Mason Porter
@masonporter
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Professor of Mathematics at @UCLA. External Professor at @sfiscience. Also part of the @OxUniMaths & @SomervilleOx families. Schooled at @Caltech & @Cornell
Los Angeles, CA
Joined January 2008
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The published version of our paper is now out: Title: "Oscillatory and excitable dynamics in an opinion model with group opinions". Authors: Corbit R. Sampson, Juan G. Restrepo, & MAP. I am particularly proud of a couple sentences in the introduction. :P
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My Mathematics Genealogy Project (MGP) page is up to date again, showing all 32 of my graduated PhD students (and 3 completed grandstudents). I don't have anybody slated to finish in 2026, so my direct descendants will be up to date for a while.
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Here is our new paper on microbiome dynamics: "Interacting Hosts with Microbiome Exchange: An Extension of Metacommunity Theory for Discrete Interactions" by Michael Johnson and Mason A. Porter
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There are many ways to describe Top Dog (which is a Berkeley institution), but "causal sausage joint" is a new one!. Meanwhile, you can perhaps find some "casual inference" in their statistics department. :P
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The UCLA mathematics department is doing pretty well here (at least according to ChatGPT).
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Our paper is out: "Perceived community alignment increases information sharing". by Elisa C. Baek, Ryan Hyon, Karina López, Mason A. Porter, & Carolyn Parkinson . Note: Whether or not you choose to share this post is related to the topic of our paper! :P
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The published version of our paper: "Competition Between Group Interactions and Nonlinearity in Voter Dynamics on Hypergraphs". by Jihye Kim, Deok-Sun Lee, Byungjoon Min, Mason A. Porter, Maxi San Miguel, and Kwang-Il Goh
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Tomorrow starts the biennial migration to the SIAM "Snowbird" conference on applied dynamical systems. This is my favorite conference series!. #SIAMDS25
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With a great group of colleagues, including some friends.
The Network Science Society has a new class of Fellows! Congratulations to the 2025 awardees:.Francesco Bullo.Guanrong Chen.Hawoong Jeong.János Kertész.Renaud Lambiotte.Philippa E. Pattison.Mason A. Porter.Eckehard Schöll.Sara A. Solla
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Here is the final published version of my paper on data ethics for mathematicians. It is one of the chapters in our new book on mathematics and computation for complex social systems. Hyperlink to the AMS website for my data-ethics chapter:
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In this problem in my mathematical-modeling course, I use emoji differential equations. :)
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Our book is out!. "Mathematical and Computational Methods for Complex Social Systems". Editors: Heather Z. Brooks, Michelle Feng, Mason A. Porter, and Alexandria Volkening. AMS site for the book:
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ChatGPT fail. "Based on publicly available images of Mason Porter, such as the one provided by UCLA, he is a middle-aged man with short, dark hair, glasses, and a friendly demeanor. He often wears professional attire, including dress shirts and blazers.".
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Our paper on bounded-confidence models with adaptive confidence bounds is now out in final form:
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Here is my ChatGPT muppet (although the integral is strange).
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Sometimes the most important role that I can play for our students is to be a thorn in certain people's sides. (It does tire me out and make me friends, though.).
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