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Networks: Algorithms, Statistics, and Social Science
March 13, 2015 @ 10:00 am - 5:00 pm
The UCI Data Science Initiative is hosting a one day symposium on recent research advances in network modeling and analysis. The interdisciplinary event will feature speakers from different backgrounds and perspectives, including social network analysis, criminology, computer science, and statistics.
Description:
The UCI Data Science Initiative is hosting a one day symposium on recent research advances in network modeling and analysis. The interdisciplinary event will feature speakers from different backgrounds and perspectives, including social network analysis, criminology, computer science, and statistics.To attend this symposium, please RSVP below. Attendance is free and open to all.
Date: March 13, 2015
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Time: 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Reception: 5:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. in the Calit2 lobby
Location: Calit2 Auditorium, UCI (directions)
| Time00 | Speakers |
|---|---|
| 10:00 | Introduction Padhraic Smyth, UCI Data Science Initiative and Department of Computer Science |
| 10:10 | Statistical Models for Social Networks – Some Points of Progress Carter Butts, UC Irvine Department of Social Sciences |
| 10:25 | Model-based Clustering of Large Networks David Hunter, Penn State Department of Statistics |
| 10:45 | Exponential-family Approaches to Jointly Model Network Relations and Endogenous Attributes Ian Fellows, UCLA Department of Statistics |
| 11:15 | Exponential Random Graph Models are Hard Will Devanny, UC Irvine Department of Computer Science |
| 11:35 | Comparing Local Structure in Social Networks Katherine Faust, UC Irvine Department of Social Sciences |
| 12:00 | Break |
| 1:30 | The Information Life of Social Networks Lada Adamic, Facebook |
| 2:15 | Extracting Local Structures from Geometric Networks David Mount, University of Maryland Department of Computer Science |
| 2:45 | Super-scalable Inference for Cross-Sectional ERGMs and TERGMs with Multiple Observations, via Edge Variable Thinning Carter Butts, UC Irvine Department of Social Sciences |
| 3:15 | Break |
| 3:30 | Noise and Its Impact on Social Network Algorithms David Kempe, University of Southern California Department of Computer Science |
| 4:15 | Pitfalls and Challenges in Stochastic Actor-Based Network/ Behavior Models John Hipp, UC Irvine Department of Criminology, Law and Society |
| 4:45 | Construction Algorithms for Online Social Networks Athina Markopoulou, UC Irvine Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science |
| 5:15 | Reception in Calit2 Lobby |
Event Chairs
Carter Butts (Social Sciences, UCI), Michael Goodrich (Computer Science, UCI), and Padhraic Smyth (Data Science Initiative, UCI)
This event is co-sponsored by the UCI Data Science Initiative and the Office of Naval Research (ONR) Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) program.