FRS Fostering Research Synergies

Past edition v3.0

FRS 2025 Lucca

Dates
18–19 December 2025
Host
IMT Lucca
Venue
Sagrestia, San Francesco building, IMT Piazza San Francesco 17, Lucca

About

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Program

TimeSession
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Registration
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Opening Remarks and Welcome

Organizing Committee
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Keynote

The future of Cryptoassets: Beyond the Hype

Pietro Saggese, IMT Lucca
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Coffee Break
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Session 1

Network Theory and Structure

  1. Anna Gallo – Beyond deterministic balance: A statistical approach for mesoscale detection in signed networks
  2. Margherita Bertè – Fibration Symmetries and Multi-Body Interactions
  3. Liber Dorizzi – A Multiscale Lens for Nested Structure in Networks
  4. Ottavia Falconi – Renormalization and Modularity in Bipartite Networks
  5. Francesca Santucci – Laplacian eigenmodes allow the categorization of edges in complex networks
  6. Mattia Marzi – A Bayesian approach to out-of-sample network reconstruction
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Lunch Break
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Session 2

Network Dynamics and Synchronization

  1. Luigi Palmieri – Decentralized Federated Learning on Complex Networks
  2. Federico Maria Quetti – Chimera games emerging from coevolutionary dynamics with endogenous feedback
  3. Matteo Nerini – Analog Computing with Linear Microwave Networks
  4. Alessio Baroni – Spectral embedding of sleep-stage dynamics from iEEG: extracting latent dynamics for reservoir computing models
  5. Teo Fantacci – From Spike Trains to Energy Potentials: A Langevin Framework for Decision-making Dynamics
  6. Alessandro Bellina – Fitness centrality
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Coffee Break
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Group Games
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Aperitivo, Dinner and Drinks in Lucca

TimeSession
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Session 3

Innovation, Evolution and Statistical Laws

  1. Gabriele Braghelli – Robin Hood Urn Model (RHUM): Stealing attention to explain obsolescence
  2. Filippo Santoro – Universalities in the Avalanche Dynamics of Novelties and Non-Novelties
  3. Pietro Zgaga – Neutrality and scale in tropical rainforests
  4. Arianna Armanetti – Beyond factor analysis: detecting population heterogeneity in psychometric data through mixture models
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Coffee Break
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Session 4

Socio-Economics and Urban Systems

  1. Francesco Marzolla – Sustainable mobility strategies
  2. Lavinia Rossi Mori – Beyond Proximity: How Socioeconomic Status Affects Access to High-Rated Services in the 15-Minute City
  3. Valeria Secchini – The role of sovereign effective tax rate on international trade prices
  4. Alexander Ferraro Sasha – Carbon Trade Network optimal transport approach for new centrality measures
  5. Emanuele Calò – Trade and GDP co-evolution
  6. Edoardo Maggioni – Irish Offshore Wind Energy Communication Network
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Lunch Break
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Keynote

A Complex Systems Perspective on Success in Academic Careers

Giacomo Livan, University of Pavia
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Session 5

Real and Simulated Societies

  1. Gabriele di Bona – Language bubbles in online social networks
  2. Giordano De Marzo – Conformity and Majority following in AI Agents
  3. Raffaello Mastromarino – The effect of memory on the consensus of LLM societies
  4. Daniele Cirulli – How Large Language Models play humans in online conversations: a simulated study of the 2016 US politics on Reddit
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Coffee Break
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Group Games

Conference Dinner

TimeSession
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Group Activity
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Lunch & Farewell

Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca is a member of the EFC network: IMT PhD students and scholars have the opportunity to participate in joint activities and are encouraged to engage with partner institutions to foster academic and research collaborations. Fostering Research Synergies 2025 aligns with EFC's objective of creating a network of PhD students and young scholars across institutions, contributing to the education of a new generation of citizens facing an increasingly complex society. This workshop brings together researchers from diverse fields to explore interdisciplinary approaches to understanding complex systems and their real-world applications.

Funded by the EU NextGenerationEU, MUR, Italiadomani, EFC, IMT