Christian Bick
Dynamics, Networks, and Dynamics. Based at VU Amsterdam but also roaming around Exeter, Munich, and Oxford (family permitting). Personal webpage at math.vu.nl/~bick/ and more social media at linktr.ee/cbick.
- Let's break some structures imposed by higher-order interactions! We compute how things deform and what remains when continuous symmetries are broken. For now freely available at www.aimsciences.org/article/doi/... (but also at arXiv:2408.02119).
- "Higher-order phase reduction for delay-coupled oscillators beyond the phase-shift approximation" now on the arXiv at arxiv.org/abs/2510.27524.
- New paper with @math-martens.bsky.social on "Multiple timescale dynamics of network adaptation with constraints" now available Open Access in Chaos: doi.org/10.1063/5.02...
- Adaptivity is a crucial ingredient of many networked systems, but a key issue is their high-dimensionality. A dense network of N nodes has O(N^2) adaptive connections.
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- Reposted by Christian BickWe just advertised the Hooke Fellowships for exceptional researchers (typically after their first post-doc). You are completely free to set up your own research agenda for three years. RT please my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
- Lots of higher-order interactions at the joint @beyondtheedge.network and RUNES workshop at AMU in Marseille this week. Thanks to @alainbarrat.bsky.social and @lordgrilo.bsky.social!
- Happening soon with the fantastic @haharrington.bsky.social. Join us!
- Ever wondered how many points converge to a heteroclinic network in an aperiodic way? doi.org/10.1080/1468...
- Reposted by Christian BickBeyondTheEdge at the School of Complexity on "Higher-order interactions: mechanisms, behaviors, and networks" by our own @lordgrilo.bsky.social and @gin-bianconi.bsky.social with @aliceschwarze.bsky.social, @danielemarinazzo.bsky.social. Great perspectives! www.beyondtheedge.network/articles/bey...
- Fun collaborative project with Istvan Z. Kiss (London) and Peter Simon to understand how higher-order interactions affect the dynamics of contagion processes now out in J Math Bio: doi.org/10.1007/s002...
- I am extremely excited that my Istvan Z. Kiss number now is one with multiplicity 2!
- Going #BeyondTheEdge in Aachen! Great fun catching up with @beyondtheedge.network colleagues at the HOOC workshop organized by M Schaub: conf.netsci.rwth-aachen.de
- Adaptive network dynamics are too high dimensional? Constrain! Or maybe adaptation may be naturally constrained to low-dimensional dynamics? Joint work with @math-martens.bsky.social now on the arXiv at arxiv.org/abs/2507.06359.
- Ancient vector fields excavated close to Dynamics Days Europe 2025 in Thessaloniki. It was a fun conference (just too short), see you in Lisbon next year!
- If you couple two systems with bistability between oscillations of distinct effective frequencies, you have to make them different for the distinct states to synchronize in frequency. Some theory and experiments now in Science Advances. doi.org/10.1126/scia...
- Reposted by Christian BickCan a network be physically be a graph but effectively be a hypergraph? Tiago Pereira is speaking about emergent hypernetworks in the focus session “Network Dynamical Systems” at @netsciconf.bsky.social.
- Come to the Focus Session "Network Dynamical Systems" at @netsciconf.bsky.social Friday afternoon for a free copy of Bear Networks! www.beyondtheedge.network/resources/be... #NetSci2025
- Join us July 9-11 at the Amsterdam Center for Dynamics and Computation to celebrate dynamical systems theory and application as well as two 0 mod 10 birthdays! Register now at www.amsterdam-dynamics.nl/zero-mod-ten/
- Reposted by Christian BickYou've got friends round for coffee and cake. There are seven of you. Trouble is, you've made a square cake. How do you make sure everyone receives an equal share? Dominic has his cake and they all eat it.
- About a week left to apply (through May 5) for a fully-funded PhD position on the collective dynamics on networks. Come to Amsterdam to join the Emergence at All Scales consortium led by @emergencediep.bsky.social. Please share!
- Come join the Amsterdam Center for Dynamics and Computation! Bob Rink and I are recruiting a PhD student to work on network dynamics as part of the consortium Emergence at All Scales (www.d-iep.org/eaas). Apply by May 5, 2025 through workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...
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- Come join the Amsterdam Center for Dynamics and Computation! Bob Rink and I are recruiting a PhD student to work on network dynamics as part of the consortium Emergence at All Scales (www.d-iep.org/eaas). Apply by May 5, 2025 through workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/ph...
- About a week left to apply to join the Amsterdam Center for Dynamics and Computation as a postdoc!
- The Amsterdam Center for Dynamics and Computation (www.amsterdam-dynamics.nl) at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social is recruiting a 2-year postdoc in dynamical systems. Applications are accepted through Fri April 4, 2025 at workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/po.... Please share!
- Join us for a workshop at the Amsterdam Center for Dynamics and Computation of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam on Jul 9-11, 2025 to celebrate progress in dynamical systems! More information at amsterdam-dynamics.nl/zero-mod-ten
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- The Amsterdam Center for Dynamics and Computation (www.amsterdam-dynamics.nl) at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social is recruiting a 2-year postdoc in dynamical systems. Applications are accepted through Fri April 4, 2025 at workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/po.... Please share!
- Kuramoto oscillators + inertia + symmetry = global symmetric bifurcations organizing chimeras. Work with Pete Ashwin, available open access at doi.org/10.1007/s003....
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- Reposted by Christian BickDo we know the number of neurons in the human brain? A typical value cited in the literature is 86 billion. However, as I argue in this essay, the data does not justify this number and we do not have yet a satisfactory answer academic.oup.com/brain/advanc...
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- I am intrigued by the (approximate) symmetries. In that spirit, have enjoyable holidays and all the best for 2025!
- Clearly: The epsilon-neighborhoods of two points on the two-dimensional torus.
- Reposted by Christian BickHigher-order interactions: mechanisms, behaviors, and networks - Aug 25-31, 2025 We're happy to host a course/workshop at the Ettore Majorana Center for Scientific Culture in the incredibly beautiful Erice, Sicily, with amazing speakers sites.google.com/view/ho2025e... Wait no further and join!
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- Reposted by Christian BickThere's only one week left to submit your abstracts to #NetSci2025
- BeyondTheEdge is now live on Bluesky: Follow @beyondtheedge.bsky.social for latest news, research, and updates. Alternatively @BeyondEdge_MSCA on X/Twitter and @BeyondEdge_MSCA@mastodon.social on Mastodon.
- Network science accessible even to the smallest: Stop by the Department of Mathematics at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social to pick up a copy of “Bear Networks”! Thanks to funding through BeyondTheEdge.network. Digital copies are available open access through Zenodo at doi.org/10.5281/zeno....
- Networks and coffee and networks in Tokyo. What could go wrong?
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