Presented under the auspices of the Special Focus on Computation and the Socio-Economic Sciences, the Special Focus on Computational and Mathematical Epidemiology and The Center for Dynamic Data Analysis (DyDAn).
Monday, September 24, 2007
8:00 - 8:30 Breakfast and Registration (DIMACS Lounge)
8:30 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
Fred Roberts, DIMACS Director
Introductions
Tanya Berger-Wolf, University of Illinois at Chicago
Mark Goldberg, RPI
Malik Magdon-Ismail, RPI
William "Al" Wallace, RPI
9:00 - 10:00 Invited Talk: Structure and Evolution of Online Social Networks
Ravi Kumar, Yahoo! Inc.
10:00 - 10:50 High-Performance Combinatorial Techniques for Analyzing
Massive Dynamic Interaction Networks
David Bader and Kamesh Madduri, Georgia Institute of Technology
Cuts, Hubs and Webs in Peer-to-peer Concurrent Flow Networks
David Matula, Southern Methodist University
10:50 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 12:00 Invited Talk: Learning What Makes a Society Tick:
From Communication Data to Social Mechanism
Malik Magdon-Ismail, RPI
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch - DIMACS Lounge
1:30 - 2:45 Betweenness Centrality Measure in Dynamic Networks
Habiba, Chayant Tantipathananandh, and
Tanya Berger-Wolf, University of Illinois at Chicago
Embedding Resources in Social Network Analysis
Shekhar Pradhan, Marist College
Capturing Causality in Communications Graphs
Xiaomeng Wan and Nauzer Kalyaniwalla, Dalhousie University
2:45 - 3:00 Break
3:00 - 4:00 Invited Talk: Optimization Problems in Social Networks
David Kempe, University of Southern California
4:00 - 5:00 Late-breaking results mini-session and panel discussion:
If you would like to give a mini-talk please have a 5-10 min presentation ready
6:30 Workshop Dinner (DIMACS Lounge)
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
8:30 - 9:00 Breakfast and Registration (DIMACS Lounge)
9:00 - 10:00 Invited Talk: Collective Classification in Network Data
Tina Eliassi-Rad, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
10:00 - 11:00 Invited Talk: Dynamic Network Analysis with ORA: Key Challenges
Kathleen Carley, CMU
11:00 - 11:10 Break
11:10 - 12:00 Epidemic Thresholds for Infections on Networks
Laura Zager and George Verghese, MIT
Effect of Public Policies and Individual Behavior on the
Co-evolution of Social Networks and Infectious Disease Dynamics
Christopher Barrett, Virginia Polytechnic Institute
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (DIMACS Lounge)
1:30 - 2:30 Invited Talk: Recent Research on Statistical Models
for Social Networks, with a Focus on Imputation
Stanley Wasserman, University of Indiana
2:30 - 2:45 Break
2:45 - 4:00 Mixed Membership Stochastic Blockmodels
Edo Airoldi, Princeton University and CMU
Empirical Analysis of an Evolving Social Network
Gueorgi Kossinets and Duncan Watts, Columbia University
Persistence and Periodicity in a Dynamic Proximity Network
Aaron Clauset, SFI, and Nathan Eagle, MIT
4:00 - 5:00 Panel discussion and concluding remarks
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