We are pleased to host another guest in our research seminars in language technology on February 12: Petter Holme from Aalto University
Place and Time:
Thursday, February 12, 2026 at 14:15 – 15:45
Live streaming: Zoom link
Title: Understanding society from structures in time
Abstract: Just like the graph structure of social networks can tell us much about social organizing and dynamic social processes, so can structures in the times when things happen. (This also generalizes to other types of networks, so please replace “social” with your favorite topic.) I will review the last two decades’ research on temporal networks of human interaction and relate it to earlier thoughts about temporal structure in the social sciences and beyond. I will discuss why it is so hard to generalize concepts from static network analysis to temporal networks and the grand challenges of the future in this area. I might even become philosophical (because time has an uncanny ability to make even the most pragmatic scientist a philosopher).