Recent and selected talks:

  • ``The emotional content of large-scale texts: The happiness of bloggers, song lyrics, and presidents.''
    Math Colloquium, Dartmouth University,
    Hanover, NH, February, 2009.
  • ``The emotional content of large-scale texts: The happiness of bloggers, song lyrics, and presidents.''
    Laszlo Barabasi's Lab, Northeastern University,
    Boston, MA, December, 2008.
  • ``Social and Biological Contagion: Models and Experiments''
    Colloquium---Selected Challenges in the Social Sciences: Modeling and Simulation Approaches,
    ETH Zurich,
    Switzerland, May, 2008.
  • ``The scaling of optimal supply networks: implications for biological and geophysical systems.''
    Workshop on Transport Systems Geography, Geosciences, and Networks,
    Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, UCLA,
    Los Angeles, CA, May, 2008.
  • ``Social and Biological Contagion: Models and Experiments.''
    Harvard Business School Marketing Seminar,
    Cambridge, MA, 2008.
  • ``Influence and Social Contagion: Models and Experiments.''
    Stanford Graduate School of Business Marketing Seminar,
    Stanford, CA, 2008.
  • ``Contagion in social and biological systems.''
    European Conference on Complex Systems,
    Dresden, Germany, October, 2007.