Evan Walter Clark Spotte-Smith (they/them)
I'm a teacher-scholar currently based in Dublin, Ireland, where I work at University College Dublin as an Ad Astra Fellow & Assistant Professor of Digital Chemistry. I am also an Adjunct Professor of Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. Though my training is in materials science and my professional affiliations are in chemistry and chemical engineering, my research interests are broad, including not only areas of the chemical sciences (e.g., sustainable chemistry, catalysis, electrochemistry, chemical reaction networks) but also network science, data science, pedagogy, philosophy (philosophy of science and ethics), mathematics (combinatorics), and more.
I founded and am currently working to build up the Community of Researchers Assessing Chemical Transformations and Exploring Reactivity (CoReACTER), an anti-oppressive, democratic research collective. I am an active supporter of open-source software, both through my own development efforts and in my work as a Topic Editor for the Journal of Open Source Software. I care deeply about teaching the next generation of scientists and researchers, and I actively seek out opportunities to mentor others, particularly those from marginalized backgrounds.
Outside of my academic work, I love reading, writing, drinking tea, and hiking.
Session
Many important networks have beyond-binary relations that make graph structures inefficient or insufficient representations. Hypergraphs, the generalizations of traditional graphs, are needed to study such complex networks. In this talk, we will discuss hypergraph modeling in Julia, primarily focusing on SimpleDirectedHypergraphs.jl, a recently developed package for complex networks with n-ary directional relations.