https://moyarzun.netlify.app/talk/ Recent content in Talks & Events on Melanie Oyarzún Hugo -- gohugo.io en-US Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://moyarzun.netlify.app/talk/wids-budapest-2025/ Fri, 26 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://moyarzun.netlify.app/talk/wids-budapest-2025/ WiDS Budapest is one of the events I most wanted to document carefully because I was not only attending it, I was helping build it. In 2025 I served on the organizing committee and led the datathon for the first WiDS Budapest Datathon, conceived as a local spinoff of the global WiDS Datathon. My role covered the parts of an event that usually disappear behind a short CV line: shaping the challenge, coordinating mentors, preparing materials, thinking through the participant experience, and helping the day run in a way that felt both technically serious and genuinely welcoming. https://moyarzun.netlify.app/talk/ccs-2025/ Mon, 01 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://moyarzun.netlify.app/talk/ccs-2025/ At CCS 2025 I participated with two pieces of work: a presentation on local and global collective memory and a poster on friendship-based inequality in childhood cooperation. I like having both kinds of participation recorded in the same place, because conferences often work as milestones for multiple projects at once. Over time this page can grow into a richer record with slides, poster images, photos, and short takeaways. Photos Presenting in Siena. https://moyarzun.netlify.app/talk/ic2s2-2025/ Tue, 01 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://moyarzun.netlify.app/talk/ic2s2-2025/ At IC2S2 2025 I presented Unpacking Local and Global Collective Memory, a project connected to collective memory, cultural proximity, and large-scale social data. This is exactly the kind of event I want to register better on the website: it creates a trail of projects in motion, not only finished papers. It also gives me a place to later attach slides, photos, or a short reflection that can be adapted into a broader public-facing post. https://moyarzun.netlify.app/talk/netsci2024/ Sat, 01 Jun 2024 00:00:00 +0000 https://moyarzun.netlify.app/talk/netsci2024/ This conference presentation focused on work about heterogeneity and homophily in the academic retention of STEM students. It was part of an ongoing line of research connecting network structure, persistence, and inequality in higher education. For me, this event was also useful as a checkpoint: it helped sharpen how to communicate the project to a broader network science audience, and it marked a transition toward framing the work more explicitly around persistence and social structure. https://moyarzun.netlify.app/talk/ic2s2-2023/ Sat, 01 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://moyarzun.netlify.app/talk/ic2s2-2023/ At IC2S2 2023 I presented Friendship modulates hierarchical relations in public elementary schools. This project sits at the intersection of childhood inequality, cooperation, and social network structure, and the conference gave it a strong computational social science audience. This is also the kind of page I want to keep building over time: not just finished papers, but the research path itself through conferences, presentations, and collaborations. Photos A moment from IC2S2 2023 in Copenhagen. https://moyarzun.netlify.app/talk/netsci2023/ Sat, 01 Jul 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://moyarzun.netlify.app/talk/netsci2023/ At NetSci 2023 I gave a lightning presentation on friendship and hierarchical relations in public elementary schools. This work sits at the intersection of social networks, cooperation, and inequality in childhood social environments. The short format was especially useful for distilling the core contribution of the project into a compact narrative. It is also the kind of event I want to document better over time, because it can later feed into slides, short write-ups, and public communication. https://moyarzun.netlify.app/talk/le-havre-2023/ Thu, 01 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000 https://moyarzun.netlify.app/talk/le-havre-2023/ At the French Regional Conference on Complex Systems I presented Unpacking popularity: volume, longevity, connectivity and globality. This work was part of a broader line of research on collective memory and cultural dynamics, and it helped sharpen how to frame the project for an interdisciplinary complex systems audience. I also want this section of the website to capture smaller but meaningful conference stops like this one, because they often mark where ideas become clearer and more communicable. https://moyarzun.netlify.app/talk/palermo-2022/ Tue, 01 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://moyarzun.netlify.app/talk/palermo-2022/ At the International Conference on Complex Networks in Palermo, I presented Friendship modulates hierarchical relations in public elementary schools. This project was already taking shape as part of my work on social structure, cooperation, and inequality in school environments. Pages like this one help preserve the trajectory of a project across different venues, rather than only its final published version. Photo A conference moment in Palermo. https://moyarzun.netlify.app/talk/udd-science-fair-santiago/ Thu, 06 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://moyarzun.netlify.app/talk/udd-science-fair-santiago/ I also want this section to record events that sit outside the usual conference circuit. These photos are from the UDD Science Fair in Santiago, an opportunity to share research in a more open university setting and connect ongoing work with a broader audience. That matters to me because academic communication is not only about formal conference presentations; it also includes teaching, outreach, and the more public-facing moments where ideas begin to travel. https://moyarzun.netlify.app/talk/eusn-best-poster-2022/ Thu, 01 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0000 https://moyarzun.netlify.app/talk/eusn-best-poster-2022/ At the European Conference on Social Networks, I presented a poster on social interactions and school coexistence in neurodiverse elementary classrooms. This work later fed into a broader line of research on social integration, reciprocity, and classroom network structure. The event was especially meaningful because the poster received a Best Poster award. I would like this page to eventually hold the poster image, a short explanation of the project, and notes that could later become a LinkedIn post or a public summary.