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
8:00 - 8:55 Check-In/Light Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
8:55 - 9:00 Welcome & Opening Remarks: Dean Miguel García-Garibay (Dean of Physical Sciences, UCLA) and Dima Shlyakhtenko (Director, IPAM)
9:00 - 9:45
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
PDF Presentation

 
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:15
Tina Eliassi-Rad (Northeastern University)

Detecting Intentionality through Graph Mining

 
12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 2:45
Lada Adamic (Facebook)

The recurrence of online memes

3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:00
4:30 - 5:30 Please note different location: CNSI Auditorium
5:30 - 7:00 Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:45
Maria Binz-Scharf (City University of New York (CUNY))

A relational practice approach to the study of social networks
PDF Presentation

 
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:00
Daniel Romero (University of Michigan)

Social Networks Under Stress
PDF Presentation

 
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:15
Mark Newman (University of Michigan)

Network structure in online dating

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 2:45
Aaron Clauset (University of Colorado Boulder)

Network Structure and Dynamics of the Scientific Workforce
PDF Presentation

 
3:00 - 3:15 Break
3:15 - 4:00
Francesco Bonchi (ISI Foundation)

Computing spheres of influence
PDF Presentation

 
4:30 - 5:30 Please note different location: Spiegel Auditorium, Hillel
Ingrid Daubechies (Duke University)

Research Lecture: "Bones, Teeth and Animation”
PDF Presentation

 
5:30 - 7:00 Reception (Location: IPAM Lobby)

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:45
Don Rubin (Harvard University)

A new class of models for missing data
PDF Presentation

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

Afternoon Session
2:30 - 3:15
Joshua Blumenstock (University of Washington)

Predicting Poverty and Wealth from Mobile Phone Metadata
PDF Presentation

 
3:30 - 3:45 Break
3:45 - 4:30

Thursday, May 12, 2016

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:45
Jure Leskovec (Stanford University)

Global Diffusion via Cascading Invitations: Structure, Growth, and Homophily
PDF Presentation

 
10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:00
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:15
Sinan Aral (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

Peer Effects, Social Multipliers and Cascades of Human Behavior

12:30 - 2:00 Lunch (on your own)

Afternoon Session
2:00 - 3:00
Filippo Menczer (Indiana University)

Moderator: Roundtable on Culture of Misinformation (I)

 
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 5:00
Filippo Menczer (Indiana University)

Moderator: Roundtable on Culture of Misinformation (II)

 

Friday, May 13, 2016

Morning Session
8:00 - 9:00 Breakfast (Hosted by IPAM)
9:00 - 9:45
Arun Sundararajan (New York University)

Personality, Homophily and Embeddedness

10:00 - 10:15 Break
10:15 - 11:00
Don Saari (University of California, Irvine (UCI))

Understanding Cultural Norms via evolutionary game theory: A new approach
PDF Presentation

 
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:15
Filippo Menczer (Indiana University)

The Spread of Misinformation in Social Media
PDF Presentation

 
12:30 Conclusion