Recent papers
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10/2025 - New review article on modeling urban sprawl (arXiv)
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10/2025 - New paper published in PRL: Universal Model of Urban Street Networks
(and on arXiv)
See also the interesting
blog post by David O'Sullivan
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09/2025 - New paper on the arXiv: Roughness and dynamics of urban sprawl
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New paper on arXiv: From lines to networks
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New menu in this website: Chess – Explore blogs, data, and code dedicated
to the science of chess.
Your comments and suggestions are most welcome!
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New paper published in PRL: Critical demand in a stochastic model
of flows in supply networks
- Article in Physics: How to Make Supply Chains More Resilient
by Mark Buchanan
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New paper in PNAS-Nexus: Surfacic networks (codes here)
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New paper about the entropy of variations in chess
Book on modelling urban population dynamics and statistics (Oxford Univ. Press)
Statistics and Dynamics of Urban Populations: Empirical Results and Theoretical Approaches
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This book describes all aspects of quantitative approaches to urban population growth
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From measures and empirical results to the mathematical description of their evolution
Book on spatial networks
Spatial Networks
A Complete Introduction: From Graph Theory and Statistical Physics to Real-World Applications
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Updated and largely augmented version of previous works (Table of contents here)
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Provides a comprehensive review of this interdisciplinary field
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Illustrates how graph theory and statistical physics can help solving practical problems
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Contains many examples of real-world applications from transportation networks to the brain
Springer 2022
Popular science book (in French)
(Editions Odile Jacob)
In the (french) media:
- Chronique d'Etienne Klein ici
- Emission sur RTBF Tendances première
- Emission "La librairie de l'Eco" BFM Business
(1ere diffusion Samedi 11/02 16h30)
- Interview pour Le Figaro (27/02)
- Chronique dans Le Monde (28/02)
- Emission RFI "Autour de la question" (21/03 15h00)
- Sud-Radio "Le numerique pour tous" (02/04)
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