Statistical Inference for Complex Networks - Agenda

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Statistical Inference for Complex Networks Workshop, December 3-5, 2008, Santa Fe NM

Organizers: Aaron Clauset (SFI) and Cris Moore (UNM & SFI)

The workshop is structured around short research talks (25 minutes), mainly in the morning, discussion and small-group time (mainly in the afternoon), and two long "plenary" style talks (50 minutes, Thursday and Friday mornings).

Agenda: Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

7:00pm - 9:00pm Welcome reception (Hotel Santa Fe)

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

8:15am - 9:00 Continental breakfast at SFI

9:00 - 9:30 Introductory remarks by Aaron and Cris

9:30 - 9:55 Dan Hruschka (abstract, slides, homepage)

Network models of sound change

10:00 - 10:25 David Lazer (abstract, slides, homepage)

Life in the network-- the coming age of computational social science

10:30 - 10:45 Break

10:45 - 11:10 Nathan Eagle (abstract, slides, homepage)

Mobile Phone Data: Insight into Behaviors and Societal Networks from around the World

11:15 - 11:40 Cosma Shalizi (abstract, slides, homepage)

Homophily, Contagion, and Confounding: Pick Any Three

11:45 - 12:15 Jennifer Dunne (abstract, slides, homepage)

Network models of food webs

12:20 - 2:00 Lunch

2:00 - 3:00 Discussion

3:00 - 3:30 Break

3:30 - 5:00 Small groups

7:00pm Dinner (Coyote Cafe)

Thursday, December 4, 2008

8:15am - 9:00 Continental breakfast at SFI

9:00 - 9:50 Plenary Talk, Eric Xing (abstract, slides, homepage)

Fitting Stochastic Models to Empirical Data (provisional title)

10:00 - 10:25 Joel Bader (abstract, slides, homepage)

Searching and clustering multi-modal biological networks

10:30 - 10:45 Break

10:45 - 11:10 Mark E.J. Newman (abstract, slides, homepage)

Identifying types of nodes in a network

11:15 - 11:40 Edo Airoldi (abstract, slides, homepage)

The exchangeable graph model

11:45 - 12:15 Jake Hofman (abstract, slides, homepage)

Community detection: model fitting, comparison, and utility

12:20 - 12:45 Aaron Clauset (abstract, slides, homepage)

Hierarchically modular structure in complex networks

12:50 - 2:00 Lunch

2:00 - 2:25 Eric Xing (abstract, slides, homepage)

Time (and Space)-Varying Networks: Reverse engineering rewiring social and genetic interactions

2:30 - 3:00 Discussion

3:00 - 3:30 Break

3:30 - 5:00 Small groups

Dinner on your own, or with new friends

Friday, December 5, 2008

8:15am - 9:00 Continental breakfast at SFI

9:00 - 9:50 Plenary Talk, Cosma Shalizi (abstract, slides, homepage)

Selecting Among Stochastic Models

10:00 - 10:25 Lise Getoor (abstract, slides, homepage)

Graph Identification

10:30 - 10:45 Break

10:45 - 11:10 Jure Leskovec (abstract, slides, homepage)

Kronecker graphs and connections between local and global models of network structure

11:15 - 11:40 Martin Rosvall (abstract, slides, homepage)

Mapping changes in science over time

11:45 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 2:30 Discussion

2:30 - 3:00 Wrap up

3:00pm Adjourn