The Department of Artificial Intelligence of the Rényi Institute and the doctoral school of mathematics of Eötvös University participate in a winning Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Networks 2022 project from 2024 to 2027. The main topic of the cooperation within the consortium is the understanding of the higher-order correlation of network dynamics.
Ágnes Backhausz a research fellow of the Department of Artificial Intelligence of the Rényi Institute and professor of Eötvös University will participate in the 4-year project starting in January 2024 together with a doctoral student from Eötvös University.
The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Networks of the “Horizon Europe” framework program supports researcher mobility via the members of the winner consortium simultaneously implementing a joint research project with the training of highly qualified doctoral candidates to improve students’ creativity and increase their innovation capacity and in order to increase their employment chances in the long term.
The primary goal of the BeyondTheEdge international project is to investigate dynamical systems where more than two vertices in a network can participate in interactions together, and to look for various applications of such processes. For example, during an epidemic process, usually one individual usually infects another one, but if we examine the spread of opinions in a social network, the process might be based on the relationship of more than two individuals: three members of the family who have the same opinion may persuade the fourth member. Examining higher-order interactions like this is also crucial in neuroscience: fMRI and other research methods have shown that biological processes in the brain often require the cooperation of more than two areas or groups of cells. In the current project, these phenomena are mainly studied by mathematical methods, for example, by using graph limit theory, differential equations, spectral theory of matrices. In particular, the graduate student working in Budapest will work on questions about the theory of hypergraph limits, to develop this theory, and to study its possible applications for the spreading process.
Due to the specific nature of the program, the doctoral students will also spend 6-8-12 months doing research in one of the other institutions participating in the consortium. In this way, doctoral students can gain a broader, international professional perspective in hypergraph research, and the program also offers a very good opportunity to build scientific connections
In July 2022 Dr. Christian Bick (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) held a few-day workshop to which he invited scientists conducting research related to the higher-order interactions of networks, the topic of the application meant to be submitted in November 2022. Mathematicians, neuroscientists and biologists presented their current research topics to each other. . There are 9 supported institutes/universities from 9 countries, and 9 other affiliated partner institutions participating in the project submitted to the MSCA doctoral networks and awarded by 2.5 million euros.
Coordinator:
1.STICHTING VU Netherlands
Beneficiaries:
2. RENYI ALFRED MATEMATIKAI KUTATOINTEZET Hungary
3. UNIVERSIDADE DO PORTO Portugal
4. TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET MUENCHEN Germany
5. UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI NAPOLI FEDERICO II Italy
6. UNIVERSITE D'AIX MARSEILLE France
7. CENTAI INSTITUTE SPA Italy
8. UNIVERSIDAD DE ZARAGOZA Spain
9. KADIR HAS UNIVERSITESI Turkey
Associated partners:
10. STICHTING VUMC Netherlands
11. UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM Netherlands
12 FUNDACAO DE APOIO A UNIVERSIDADE DE SAO PAULO Brazil
13 RHEINISCH-WESTFAELISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE AACHEN Germany
14 THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA United States
15 Centrum voor Wetenschaps- en Technologie Studies B.V. Netherlands
16 BRITISH TELECOMMUNICATIONS PLC United Kingdom
17 POLITECNICO DI TORINO Italy
18 EOTVOS LORAND TUDOMANYEGYETEM Hungary