The goal of GeoCoW is to develop soft skills, such as collaborative work and interdisciplinarity among young scientists.
GeoCoW is a collaborative workshop where young researchers work in small groups on interdisciplinary topics. Established scientists (see the speakers list below) will propose research topics that would beneficiate from a mathematical insight.
The workshop will also feature:
- An advanced minicourse by Prof. John Baez.
- A poster session.
- A workshop dinner.
- Outoor activities.
Speakers and their topics:
Giulia De Pasquale (TU Eindhoven): Fairness and recommendation systems
How can we strategically exploit the topology of the user’s own social network to promote content diversification, and hence mitigate polarization, while still accounting for users 'preferences?
Mason A. Porter (UC Los Angeles): Opinion dynamics
Can large language models help in the validation of opinion-dynamics models?
Stacey Smith? (University of Ottawa): Epidemics propagation
TBA
Yuanzhao Zhang (Santa Fe Institute): Hypergraphs and dynamics
TBA
Minicourse: Applied Category Theory
John Baez (UC Riverside)