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Research interests

• Statistical mechanics of networks including
  • Evolution and the dynamics of networks
  • Critical phenomena on networks (Ising model, condensation transitions, percolation, and congestion transition and quantum phase transitions)
  • Entropy measures for network ensembles and their application to inference problems
  • Models of social network dynamics
• Analysis and evolutionary models of biological networks including
  • Neural networks
  • Molecular networks
  • Prebiotic evolution

Selected publications

• P. Bonifazi, M. Goldin, M.A. Picardo, I. Jorquera, A. Cattani, G. Bianconi, A. Represa, Y. ben-Ari and R. Cossart,
  GABAergic Hub Neurons Orchestrate Synchrony in Developing Hippocampal Networks
  Science, 326 1419 (2009).
• G. Bianconi, P. Pin and M. Marsili,
  Assessing the relevance of node features for network structure,
  PNAS 106, 11433 (2009).
  (See this URL for matlab codes and related information)
• G. Bianconi,
  Entropy of randomized network ensembles,
  Europhys. Lett. 81, 28005 (2008).
  (Find more about ENTROPY of networks )
  
• G. Bianconi and A. L. Barabási,
  Bose-Einstein condensation in complex networks,
  Phys. Rev. Lett. 86, 5632 (2001).
  (Find more about CONDENSATION transitions in complex systems)
  
• G. Bianconi and A. L. Barabási,
  Competition and multiscaling in evolving networks,
  Europhys. Lett. 54, 436 (2001).
  (Find more about the FITNESS MODEL)