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Each last-Friday-of-the-month, we are hosting the Last Fridays Talks, where one of our seven Collaboratories will present insights from their current work.
Join us for a discussion on results and recent papers, followed by some socializing afterwards for everyone who wish to attend.
This month's talks are organised by the Collaboratory for Networks & Graphs led by Professor Roberta Sinatra and Professor Sune Lehmann Jørgensen.
Agenda
14:30–14:45 | Christian Djurhuus: What the people around us add to life-course prediction
14:45–15:00 | Abbas K. Rizi: Homophily in Social Systems
15:00–16:00 | Petter Holme: Social decision-making
16:00–17:00 | Drinks and discussions
Title: Social decision-making: human/machine, individual/collective, lab/wild, present/future
Abstract: In 1907, Georg Simmel described society as a fabric woven from myriads of inconspicuous social relations and decisions. A century later, we have the technologies to measure these threads, describe the weaving process, and replicate it artificially. In this talk, I will start with our straightforward comparison of human and machine decision-making in the lab, then move outward on a spiraling trajectory toward more metaphysical topics. Along the way, I will cover emergent reputations among sandboxed, roleplaying AI agents, and musings on collective stupidity as a force balancing out collective intelligence, all with a Simmelian eye to the micro/macro transition.
Bio: Petter Holme is a Professor of Network Science and Computational Social Science at the Department of Computer Science, Aalto University. His research analyzes social systems by means of computational methods, from simulations to data analysis, often with networks as the underlying data structure. Holmealso has a strong interest in data visualization and graphic design. Before joining Aalto University, Holme was a Specially Appointed Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology and Professor of Energy Science at Sungkyunkwan University, Korea. Prof. Holme has co-authored over 220 publications with over 25,000 citations. He has a Docent degree in Biological Physics from the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden, a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Umeå University, Sweden, and an M.A. in Chinese from Stockholm University, Sweden.
Please note that the Friday bar following the talk will take place at P1 (Find us here).