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:

TimeNameInstitutionTitle
9:00-9:10amIntroIntroIntro
9:10-10:00amKai YuNEC Laboratories America Latent Variable Relational Modles and Their Large-scale Bayesian Inference.
11:00-10:20amMahdi ShafieiAcadia UMixed-Membership Stochastic Block-Models for Transactional Network Data
10:20-11:00amCoffeeCoffeeCoffee
11:00-11:20amDanny WyattU of WashingtonMethods for Modeling Networks of Real-World Social Behavior
11:40-12:00amMichael Salter-Townshend UCDVariational Bayesian Inference for the Latent Position Cluster Model
12:00-1:30pm
Lunch buffet (Frontenac C)
Lunch buffet (Frontenac C)
Lunch buffet (Frontenac C)
1:30-2:20pmDavid BleiPrinceton UniversityNetwork analysis and document collections: Finding the graph in the
text and the text in the graph
2:20-2:40pm
Shouqiang WangDukeDynamic Social Networks in a Baboon Troop
2:40-3:00pm
Bertrand HassHarvardInteger Polytope Sampling and Network Tomography.
3:00-3:30pmCoffeeCoffeeCoffee
3:30-3:50pm
Ranran WangU of WashingtonBayesian inference of exponential-family models for social networks
3:50-4:20pm
Taedong LeeU of WashingtonTranslocal Collaboration through a Network: Centrality, Homophily and Policy Accomplishment in the C40 Climate Leadership Group.
4:20-5:00pmPanel Discussion:
David Blei, Kai Yu,
Kevin Murphy and Adrian Dobra