DIMACS/DyDAn Working Group on Network Models of Biological and Social Contagion

November 3 - 4, 2008
DIMACS/DyDAn Center, CoRE Building, Rutgers University

Organizers:

Lauren Ancel Meyers, University of Texas at Austin, laurenmeyers at mail.utexas.edu

Michelle Girvan, University of Maryland, girvan at umd.edu

Workshop Program:

Monday, November 3, 2008

 8:30 -  9:00  Registration and breakfast

 9:00 -  9:20  Introductions and opening remarks 
               Fred Roberts, DIMACS Director
               Lauren Ancel Meyers, University of Texas at Austin,
               Michelle  Girvan, University of Maryland

SESSION 1: NETWORK STRUCTURE

 9:20 - 10:00  Measuring human social networks from the perspective of disease transmission
               Jonathan Read, University of Liverpool 

10:00 - 10:40  Inferring social networks
               Aaron Clauset, Santa Fe Institute 

10:40 - 11:00  Morning break

11:00 - 11:40  Network Structure and function: Current perplexities
               Rich Rothenberg, Georgia State University

11:40 - 12:20  Modules, communities, and wannabees:
               inferring the structure and scale of complex networks
               Chris Wiggins, Columbia University

12:30 -  2:00  Lunch at DIMACS

SESSION 2: DYNAMICS ON NETWORKS

 2:00 -  2:40  Dynamics of Political Polarization
               Delia Baldassarri, Princeton University

 2:40 -  3:20  Serosorting in Dynamic Contact Networks
               Erik Volz, The University of California- San Diego
 
 3:20 -  3:40  Coffee break

 3:40 -  4:20  Tracing Information Flow Online
               David Liben-Nowell, Carleton College

 4:20 -  5:00  Respiratory disease dynamics
               Thomas House, University of Warwick

 5:00 -  5:40  Social Contagion in Blau Space: Imputing social context in survey data
               Miller McPherson, Duke University

 6:00 -  8:00  Dinner at DIMACS


Tuesday, November 4, 2008

 8:00 -  8:30  Breakfast and registration

 8:30 -  8:40  Opening Remarks 
               Lauren Ancel Meyers, University of Texas at Austin
               Michelle  Girvan, University of Maryland

SESSION 3: POLICY, INTERVENTION, AND OTHER APPLICATIONS

 8:40 -  9:20  Models of the co-evolution of networks and information flow
               Petter Holme, Royal Institute of Technology

 9:20 - 10:00  Modeling communicable disease spread: New tools for an old problem
               Babak Pourbohloul, British Columbia Centre for Disease Control

10:00 - 10:20  Morning break

10:20 - 11:00  New Theory and Experiments on Diffusion in Social Networks
               Damon Centola, M.I.T. Sloan School

11:00 - 11:40  Relationships between Social Norms, Social Network Characteristics, 
               and HIV Risk Behaviors in Thailand and the U.S.
               Carl Latkin, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

11:40 - 12:20  Using Networks to Study the Social Dynamics of 
               Mathematics Coursetaking in High School
               Chandra Muller, The University of Texas at Austin

12:20 - 12:30  Closing Remarks 
               Lauren and Michelle

12:30 -  2:00  Lunch at DIMACS

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