Event

UMD/NIST Network Science Symposium

Friday, January 24, 2014
8:30 a.m.-2:00 p.m.
2117 Computer Science Instructional Center (CSIC)
Michelle Girvan
girvan@umd.edu
http://whoozin.com/W3Q-4PW-WFN6

The goal of this joint symposium is to bring together researchers who approach network science problems from the perspectives of different fields, such as computer science, physics, engineering, biology, and the social sciences. Our aim is to facilitate idea exchange between individuals whose research interests overlap because they involve complex networks, but who otherwise might not have the opportunity to interact. The symposium will consist of nine short talks from researchers at UMD and NIST.

Following the morning presentations, there will be a lunch for participants in the rotunda of the nearby Kim Engineering Building.

Please go to http://whoozin.com/W3Q-4PW-WFN6 to register for this event.  (Registration deadline January 20th, 2014).

Program

8:30-8:45am Sign-in and coffee

8:45-9:00am Introductory remarks

9:00-9:20am Ron Boisvert (NIST)
Network Science at NIST

9:20-9:40am Bill Rand (UMD, UMIACS, Business School)
Conversations, Conversions, and Leadership Identification in Social Networks

9:40-10:00am Fern Hunt (NIST)
Optimal and Near Optimal Sets for the Spread of Consensus in a Network Model

10:00-10:20am Hector Bravo (UMD, UMI ACS, CBCB)
Gene Expression Anti-Profile Networks

10:20-10:50am Coffee Break

10:50-11:10am Ed Ott (UMD, Physics, ECE)
Modelling the Dynamics of Gene Networks

11:10-11:30am Roldan Pozo (NIST)
A Network Measure for the Analysis of Large-Scale Graphs.

11:30-11:50am Armand Makowski (UMD, ISR, ECE)
Excursions on Random Graph Models

11:50-12:10pm Kevin Mills (NIST)
Predicting the Unpredictable in Complex Information Systems

12:10-12:30pm Jen Golbeck (UMD, iSchool)
Analyzing the Social Web

12:30-12:40pm Closing remarks

12:45-2:00pm Lunch