Mathematics of Social Learning - IPAM

Mathematics of Social Learning

January 6 - 10, 2014

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, January 6, 2014

Morning Session

08:00-08:55
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:55-09:00
Welcome and Opening Remarks
09:00-09:40
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
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-00:10
P. Jeffrey Brantingham (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))
Crime, Criminality and Crime Control

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:10
Lada Adamic (Facebook)
Rumor propagation on Facebook
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-17:00
Lightning Poster Session
17:00-18:00
Poster Session & Reception (Hosted by IPAM)

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:40
Alex `Sandy' Pentland (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Fast and Slow Social Learning
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-10:55
Michael Doebeli (University of British Columbia)
Epidemiological and multi-level selection models for cultural evolution
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-00:10
Moshe Hoffman (Harvard University)
Evolution and Learning Dynamics of Costly Signals

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:10
Lisa Singh (Georgetown University)
Do tool-using bottlenose dolphins exhibit social learning?
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:40
Greg Ver Steeg (University of Southern California (USC))
Minimal Assumption Tests for Contagion in Observational Social Network Studies

Wednesday, January 8, 2014

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:40
Jure Leskovec (Stanford University)
Paying Attention: How Cognitive Biases Shape Social Behavior Online
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-10:55
Tina Eliassi-Rad (Northeastern University)
Discovering Roles in Graphs: Algorithms and Applications
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-00:10
Winter Mason (Facebook)
Social Networks and Success in Online Games

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:10
Esteban Moro (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid)
Are you are social keeper of a social explorer? Managing thousands of friends in the economy of attention
15:30-16:30
Break
16:30-17:30
Jon Kleinberg (Cornell University)
Public Lecture: Bursts, Cascades, and Hot Spots: A Glimpse of Some On-Line Social Phenomena at Global Scales
17:30-19:00
Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)

Thursday, January 9, 2014

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:40
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
11:30-00:10
Jon Kleinberg (Cornell University)
Cascading Processes and Network Structure

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:10
Sinan Aral (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Title not available
15:30-16:00
Break
16:00-16:40
Cosma Shalizi (Carnegie-Mellon University)
Paying Attention: How Cognitive Biases Shape Social Behavior Online

Friday, January 10, 2014

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Continental Breakfast
09:00-09:40
Herbert Gintis (Santa Fe Institute)
The stability of general equilibrium under a replicator dynamic
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-10:55
Damon Centola (University of Pennsylvania)
The Emergence of Convention: An Experimental Study of Social Order
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-00:10
Seth Marvel (University of Michigan)
A new method for ranking nodes in a directed graph

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:10
Jacob Foster (Indiana University)
Toward an ecology of scientific knowledge: science, social learning, and cultural evolution
15:30-16:00
Break
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