Christian Bick
@bickmath.bsky.social
Dynamics, Networks, and Dynamics. Based at VU Amsterdam but also roaming around Exeter, Munich, and Oxford (family permitting). Personal webpage at https://www.math.vu.nl/~bick/ and more social media at https://linktr.ee/cbick.
"Higher-order phase reduction for delay-coupled oscillators beyond the phase-shift approximation" now on the arXiv at arxiv.org/abs/2510.27524.
Higher-order phase reduction for delay-coupled oscillators beyond the phase-shift approximation
Network interactions between dynamical units are often subject to time delay. We develop a phase reduction method for delay-coupled oscillator networks. The method is based on rewriting the delay-diff...
arxiv.org
November 3, 2025 at 7:31 AM
"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...
Multiple timescale dynamics of network adaptation with constraints
Adaptive network dynamical systems describe the co-evolution of dynamical quantities on the nodes and the dynamics of the network connections themselves. For de
doi.org
October 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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...
Reposted by Christian Bick
🥼Global South Fellowship!
DIEP is co-hosting one fellowship for a researcher from the Global South to work on subjects related to the Research Priority Area: Emergent Phenomena in Society in Amsterdam!
🚨Deadline to apply: 15/11 midnight
Please share!
More info: www.uva.nl/en/about-the...
DIEP is co-hosting one fellowship for a researcher from the Global South to work on subjects related to the Research Priority Area: Emergent Phenomena in Society in Amsterdam!
🚨Deadline to apply: 15/11 midnight
Please share!
More info: www.uva.nl/en/about-the...
Global South Fellowship Scheme
The Global South Plan of the Faculty of Science (FNWI) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) offers four fellowships to talented scientists from the Global South to visit our Faculty for a few months a...
www.uva.nl
September 19, 2025 at 11:15 AM
🥼Global South Fellowship!
DIEP is co-hosting one fellowship for a researcher from the Global South to work on subjects related to the Research Priority Area: Emergent Phenomena in Society in Amsterdam!
🚨Deadline to apply: 15/11 midnight
Please share!
More info: www.uva.nl/en/about-the...
DIEP is co-hosting one fellowship for a researcher from the Global South to work on subjects related to the Research Priority Area: Emergent Phenomena in Society in Amsterdam!
🚨Deadline to apply: 15/11 midnight
Please share!
More info: www.uva.nl/en/about-the...
Reposted by Christian Bick
We 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...
You are completely free to set up your own research agenda for three years.
RT please
my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...
my.corehr.com
October 21, 2025 at 5:38 PM
We 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...
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!
October 8, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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!
Join us Tue, 30 Sept (11:00 CET) as the #BeyondTheEdge Seminar series returns after the summer break!
🎙 Prof. Heather Harrington (Oxford & MPI-CBG)
📖 Topological Data Analysis for Multiscale Biology
📍 Online → beyondtheedge.network/event/semina...
#TDA #ComplexSystems #Networks
🎙 Prof. Heather Harrington (Oxford & MPI-CBG)
📖 Topological Data Analysis for Multiscale Biology
📍 Online → beyondtheedge.network/event/semina...
#TDA #ComplexSystems #Networks
BeyondTheEdge Seminar; Heather Harrington
Heather Harrington (Oxford & MPI-CBG Dresden) speaks in the BeyondTheEdge Seminar
beyondtheedge.network
September 30, 2025 at 7:25 AM
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...
How many points converge to a heteroclinic network in an aperiodic way?
Homoclinic and heteroclinic connections can form cycles and networks in phase space, which organize global phenomena in dynamical systems. On the one hand, stability notions for (omni)cycles give i...
doi.org
September 22, 2025 at 7:27 AM
Ever wondered how many points converge to a heteroclinic network in an aperiodic way? doi.org/10.1080/1468...
Reposted by Christian Bick
BeyondTheEdge 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...
BeyondTheEdge goes to Sicily
BeyondTheEdge researchers participated in the School of Complexity on
www.beyondtheedge.network
September 8, 2025 at 7:08 AM
BeyondTheEdge 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...
Decoding how higher-order network interactions shape contagion dynamics - Journal of Mathematical Biology
Complex contagion models that involve contagion along higher-order structures, such as simplicial complexes and hypergraphs, yield new classes of mean-field models. Interestingly, the differential equ...
doi.org
August 28, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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!
August 28, 2025 at 8:41 AM
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
August 12, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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.
@math-martens.bsky.social
now on the arXiv at arxiv.org/abs/2507.06359.
