In addition to being Associate Professor in the Department of Physics, Engineering Physics and Optics at Université Laval, Antoine Allard is also recipient of the Sentinel North Research Chair on the Applications and Theory of Network Analysis (mathematical modelling), Co-Director of the Dynamica research group on the structure and dynamics of complex systems, and External Professor at the Vermont Complex Systems Center. His research combines statistical mechanics, graph theory, nonlinear dynamics, and geometry to develop mathematical models of complex networks and study the structure/function relationship specific to complex systems. His work has applications in neuroscience, epidemiology, computer science and ecology.
He is now organizing the NetSci 2024 conference in Québec City with his long-time colleague Laurent Hébert-Dufresne. NetSci, the network science community’s flagship event, will bring half a thousand scientists from various fields to Québec City to better understand the role networks play in systems as diverse as social media, artificial intelligence, neuroscience, and ecology.
