Associate professor
Codirector, Dynamica Research Lab on the structure and the dynamics of complex systems
Board member, Centre Interdisciplinaire en Modélisation Mathématique de l’Université Laval (CIMMUL)
Associate researcher, CERVO Brain Research Centre
External faculty, Vermont Complex Systems Center (University of Vermont)
Département de physique, de génie physique et d'optique
Pavillon Alexandre-Vachon
1045 avenue de la Médecine
Université Laval
Québec (Québec) G1V 0A6, Canada
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News
2025.02.12 — New paper in Nat. Med.: Pandemic monitoring with global aircraft-based wastewater surveillance networks.
2025.02.04 — New paper in Netw. Neurosci.: Firing rate distributions in plastic networks of spiking neurons.
2025.01.23 — Last year's edition of the International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci2024) recieved the Scientific event of the year 2024 award by the Cercles des ambassadeurs de Québec! Laurent Hébert-Dufresne and myself received the prize from the hands of Québec City's mayor, Bruno Marchand.
2025.01.06 — New manuscript on the arXiv: On the reconstruction limits of complex networks.
2024
2024.11.06 — The slides from my talk at the Theoretical Challenges in Network Science (TCNS2024) international workshop at the Korea Institute for Advanced Study (KIAS) titled Simplicity meets complexity: Challenges in reproducing complex connectivity patterns with simple models are available here.
2024.09.30 — New manuscript on the arXiv: On the Uniform Sampling of the Configuration Model with Centrality Constraints.
2024.09.06 — New paper in Phys. Rev. E: Network compression with configuration models and the minimum description length.
2024.09.03 — The slides from my talk at the EPINEXT: Next-gen Methods for Data-Rich Epidemic Models satellite at the Conference on Complex Systems (CCS2024) titled Modeling Complex and Interacting Contagions with Approximate Master Equations are available here.
2024.08.04 — New manuscript on medRxiv: Optimization and performance analytics of global aircraft-based wastewater surveillance networks.
2024.07.31 — My Sentinelle Nord Research Chair on Applications and Theory of Network Analysis has come to its scheduled end. I want to thank Sentinelle Nord for this great opportunity that brought me back to my hometown and ensured the continuation of complex systems research at Université Laval's Physics Department. Here's to many more years of curiosity, creativity and fun!
2024.06.21 — I am honored to have been awarded the 2024 Erdős-Rényi Prize in Network Science by the Network Science Society. The slides from my lecture titled Simplicity meets complexity: Reproducing complex connectivity patterns with simple models can be found here.
2024.06.17 — New manuscript on the arXiv: Symmetry-driven embedding of networks in hyperbolic space.
2024.06.17 — We are proud to welcome the Network Science community in Québec for NetSci2024, this year's edition of the International School and Conference on Network Science. Vincent Thibeault, Zahra Yazdani, François Thibault, Simon Lizotte, Olivier Ribordy, Jérémi Lesage, Benjamin Claveau, Ilhem Bouderbala, Mariah Boudreau are presenting our latest results.
2024.06.05 — I am honored to have been awarded the Star Teacher prize (based on students evaluation) by the Faculty of Science and Engineering.
2024.05.25 — New paper in Nat. Commun.: Duality between predictability and reconstructability in complex systems.
2024.04.17 — New paper in npj Complex.: The path of complexity.
2024.04.12 — I am deeply honored to have been elected teacher of the year by the undergraduate Physics students.
2024.04.11 — I have been awarded a NSERC Discovery grant for the 2024–2030 period.
2024.02.14 — Our recent article The low-rank hypothesis of complex systems was featured on the cover of Nature Physics.
2024.01.18 — We were awarded the grant Soutien à l'organisation de congrès internationaux 2023 for the organization of NetSci 2024.
2024.01.12 — New paper in Netw. Neurosci.: NBS-SNI, an extension of the Network-based statistic: Abnormal functional connections between important structural actors.
2024.01.10 — New paper in Nat. Phys.: The low-rank hypothesis of complex systems.
2023
2023.12.28 — New paper in PNAS: Nonlinear bias toward complex contagion in uncertain transmission settings.
