Gyorgy Korniss 
Associate Professor of Physics

Work on Influencing in Social Networks:
"Evolution of opinions on social networks in the presence of competing committed groups",
J. Xie, J.Emenheiser, M. Kirby, S. Sreenivasan, B.K.Szymanski, and G. Korniss, PLoS One 7(3): e33215 (2012).

"Social consensus through the influence of committed minorities",
J. Xie, S. Sreenivasan, G. Korniss, W. Zhang, C. Lim, and B. K. Szymanski, Physical Review E 84, 011130 (2011).
            News:   Science News Focus, "The power of true believers", by Adrian Cho
                           RPI News, "Minority Rules: Scientists Discover Tipping Point for the Spread of Ideas", by Gabrielle DeMarco
                           Discovery News, "Minority Rules: Scientists Find the Tipping Point", by Emily Sohn    
                           Freakonomics, "Minority Rules: Why 10 Percent is All You Need", by Matthew Philips
                           Communications of the ACM, "Researchers Find Tipping Point to Sway Public Opinion", by Paul Hyman
                           Forbes.com, "The Winning Attitude Tipping Point", by Holly Green

Events:
Mathematical Physics of Complex Networks: From Graph Theory to Biological Physics (MAPCON12),
May 14-18, 2012, MPI, Dresden, Germany



The International School and Conference on Network Science (NetSci2012), June 18-22, 2012, Evanston, IL