The International Workshop and Conference on Network Science 2007 (NetSci07) will be taking place in the New York Hall of Science in Queens, New York City from May 20-25. SLIS faculty member Katy Börner is a co-organizer of this event, which includes over thirty notable speakers, tutorial lectures, and a visualization competition. Organizers Brner and Uzzo were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation in support of the "Visualizing Network Dynamics" competition. The NetSci06 Conference was held at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
Event Abstract:
The International Workshop and Conference on Network Science (NetSci07) brings together leading researchers, practitioners, and teachers in network science (including analysts, modeling experts, visualization specialists, and others) to foster interdisciplinary communication and collaboration. NetSci07 focuses on novel directions in network research, with applications ranging from biology to computer and information sciences, mathematics, social science and systems engineering. This conference will be placing more emphasis on biological networks and their modeling. In particular, talks and discussions will take place on genetic regulatory networks, gene transcription, protein interactions, protein folding networks, disease maps, metabolic networks and ecological networks.
The Workshop part of the event (May 20-21) will offer a series of longer lectures and tutorials, introducing tools and basic results from a variety of research areas of major interest for the study of complex networks. It aims to present basic experimental and theoretical developments, as well as educate the research community on standard network databases, tools, and computational resources.
The Conference part of the event (May 22-25) is dedicated to talks presenting the latest research in the field and their applications. Panels and demonstrations will be conducted to help promote discourse on the needs of education, industry, and funding for networks science.
[NetSci 2007 Conference website]
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Posted May 17, 2007