2023.12.07 — New paper in BMC Global Public Health: The unintended consequences of inconsistent closure policies and mobility restrictions during epidemics.
2023.12.04 — New paper in Sci. Rep.: Hypergraph reconstruction from uncertain pairwise observations.
2023.11.22 — New paper in Nat. Commun.: The D-Mercator method for the multidimensional hyperbolic embedding of real networks.
2023.11.02 — New paper in Nat. Phys.: Geometric description of clustering in directed networks.
2023.11.01 — New manuscript on bioRxiv: A probabilistic methodology to reconstruct biodiversity from implicit interactions with indicator species along latitudinal co-occurrence networks.
2023.10.27 — New paper in Sci. Total Environ.: The umbrella value of caribou management strategies for biodiversity conservation in boreal forests under global change.
2023.10.20 — New paper in Bull. Math. Biol.: Temporal and Probabilistic Comparisons of Epidemic Interventions.
2023.09.28 — The slides from my talk at the Vermont-KIAS workshop titled Rethinking interactions among the constituents of complex systems: The case for latent hyperbolic geometry are available here.
2023.07.25 — New paper in J. Phys. Complex.: Hierarchical team structure and multidimensional localization (or siloing) on networks.
2023.07.19 — New paper in Proc. R. Soc. A: Exact and rapid linear clustering of networks with dynamic programming.
2023.07.12 — François Thibault, Simon Lizotte, Jérémi Lesage, Alice Patania, Guillaume St-Onge and Laurent Hébert-Dufresne are presenting our latest results at the NetSci 2023 conference.
2023.06.30 — The slides from my talk at the Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Systems titled Geometric description of clustering in directed networks are available here.
2023.06.01 — I have been promoted to Associate professor with tenure.
2023.05.21 — The slides from my lectures at the Advanced Field School in Computational Ecology titled An introduction to the methodologies for studying complex networks are available here.
2023.05.19 — New paper in PNAS Nexus: Dimension reduction of dynamics on modular and heterogeneous directed networks.
2023.05.09 — New paper in PNAS Nexus: Dimension matters when modeling network communities in hyperbolic spaces.
2023.05.08 — New paper in SIAM Reviews: The role of directionality, heterogeneity and correlations in epidemic risk and spread.
2023.04.27 — New paper in Diversity and Distributions: Effects of global change on bird and beetle populations in boreal forest landscape: An assemblage dissimilarity analysis.
2022.04.21 — The slides from my talk at the workshop Dynamics of Interacting Contagions at the Santa Fe Institute titled The role of directionality, heterogeneity & correlations in epidemic risk and spread are available here.
2023.03.15 — New paper in PLOS Climate: Long-term effect of forest harvesting on boreal species assemblages under climate change.
2023.01.27 — Olivier Ribordy successfully completed his Master's degree in Physics with the final acceptation of his thesis titled De la densité spectrale des réseaux extrêmement creux. Congratulations!
2022
2022.12.20 — François Thibault successfully completed his Master's degree in Physics with the final acceptation of his thesis titled Modèles de graphes aléatoires avec séquences de degrés et de centralité fixes. Congratulations!
2022.12.15 — Béatrice Désy successfully completed her Master's degree in Physics with the final acceptation of her thesis titled Effets de la dimension des réseaux hyperboliques sur la modélisation de la structure communautaire. Her thesis was added to the Board of Honour, the highest distinction at Université Laval. Congratulations!
2022.12.01 — Simon Lizotte successfully completed his Master's degree in Physics with the final acceptation of his thesis titled Inférence de la structure d’interactions de données bruitées. His thesis was added to the Board of Honour, the highest distinction at Université Laval. Congratulations!
2022.07.25 — Béatrice Désy, François Thibault and Simon Lizotte are presenting our latest results at the NetSci 2022 conference.
2022.07.07 — The slides from my seminar at Universitat de Barcelona Institute of Complex Systems titled Dynamics on networks through the lens of spectral and information theories are available here.
2022.06.21 — New paper published in the FAccT'22 proceedings: Limits of Individual Consent and Models of Distributed Consent in Online Social Networks.
