Workshop Details
Reconnect 2015: Mathematical and Computational Tools for Social Networks with Applications to Homeland Security
- Start Date: June 15, 2015
- End Date: June 21, 2015
- Event Start Time: 7:00 PM
- Event End Time: 12:00 PM
- Organizers: Margaret (Midge) Cozzens | Maurino Bautista
- Location: Room A-300 | Rochester Institute of Technology | Gosnell Hall
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A social network simply described is a set of actors (or points, or nodes, or agents) that may have relationships (or edges, or ties) with one another. Networks can have few or many actors, and one or more kinds of relations between pairs of actors. To build a useful understanding of a social network, a complete and rigorous description of a pattern of social relationships is a necessary starting point for analysis. Ideally we need to know about all of the relationships between each pair of actors in the population. The amount of information needed to describe even small social networks can be quite large. Managing this data—and manipulating it so that we can see patterns of social structure—can be tedious and complicated. However, computational and mathematical tools increasingly are being used to better understand and use the social network. Speakers at Reconnect 2015 will highlight the use of graph theory, algorithm development, economics through social networks, and responses to national and international catastrophes in social networks.
- Event Contact: Margaret (Midge) Cozzens | Christine Spassione
- Sponsors: CCICADA
- Audiences: Academic/Gov't/Industry Profess. | College/University Faculty
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Reconnect Workshops expose faculty teaching undergraduates to current applications of mathematical and computational sciences and provide an opportunity for government or industry professionals to learn about recent research in related areas. Topics are presented in a weeklong series of lectures and activities; participants are involved in both research activities and in writing materials useful in the classroom or to share with their colleagues. Participants may develop materials for publication in the CCICADA Research Reports or the Educational Modules Series published by DIMACS.
Anyone may apply. Preference will be given to faculty whose primary job is undergraduate teaching and those working at government labs. Two-year college faculty are welcome to apply. Teachers from groups not well represented in mathematics are especially encouraged to apply.