Workshop on Modeling and Computation for Social Networks: A student’s perspective
This meeting will end the series of activities held in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) as part of the PIMS collaborative research group (CRG) on Bayesian modeling and computation for networks. The goal of this meeting is to showcase research done by students on social networks. The meeting will open with a keynote presentation by David Blei, Assistant Professor, Computer Science Department, Princeton University and Kai Yu, NEC Laboratories America. A series of talks by students will follow. A poster session will be organized in the afternoon.
Location: The Fairmont Chateau Whistler, Whistler, British Columbia
Date: June 26-27, 2010
Sponsor: PIMS
Organizers: Adrian Dobra, Raphael Gottardo, and Kevin Murphy
Accommodations: A block of rooms has been reserved at the Fairmont Chateau Whistler. The arrival date is June 25 and the departure date is June 27. As for the summer school, accommodation expenses will be covered by PIMS.
Note: The participants at the summer school are expected to present their work at the workshop. Application material should be sent using this application page.
There will be two invited talks:
1) Kai Yu (invited talk): Latent Variable Relational Modles and Their Large-scale Bayesian Inference.
2) David Blei (invited talk): Network analysis and document collections: Finding the graph in the text and the text in the graph.
As well as talks and posters presented by students, see table below:
Time | Name | Institution | Title |
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9:00-9:10am | Intro | Intro | Intro |
9:10-10:00am | Kai Yu | NEC Laboratories America | Latent Variable Relational Modles and Their Large-scale Bayesian Inference. |
11:00-10:20am | Mahdi Shafiei | Acadia U | Mixed-Membership Stochastic Block-Models for Transactional Network Data |
10:20-11:00am | Coffee | Coffee | Coffee |
11:00-11:20am | Danny Wyatt | U of Washington | Methods for Modeling Networks of Real-World Social Behavior |
11:40-12:00am | Michael Salter-Townshend | UCD | Variational Bayesian Inference for the Latent Position Cluster Model |
12:00-1:30pm | Lunch buffet (Frontenac C) | Lunch buffet (Frontenac C) | Lunch buffet (Frontenac C) |
1:30-2:20pm | David Blei | Princeton University | Network analysis and document collections: Finding the graph in the text and the text in the graph |
2:20-2:40pm | Shouqiang Wang | Duke | Dynamic Social Networks in a Baboon Troop |
2:40-3:00pm | Bertrand Hass | Harvard | Integer Polytope Sampling and Network Tomography. |
3:00-3:30pm | Coffee | Coffee | Coffee |
3:30-3:50pm | Ranran Wang | U of Washington | Bayesian inference of exponential-family models for social networks |
3:50-4:20pm | Taedong Lee | U of Washington | Translocal Collaboration through a Network: Centrality, Homophily and Policy Accomplishment in the C40 Climate Leadership Group. |
4:20-5:00pm | Panel Discussion: David Blei, Kai Yu, Kevin Murphy and Adrian Dobra |