2022.05.19 — Francis Normand successfully completed his Master's degree in Biophotonics with the final acceptation of his thesis titled Network-based approaches for case-control studies diagnostic/investigations. Congratulations!
2022.04.01 — The slides from my presentation at CIMMUL's seminar dedicated to the scientific contribution of Siméon Denis Poisson titled Graphe poissonnien, un oxymore? are available here.
2022.03.31 — Guillaume St-Onge and Vincent Thibeault are presenting our latest results at the Fifth Northeast Regional Conference on Complex Systems (NERCCS 2022).
2022.03.22 — The slides from my seminar for McGill University's PhD Program in Quantitative Life Sciences titled Contact Network Epidemiology: Heterogeneity and Stochasticity of Disease Spread are available here.
2022.03.03 — Guillaume St-Onge completed his PhD in Physics with the successful defence of his thesis titled Processus de contagion sur réseaux complexes au-delà des interactions dyadiques. His thesis was added to the Board of Honour, the highest distinction at Université Laval. Congratulations!
2022.02.16 — New paper in Phys. Rev. Research: Predicting the diversity of early epidemic spread on networks.
2022.01.17 — New paper in Commun. Phys.: Influential groups for seeding and sustaining nonlinear contagion in heterogeneous hypergraphs.
2021
2021.10.06 — New paper in Phys. Rev. Lett.: Universal Nonlinear Infection Kernel from Heterogeneous Exposure on Higher-Order Networks.
2021.08.05 — New paper in Nat. Commun.: Deep learning of contagion dynamics on complex networks.
2021.07.05 — Patrick Desrosiers, Charles Murphy, Guillaume St-Onge, Vincent Thibeault, Marina Vegué Llorente and myself are presenting our latest results at the Networks 2021 conference.
2021.05.23 — Charles Murphy, Guillaume St-Onge, Vincent Thibeault and Marina Vegué Llorente are presenting our latest results at the SIAM Conference on Applications of Dynamical Systems (DS21).
2021.05.03 — Olivier Lapointe-Gagné, Pierre-Luc Larouche and Jérémi Lesage join the group as summer interns.
2021.04.09 — Immensely honored to have been awarded the 2021 ADEPUL prize for ``Teacher of the year'' (elected by the Physics undergraduate students).
2021.04.01 — Guillaume St-Onge, Vincent Thibeault and Marina Vegué Llorente are presenting our latest results at the Fourth Northeast Regional Conference on Complex Systems (NERCCS 2021).
2021.03.01 — New paper in Phys. Rev. Lett.: Social confinement and mesoscopic localization of epidemics on networks.
2021.03.01 — New paper in Phys. Rev. E: Master equation analysis of mesoscopic localization in contagion dynamics on higher-order networks.
2021.02.11 — Immensely honored to have been nominated as an external faculty member of the Vermont Complex Systems Center at the University of Vermont.
2020
2020.11.12 — New paper in PLOS Biol.: Superspreading events in the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2: Opportunities for interventions and control.
2020.11.04 — New paper in J. R. Soc. Interface: Beyond R0: heterogeneity in secondary infections and probabilistic epidemic forecasting.
2020.11.02 — Dr. Ilhem Bouderbala joins the group as postdoctoral fellow.
2020.09.23 — Just published an essay in ACFAS Magazine on the role mathematical modeling plays in understanding the behavior of complex systems.
2020.08.31 — François Thibault and Olivier Ribordy join the group as MSc students.
2019.08.06 — New paper in PNAS: Geometric renormalization unravels self-similarity of the multiscale human connectome.
2020.05.04 — Simon Lizotte joins the group as a MSc student.
2020.03.14 — Just published an essay on medium.com on event cancellations due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
2020.02.03 — New paper in PLOS Comput. Biol.: Navigable maps of structural brain networks across species.
2020.01.20 — Dr. Marina Vegué Llorente joins the group as postdoctoral fellow.
2019
2019.12.16 — New paper in New J. Phys.: Mercator: uncovering faithful hyperbolic embeddings of complex networks. Associated code is available on Github.
