Too Lazy to Read the Paper: Episode 6 with Gourab Ghoshal and Petter Holme

Too Lazy to Read the Paper

I’ve got a treat for you today. Today’s author’s are Gourab Ghoshal and Petter Holme, who are here to talk about a classic paper. A paper they co-authored and published in PRL in 2006. The paper has a fantastic title, which is basically also a mini abstract. It is called “Dynamics of Networking Agents Competing for High Centrality and Low Degree” (1). In the podcast we get into it!
Gourab is at at Rochester University, where he is an Associate Professor of Physics and Astronomy with joint appointments at the departments of Computer Science and Mathematics. He works in the field of Complex Systems. His research interests are in the theory and applications of Complex Networks as well as Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics, Game theory, Econophysics, Dynamical Systems and the Origins of Life.
Petter is Swedish scientist living and working in Japan, where he is a Specially Appointed Professor at the Institute of Innovative Research at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. His research focuses on large-scale structures in society, technology and biology; mostly trying to understand them as networks.
# Timestamps
[0:00:00] Intro and friendly banter
[0:04:00] Gourab's dream of becoming Richard Feynman
[0:10:10] Petter becomes a network scientist by accident
[0:17:45] We dive into the paper! (+ discuss complex systems in general)
# References
(1) https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.96.098701