The Age of Networks:
Social, Cultural, and Technological Connections

Past Speakers, 2006

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December 7, 2006: Dukjin Chang, Seoul National University
Slides: Rooted Networks: Equity Holding Structure of Chaebol Business Groups, 1997-2003
Selected readings   Video

November 1, 2006: Garry Robins, University of Melbourne
Slides: Individuals within social systems
Video: http://atlas-real.atlas.uiuc.edu:8080/ramgen/spcom/SPCM-V-2006-8/age_net_2006.11.01.smil (requires Real Player)
Personal Page: http://www.psych.unimelb.edu.au/staff/gr/projects.html
Selected readings

October 27, 2006: Madhav Marathe, Virginia Tech
Slides: Computational Considerations in the Study of Real Very Large Complex Networks
Video: http://atlas-real.atlas.uiuc.edu:8080/ramgen/SPCOM/SPCM-V-2006-7/age_net_2006.10.27.smil (requires Real Player)
Personal Page: http://ndssl.vbi.vt.edu/people/mmarathe.html
Selected readings

October 31, 2006: Garry Robins, University of Melbourne
Slides: Workshop on Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGM)
Video: http://atlas-real.atlas.uiuc.edu:8080/ramgen/spcom/SPCM-V-2006-9/age_net_2006.10.31.smil (requires Real Player)
Personal Page: http://www.psych.unimelb.edu.au/staff/gr/projects.html
Selected readings

October 12, 2006: Peter Groenewegen, Department of Public Administration and Organization Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Slides: Reconstructing and Constructing Communities Through Social Networks
Selected readings

May 12, 2006: Raghu Ramakrishnan, Computer Sciences, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Mass Collaboration for Customer Support: A Case Study of Online Social Networks
Video: http://atlas-real.atlas.uiuc.edu:8080/ramgen/ncsa/ncsa-v-2006-15/age_net_2006.05.12.smil (requires Real Player)
Personal Page: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~raghu/
Selected readings

May 10, 2006: Robert Ackland, Centre for Social Research at the Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University
Slides: Virtual Observatory for the Study of Online Networks (VOSON)
Video: http://atlas-real.atlas.uiuc.edu:8080/ramgen/ncsa/ncsa-v-2006-14/age_net_2006.05.10.smil (requires Real Player)
Personal Page: http://acsr.anu.edu.au/staff/ackland/research.html
Selected readings

May 8, 2006: Carter Butts, Sociology, University of California at Irvine
Slides: Modeling Communication Dynamics During Extreme Events: the Case of the World Trade Center Disaster
Video: http://atlas-real.atlas.uiuc.edu:8080/ramgen/ncsa/ncsa-v-2006-13/age_net_2006.05.08.smil (requires Real Player)
Personal Page: http://erzuli.ss.uci.edu/~buttsc/
Radio Communication Networks in the World Trade Center Disaster and Emergent Coordination in the World Trade Center Disaster (both in pdf format)

April 20, 2006: Reka Albert, Physics, Pennsylvania State University
Slides: Modeling the structure and dynamics of complex biological networks
Video: http://atlas-real.atlas.uiuc.edu:8080/ramgen/ncsa/ncsa-v-2006-11/age_net_2006.04.20.smil (requires Real Player)
Personal Page: http://www.phys.psu.edu/~ralbert/
Selected readings

April 25, 2006: Leslie Loew, Cell Biology, University of Connecticut Health Center
Spatial Organization of Cellular Networks and Pathways
Video: http://atlas-real.atlas.uiuc.edu:8080/ramgen/ncsa/ncsa-v-2006-12/age_net_2006.04.25.smil (requires Real Player)
Personal Page: http://www.ccam.uchc.edu/people/loew/loew.html
Selected readings

April 18, 2006: John Padgett, Political Science, University of Chicago
Organizational Invention and Elite Transformation: The Birth of Partnership Systems in Renaissance Florence
Video: http://atlas-real.atlas.uiuc.edu:8080/ramgen/ncsa/ncsa-v-2006-10/age_net_2006.04.18.smil (requires Real Player)
Personal Page: http://home.uchicago.edu/~jpadgett/
Organizational Invention and Elite Transformation: The Birth of Partnership Systems in Renaissance Florence (pdf format)