2019.12.15 — Kick-off of the second edition of Complex Networks Winter Workshop, a week-long international school offering a unique opportunity for participants to engage in rigorous transdisciplinary complexity science research alongside some of the top researchers in the field of networks. Organized jointly by Sentinelle Nord and by the Vermont Complex Systems Center. Hashtag: #CNWW19.
2019.10.29 — Invited seminar Deep learning of dynamical epidemic processes on complex networks at the Universitat de Barcelona Institute of Complex Systems.
2019.08.28 — Official inauguration of the Sentinelle Nord Research Chair on Applications and Theory of Network Analysis (details in French here).
2019.08.05 — New paper in Phys. Rev. Research: Smeared phase transitions in percolation on real complex networks.
2019.06.14 — Onion decomposition as introduced here (and used here and here) will be included in NetworkX 2.4 (preview).
2019.06.05 — I am now a member of the Centre Interdisciplinaire en Modélisation Mathématique de l’Université Laval (CIMMUL; Interdisciplinary Center for Mathematical Modeling).
2019.04.16 — Funding: Awarded a NSERC Discovery grant for the 2019–2024 period.
2019.03.27 — Distinction: Honored to have been elected teacher of the year by the undergraduate Physics students (details in French here).
2019.03.20 — Invited talk at Complenet'19: Honored to have been given the opportunity to present recent work done in collaboration with Laurent Hébert-Dufresne (published here, here and in another forthcoming paper) at this year's edition of Complenet in Tarragona.
2019.02.05 — New paper in Phys. Rev. X: Percolation and the Effective Structure of Complex Networks.
2018
2018.12.15 — First edition of Complex Networks Winter Workshop, a week-long international school offering an extraordinary opportunity for participants to engage in rigorous transdisciplinary complexity science research alongside some of the top researchers in the field of networks. Organized jointly by Sentinelle Nord, the Vermont Complex Systems Center and the Network Science Institute. Hashtag: #CNWW18.
Research team
My Research Chair is part of the Dynamica Research Lab on Complex Systems that I lead alongside Patrick Desrosiers. I also co-supervise students or postdoctoral researchers affiliated with other research groups.
Dynamica Lab annual scientific symposium (Aug. 2024)
(back) Antoine A., Olivier R., François T., Antoine L., Arthur L., Patrick D., Vincent T., Jordan C.
(front) Félix O., Jérémi L., Benjamin C., Zahra Y., Simon L.
(absent) Azénor B., Gabriel B., Charles M.
Currently under my (co-)supervision
Gabriel Bergeron
PhD student
Simon Lizotte
PhD student
Olivier Ribordy
PhD student
François Thibault
PhD student
Zahra Yazdani
PhD student
Benjamin Claveau
MSc student
Félix Olivier
MSc student (summer 2025)
Former members
Publications
Listed in inverse chronological order; equal contributions are denoted by *.
Most of the publications below can also be found on arXiv or on Google Scholar.
