Mason Porter

@masonporter
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Professor of Mathematics at UCLA and External Professor at Santa Fe Institute.

I am an applied mathematician (and occasional physicist) who studies networks, complex systems, nonlinear systems, and their applications.

Websitehttp://www.math.ucla.edu/~mason/
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Mason PorterMar 12
Here is the published version of our paper "Bounded-confidence opinion models with random-time interactions" (by Weiqi Chu and me): https://www.math.ucla.edu/~mason/papers/weiqi-PRE2026.pdf
Mason PorterFeb 18

Here is an XKCD 2501 generator: https://marshdeer.github.io/xkcd2501-generator/

Below is an example that I made.

(h/t Valdis Krebs)

Mason PorterJan 29
Chaos induction!
Mason PorterJan 23

Our new paper on community-size biases in temporal networks is up on arXiv!

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.15635

Mason PorterJan 9
Another new paper: "Graph energy as a measure of community detectability in networks": https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05065
Mason PorterJan 8

New paper!

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03563

Mason PorterJan 5
Sometimes I get loopy and create stuff like this.
Mason PorterDec 6
Via a ChatGPT request. It's totally legitimate!
Mason PorterDec 1
Here is the published version of our article "Clustering-Induced Localization of Quantum Walks on Networks": https://www.math.ucla.edu/~mason/papers/localization-PRE-Dec2025.pdf
Mason PorterNov 27

New paper on arXiv: "Local Geometric and Transport Properties of Networks that are Generated from Hyperuniform Point Patterns"

Hyperlink: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.21082