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   The Club is an forum for graduate students from all disciplines with an interest in Networks. Meetings are bi-weekly and typically include a guided discussion of a network-themed paper. Our 60+ mailing list includes mathematicians, sociologists, economists and students from other disciplines. We welcome undergrads, postdocs and faculty. We are funded by the Center for Applied Mathematics (CAM) and the Institute for Social Studies (Information on joining.)

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Meetings 2008-2009

Meeting Date Paper Host
Dec 4 Exponential Random Graph Models (ERGMs) aka. p*-graphs Sasha Gutfraind
Nov 20 Hierarchical structure and the prediction of missing links in networks / Aaron Clauset,Cristopher Moore, M. E. J. Newman Tim Novikoff
Nov 6 Social data from Facebook Apps Shaomei Wu
Oct 23 Cost-effective Outbreak Detection in Networks/Jure Leskovec et al. Susan Martonosi
Oct 9 Playing with GUESS - graph exploration software. / Eytan Adar Sasha Gutfraind
Sep 25 Wherefore Art Thou R3579X? Anonymized Social Networks, Hidden Patterns, and Structural Steganography / Lars Backstrom, Cynthia Dwork, and Jon Kleinberg Sasha Gutfraind
Sep 11 Tracing Information Flow on a Global Scale Using Internet Chain-Letter Data / D. Liben-Nowell, J. Kleinberg Sasha Gutfraind

Meetings 2007-2008

  1. Structure and tie strengths in mobile communication networks / Onnela et al.

  2. Complex Contagions / Vlad Barash and Chris Cameron

  3. Epidemic variability in complex networks / Crepey et al.

  4. Uncovering the overlapping community structure of complex networks in nature and society / Gergely Palla et al.

  5. Extensions of Respondent-Driven Sampling - a talk by its author, Doug Heckathorn.

  6. Networks of collaboration in oligopoly / S. Goyal and S. Joshi.

  7. A talk about diffusion on networks / Shaomei Wu

  8. Mixture models and exploratory analysis in networks by M. E. J. Newman and E. A. Leicht, presented by Ian Schmutte.

  9. Identifying Community Structures from Network Data via Maximum Likelihood Methods by Jernej·Copic, Matthew O. Jackson, and Alan Kirman, presented by Ian Schmutte.

  10. An analytical approach to cascades on random networks / Diarmuid Cahalane and Recent Wikipedia research / Vlad Barash

  11. Short talks about research projects from J. Kleinberg's course

  12. Structural Holes and Good Ideas / Ron Burt

  13. The Origins of Status Hierarchies: A Formal Theory and Empirical Test / Roger V. Gould

  14. The Spread of Obesity in a Large Social Network over 32 Years / Christakis et al.

Meetings 2006-2007

  1. Probability on Groups: Random Walks and Invariant Diffusions / Saloff-Coste, introduced by Russ Thompson

  2. From individuals to epidemics / Levin and Durrett

  3. Networks, Dynamics, and Modularity / Variano et al.

  4. How the global structure of protein interaction networks evolves/ Wagner

  5. Spontaneous evolution of modularity and network motifs / Kashtan and Alon

  6. Network Motifs: Simple building blocks of complex networks / Milo, Alon et al.

  7. Hubs and Authorities / J. Kleinberg

  8. Power laws, Pareto distributions and Zipf's law / M.E.J. Newman

  9. Exploring Complex Networks / Strogatz

  10. Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks / Watts and Strogatz

  11. Emergence of scaling in random networks / Barabasi and Albert


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