Submitted manuscripts and preprints
On the reconstruction limits of complex networks
C. Murphy, S. Lizotte, F. Thibault, V. Thibeault, P. Desrosiers, and A. Allard
arXiv
On the Uniform Sampling of the Configuration Model with Centrality Constraints
F. Thibault, L. Hébert-Dufresne and A. Allard
arXiv
Symmetry-driven embedding of networks in hyperbolic space
S. Lizotte, J.-G. Young and A. Allard
arXiv
A probabilistic methodology to reconstruct biodiversity from implicit interactions with indicator species along latitudinal co-occurrence networks
I. Bouderbala, J. A. Tremblay, D. Fortin, A. Allard and P. Desrosiers
bioRxiv
Modeling critical connectivity constraints in random and empirical networks
L. Hébert-Dufresne, M. Pósfai and A. Allard
arXiv
The network epidemiology of an Ebola epidemic
L. Hébert-Dufresne, J.-G. Young, J. Bedson, L. A. Skrip, D. Pedi, M. F. Jalloh, B. Raulier, O. Lapointe-Gagné, A. Jambai, A. Allard and B. M. Althouse
arXiv
On the accuracy of message-passing approaches to percolation in complex networks
A. Allard and L. Hébert-Dufresne
arXiv
2020–present
Pandemic monitoring with global aircraft-based wastewater surveillance networks
G. St-Onge, J. T. Davis, L. Hébert-Dufresne, A. Allard, A. Urbinati, S. V. Scarpino, M. Chinazzi and A. Vespignani
Nature Medicine (2025)
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Firing rate distributions in plastic networks of spiking neurons
M. Vegué, A. Allard and P. Desrosiers
Network Neuroscience (2025)
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arXiv
Network compression with configuration models and the minimum description length
L. Hébert-Dufresne, J.-G. Young, A. Daniels, A. Kirkley and A. Allard
Physical Review E 110, 034305 (2024)
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Duality between predictability and reconstructability in complex systems
C. Murphy, V. Thibeault, A. Allard and P. Desrosiers
Nature Communications 15, 4478 (2024)
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The path of complexity
L. Hébert-Dufresne, A. Allard, J. Garland, E. A. Hobson and L. Zaman
npj Complexity 1, 4 (2024)
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Escherichia coli CRISPR arrays from early life fecal samples preferentially target prophages
M. B. Dion, S. A. Shah, L. Deng, J. Thorsen, J. Stokholm, K. A. Krogfelt, S. Schjørring, P. Horvath, A. Allard, D. S. Nielsen, M.-A. Petit and S. Moineau
The ISME Journal 18, wrae005 (2024)
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NBS-SNI, an extension of the Network-based statistic: Abnormal functional connections between important structural actors
F. Normand, M. Gajwani, D. C. Côté and A. Allard
Network Neuroscience 8, 44-80 (2024)
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The low-rank hypothesis of complex systems
V. Thibeault, A. Allard and P. Desrosiers
Nature Physics 20, 294–302 (2024)
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Geometric description of clustering in directed networks
A. Allard, M. Á. Serrano and M. Boguñá
Nature Physics 20, 150–156 (2024)
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The umbrella value of caribou management strategies for biodiversity conservation in boreal forests under global change
G. Labadie, I. Bouderbala, Y. Boulanger, J.-M. Béland, C. Hébert, A. Allard, M. Hebblewhite and D. Fortin
Science of the Total Environment 907, 168087 (2024)
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Nonlinear bias toward complex contagion in uncertain transmission settings
G. St-Onge, L. Hébert-Dufresne and A. Allard
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 121, e2312202121 (2023)
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The unintended consequences of inconsistent closure policies and mobility restrictions during epidemics
B. M. Althouse, B. Wallace, B. Case, S. V. Scarpino, A. Allard, A. M. Berdahl, E. R. White and L. Hébert-Dufresne
BMC Global and Public Health 1, 28 (2023)
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medRxiv
Hypergraph reconstruction from uncertain pairwise observations
S. Lizotte, J.-G. Young and A. Allard
Scientific Reports 13, 21364 (2023)
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arXiv
The D-Mercator method for the multidimensional hyperbolic embedding of real networks
R. Jankowski, A. Allard, M. Boguñá and M. Á. Serrano
Nature Communications 14, 7585 (2023)
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arXiv
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Temporal and probabilistic forecasts of epidemic interventions
M. C. Boudreau, A. J. Allen, N. J. Roberts, A. Allard and L. Hébert-Dufresne
Bulletin of Mathematical Biology 85, 118 (2023)
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arXiv
Hierarchical team structure and multidimensional localization (or siloing) on networks
L. Hébert-Dufresne, G. St-Onge, J. Meluso, J. P. Bagrow and A. Allard
Journal of Physics: Complexity 4, 035002 (2023)
