Opening Tutorials & Workshop

General Information
Application
Schedule

General Information

The Opening Workshop for the SAMSI program on Complex Networks will be held on Sunday-Wednesday, August 29-September 1, 2010, at the Radisson RTP in Research Triangle Park, NC.

On Sunday, August 29, tutorials will be presented. From Monday to Wednesday, invited speakers will give presentations. There will be a poster session and reception on Monday, August 30. Immediately following the workshop, on Thursday and Friday, research working groups will convene for initial meetings at SAMSI.

The workshop will focus on five complementary themes at the forefront of current research in complex networks, incorporating perspectives ranging from theory to applications, in disciplines spanning applied mathematics, computer science, probability, statistics, and statistical mechanics. The five focus areas are as follows.

(1) Network Sampling and Inference: Theory and methods relating to the sampling of network data and the corresponding inference of network characteristics, including applications to tasks like community detection and estimating the size of `hard-to-count' populations.

(2) Dynamic Networks: Modeling and inference of networks in the context of dynamical systems evolving in time, such as time-varying gene regulatory interactions or email social networks.

(3) Percolation and Diffusion on Networks: Theory regarding the behavior of phenomena like social contact processes and epidemics on networks.

(4) Spectral Analysis and Geometric Algorithms: Topics in network analysis integrating aspects of spectral graph theory and algorithms based on geometric embeddings.

(5) Biological Applications of Networks: Various applications of network-based approaches to biological problems, such as in the context of cell biology or the epidemic spread of disease.

The workshop will culminate in the formation of research working groups in the afternoon of Wednesday, September 1. These working groups will then meet individually at SAMSI on Thursday and Friday to further address specific research objectives to be addressed by the working group over the ensuing year. These meetings will also establish modes of cooperation for the working groups, via web or teleconference, to facilitate full participation of all members, regardless of residence status at SAMSI.

Organizers: Eric Kolaczyk (Boston University), Michael Mahoney (Stanford), Peter Mucha (UNC), Rick Durrett (Cornell)

Application

The application/registration deadline is August 6, 2010. Note, however, that workshop capacity might be reached before this deadline. Any application that requests support for expenses should typically be submitted at least 6 weeks in advance of the workshop.

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Please make reservations at the Radisson as soon as possible. The SAMSI rate is $109.
If you have a change in plans, individual room reservations must be cancelled 72 hours prior to arrival. Check-in is at 3:00 PM; check-out is 12:00 noon.

Tentative Schedule

Sunday, August 29, 2010
Radisson RTP

Overview Tutorials

Monday, August 30, 2010
Radisson RTP

Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Radisson RTP

Wednesday, September 1, 2010
Radisson RTP

Thursday, September 2 and Friday, September 3:
Individual Working Group meetings at SAMSI.

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