Workshop on Social Networks

This 5-day event will discuss the development and use of social networks in a number of contexts. The event will consist of tutorials, an industry-academic forum, plenary and contributed talks. The event will have approximately 70 participants.

Short Courses:

• A Short Course on Complex Networks
  (Antony Bonato, Ryerson University)
• Automated Discovery and Analysis of Online Social Networks
  (Anatoliy Gruzd, Dalhousie University)
• Sampling on Networks
  (Steve Thompson, Simon Fraser University)
• Computational Criminology
  (Patricia Brantingham, Uwe Glaesser & Sandy Rutherford, Simon Fraser University)
• Can Network Theory Help Terrorists?How Insurgents Can Use Graph- or Lattice-Theoretic Ideas to Evade or Defeat Coalition Forces
  (Jonathan Farley, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz)

Plenary Talk:

• Compressibility of Behavioral Graphs
  Ravi Kumar – Yahoo Inc.
• Exploring the Structure of Online Social Networks: The Role of Positive and Negative Links
  Jure Leskovec - Stanford University
• Behind The Paradigm Shift Towards a Networked Society
  (Barry Wellman, University of Toronto)
• Online Social Networks: Research Challenges and some Results
  (Peter Marbach, University of Toronto)
• Epidemiology networks related to HIV
  (Sandy Rutherford, Simon Fraser University)
• Public Health Issues in the Adult Film Industry: Report on an HIV Outbreak and the Current Status of STDs among Performers
  (Peter R. Kerndt, MD, MPH. Los Angeles County Department of Public Health)

Networking Lunch on August, 11th

Kindly sponsored by:

Industry-academic panel discussion:

An industry-academic panel discussion will take place on Wednesday afternoon, August 11th. The topic of the panel will be the use of social networks in Gaming. The panellists will be:

• Jason Bailey - Super Rewards
• Bruce Gooch - University of Victoria
• J. Joly - OverInteractive Inc.

Contributed Talks:

Submissions are invited on the conference theme. Abstracts in PDF or PS format can be uploaded via our registrations system.

A volume of selected papers  will be published by Springer from each of the workshops in the series Mathematics in industry. Submit your abstract today! All papers will be refereed.

Please use the templates provided on our Resources page.

Deadline for abstract submission: July 2, 2010.