What's the rumpus 😊 I'm Asaf Shapira and this is NETfrix - The Network Science Podcast. New agers have Burning Man, geeks have Comicon and network science enthusiasts have the Networks2021 conference. In this episode we'll talk with Dr. Ann McCranie, the General Organizer of the conference, to learn what's so special about it and how to make the most out of it. We've managed to get her to spill the beans about soon-to-be-announced plenary talks and though she's impartial as

What's the rumpus 😊 I'm Asaf Shapira and this is NETfrix – The Network Science Podcast. When we are first presented with the concept that everybody in the world is just 6 steps of acquaintance from everybody else, we usually go through the same 7 stages: Initially you are skeptical. It sounds weird. Then, you try it on yourself, usually calculating in your head how close you are to the president of the United States. Then comes amazement – Wow, I'm just 3 to 5 steps from the

What's the rumpus 😊 I'm Asaf Shapira and this is NETfrix, The Network Science Podcast. Today we're going to have a talk with the one and only Michele Coscia, an associate professor at IT University of Copenhagen by day, and by night, the author of the "Connecting Humanities" Blog for Network Science. In between, he managed to squeeze out a monumental book titled "The Atlas for the Aspiring Network Scientist", which we'll be on our to-talk-about-list. We'll also review some