INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NETWORK SCIENCE,
May 22-25
All Sessions will be in the Oak Room, Indiana Memorial Union (Mezzanine Floor)
* indicates 30min talks and + indicates 20 min talks.
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Best Conference Poster Awards:
- Justin Donaldson(1st Place)
- Winter Mason (2nd Place)
- Margaret Clements (3rd Place)
Monday, May 22, 2006
| 7:00am-noon | Registration |
| 7:00am-8:00am | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00am-10:00am | Opening Session (AUDIO, VIDEO) |
| 10:00am-10:30am | Refreshments |
| 10:30am-12:30pm | Session - Physics (AUDIO, VIDEO) Chair: Filippo Menczer + Scale Invariance and Hierarchy in National Road Networks Vamsi Kalapala, Vishal Sanwalani, Aaron Clauset, Cristopher Moore (University of New Mexico) (SLIDES) + CiteRank: A Google-inspired Ranking Algorithm for Citation Networks Dylan Walker (Stony Brook University), Huafeng Xie (CUNY), Koon-Kiu Yan (Stony Brook University), Sergei Maslov (Brookhaven National Lab) (SLIDES) + Price of Anarchy in Complex Networks Hye-Jin Youn, Hawoong Jeong (Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea) (SLIDES) + Origins of Self-similarity in the Growth of Complex Networks Hernán Makse, Chaoming Song (City College of New York), Shlomo Havlin (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) (SLIDES) + Optimal Ranking in Networks with Community Structure Huafeng Xie (CUNY), Koon-Kiu Yan (Stony Brook University), Sergei Maslov (Brookhaven National Laboratory) + IPD Network Creation Games Jan Scholz (Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Germany), Martin Greiner (Siemens AG, Germany) (SLIDES) |
| 12:30pm-1:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30pm-3:30pm | Session (AUDIO, VIDEO) |
| 3:30pm-4:00pm | Refreshment break |
| 4:00pm-6:00pm |
Session - Social Science (AUDIO, VIDEO) |
| 6:00pm -7:00pm | Setup Posters in Georgian Room, 1st Floor, IMU. |
| 7:00pm | Informal Opening Reception, "Picnic Fare" (included in the "Social Fee"). Georgian Room, 1st Floor, IMU. |
| 8:00pm | Poster Session, Georgian Room, 1st Floor, IMU. GiveALink: A Social Recommendation System Ben Markines, Lubomira Stoilova, Filippo Menczer (Indiana University, Bloomington) Analysis of Cowbird Social Networks with Graph Theory Metrics Cuauhcihuatl Vital, Emília Martins, Katy Börner (Indiana University, Bloomington) Some Problems that Arise when Taking a Network Science Approach to Informatics, and Some Possible Workarounds David Hakken, Muzaffer Ozakca (Indiana University, Bloomington) Emergence of Social Networks in a Model of Mobile Agents Traveling in a Complex Environment Denis Boyer (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico), Gabriel Ramos-Fernández (Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico), Vian Gomez (Instituto Latinoamericano de Comunicación Educativa, Mexico) Poster Proposal: Issues in Collaborative Mapping of Large Datasets John Burgoon (Indiana University, Bloomington) Tools of the Tool Makers Joseph Cottam, Andrew Lumsdaine (Indiana University, Bloomington) ZMDS: Visualizing Structural Entropy in Queried Network Sub-Graphs Justin Donaldson (Indiana University, Bloomington) Statistical Analysis of Evolving Socio-Political Networks Justin Gross, Stephen E. Fienberg, David Krackhardt (Carnegie Mellon University) The Chemistry Between Physicists Shashikant Penumarthy, Soma Sanyal (Indiana University, Bloomington) Evolution of Citation Networks with Aging of Vertices Soma Sanyal (Indiana University, Bloomington) Age-related Differences in Online Social Networking Thomas Hills, Christian Briggs (Indiana University, Bloomington) Identity and Meaning in Organizational Networks: Evidence from Fashion Houses and Combat Units Victor Corona, Frederic Godart (Columbia University) Dynamics of Gene Regulation on Content-Based Networks Duygu Balcan, Ayse Erzan (Istanbul Technical University, Turkey) Dynamics on Food Web Networks Rosalyn Rael (University of Arizona) |
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
| 7:00am-8:00am | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00am-10:00am | Session (AUDIO, VIDEO) Chair: Pip Pattison * Statistical Models for Social Network Structures, Individual Beliefs and Perceived Social Norms Garry Robins, Dean Lusher (University of Melbourne, Australia) (SLIDES) * Longitudinal Changes in Friendship Networks: An Approach from Exponential Random Graph Models Tasuku Igarashi (Osaka University, Japan), Garry Robins, Pip Pattison (University of Melbourne, Australia) (SLIDES) * The Dynamics of Viral Marketing Jure Leskovec (Carnegie Mellon University), Lada Adamic (University of Michigan), Bernardo A. Huberman (HP Labs) (SLIDES) |
| 10:00am-10:30am | Refreshment Break |
| 10:30am-12:30pm | Session - IT & Economics (AUDIO, VIDEO) |
| 12:30pm-1:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30pm-3:30pm | Session - Social Science (AUDIO, VIDEO) |
| 3:30pm-4:00pm | Refreshment Break |
| 4:00pm-6:00pm | Session - Biology (AUDIO, VIDEO) |
| 6:30pm-8:00pm | Pizza and Bowling (included in the "Social Fee"). Bowling Alley at the west end of The Commons, Mezzanine Floor, IMU. |
Wednesday, May 24, 2006
| 7:00am-8:00am | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00am-10:00am | Session Chair: Lada Adamic * From Human Diseases to Human Dynamics Albert-László Barabási (Notre Dame University) (SLIDES) * Statistical Properties of Optimal Paths Shlomo Havlin (Bar-Ilan University) (SLIDES) * Social Networks and Capital Formation Jeffrey Johnson (East Carolina University) * Dynamic Communication Networks During Extreme Events: an Intertemporal Analysis of Radio Communication During the World Trade Center Disaster Carter T. Butts (University of California at Irvine) |
| 10:00am-10:30am | Refreshment Break - Group Photo |
| 10:30am-12:30pm | Session - IT |
| 12:30pm-1:30pm | Lunch |
| 1:30pm-3:30pm | Session - Physics |
| 3:30pm-4:00pm | Refreshment Break - Living Network Game |
| 4:00pm-6:00pm | Open Laptop Session Chair: Weixia (Bonnie) Huang |
| 7:00pm | Restaurant Outing (included in the Social Fee). Meet ouside of Wittenberger Auditorium, 1st Floor, IMU. |
Thursday, May 25, 2006
| 7:00am-8:00am | Continental Breakfast |
| 8:00am-10:00am | Session * Googlearchy or Googlocracy? Santo Fortunato, Alessandro Flammini, Filippo Menczer, Alessandro Vespignani (Indiana University, Bloomington)(SLIDES) |
| 10:00am-10:30am | Refreshment Break |
| 10:30am-12:30pm | Panel Discussion with (AUDIO, VIDEO) - Katy Börner (Indiana University, Bloomington) - Neo Martinez, (Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab, Berkeley) - Katherine Strandburg (DePaul University) - Stephen Uzzo (New York Hall of Science) |
| 12:30pm | The End. |