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Exact and rapid linear clustering of networks with dynamic programming
A. Patania, A. Allard and J.-G. Young
Proceedings of the Royal Society A 479, 20230159 (2023)
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Dimension reduction of dynamics on modular and heterogeneous directed networks
M. Vegué, V. Thibeault, P. Desrosiers and A. Allard
PNAS Nexus 2, pgad150 (2023)
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Dimension matters when modeling network communities in hyperbolic spaces
B. Désy, P. Desrosiers and A. Allard
PNAS Nexus 2, pgad136 (2023)
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Effects of global change on bird and beetle populations in boreal forest landscape: An assemblage dissimilarity analysis
I. Bouderbala, G. Labadie, J.-M. Leblanc, Y. Boulanger, C. Hébert, P. Desrosiers, A. Allard and D. Fortin
Diversity and Distributions 29, 757-773 (2023)
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The role of directionality, heterogeneity and correlations in epidemic risk and spread
A. Allard, C. Moore, S. V. Scarpino, B. M. Althouse and L. Hébert-Dufresne
SIAM Review 65, 471-492 (2023)
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Long-term effect of forest harvesting on boreal species assemblages under climate change
I. Bouderbala, G. Labadie, J.-M. Leblanc, J. A. Tremblay, Y. Boulanger, C. Hébert, P. Desrosiers, A. Allard and D. Fortin
PLOS Climate 2, e0000179 (2023)
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Limits of Individual Consent and Models of Distributed Consent in Online Social Networks
J. Lovato, A. Allard, R. Harp, J. Onaolapo and L. Hébert-Dufresne
FAccT'22: 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency 2251–2262 (2022)
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Predicting the diversity of early epidemic spread on networks
A. J. Allen, M. C. Boudreau, N. J. Roberts, A. Allard and L. Hébert-Dufresne
Physical Review Research 4, 013123 (2022)
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Influential groups for seeding and sustaining nonlinear contagion in heterogeneous hypergraphs
G. St-Onge, I. Iacopini, V. Latora, A. Barrat, G. Petri, A. Allard and L. Hébert-Dufresne
Communications Physics 5, 25 (2022)
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Universal Nonlinear Infection Kernel from Heterogeneous Exposure on Higher-Order Networks
G. St-Onge, H. Sun, A. Allard, L. Hébert-Dufresne and G. Bianconi
Physical Review Letters 127, 158301 (2021)
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Deep learning of contagion dynamics on complex networks
C. Murphy, E. Laurence and A. Allard
Nature Communications 12, 4720 (2021)
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Social Confinement and Mesoscopic Localization of Epidemics on Networks
G. St-Onge, V. Thibeault, A. Allard, L. J. Dubé and L. Hébert-Dufresne
Physical Review Letters 126, 098301 (2021)
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Master equation analysis of mesoscopic localization in contagion dynamics on higher-order networks
G. St-Onge, V. Thibeault, A. Allard, L. J. Dubé and L. Hébert-Dufresne
Physical Review E 103, 032301 (2021)
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La modélisation mathématique pour cartographier le complexe et l'inconnu
(Mapping the complex and the unknown with mathematical modeling)
A. Allard, L. J. Dubé and L. Hébert-Dufresne
ACFAS Magazine (2020)
Superspreading events in the transmission dynamics of SARS-CoV-2: Opportunities for interventions and control
B. M. Althouse, E. A. Wenger, J. C. Miller, S. V. Scarpino, A. Allard, L. Hébert-Dufresne and H. Hu
PLOS Biology 18, e3000897 (2020)
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Beyond R0: heterogeneity in secondary infections and probabilistic epidemic forecasting
L. Hébert-Dufresne, B. M. Althouse, S. V. Scarpino and A. Allard
Journal of the Royal Society Interface 17, 20200393 (2020)
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Geometric renormalization unravels self-similarity of the multiscale human connectome
M. Zheng, A. Allard, P. Hagmann, Y. Alemán-Gómez and M. Á. Serrano
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 117, 20244 (2020)
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COVID-19: Cancel your next large event, and tell your friends to cancel theirs
G. St-Onge, V. Thibeault, A. Allard, L. J. Dubé and L. Hébert-Dufresne
medium.com
Genome-scale modeling of metabolism in the polar diatom Fragilariopsis cylindrus underscores the strong robustness of growth rate in response to cellular perturbations
M. Lavoie, B. Saint-Béat, J. Strauss, S. Guérin, A. Allard, S. V. Hardy, A. Falciatore and J. Lavaud
Biology 9, 30 (2020)
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Navigable maps of structural brain networks across species
A. Allard and M. Á. Serrano
PLOS Computational Biology 16, e1007584 (2020)
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2010–2019
Mercator: uncovering faithful hyperbolic embeddings of complex networks
