Structure, Statistical Inference and Dynamics in Networks: From Graphs to Rich Data - Agenda

Workshop Navigation

9:00 - 9:50 am	The Block Model, Belief Propagation, and Phase Transitions in Community Detection, Cris Moore (Santa Fe Institute)
10:00 - 10:30 am	“The Structural Virality of Online Diffusion,” Jake Hofman (Microsoft Research, NYC)
10:35 - 11:00 am	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 am	Inferring the Origin of an Epidemy with Dynamic Message-Passing Algorithm, Lenka Zdeborova (Institut de Physique Theorique)
11:35 am - 12:05 pm	Community Structure and Graph Partitioning, Mark Newman (University of Michigan)
12:10 - 1:25 pm	Lunch
1:25 - 1:55 pm	Inferring Latent Geometries of Real Networks, Dima Krioukov (University of California, San Diego)
2:00 - 2:50 pm	"Statistical Relational Learning for Rich Data," Lise Getoor (University of Maryland)
3:00 - 3:45 pm	Coffee Break
3:45 - 4:15 pm	Sharp Upper Bounds for Clustering in the Stochastic Block Model, Joe Neeman (University of California, Berkeley)
4:20 - 4:50 pm	Model Selection for Stochastic Block Models, Xiaoran Yan (University of New Mexico)

9:00 - 9:50 am	Selecting Statistical Models, Especially for Networks, Cosma Shalizi (Carnegie Mellon University)
10:00 - 10:30 am	“The Spectral Redemption,” Elchanan Mossel (Berkeley University)
10:35 - 10:50 am	Coffee Break
10:50 - 11:20 am	Social Network Dynamics in a Massive Online Game, Aaron Clauset (University of Colorado, Boulder)
11:25 - 11:55 am	Tanya Berger-Wolfe (University of Illinois)
12:00 - 2:00 pm	Lunch / Colloquium in Noyce
2:00 - 2:30 pm	Efficient Discovery of Overlapping Communities in Large Networks, Prem Gopalan (Princeton University)
2:35 - 3:05 pm	Controlling Nonlinear Dynamics in Complex Networks, Adilson Motter (Northwestern University)
3:10 - 3:45 pm	Coffee Break
3:45 - 4:15 pm	Highly Scalable Inference Techniques for Mix-Membership Block Models, Eric Xing (Carnegie Mellon University)
4:20 - 4:50 pm	"Finding New Order in Biological Functions from the Network Structure of Gene Annotations," Michelle Girvan (University of Maryland)

9:00 - 9:30 am	Information-Theoretic Measure of Influence for Social Networks, Aram Galstyan (University of Southern California)
9:35 - 10:05 am	“Next Generation Replicated, Gradient-Based, Enriched Ecological Network Data,” Jennifer Dunne (Santa Fe Institute)
10:10 - 11:00 am	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 am	Jure Leskovec (Stanford University)
11:35 am - 12:05 pm	Challenges of Modeling Directed Networks, Tammy Kolda (Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA)
12:10 - 1:10 pm	Lunch
1:10 - 5:00 pm	Small-group time with colleagues, hiking group option)

9:00 - 9:50 am	Community Detection by Pseudo-Likelihood and Link Prediction in Networks, Liza Levina (University of Michigan)
10:00 - 10:30 am	“Geometry of Large-Scale Networks and Its Implications,” Iraj Saniee (Bell Laboratories)
10:35 - 11:00 am	Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30 am	Statistical Tests for Contagion in Observational Social Network Studies Greg Ver Steeg (University of Southern California)
11:35 am - 12:05 pm	“Networks with Memory,” Martin Rosvall (Umea University)
12:10 - 1:25 pm	Lunch
1:25 - 1:55 pm	"Community Detection: A Bayesian Approach and the Challenge of Evaluation," Cindy Phillips (Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, NM)
2:00 - 2:30 pm	Measuring Social Networks, Sune Lehmann (Technical University of Denmark)
2:35 - 3:05 pm	“Experimentation in Online Social Networks,” Brian Karrer (Facebook)
3:10 pm	Closing Remarks, Cris Moore (Santa Fe Institute)
3:10 pm	Coffee Break

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