Mission statement

The Leiden Complex Networks Network (LCN2) aims at bringing together scientists with a common interest in both theoretical models and empirical analyses of complex networks and random graphs. The LCN2 community shares the approach of using networks to describe real-world complex systems and aims at developing related analytical and numerical methods, while also being open to other research approaches for studying complex systems.

Members of this community meet during monthly seminars, each consisting of one or two scientific talks, designed for a broad audience, allowing for constructive exchanges of ideas between scientists from different disciplines. 

Nationally, LCN2 is affiliated with the Dutch Network Science Society:

Network Science Minor
The LCN2 team has developed a 30 ECTS minor programme for bachelor students at Leiden University and within the LDE context, introducing the topic of network science for a broad audience. It has a strong multidisciplinary nature and exposes the topic of complex networks from the perspective of mathematics, computer science, physics and social science.