G. García-Pérez*, A. Allard*, M. Á. Serrano and M. Boguñá
New Journal of Physics 21, 123033 (2019)
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Smeared phase transition of percolation on real complex networks
L. Hébert-Dufresne and A. Allard
Physical Review Research 1, 013009 (2019)
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Percolation and the effective structure of complex networks
A. Allard and L. Hébert-Dufresne
Physical Review X 9, 011023 (2019)
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A new approach to international trade from Network Geometry: The World Trade Atlas 1870-2013
G. García-Pérez, M. Boguñá, A. Allard, and M. Á. Serrano
S. Gorgoni, A. Amighini, and M. Smith (Eds.), Vernon Press, ISBN 978-1622730650
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Geometric evolution of complex networks with degree correlations
C. Murphy, A. Allard, E. Laurence, G. St-Onge and L. J. Dubé
Physical Review E 97, 032309 (2018)
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The risk of sustained sexual transmission of Zika is underestimated
A. Allard*, B. M. Althouse*, L. Hébert-Dufresne* and S. V. Scarpino*
PLOS Pathogens 13, e1006633 (2017)
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Asymmetric percolation drives a double transition in sexual contact networks
A. Allard, B. M. Althouse, S. V. Scarpino and L. Hébert-Dufresne
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 114, 8969-8973 (2017)
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Strategic tradeoffs in competitor dynamics on adaptive networks
L. Hébert-Dufresne, A. Allard, P.-A. Noël, J.-G. Young and E. Libby
Scientific Reports 7, 7576 (2017)
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The geometric nature of weights in real complex networks
A. Allard, M. Á. Serrano, G. García-Pérez and M. Boguñá
Nature Communications 8, 14103 (2017)
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★ Nature Communications' web collection on complex systems
Growing networks of overlapping communities with internal structure
J.-G. Young, L. Hébert-Dufresne, A. Allard, and L. J. Dubé
Physical Review E 94, 022317 (2016)
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Multi-scale structure and topological anomaly detection via a new network statistic: The onion decomposition
L. Hébert-Dufresne, J. A. Grochow, and A. Allard
Scientific Reports 6, 31708 (2016)
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The effect of a prudent adaptive behaviour on disease transmission
S. V. Scarpino, A. Allard, L. Hébert-Dufresne
Nature Physics 12, 1042-1046 (2016)
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Constrained growth of complex scale-independent systems
L. Hébert-Dufresne, A. Allard, J.-G. Young, and L. J. Dubé
Physical Review E 93, 032304 (2016)
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★ In the Editors' Suggestions section of Physical Review E.
The hidden hyperbolic geometry of international trade: World Trade Atlas 1870-2013
G. García-Pérez, M. Boguñá, A. Allard, and M. Á. Serrano
Scientific Reports 6, 33441 (2016)
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★ Featured in the section Economía of the newspaper El Periódico.
Complex networks as an emerging property of hierarchical preferential attachment
L. Hébert-Dufresne, E. Laurence, A. Allard, J.-G. Young and L. J. Dubé
Physical Review E 92, 062809 (2015)
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General and exact approach to percolation on random graphs
A. Allard, L. Hébert-Dufresne, J.-G. Young and L. J. Dubé
Physical Review E 92, 062807 (2015)
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A shadowing problem in the detection of overlapping communities: lifting the resolution limit through a cascading procedure
J.-G. Young, A. Allard, L. Hébert-Dufresne and L. J. Dubé
PLOS ONE 10, e0140133 (2015)
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The Social Zombie: Modelling undead outbreaks on social networks
L. Hébert-Dufresne, V. Marceau, P.-A. Noël, A. Allard, and L. J. Dubé
Robert Smith? (Ed.), University of Ottawa Press, ISBN 978-0776622101
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Spreading dynamics on complex networks: a general stochastic approach
P.-A. Noël, A. Allard, L. Hébert-Dufresne, V. Marceau and L. J. Dubé
Journal of Mathematical Biology 69, 1627 (2014)
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A system-level model for the microbial regulatory genome
A. N. Brooks, D. J. Reiss, A. Allard, W.-J. Wu, D. M. Salvanha, C. L. Plaisier, S. Chandrasekaran, M. Pan, A. Kaur and N. S. Baliga
Molecular Systems Biology 10, 740 (2014)
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Coexistence of phases and the observability of random graphs
A. Allard, L. Hébert-Dufresne, J.-G. Young and L. J. Dubé
Physical Review E 89, 022801 (2014)
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★ In the Editors' Suggestions section of Physical Review E.
