Mark Newman
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Mark Newman was a member of the resident faculty of the Santa Fe Institute from 1998 to 2002 and is now a professor at the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan. 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:
- Strogatz: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v410/n6825/full/410268a0.html
- Newman: http://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0303516
Professor Newman's web page at U. Mich. is http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/