James Bagrow

Research Assistant Professor Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics and Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO) Northwestern University bagrowjp [at] gmail [dot] com james [dot] bagrow [at] northwestern [dot] edu Previously, I was a member of the Center for Complex Network Research in the Physics department at Northeastern University.

Education

Teaching

I am not currently teaching any courses. Previously, I was a freshman physics course TA for two years and an "academic peer mentor" providing one-on-one and small group tutoring in a number of math and science courses.

Research

My interests include: Complex Networks (community detection, social modeling and human dynamics, statistical phenomena, graph similarity and isomorphism), Statistical Physics (non-equilibrium methods, phase transitions, percolation, interacting particle systems, spin glasses), and Optimization (glassy techniques such as simulated/quantum annealing, (non-gradient) minimization of noisy objective functions), and more.

Publications (bibtex references)

• S. Saavedra, S. Mukherjee, J. P. Bagrow. Can Timeouts Change the Outcome of Basketball Games?. PDF arXiv Press
• J. P. Bagrow and Y.-R. Lin. Mesoscopic structure and social aspects of human mobility. PDF arXiv Supplementary Information
• J. P. Bagrow. Are communities just bottlenecks? Trees and treelike networks have high modularity. PDF arXiv
• Y.-Y. Ahn, S. E. Ahnert, J. P. Bagrow and A.-L. Barabási. Flavor network and the principles of food pairing. Nature Scientific Reports, 1, 2011. Journal PDF arXiv Supplementary Information [Press: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15]

  Note: This paper has been downloaded over 100 thousand times! During the first month it was the most accessed paper from all Nature journals, including Nature itself.

• L. S. Schulman, J. P. Bagrow and B. Gaveau. Visualizing relations using the ``Observable Representation''. Advances in Complex Systems, 14 (6): 829-851, 2011. Journal PDF
• Y.-R. Lin, J. P. Bagrow and D. Lazer. More Voices than Ever? Quantifying Bias in Social and Mainstream Media. In International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media, 2011. PDF arXiv Proceedings
• J. P. Bagrow, D. Wang and A.-L. Barabási. Collective Response of Human Populations to Large-Scale Emergencies. PLoS ONE, 6 (3): e17680, 2011. Journal PDF arXiv Supplementary Information Press
• J. P. Bagrow, S. Lehmann and Y.-Y. Ahn. Robustness and modular structure in networks. PDF arXiv
• Y.-Y. Ahn, J. P. Bagrow and S. Lehmann. Link communities reveal multiscale complexity in networks. Nature, 466: 761-764, 2010. Journal PDF arXiv Supplementary Information Code Press
• J. P. Bagrow and T. Koren. Investigating Bimodal Clustering in Human Mobility. International Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, 4: 944-947, 2009. Journal PDF arXiv
• J. Sun, J. P. Bagrow, E. M. Bollt and J. D. Skufca. Dynamic Computation of Network Statistics via Updating Schema. Phys. Rev. E, 79: 036116, 2009. Journal PDF arXiv
• J. M. Campuzano, J. P. Bagrow and D. ben-Avraham. Kleinberg navigation on anisotropic lattices. Research Letters in Physics, 2008, 2008. Journal PDF arXiv
• J. P. Bagrow, J. Sun and D. ben-Avraham. Phase transition in the rich-get-richer mechanism due to finite-size effects. J. Phys. A: Math. Theor., 41: 185001, 2008. Journal PDF arXiv
• J. P. Bagrow. Evaluating Local Community Methods in Networks. J. Stat. Mech., 2008 (5): P05001, 2008. Journal PDF arXiv
• J. P. Bagrow, E. M. Bollt, J. D. Skufca and D. ben-Avraham. Portraits of Complex Networks. Europhysics Letters, 81: 68004, 2008. Journal PDF arXiv
• J. P. Bagrow, E. M. Bollt and L. da F. Costa. Network Structure Revealed by Short Cycles. PDF arXiv
• J. P. Bagrow and D. ben-Avraham. On the Google-Fame of Scientists and Other Populations. In Proc. Am. Inst. of Physics Conf., pages 81-89, 2005. Journal PDF arXiv
• J. P. Bagrow and E. M. Bollt. A Local Method for Detecting Communities. Phys. Rev. E, 72: 046108, 2005. Journal PDF arXiv
• J. P. Bagrow, H. D. Rozenfeld, E. M. Bollt and D. ben-Avraham. How Famous is a Scientist? -- Famous to Those Who Know Us. Europhysics Letters, 67: 511, 2004. Journal PDF arXiv
• M. K. Nordhaus, H. J Newberg, J. P. Bagrow, C. Rider, D. Tucker, H. A. Rave and J. A. Smith. Photometric Separation of Physical Properties of Stars. American Astronomical Society, 201st AAS Meeting, #16.12; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 34: 1126, 2002. PDF

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