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Can Machine Learning Help Physicists Answer Puzzling Questions in String Theory?
Physics professor James Halverson is using data science to tackle tough physics problems like string theory.
August 06, 2019
Northeastern builds bridges between string theory and data science
The first ever Workshop on Data Science and String Theory was held on November 30 by Northeastern physicists James Halverson, Brent Nelson, and Cody Long, bringing together string theorists and data scientists to bring research and discovery to the next level.
December 21, 2017
What social media data could tell us about the future
Can a flow of information across Twitter signal when a momentous event is about to occur? Northeastern’s Alessandro Vespignani and an interdisciplinary group of scientists developed a method to find out. Their findings represent an initial step in constructing models to detect trouble before it’s too late.
April 07, 2016
World-renowned scholars launch Northeastern’s Network Science Institute
The Network Science Institute, home of the nation’s first doctoral program in network science, brings together an interdisciplinary team of renowned Northeastern scholars to plumb the structure and function of systems and develop intervention strategies to improve the health and security of people around the world.
November 06, 2015
How to battle disease using Big Data
At the latest installment of the “Minds over Matters: NUterm Faculty Speaker Series,” Sternberg Family Distinguished University Professor Alessandro Vespignani described how his lab is able to predict the spread of a disease by tracking just one person.
May 20, 2015