Course: NETWORK SCIENCE 2026-2027 - INP9087851

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Select section INP9087851 - NETWORK SCIENCE 2026-2027 - PROF. TOMASO ERSEGHE

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INP9087851 - NETWORK SCIENCE 2026-2027 - PROF. TOMASO ERSEGHE

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- Select activity Lecture hours (starting October 1, 2026)Mon 8:30-1...
  
  Lecture hours (starting October 1, 2026)
  Thu 16:30-18:00, room Oe
  Fri 16:30-18:00, room Me
  
  In classroom teaching
  This year the course unit is delivered in classroom! For all the students waiting for a visa permit: contact me via email for the zoom link.
  
  Instructor
  Tomaso Erseghe, tomaso.erseghe@unipd.it
  
  Office hours
  contact me during lectures, or send me an email for an appointment
  
  Tentative calendar 26/27
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- Select activity Network Science, by A.L. Barabasi
  
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  Select activity community detection- slides 2025
  
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Select section Introduction (2 lectures)

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Introduction (2 lectures)
- Select activity Le1 - Thu Oct 1, 2026 Introduction to the course: ...
  
  Le1 - Thu Oct 1, 2026 Introduction to the course: elearning site, projects and interdisciplinary projects, network examples, contents overview, exam dates.
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- Select activity Le2 - Fri Oct 2, 2026 Networks as graphs; Directed...
  
  Le2 - Fri Oct 2, 2026 Networks as graphs; Directed and undirected networks; Adjacency matrix; Nodes degrees and the degree distribution; Sparsity; Bipartite graphs; Projections on semantic graphs; Signed graphs.
Select section Centrality and Layout (6 lectures)

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Centrality and Layout (6 lectures)
- Select activity Le3 - Thu Oct 8, 2026 Layered networs; Paths, cycl...
  
  Le3 - Thu Oct 8, 2026 Layered networs; Paths, cycles, diameter, and small world networks; Connectedness and the condensation grapg; Degree centrality; Power law versus Poisson distribution; Estimation methods for the degree exponent: ML approach; Explaining the power law; Erdos-Renyi random model: binomial and Poisson descriptions of the model; Small world; Power law versus Poisson distribution; Growth and preferential attachment; the Barabasi-Albert model.
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- Select activity Le4 - Fri Oct 9, 2026 Mathematics of the Barabasi-...
  
  Le4 - Fri Oct 9, 2026 Mathematics of the Barabasi-Albert model; Attractiveness and the Bianconi-Barabasi model; Analysis of the Bianconi-Barabasi model; Examples with equal and uniform fitness; Measuring fitness: the www; Other ideas for modelling the power-law.
Select section Labs on visualization, data scraping, sentiment analysis (4 labs)

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Labs on visualization, data scraping, sentiment analysis (4 labs)
Select section Projects and Polarization (3 lectures)

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Projects and Polarization (3 lectures)
Select section Community and topic detection (8 lectures)

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Community and topic detection (8 lectures)
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Conclusion (1 lecture)
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Video resources from past years (may be helpful)
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- Select activity NS05 Pagerank and HITS
  
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- Select activity NS07 Other centrality measures
  
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- Select activity NS08 Insights (part 1)
  
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- Select activity NS09 Homophily
  
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- Select activity NS10 Polarisation (part 1)
  
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- Select activity NS13/SNA10 IPs presentations
  
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- Select activity NS14 Community detection
  
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- Select activity NS15 Modularity
  
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- Select activity NS17 Semantic networks
  
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- Select activity NS18 Network robustness
  
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- Select activity NS19 Non-IPs + Link prediction - part 1
  
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- Select activity NS20 Link prediction
  
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- Select activity NS23 The layout problem
  
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- Select activity NS13 Lab #1
  
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