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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doaj-91e3b20a1e7e4cf6bb98b646c145ff7b2021-05-04T22:59:29ZengeLife Sciences Publications LtdeLife2050-084X2014-02-01310.7554/eLife.02273A network approach to mixing delegates at meetingsFederico Vaggi0Tommaso Schiavinotto1Jonathan LD Lawson2Anatole Chessel3James Dodgson4Marco Geymonat5Masamitsu Sato6Rafael Edgardo Carazo Salas7Attila Csikász-Nagy8Department of Computational Biology, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige, ItalyU-Hopper, Trento, Italythe Gurdon Institute and the Genetics Department, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdomthe Gurdon Institute and the Genetics Department, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdomthe Gurdon Institute and the Genetics Department, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdomthe Gurdon Institute and the Genetics Department, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United KingdomDepartment of Life Science and Medical Bioscience, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japanthe Gurdon Institute and the Genetics Department, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United KingdomDepartment of Computational Biology, Fondazione Edmund Mach, San Michele all’Adige, Italy; the Randall Division of Cell and Molecular Biophysics and Institute of Mathematical and Molecular Biomedicine, King’s College London, London, United KingdomDelegates 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.https://elifesciences.org/articles/02273cutting edgemeetinginterdisciplinary researchcollaborationsocial networkgraph theory |
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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. |
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