2-day symposium
Making Public Service Telecommunications: Past and Present Challenges for Networked Information Infrastructures
April 14-15, 2006

April 6, 2006: Michael North, Argonne National Laboratory
Agent-based Modeling and Simulation of Networks
Selected readings

April 13, 2006: Katy Börner, Information Science, Indiana University
Maps/Networks of knowledge and Knowledge of Maps/Networks
Slides: Mapping the Structure and Diffusion of Scholarly Knowledge
Video: http://atlas-real.atlas.uiuc.edu:8080/ramgen/ncsa/ncsa-v-2006-9/age_net_2006.04.13.smil (requires Real Player)
Personal Page: http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/people/profiles.asp?u=katy
Selected readings

March 31, 2006: Jaideep Srivastava, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Minnesota
Who thinks who knows who? Socio-Cognitive Analysis of an Email Network
Video: http://atlas-real.atlas.uiuc.edu:8080/ramgen/ncsa/ncsa-v-2006-8/age_net_2006.03.31.smil (requires Real Player)
Personal Page: http://www.cs.umn.edu/people/faculty.php?user=srivasta
Who thinks who knows who? Socio-Cognitive Analysis of an Email Network (pdf format)

March 17, 2006: George A. Barnett, Sociology, SUNY Buffalo
Slides: A Longitudinal Analysis of the International Communication Network
Personal Page: http://www.informatics.buffalo.edu/faculty/barnett/
Selected readings

March 14, 2006: Keith Hampton, Communication, University of Pennsylvania
Slides: Neighborhood Networks in the Information City (This file is password-protected. In order to get the password, please contact Keith Hampton at khampton@asc.upenn.edu.)
Video: http://atlas-real.atlas.uiuc.edu:8080/ramgen/ncsa/ncsa-v-2006-5/age_of_networks_2006.03.14.smil (requires Real Player)
Personal Page: http://www.mysocialnetwork.net/
Neighboring in Netville: How the Internet Supports Community and Social Capital in a Wired Suburb (pdf format)

March 10, 2006: Alex Vespignani, Informatics, University of Indiana
Slides: Network Science: From the Konigsberg Bridge to the Internet Evolution
Video: http://atlas-real.atlas.uiuc.edu:8080/ramgen/ncsa/ncsa-v-2006-4/age_net-2006.03.10-0115pm.smil (requires Real Player)
Personal Page: http://www.informatics.indiana.edu/people/profiles.asp?u=alexv
Relevant Info: Law in the Age of Networks: Implications of Network Science for Legal Analysis (pdf format)

March 6, 2006: Steve Corman, Communication, Arizona State University
Network Models for the Analysis of Unstructured Text
Video: http://atlas-real.atlas.uiuc.edu:8080/ramgen/ncsa/ncsa-v-2006-3/age_of_networks_2006.03.06.smil (requires Real Player)
Personal Page: http://www.asu.edu/clas/communication/people/faculty/corman/
Relevant Info: Human Communication Research

February 28, 2006: Michael Macy, Sociology, Cornell University
Maybe It's Not Such a Small World After All: Spatial Networks and Complex Contagions
Video: http://atlas-real.atlas.uiuc.edu:8080/ramgen/ncsa/ncsa-v-2006-2/age_of_networks_2006.02.28.smil (requires Real Player)
Presentation: PowerPoint format

Personal Page: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/mwm14/
Relevant Info: Complex Contagion and the Weakness of Long Ties (pdf format)

February 15, 2006: Nan Lin, Sociology, Duke University
Slides: The Job Search Chain in China
Personal Page: http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Sociology/faculty/nanlin/
Relevant Info: Job search in urban China (pdf format)

February 13, 2006: Stanley Wasserman, Sociology, Psychology, and Statistics, Indiana University
Statistical Analyses for Network Science
Video: http://atlas-real.atlas.uiuc.edu:8080/ramgen/ncsa/ncsa-v-2006-1/age_of_networks_2006.02.13.smil (requires Real Player)
Personal Page: http://www.indiana.edu/~psych/faculty/swasserman.html
Selected readings

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