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First year PhD student András Borsos shared an early version of his thesis proposal, titled “Shock propagation and regulation of interacting economic networks”. András argued effectively that though much progress has been made on understanding contagion risks in individual sectors, models in the literature often neglect the complex interactions between different layers of the economy.

Federico Battiston from the School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, UK and Brain & Spine Institute, CNRS, Paris, France, part of the LASAGNE EU project, talked about recent research results related to the structure and dynamics of multiplex networks in his public talk at CNS CEU.

Multiplex networks (considered to be networks built up by layers of different networks) have been studied just as weighted aggregated networks for a long time, which results in significant information loss. But how can we expand our knowledge about multiplex systems, such as the organization structure of terrorist groups, by analyzing the co-evolution of trust, operational, communication and business networks among members?