've got friends round for coffee and cake. There are seven of you. Trouble is, you've made a square cake. How do you make sure everyone receives an equal share?

Dominic has his cake and they all eat it.

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Christian Bick @bickmath.bsky.social · Apr 28

About a week left to apply (through May 5) for a fully-funded PhD position on the collective dynamics on networks. Come to Amsterdam to join the Emergence at All Scales consortium led by @emergencediep.bsky.social. Please share!

Christian Bick @bickmath.bsky.social · Apr 1

Come join the Amsterdam Center for Dynamics and Computation! Bob Rink and I are recruiting a PhD student to work on network dynamics as part of the consortium Emergence at All Scales (www.d-iep.org/eaas). Apply by May 5, 2025 through workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...

Vacancy — PhD position in collective dynamics on networks

Do you have an inquisitive mind and a passion for mathematics or physics? Please apply for a PhD position at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

workingat.vu.nl

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BeyondTheEdge @beyondtheedge.network · Apr 23

Bear Networks at the Dutch Mathematical Congress www.beyondtheedge.network/articles/bea...

Bear Networks at the Dutch Mathematical Congress

BeyondTheEdge researcher Raffaella Mulas spoke about outreach at the Dutch Mathematical Congress

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Christian Bick @bickmath.bsky.social · Apr 19

Great fun, say hi!

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Christian Bick @bickmath.bsky.social · Apr 11

With red light sabers?

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BeyondTheEdge @beyondtheedge.network · Apr 9

Fantastic to have our own @lordgrilo.bsky.social for a visit in the NL! Join his seminar if you can.

Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena @emergencediep.bsky.social · Apr 9

🧑‍🔬Tomorrow 11am we have the honour to host Giovanni Petri
@lordgrilo.bsky.social, Professor @nunetsi.bsky.social, for a DIEP seminar on renormalization and higher-order interactions and their impact on collective behavior
🧡Curious? Check out the abstract and register here: ias.uva.nl/content/even...

Renormalization and Higher-Order Interactions: Bridging Structure and Dynamics in Complex Systems - Institute for Advanced Study IAS

In this edition of the DIEP seminar series, Giovanni Petri, a Professor at the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University London, will discuss neuroimaging and AI systems, the application of...

ias.uva.nl

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Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena @emergencediep.bsky.social · Apr 7

👩‍👩‍👧‍👧 Open PhD position in collective dynamics on networks at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social !
⏳ As part of the Emergence at All Scales consortium, positions are gradually opening. Please share and forward to potential candidates!
Deadline to apply: 5/05
More info: www.d-iep.org/openeaasposi...

DIEP | Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena

Open positions in the Emergence at All Scales consortium

www.d-iep.org

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Christian Bick @bickmath.bsky.social · Apr 1

Come join the Amsterdam Center for Dynamics and Computation! Bob Rink and I are recruiting a PhD student to work on network dynamics as part of the consortium Emergence at All Scales (www.d-iep.org/eaas). Apply by May 5, 2025 through workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...

Vacancy — PhD position in collective dynamics on networks

Do you have an inquisitive mind and a passion for mathematics or physics? Please apply for a PhD position at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

workingat.vu.nl

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Christian Bick @bickmath.bsky.social · Apr 1

Maybe we should have a sponsorship package for this?

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