Percolation sur graphes aléatoires: Modélisation et description analytique
(Percolation on random graphs: Modelling and analytical description)
Ph.D. Thesis, Université Laval (2014)
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Percolation on random networks with arbitrary k-core structure
L. Hébert-Dufresne*, A. Allard*, J.-G. Young and L. J. Dubé
Physical Review E 88, 062820 (2013)
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Global efficiency of local immunization of complex networks
L. Hébert-Dufresne*, A. Allard*, J.-G. Young* and L. J. Dubé
Scientific Reports 3, 2171 (2013)
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Bond percolation on a class of correlated and clustered random graphs
A. Allard, L. Hébert-Dufresne, P.-A. Noël, V. Marceau and L. J. Dubé
Journal of Physics A 45, 405005 (2012)
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Exact solution of bond percolation on small arbitrary graphs
A. Allard, L. Hébert-Dufresne, P.-A. Noël, V. Marceau and L. J. Dubé
Europhysics Letters (EPL) 98, 16001 (2012)
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Propagation on networks: An exact alternative perspective
P.-A. Noël, A. Allard, L. Hébert-Dufresne, V. Marceau and L. J. Dubé
Physical Review E 85, 031118 (2012)
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Structural preferential attachment: Stochastic process for the growth of scale-free, modular and self-similar systems
L. Hébert-Dufresne, A. Allard, V. Marceau, P.-A. Noël and L. J. Dubé
Physical Review E 85, 026108 (2012)
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Structural Preferential Attachment: Network Organization beyond the Link
L. Hébert-Dufresne, A. Allard, V. Marceau, P.-A. Noël and L. J. Dubé
Physical Review Letters 107, 158702 (2011)
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Modeling the dynamical interaction between epidemics on overlay networks
V. Marceau, P.-A. Noël, L. Hébert-Dufresne, A. Allard and L. J. Dubé
Physical Review E 84, 026105 (2011)
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Propagation dynamics on networks featuring complex topologies
L. Hébert-Dufresne, P.-A. Noël, V. Marceau, A. Allard and L. J. Dubé
Physical Review E 82, 036115 (2010)
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★ Also in the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, issue 7, vol. 20 (2010)
Adaptive networks: Coevolution of disease and topology
V. Marceau, P.-A. Noël, L. Hébert-Dufresne, A. Allard and L. J. Dubé
Physical Review E 82, 036116 (2010)
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Heterogeneous Bond Percolation on Multitype Networks with an Application to Epidemic Dynamics
A. Allard, P.-A. Noël, L. J. Dubé and B. Pourbohloul
Physical Review E 79, 036113 (2009)
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★ Also in the Virtual Journal of Biological Physics Research, issue 7, vol. 17 (2009)
Des Ponts d'Euler à la Grippe Aviaire: De l'abstraction mathématique à la réalité sociale des épidémies
(From Euler Bridges to the Avian Flu: From Mathematical Abstraction to the Social Reality of Epidemics)
A. Allard, P.-A. Noël, and L. J. Dubé
Accromath 4, 24-29 (2009)
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Modélisation Mathématique en Epidémiologie par Réseaux de Contacts: Introduction de l'Hétérogénéité dans la Transmissibilité
(Mathematical Modelling in Contact Networks for Epidemiology: Introduction of Heterogenity in Transmissibility)
M.Sc. Thesis, Université Laval (2008)
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