Multiple Timescale Dynamics of Network Adaptation with Constraints
Adaptive network dynamical systems describe the co-evolution of dynamical quantities on the nodes as well as dynamics of the network connections themselves. For dense networks of many nodes, the resul...
arxiv.org
July 14, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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.
@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!
June 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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...
Frequency synchronization induced by frequency detuning
Analyses and experiments on multistable networks show that frequency detuning can promote synchronization.
doi.org
June 23, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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 Bick
Can 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.
June 6, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Can 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
Bear Networks
BeyondTheEdge publication: Bear Networks, mathematics of networks introduced by soccer-loving bears
www.beyondtheedge.network
June 4, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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/
0 mod 10 workshop
We are excited to announce a Workshop on Dynamical Systems at the Amsterdam Center of Dynamics and Computation of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The workshop, organised by Chris Bick and Bob Rink, ...
www.amsterdam-dynamics.nl
May 30, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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 Bick
You'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.
Dominic has his cake and they all eat it.
May 28, 2025 at 3:29 PM
You'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.
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...
Vacancy — PhD position in collective dynamics on networks
Do you have an inquisitive mind and a passion for mathematics or physics? Please apply for a PhD position at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
workingat.vu.nl
April 28, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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!
Reposted by Christian Bick
Bear Networks at the Dutch Mathematical Congress www.beyondtheedge.network/articles/bea...
Bear Networks at the Dutch Mathematical Congress
BeyondTheEdge researcher Raffaella Mulas spoke about outreach at the Dutch Mathematical Congress
www.beyondtheedge.network
April 23, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Bear Networks at the Dutch Mathematical Congress www.beyondtheedge.network/articles/bea...
Reposted by Christian Bick
Fantastic to have our own @lordgrilo.bsky.social for a visit in the NL! Join his seminar if you can.
🧑🔬Tomorrow 11am we have the honour to host Giovanni Petri
@lordgrilo.bsky.social, Professor @nunetsi.bsky.social, for a DIEP seminar on renormalization and higher-order interactions and their impact on collective behavior
🧡Curious? Check out the abstract and register here: ias.uva.nl/content/even...
@lordgrilo.bsky.social, Professor @nunetsi.bsky.social, for a DIEP seminar on renormalization and higher-order interactions and their impact on collective behavior
🧡Curious? Check out the abstract and register here: ias.uva.nl/content/even...
Renormalization and Higher-Order Interactions: Bridging Structure and Dynamics in Complex Systems - Institute for Advanced Study IAS
In this edition of the DIEP seminar series, Giovanni Petri, a Professor at the Network Science Institute at Northeastern University London, will discuss neuroimaging and AI systems, the application of...
ias.uva.nl
April 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Fantastic to have our own @lordgrilo.bsky.social for a visit in the NL! Join his seminar if you can.
Reposted by Christian Bick
👩👩👧👧 Open PhD position in collective dynamics on networks at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social !
⏳ As part of the Emergence at All Scales consortium, positions are gradually opening. Please share and forward to potential candidates!
Deadline to apply: 5/05
More info: www.d-iep.org/openeaasposi...
⏳ As part of the Emergence at All Scales consortium, positions are gradually opening. Please share and forward to potential candidates!
Deadline to apply: 5/05
More info: www.d-iep.org/openeaasposi...
DIEP | Dutch Institute for Emergent Phenomena
Open positions in the Emergence at All Scales consortium
www.d-iep.org
April 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
👩👩👧👧 Open PhD position in collective dynamics on networks at @vuamsterdam.bsky.social !
⏳ As part of the Emergence at All Scales consortium, positions are gradually opening. Please share and forward to potential candidates!
Deadline to apply: 5/05
More info: www.d-iep.org/openeaasposi...
⏳ As part of the Emergence at All Scales consortium, positions are gradually opening. Please share and forward to potential candidates!
Deadline to apply: 5/05
More info: www.d-iep.org/openeaasposi...
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...
Vacancy — PhD position in collective dynamics on networks
Do you have an inquisitive mind and a passion for mathematics or physics? Please apply for a PhD position at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
workingat.vu.nl
April 1, 2025 at 2:57 PM
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!
Vacancy — Postdoc in Dynamical Systems
Do you have an inquisitive mind and a passion for dynamical systems? Please apply for a Postdoctoral position at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
workingat.vu.nl
March 27, 2025 at 3:15 PM
About a week left to apply to join the Amsterdam Center for Dynamics and Computation as a postdoc!
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
0 mod 10 workshop
We are excited to announce a Workshop on Dynamical Systems at the Amsterdam Center of Dynamics and Computation of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. The workshop, organised by Chris Bick and Bob Rink, ...
amsterdam-dynamics.nl
March 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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