[Air-L] Call for applications - Doctoral contract (3-year) at CNRS (Paris, FR) - 'Spatial analysis and modeling of music streaming dynamics' - Deadline June 21

[Thomas Louail]

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Dear colleagues,

If you know students who you think might be interested in the PhD 
contract offer below, could you please forward it to them?

Best regards,
Thomas Louail

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As part of the MELODYNAMICS project, funded by the CNRS 
Interdisciplinary Mission, we are seeking candidates for a PhD thesis on 
spatial analysis and modeling of music streaming dynamics. The thesis 
will be enrolled in the doctoral school "École Doctorale Physique en 
Ile-de-France" (ED-PIF, i.e. physics in the Paris region). The call is 
open to candidates holding a master's degree in physics, computer 
science or applied mathematics.

*Project summary*: Do new songs spread like epidemics, and do we observe 
spatial diffusion effects? Does the size of the city we live in 
influence the music we listen to?  How do recommendations and network 
effects influence listening habits and the discoverability of songs from 
different geographical origins? The rise of streaming platforms, which 
are accessible in almost every country, offering standardized interfaces 
and collecting highly detailed anonymized streaming data, allows for 
addressing such questions empirically, and studying this important 
aspect of human behavior. The doctoral student will investigate the 
spatial dimension of listening habits and preferences, the influence and 
interactions of different discovery channels (platform recommendations, 
social networks of individuals, living environment), as well as the 
spatial propagation of new music on a global scale. Identifying stylized 
facts, building simplified models, and applying machine learning 
techniques will be the tools used.

*Keywords*: Spatial dynamics of music listening; Spatial propagation of 
digital content; Spatial diffusion models; Modeling of complex social 
systems; Discoverability.

*Full description of the projet here*: https://bit.ly/4bzrPqX

*Profiles we are looking for*: Master's degree in physics, applied 
mathematics, or computer science, with a strong curiosity and 
inclination for interdisciplinary work with researchers in the 
humanities and social sciences.

*Submission of applications*:
https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/Doctorant/UMR8504-THOLOU-005/Default.aspx?lang=EN

Contact the PhD supervisors beforehand: Marc Barthelemy 
<marc.barthelemy at ipht.fr> and Thomas Louail <thomas.louail at cnrs.fr>

*Application deadline*: June 21, 2024.

Interviews will take place during the last week of June or first week of 
July.

*Start of doctoral contract*: October 2024.

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