Several results from the SocioPatterns project were presented at the NetSci2011 conference in Budapest, Hungary.

Ciro Cattuto reported on simulations of realistic epidemic spreading phenomena using data from a SocioPatterns deployment. These results will soon appear in BMC Medicine.

Alain Barrat presented the results of our paper What’s in a crowd? Analysis of face-to-face behavioral networks published in the Journal of Theoretical Biology (2011).

Anna Machens discussed the interplay between the timescales of evolution of a dynamical network and the timescales of dynamical process taking place on the network.

Wouter Van den Broeck discussed the making of SIXTY-NINE DAYS OF CLOSE ENCOUNTERS AT THE SCIENCE GALLERY in Arts, Humanities, and Complex Networks, the 2nd Leonardo satellite symposium.

On April 18h, a workshop organized by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine explored the state of the art on Social Contacts and Mixing Patterns in Epidemiology, focusing on measurement techniques and field experiences. Ciro Cattuto was invited to give a talk on the experience of the SocioPatterns project in measuring dynamical networks of human contact. Thanks to Ken Eames and John Edmunds for a very stimulating meeting!

Ciro Cattuto, Wouter Van den Broeck and Marco Quaggiotto will spend the month of April in Marseille for a residency at the Aix-Marseille Institute for Advanced Study (IMéRA), together with Alain Barrat from the CPT in Marseille. The work at IMéRA will focus on a broad art-science look at dynamical network data, and will include a public workshop with high-profile experts in the field, that will be announced later this week.

The Pixelache Festival got started today on the Suomenlinna island in Helsinki, Finland. SocioPatterns is well represented by Wouter Van den Broeck. On thursday he will lead one of the three tracks in the ‘MAPPING IN PROGRESS‘ workshop, which will focus on the cultural roles of mapping. On friday he will give a talk in the ‘MAP ME IF YOU WILL‘ seminar, discussing the opportunities and challenges of a data-driven society, and the role of mapping in these. Finally, the ‘SIXTY-NINE DAYS OF CLOSE ENCOUNTERS AT THE SCIENCE GALLERY‘ visualization will be shown in the Camp Pixelache exhibition, while ‘the making of’ will be discussed in a presentation on saturday.

Pixelache Festival of Electronic Art and Subcultures