PHYS 1125 — Introduction to Network Science: From the Human Cell to Facebook
4 semester hoursUndergraduateLectureNUpath NDNUpath SIusually offered: falltypical days: W/FBostonTraditional
Introduces network science as a way to understand complex patterns of connections and relationships in increasingly complex social, infrastructure, transportation, information, and biological networks, as well as business and consumer networks. Describes basic conceptual and computational tools to model networks and discusses applications of those tools through a wide range of examples from the World Wide Web to protein and gene networks to massive social networks such as Twitter and Facebook. Discusses both network structures and dynamical phenomena on networks, such as spreading of information, rumors, gossip, and epidemics.
Offering history
| Term | Sections | Enrolled | Capacity | Full | Open seats/section |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fall 2023 | 1 | 7 | 29 | 24% | 22.0 |
| Fall 2024 | 1 | 12 | 29 | 41% | 17.0 |
| Fall 2025 | 1 | 3 | 29 | 10% | 26.0 |
Snapshots from scheduled scrapes — not live seat availability. "Full" can exceed 100% when sections over-enroll.
Meeting times
Share of recent sections by weekday: M 0% · T 0% · W 100% · Th 0% · F 100%
Common patterns: WF (100% of sections) — in patterns, R means Thursday
Professors
Fall
- Dmitri Krioukov (100% of students) · reviews
Percentages are each professor's average share of the season's enrolled students in recent terms.
Links
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