PROGRAM

Saturday, March 5 Location: NICO, Chambers Hall, 600 Foster St., Evanston, IL (Map)

01:00 PM - 01:30 PM	Tutorial Registration

01:30 PM - 06:00 PM	Complexity Tutorial PJ Lamberson, Instructor Tutorial registration required

Sunday, March 6 Location: Allen Center, Northwestern University, 2169 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL (Map)

12:00 PM - 01:00 PM	Conference Registration

01:00 PM - 01:20 PM	Welcoming Remarks Sally Blount, Dean, Kellogg School of Management Kevin Lynch and Brian Uzzi, NICO Co-directors Noshir Contractor, SONIC Director

01:20 PM - 02:10 PM	Finding Structure in Social and Biological Networks Mark Newman University of Michigan

02:10 PM - 03:00 PM	Social Interactions and Influence Mediated by Information and Communication Technology Felix Reed-Tsochas Oxford University

03:00 PM - 03:30 PM	Coffee Break

03:30 PM - 04:20 PM	Thinking in a Complex World: The Nexus of Art, Technology, and Science Julio Ottino Northwestern University

04:20 PM - 05:30 PM	Posters and Coffee

05:30 PM - 06:20 PM	Human Dynamics: From Human Mobility to Predictability Albert-Laszlo Barabasi Northeastern University

06:30 PM	Conference Banquet

Monday, March 7 Location: Allen Center, Northwestern University, 2169 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL (Map)

08:00 AM - 08:30 AM	Conference Registration

08:30 AM - 09:20 AM	An Open Elite? The Dynamics of Collaboration in the Life Sciences, 1988-2004 Woody Powell Stanford University

09:20 AM - 10:10 AM	Structural Holes in Virtual Worlds Ron Burt University of Chicago

10:10 AM - 10:40 AM	Coffee Break

10:40 AM - 11:30 AM	Network Synchronization in a Noisy Environment with Time Delays: Fundamental Limits and Trade-Offs Boleslaw Szymanski Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

11:30 AM - 12:20 PM	Network Science: Some History, Some Perspectives (and Some Comments on Data Mining) Stanley Wasserman Indiana University

12:20 PM - 01:30 PM	Lunch

01:30 PM - 02:20 PM	The Web as a Decentralized System Tim Berners-Lee Massachusetts Institute of Technology

02:20 PM - 03:10 PM	Networks and the Future of Democracy Beth Noveck New York Law School

03:10 PM - 03:40 PM	Coffee Break

03:40 PM - 04:30 PM	Network Cartography as a Tool for Hypothesis Generation Luis Amaral Northwestern University

04:30 PM - 05:20 PM	Using the Web to Do Social Science Duncan Watts Yahoo! Research

05:20 PM - 05:30 PM	Concluding Remarks

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