Dr. Nataša Djurdjevac Conrad
Head of a research group "Computational Humanities" and a deputy head of Modeling and Simulation of Complex Processes department at Zuse Institute Berlin (ZIB). Since 2022 I am a corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI).
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2026:
- In the SciCADE 2026, I will organize a mini-symposium on "Dynamical Systems and Complex Networks" and give a talk at "Interacting particle systems and their mean-field limit" symposium.
- On 6th of June 2026, Computational Humanities Group will participate in the Long Night of Science 2026, and show our work on opinion dynamics through interesting experiments and simulations.
- May 2026: I had the pleasure of speaking at “Nonlinear Network Dynamics: Complexity and Control”, a conference held in honor of Eckehard Schöll’s 75th birthday.
- On 23rd of April 2026, Computational Humanities Group organized a workshop for Girls’ Day (Grades 5–6) “Discover the Secrets of Social Networks with Mathematics”, introducing the mathematics for social network dynamics, using hands-on experiments to show how local friendships and influencer interactions drive global trends in digital networks.
- March 2026: I gave an invited talk at SOE (Division of Physics of Socio-Economic Systems) and DY (Dynamics and Statistical Physics) on the DPG Meeting in Dresden .
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2025:
- November 2025: I spent 1-week research visit at Oslo Metropolitan University, hosted by Prof. Sergiy Denysov.
- October 2025: I am invited to be a speaker at a symposium Diversifying Networks: How Culture Infuses the Environment at the Senckenberg Research Institute in Frankfurt am Main.
- September 2025: I am honored to be invited as a keynote speaker at the NHR Conference in Göttingen.
- Computational Humanities Group welcomes Prof. Márton Lőrinc for a research visit supported Alexander von Humboldt Foundation.
- On 28th of June 2025, Computational Humanities Group presented main research topics through interesting experiments and simulations on the Long Night of Science 2025.
- Our paper on "Random walk based snapshot clustering for detecting community dynamics in temporal networks" has been accepted for publication in Scientific Reports.
- June 2025: I was a member of the scientific committee of NetSci 2025 and one of the organisers of a Focus Session on "Network dynamical systems".
- May 2025: I gave a talk on HESCOR Workshop on Network Analysis and Graph Databases .
- March 2025: I gave a talk at the Kiel Conference 2025: Scales of Social, Environmental and Cultural Change in Past Societies on "Coupling Human Mobility and Environmental Change: Agent-based modeling of Cultural Diffusion in Ancient Societies".
- March 2025: I was invited to a Mini-Symposium Social Dynamics: Modeling and Simulations at SIAM CSE and I gave a talk on "Co-Evolving Networks for Opinion and Social Dynamics in Agent-Based Models".
- January 2025: I gave an invited talk on the WE-Heraeus-Seminar on "Complex Spreading Phenomena: From Bacteria to Innovations" in Physikzentrum Bad Honnef.
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2024:
- December 2024: Together with Sarah Wolf and Steffen Fürst (FU Berlin), I organised NHR Workshop: Scaling Complexity.
- November 2024: I gave an invited talk at the 3rd HESCOR Workshop on Parameterising the Human System.
- Our recently published paper was selected for a "Paper of the semester" by the MATH+ Activity Group "Mathematics of Data Science". The whole interview can be found here.