A network approach to mixing delegates at meetings

A network approach to mixing delegates at meetings

Delegates at scientific meetings can come from diverse backgrounds and use very different methods in their research. Promoting interactions between these ‘distant’ delegates is challenging but such interactions could lead to novel interdisciplinary collaborations and unexpected breakthroughs. We hav...

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Main Authors: Federico Vaggi, Tommaso Schiavinotto, Jonathan LD Lawson, Anatole Chessel, James Dodgson, Marco Geymonat, Masamitsu Sato, Rafael Edgardo Carazo Salas, Attila Csikász-Nagy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: eLife Sciences Publications Ltd 2014-02-01
Series:eLife
Subjects:
cutting edge
meeting
interdisciplinary research
collaboration
social network
graph theory
Online Access:https://elifesciences.org/articles/02273
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Summary:Delegates at scientific meetings can come from diverse backgrounds and use very different methods in their research. Promoting interactions between these ‘distant’ delegates is challenging but such interactions could lead to novel interdisciplinary collaborations and unexpected breakthroughs. We have developed a network-based ‘speed dating’ approach that allows us to initiate such distant interactions by pairing every delegate with another delegate who might be of interest to them, but whom they might never have encountered otherwise. Here we describe our approach and its algorithmic implementation.
ISSN:2050-084X

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