Workshop III: Cultural Patterns: Multiscale Data-driven Models - IPAM

Workshop III: Cultural Patterns: Multiscale Data-driven Models

Part of the Long Program Culture Analytics
May 9 - 13, 2016

Schedule

All times in this Schedule are Pacific Time (PT)

Monday, May 9, 2016

Morning Session

08:00-08:55
Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
08:55-09:00
Welcome & Opening Remarks: Dean Miguel García-Garibay (Dean of Physical Sciences, UCLA) and Dima Shlyakhtenko (Director, IPAM)
09:00-09:45
Limor Shifman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Cross-cultural analysis of internet memes: An analytical framework
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:00
Aram Galstyan (USC Information Sciences Institute)
Information Theoretic Approaches to Social Computing
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:15
Tina Eliassi-Rad (Northeastern University)
Detecting Intentionality through Graph Mining

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:45
Lada Adamic (Facebook)
The recurrence of online memes
15:00-15:15
Break
15:15-16:00
Rayid Ghani (University of Chicago)
Machine learning for Public Policy: Case Studies, Challenges, and Opportunities
16:30-17:30
Ingrid Daubechies (Duke University)
Public Lecture: “The Master’s Hand: Can Image Analysis Detect the Hand of the Master”
17:30-19:00
Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:45
Maria Binz-Scharf (City University of New York (CUNY))
A relational practice approach to the study of social networks
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:00
Daniel Romero (University of Michigan)
Social Networks Under Stress
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:15
Mark Newman (University of Michigan)
Network structure in online dating

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-14:45
Aaron Clauset (University of Colorado Boulder)
Network Structure and Dynamics of the Scientific Workforce
15:00-15:15
Break
15:15-16:00
Francesco Bonchi (ISI Foundation)
Computing spheres of influence
16:30-17:30
Ingrid Daubechies (Duke University)
Research Lecture: Bones, Teeth and Animation”
17:30-19:00
Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:45
Don Rubin (Harvard University)
A new class of models for missing data
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:00
Molly Roberts (University of California, San Diego (UCSD))
Matching Methods for High-Dimensional Data with Applications to Text (with Brandon Stewart and Richard Nielsen)
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:15
Ingrid Daubechies (Duke University)
Mathematicians helping Art Historians and Art Conservators

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:30
Poster Session & Lunch (on your own)
14:30-15:15
Joshua Blumenstock (University of Washington)
Predicting Poverty and Wealth from Mobile Phone Metadata
15:30-15:45
Break
15:45-16:30
Johan Ugander (Stanford University)
Ruffled Feathers: When Can Gender Be Inferred on Social Networks?

Thursday, May 12, 2016

Morning Session

08:00-09:00
Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
09:00-09:45
Jure Leskovec (Stanford University)
Global Diffusion via Cascading Invitations: Structure, Growth, and Homophily
10:00-10:15
Break
10:15-11:00
Peter Dodds (University of Vermont)
Measuring the Happiness, Health, and Stories of Populations
11:15-11:30
Break
11:30-12:15
Sinan Aral (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Peer Effects, Social Multipliers and Cascades of Human Behavior

Afternoon Session

12:30-14:00
Lunch (on your own)
14:00-15:00
Filippo Menczer (Indiana University)
Moderator: Roundtable on Culture of Misinformation (I)
15:00-15:30
Break
15:30-17:00
Filippo Menczer (Indiana University)
Moderator: Roundtable on Culture of Misinformation (II)
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