Mathematics of Social Learning

January 6 - 10, 2014

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, January 6, 2014

Morning Session

8:00 - 8:55 Check-In/Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:55 - 9:00 Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:00 - 9:40
Duncan Watts (Microsoft Research)

Social Influence in Markets and Networks

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 10:55
Kristina Lerman (University of Southern California (USC))

Paying Attention: How Cognitive Biases Shape Social Behavior Online
PDF Presentation

 
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:10
P. Jeffrey Brantingham (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Crime, Criminality and Crime Control

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:30 - 3:10
Lada Adamic (University of Michigan)

Rumor propagation on Facebook

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 5:00 Lightning Poster Session
5:00 - 6:00 Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:40
Alex `Sandy' Pentland (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Fast and Slow Social Learning

 
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 10:55
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:10
Moshe Hoffman (Harvard University)

Evolution and Learning Dynamics of Costly Signals
PDF Presentation

 
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:30 - 3:10
3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:40
Greg Ver Steeg (University of Southern California (USC))

Minimal Assumption Tests for Contagion in Observational Social Network Studies

 

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:40
Jure Leskovec (Stanford University)

 

 
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 10:55
 
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:10
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:30 - 3:10
3:30 - 4:30 Break
4:30 - 5:30
5:30 - 7:00 Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:40
Peyton Young (University of Oxford)

Innovation Diffusion in Social Networks

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 10:55
James Fowler (University of California, San Diego (UCSD))

Friendship and Natural Selection

11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:10
Jon Kleinberg (Cornell University)

Cascading Processes and Network Structure

 
12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:30 - 3:10
Sinan Aral (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

 

3:30 - 4:00 Break
4:00 - 4:40
Cosma Shalizi (Carnegie-Mellon University)

 

 

Friday, January 10, 2014

Morning Session

8:00 - 9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00 - 9:40
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 10:55
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:10
Seth Marvel (University of Michigan)

A new method for ranking nodes in a directed graph

12:30 - 2:30 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session

2:30 - 3:10
3:30 - 4:00 Break