Today’s guest is Renaud Lambiotte Renaud is an associate professor at the Mathematical Institute of Oxford University, investigating processes taking place on large networks.In the episode, we talk about his story in science, the joy and value of exploring without a particular purpose, doing a PhD without publishing any papers, … and how reading classical texts by Boltzman and others early on has shaped the work Renaud does even to this day.When we get to the paper, we talk about Renaud’s recent work “Variance and covariance of distributions on graphs” (1) with co-authors Karel Devriendt and Samuel Martin-Gutierrez.#Timestamps[0:00:00] Intro to today's episode[0:00:59] Friendly banter, and being in awe of Mark Newman[0:07:00] Renaud's story[0:28:38] The Louvain Algorithm t-shirt[0:34:00] Now to discuss the paper!# CreditsThe podcast has theme music by Waylon Thornton. Songs are "American Heart" and "Seven". Via freemusicarchive.org and licenced under CC BY-NC-SA. The podcast was funded in part by the Villum Foundation. # References(1) https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.09155