Add Synthetic Populations Seminar Series page

.docker/Dockerfile

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # start with official ruby docker image as base
-FROM ruby:3.1.2
+FROM ruby:3.4
 
 # set working directory within container
 WORKDIR /usr/src/app

.github/workflows/build-preview.yaml

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ jobs:
         # runs potentially untrusted code
         uses: ruby/setup-ruby@v1
         with:
-          ruby-version: "3.1"
+          ruby-version: "3.4"
           bundler-cache: true
 
       - name: Get Pages URL

.github/workflows/build-site.yaml

@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ jobs:
       - name: Install Ruby packages
         uses: ruby/setup-ruby@v1
         with:
-          ruby-version: "3.1"
+          ruby-version: "3.4"
           bundler-cache: true
 
       - name: Get Pages URL

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_data/citations.yaml

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   orcid: 0009-0006-4712-570X
   plugin: orcid.py
   file: orcid.yaml
+- title: "Animarium: an open, reproducible pipeline for synthetic populations of Italian\
+    \ cities \u2014 from ISTAT sources to open data"
+  authors:
+  - Mirko Degli Esposti
+  publisher: Preprint
+  date: '2026-01-01'
+  link: https://animarium.it/preprint.pdf
+  type: preprint
+  description: Preprint presenting the Animarium system and the collection of synthetic
+    populations of Italian cities.
+  tags:
+  - synthetic populations
+  - reproducibility
+  - open data
+  plugin: sources.py
+  file: sources.yaml
+- title: 'Animarium: Technical Report Version 1'
+  authors:
+  - Mirko Degli Esposti
+  publisher: Technical report v1.0, University of Bologna. arXiv:2608.27111
+  date: '2026-01-01'
+  link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.27111
+  type: preprint
+  description: Technical report on the Animarium pipeline (arXiv:2608.27111, https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2608.27111).
+  tags:
+  - synthetic populations
+  - technical report
+  plugin: sources.py
+  file: sources.yaml
+- title: Scalable Maximum Entropy Population Synthesis via Persistent Contrastive
+    Divergence
+  authors:
+  - Mirko Degli Esposti
+  publisher: Preprint, arXiv:2603.27312
+  date: '2026-01-01'
+  link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.27312
+  type: preprint
+  description: Solver, method and benchmarks for maximum-entropy population synthesis
+    (https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2603.27312).
+  tags:
+  - synthetic populations
+  - maximum entropy
+  plugin: sources.py
+  file: sources.yaml
+- title: 'Calibrating the Instrument: Controllability of an LLM-Driven Synthetic Population'
+  authors:
+  - Mirko Degli Esposti
+  publisher: Preprint, arXiv:2607.00910
+  date: '2026-01-01'
+  link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.00910
+  type: preprint
+  description: Controllability and internal validity of an LLM-driven simulation instrument
+    (https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2607.00910).
+  tags:
+  - synthetic populations
+  - LLM agents
+  plugin: sources.py
+  file: sources.yaml
 - id: arxiv:2511.09258
   title: 'Urban Complexity through Vision Intelligence: Variance, Gradients, and Correlations
     across Six Italian Cities'