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From 1998 to 2002 I was a member of the resident faculty of the Santa Fe Institute.  Now I am an Associate Professor in the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan.  I've been teaching at the SFI Summer School since 1996. (In the distant past I was also an SFI postdoc, although sadly I never attended the summer school.)
Mark Newman is a professor in the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan.  Previously he was a member of the resident faculty of the Santa Fe Institute from 1998 to 2002.  He has been teaching at the SFI Summer School since 1996.


I'll be lecturing on networks, which is the main topic of my research.  Here are two review articles, one short and one long, that deal with networks.  You should try to take a look at the shorter one, by Strogatz, before week two of the school.  The longer one, which is by myself, is for reference:
Professor Newman will be lecturing on networks and recommends the following two review articles on the topic.  You should try to take a look at the shorter one, by Strogatz, before the first week of the school.  The second, longer one is for reference only:
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<li>Strogatz: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v410/n6825/abs/410268a0.html (If you don't have access to Nature where you are, you can also download a copy of this article from Strogatz's web page at http://tam.cornell.edu/Strogatz.html#pub.)
<li>[http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v410/n6825/full/410268a0.html S. H. Strogatz, ''Nature'' '''410''', 268-276 (2001)]
<li>Newman: http://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0303516
<li>[http://siamdl.aip.org/getpdf/servlet/GetPDFServlet?filetype=pdf&id=SIREAD000045000002000167000001 M. E. J. Newman, ''SIAM Review'' '''45''', 167-256 (2003)]
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I'll also be giving one lecture, on Monday June 11, about power laws.  Here are two articles on the topic, both for reference only, that cover the material I'll talking about:
Professor Newman's web page at U. Mich. is [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/ here]
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<li>Newman: http://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0412004
<li>Clauset ''et al.'': http://arxiv.org/pdf/0706.1062
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Mark's page at U. Mich. is [http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/ http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/]

Latest revision as of 16:17, 8 June 2008

Mark Newman is a professor in the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan. Previously he was a member of the resident faculty of the Santa Fe Institute from 1998 to 2002. He has been teaching at the SFI Summer School since 1996.

Professor Newman will be lecturing on networks and recommends the following two review articles on the topic. You should try to take a look at the shorter one, by Strogatz, before the first week of the school. The second, longer one is for reference only:

Professor Newman's web page at U. Mich. is here