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
- 6:00pm Dinner (Maria's)
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
- 7:00pm Dinner (Coyote Cafe)
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
