Workshop: May 16-20
Conference: May 22-25

The International Workshop and Conference on Network Science (NetSci 2006) will be held over a two week period at Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, during May 2006.

SLIS faculty member, Katy Börner is one of the organizers. You can email her with questions at: katy@indiana.edu. In an email interview (Nov. 2005), Dr. Börner gave insights to the goals of the conference.

NetSci 2006 Organizers
Albert-László Barabàsi, University of Notre Dame
Katy Börner, Indiana University
Noshir S. Contractor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign & NCSA
Alessandro Vespignani, Indiana University
Stanley Wasserman, Indiana University

Registration information is available online. Thanks to National Science Foundation (NSF) funding the registration fee for both weeks is $120 only. SLIS students are invited to attend.

Details from the NetSci 2006 website:

From May 16-20, the NetSci 2006 Workshop will feature tutorials by 15 researchers from statistics, mathematics, physics, and the social and behavioral, and information sciences. It aims to present and support experimental, theoretical and applied network research by educating the research community on standard network data, tools, and powerful computational resources. Workshop topics include Cellular Interaction Networks, Diffusion Over Dynamic Networks, The Co-evolution of Multiple Networks, and Statistical Inference for Network Dynamics.

From May 22-25, the NetSci 2006 Conference comprises invited talks by social and behavioral scientists, information scientists, biologists, statistical physicists, mathematicians and statisticians. Conference topics include Network Kriging, Price of Anarchy in Complex Networks, Dynamics of Viral Marketing, Complex Networks Clustering and Edges Correlation, and Layered Complex Networks.

The primary objective of the Workshop/Conference is to facilitate interactions between the many different disciplines interested in and utilizing network science. Scheduled speakers include:

Lada Adamic, Michigan University
Reka Albert, Pennsylvania State University
Kevin Boyack, Sandia National Lab
Ulrik Brandes, University of Konstanz
Carter Butts, University of California, Irvine
Jennifer Chayes, Microsoft
Mark Crovella, Boston University
Martin Greiner, Siemens AG
Shlomo Havlin, Barilan University
Tasuku Igarashi, Osaka University
Jeffrey Johnson, East Carolina University
Eric Kolaczyk, Boston University
James Moody, Ohio State University
Mark Newman, Michigan University
Francesca Odella, University of Trento
Pip Pattison, Melbourne University
Garry Robins, Melbourne University
Tom Snijders, Groningen University
Zoltan Toroczkai, Los Alamos Lab
Marc Vidal, Harvard University

Posted May 03, 2006