Vermont Complex Systems Institute @ UVM

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Burlington, Vermont vermontcomplexsystems.org Joined September 2011

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Vermont Complex Systems Institute @ UVM @uvmcomplexity May 8, 2023

Advances in Hosiery —A Thread

We’ve received a major new $20M award from NSF EPSCoR for the study of stories:

“Harnessing the Data Revolution for Vermont:
The Science of Online Corpora, Knowledge, and Stories (SOCKS)”

UVM’s press release is here:
uvm.edu/news/story/uvm…

Vermont Complex Systems Institute @ UVM @uvmcomplexity Nov 4, 2024

"Self-reinforcing cascades: A spreading model for beliefs or products of varying intensity or quality"

New preprint from the team

arxiv.org/abs/2411.00714

arxiv.org Self-reinforcing cascades: A spreading model for beliefs or... Models of how things spread often assume that transmission mechanisms are fixed over time. However, social contagions--the spread of ideas, beliefs, innovations--can lose or gain in momentum as...

Vermont Complex Systems Institute @ UVM @uvmcomplexity Oct 28, 2024

uvm.edu/news/story/boa…

www.uvm.edu Board Approves Formation of Vermont Complex Systems… | The University of Vermont

Vermont Complex Systems Institute @ UVM @uvmcomplexity Oct 11, 2024

phys.org/news/2024-10-i…

phys.org Are ideas contagious? How the structure of human-interaction networks affects spread of both... The COVID-19 pandemic gave the global medical community the opportunity to take giant strides forward in understanding how to develop vaccines and implement public health measures designed to control...

Vermont Complex Systems Institute @ UVM @uvmcomplexity Oct 8, 2024

New PNAS paper led by faculty member @MeredithNiles1 w/others from UVM including @LHDnets & @g_galford

"Innovations through crop switching happen on the diverse margins of US agriculture"

pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

www.pnas.org Innovations through crop switching happen on the diverse margins of US agriculture | PNAS Crop switching, in which farmers grow a crop that is novel to a given field, can help agricultural systems adapt to changing environmental, cultura...