Department of Computer Science

Complex Systems

Network science, stochastic processes and nonlinear dynamics.
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The Complex Systems research area studies diverse systems from social networks to the human brain and from cities to the human immune system, applying the tools of network science, stochastic processes, and nonlinear dynamics.

Brain & Mind Computational Seminar

Artificial intelligence, neuroscience, human behavior, and digital humanities.

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Bots were not very active on Twitter during the Finnish municipal elections 

The number of Twitter bots and their influence on the Finnish municipal elections remained low. The final report of ELEBOT project provided new information especially on technical limitations in identifying bots.

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Professor Jari Saramäki was granted funding from The Strategic Research Council (SRC)

Academy of Finland’s SRC provides funding for long-term research aimed at identifying solutions to major societal challenges.

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Maarit Korpi-Lagg turned her childhood hobbies into a living

As a child, Maarit Korpi-Lagg was interested in the stars and coding, and now she researches the activity of the sun, which could not be done without computer science

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International group of researchers: Mobile phone data should be utilized more to curb the corona pandemic

These types of data could help to curb the spread of the pandemic and to evaluate the effectiveness of restrictions

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'Mathematics is a bridge between different disciplines'

Psychology, medicine and philosophy are some of the subjects that Silja Sormunen has studied. That is why Complex Systems, part of Life Science Technologies programme, felt like just the thing she had been looking for. She is also in the Doctoral Track programme.

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Digital tracing apps should incorporate social connections to mitigate disease outbreaks

Digital tracing models could benefit from a closer look at social connections between app-users.

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Latest publications

Public Health Impact of Paxlovid as Treatment for COVID-19, United States

Yuan Bai, Zhanwei Du, Lin Wang, Eric H.Y. Lau, Isaac Chun Hai Fung, Petter Holme, Benjamin J. Cowling, Alison P. Galvani, Robert M. Krug, Lauren Ancel Meyers 2024 Emerging Infectious Diseases

Epidemic criticality in temporal networks

Chao Ran Cai, Yuan Yuan Nie, Petter Holme 2024 PHYSICAL REVIEW RESEARCH

Effectiveness of contact tracing on networks with cliques

Abbas K. Rizi, Leah Keating, James P. Gleeson, David O'Sullivan, Mikko Kivelä 2024 Physical Review E

Nonrepresentativeness of Human Mobility Data and its Impact on Modeling Dynamics of the COVID-19 Pandemic : Systematic Evaluation

Chuchu Liu, Petter Holme, Sune Lehmann, Wenchuan Yang, Xin Lu 2024 JMIR Formative Research

The spindle approximation of network epidemiological modeling

Jianhong Mou, Bitao Dai, Suoyi Tan, Petter Holme, Sune Lehmann, Fredrik Liljeros, Xin Lu 2024 New Journal of Physics

pymnet: A Python Library for Multilayer Networks

Tarmo Nurmi, Arash Badie Modiri, Corinna Coupette, Mikko Kivelä 2024 Journal of Open Source Software

Subnetwork enumeration algorithms for multilayer networks

Tarmo Nurmi, Mikko Kivela 2024 IEEE Transactions on Network Science and Engineering

Critical delay accumulation

Jari Saramäki 2024 Nature Physics

The influence of cross-border mobility on the COVID-19 epidemic in Nordic countries

Mikhail Shubin, Hilde Kjelgaard Brustad, Jørgen Eriksson Midtbø, Felix Günther, Laura Alessandretti, Tapio Ala-Nissila, Gianpaolo Scalia Tomba, Mikko Kivelä, Louis Yat Hin Chan, Lasse Leskelä 2024 PLoS computational biology
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