Events

Dissertation Defense

2:00 pm

Remote Participation via Zoom

Reasoning Together: Network Methods for Political Talk and Normative Reasoning

Apr

2020

Michael Foley

Dissertation Defense

2:00 pm

Remote Participation via Zoom

The Network Dynamics of Intragroup Conflict

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Talk recording available

Apr

2020

3:30 pm

Daniel Segrè

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Visiting Speaker

Environmental modulation of synthetic and natural inter-microbial interactions

Mar

2020

2:00 pm

Carolina Mattsson

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Dissertation Defense

Financial Transaction Networks Describe and Model Economic Systems

Mar

2020

1:30 pm

Sam Scarpino

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Visiting Speaker

COVID-19: Keep calm and wash your hands

Mar

2020

2:00 pm

MOBS Lab

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Symposium

NetSI: MOBS Lab presents Coronovirus (COVID-19) Updates

Feb

2020

4:00 pm

Brent Reidy

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Visiting Speaker

The Impossibility of Knowing Everything

Feb

2020

4:00 pm

Amin Rahimian

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Visiting Speaker

Social Network Interventions for Faster and Further Diffusions

Feb

2020

9:30 am

Timothy LaRock

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Disseration Proposal

Representing and Analyzing Pathway Data Through Networks

Feb

2020

3:00 pm

Mohsen Mosleh

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Visiting Speaker

Fighting Misinformation on Social Media

Feb

2020

12:00 pm

Zachary Steinert-Threlkeld

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Visiting Speaker

Image as Data: Automated Visual Content Analysis for Political Science

Feb

2020

2:00 pm

Marinka Zitnik

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Visiting Speaker

Learning Actionable Representations of Biomedical Data

Dec

2019

11:00 am

Kristina Lerman

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Visiting Speaker

Data Biases and Algorithmic Fairness

Dec

2019

3:00 pm

Maximilian Schich

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Visiting Speaker

A Shared Foundation for Network Science and Cultural History

Nov

2019

10:00 am

Cristopher Moore

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Visiting Speaker

The Planted Matching Problem

Nov

2019

2:00 pm

Matteo Riondato

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Visiting Speaker

SPuManTe: Significant Pattern Mining with Unconditional Testing

Nov

2019

10:00 am

Rossano Schifanella

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Visiting Speaker

Combined Effect of Content Quality and Social Ties on User Engagement

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Talk recording available

Mar

2019

Mark Newman

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Patterns and surprises in rich but noisy network data

Jan

2019

Jure Leskovec

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Deep Learning on Graphs

Apr

2018

László Lovász

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Hyperfiniteness, a decomposition principle for networks

Apr

2018

Duncan Watts

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Computational Social Science: Exciting Progress and Future Challenges

Jan

2018

Boleslaw K. Szymanski

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Failures, Dynamics, Evolution and Control of the Global Risk Network

Nov

2017

Sidney Redner

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Densification, Emergent Modularity, and Related Mysteries of Complex Networks

Nov

2017

Mario Small

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Understanding Personal Networks: The Limits of Big Data and the Perils of Common Sense

Sep

2017

Nicholas Christakis

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Social Network Experiments

Jun

2017

Neo Martinez

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Synthesizing Ecology with Ecological Networks

Apr

2017

Danielle Bassett

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The Network Architecture of Human Thought

Mar

2017

Sandra González-Bailón

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Networks and the Unintended Consequences of Communication

Feb

2017

Michael Macy

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Can We At Least Agree on Science?

Dec

2016

David Jensen

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Inferring Causal Models of Complex Relational and Dynamic Systems

Apr

2016

Jon Kleinberg

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Network Models for Long-Range Planning with Behavioral Biases

Apr

2016

Lise Getoor

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Collective Graph Identification

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May

2020

CCEGN2020: Critical and Collective Effects in Graphs and Networks

NetSI, in conjunction with DK-Lab and NSF, is sponsoring the Fifth Workshop on Critical and Collective Effects in Graphs and Networks (CCEGN-V). The workshop aims at facilitating the transfer of ideas, insights and interdisciplinary approaches to tackle new and exciting problems in random graph theory and its applications to real networks.

Jun

Jul

2020

SINSA2020: Summer Institute in Network Science and its Applications

NetSI is hosting a summer institute with eight network science courses offered over two weeks. The 2020 Summer Institute in Network Science and its Applications (SINSA) will be a two-week long program offering (8) short, intensive courses that explore fundamental network science and special applications of network approaches.

Mar

2020

CANCELLED: Mini-Workshop on Foundations of Quantum Mechanics & Field Theory

Harvard University will be leading an afternoon mini-workshop on foundations of Quantum Mechanics and Quantum Field Theory. Speakers will include Chip Sebens, Assistant Professor of Philosphy at CalTech, Jacob Barandes, Co-Director of Graduate Studies for Physics at Harvard, and Ned Hall, Norman E. Vuilleumier Professor of Philosophy at Harvard University.

Mar

2020

Computation + Journalism Symposium

The Computation + Journalism Symposium is a celebration and synthesis of new ways to find and tell news stories with, by, and about data and algorithms. It is a venue to seed new collaborations between journalists and computer and data scientists: a bazaar for the exchange of ideas between industry/practice and academia/research. This year, it will be hosted by Northeastern University in Boston on March 20-21, Friday-Saturday.

Feb