Nicholas Landry

I’m the TGIR Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Vermont. My research expertise is broadly the study of dynamics on complex systems, especially the spread of contagion on interaction networks involving group (higher-order) interactions. My research always starts with noticing things around me and asking, “why?” I’ve worked in both academia and industry which gives me a unique perspective on applied mathematics.

My portfolio is a collection of some projects that I’ve worked on personally, professionally, and academically. For more about me, see my bio, CV, or list of publications. You can also take a look at my blog.

Research Interests

  • Complex systems (particularly those involving higher-order interactions)
  • Contagion spread (disease, opinions, etc.)
  • Structure of complex systems
  • Dynamical systems

Recent News

  • July 2023: Two of my submissions, “XGI: A Python package for higher-order interaction networks” and “The simpliciality of empirical datasets” were accepted as contributed talks at NetSci 2023!
  • June 2023: I will be attending the Mathematics Research Communities Workshop on Complex Social Systems.
  • May 2023: “XGI: A Python package for higher-order interaction networks” is now published in the Journal of Open Source Software!
  • May 2023: I am an invited speaker at the Workshop on Modelling and Mining Complex Networks as Hypergraphs.
  • May 2023: A new preprint with Ilya Amburg, Mirah Shi, and Sinan G. Aksoy entitled “Filtering higher-order datasets” is now on arXiv!
  • March 2023: I participated in the Postdocs in Complexity Conference X.
  • February 2023: Joint work with Juan G. Restrepo, Polarization in hypergraphs with community structure is on ArXiv! A quick summary is here.
  • January 2023: Joint work with jimi adams on the limitations of using uniplex data representations for modeling multiplex contagion is published in PLoS ONE!
  • January 2023: I gave a talk at the Network Science Institute at Northeastern.
  • December 2022: XGI is now a NumFOCUS Affiliated Project!
  • November 2022: I am now on Mastodon! My username/instance is nwlandry@mathstodon.xyz.
  • October 2022: I gave a demo of XGI and presented in-progress work on the polarizability of hypergraphs with community structure at CCS 2022 in Palma, Spain.
  • October 2022: I gave an invited talk on the polarizability of hypergraphs with community structure at the AMS Eastern Sectional Meeting in Amherst, MA.
  • August 2022: Juan G. Restrepo and I organized and chaired the Contagion on Complex Social Systems workshop in Boulder, CO! (Photo)
  • July 2022: I gave a demo of XGI and presented in-progress work on polarization of hypergraphs with community structure at NetSci 2022.
  • July 2022: I participated in a hackathon in Portland, ME hosted by NetSci at Northeastern.
  • June 2022: I started as my position as the TGIR postdoctoral fellow at the University of Vermont!
  • May 2022: Joint work with Juan G. Restrepo, Hypergraph assortativity: a dynamical systems perspective is published in Chaos as part of the Dynamics on Networks with Higher-Order Interactions special issue.
  • May 2022: Joint work with jimi adams on the limitations of using uniplex data representations for modeling multiplex contagion is now available on the ArXiv.