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Laurent Hébert-Dufresne presenting “Witchcraft as Narrative Contagion: Modeling the Diffusion and Mutation of Transmission Mechanisms in the 1692 Salem Crisis” at #ic2s2

I recently finished a Spring Puzzles series of illustrations for the Vermont Complex Systems Institute. On to Summer!

SFI External Professor Laurent Hébert-Dufresne (University of Vermont) is the 2026 recipient of the Erdős-Rényi Prize, the top honor for early-career researchers working in network science.

The Konrad Lorenz Institute provides a stimulating and creative environment for fellows, visiting scholars, students, and external faculty.

SFI External Professor Laurent Hébert-Dufresne (University of Vermont) has been named the 2026 recipient of the Young Scientist Award for Socio- and Econophysics by the German Physical Society (DPG). ...

We demonstrate that graph-based models are fully capable of representing higher-order interactions, and have a long history of being used for precisely this purpose. This stands in contrast to a commo...

Abstract. Epidemic forecasting tools embrace the stochasticity and heterogeneity of disease spread to predict the growth and size of outbreaks. Conceptuall

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This Collection aims to gather theoretical, computational, and empirical contributions that advance the use of variational principles to explain and predict ...

The science he helped pioneer consistently undermines his view that genes determine everything about us.

Amid rapid urbanization in the developing world, there is growing interest in the effects of urban context on political behavior. An underexplored element of urban context is the built environment it...

The CompleX Group Interactions (XGI) software package offers analytical tools, tutorials, and documentation for higher-order network science research.

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Juniper Lovato is a Vermont Complex Systems Institute core faculty member and an outstanding thinker who has been critical to many of our most significant research efforts. Learn about what makes her ...

Climate beliefs do not exist in isolation but form an interconnected network known as a belief system. This study analyses the density and inconsistency of belief systems and their associations with informational and socioeconomic factors to inform effective climate change communication strategies.