Postdoc in modeling environmental and social influences on waterborne pathogen and helminth transmission

Environmental and Social Influences on Waterborne Pathogen and Helminth Transmission available on a NSF-funded project (epidemiology/infectious diseases/transmission dynamics/enteric and helminth pathogens/environmental health/social networks/agent-based modeling) Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

The Department of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan seeks to hire one postdoctoral fellow with interest and skills in analytical methods for estimating how physical and social environments interact to influence the transmission of waterborne pathogens. Support for the position is now available for up to two years through a NSF Water Sustainability and Climate grant entitled “Analytical methods for estimating the joint climatological-social drivers of water quality and supply in contrasting tropical zones: Ecuador and China.” The grant includes faculty in Epidemiology (Joe Eisenberg, Michigan), Anthropology (Jim Trostle, Trinity College), and Environmental Health (Justin Remais, Emory). The successful applicant will be a productive scholar who combines skills and knowledge related to water resources, waterborne disease, and climate change with an interest in modeling complex human/environment interactions. The ideal candidate has quantitative background and a PhD in disease ecology, epidemiology, anthropology, geography, sociology, or other integrative field; previous experience in modeling epidemiological or ecological systems; and previous high-quality, first-authored publications. The fellow will help to develop agent-based, system dynamic, or network models as appropriate, and to develop region-specific scenarios based on specific processes that mediate how water quality and waterborne disease transmission respond to climate variability, management decisions, and coping capacity at the village level. Knowledge of Spanish or Chinese is a plus but not required.

The University of Michigan offers a vibrant mathematical modeling and complex systems community. Modeling expertise extends across departments including Epidemiology, Health Management and Policy, Complex Systems, Population Center, Institute for Social Research, and Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. The School of Public Health is renowned for its cutting edge research on the applications of mathematical modeling in epidemiology and public health.

Applicants must have completed all requirements for a doctoral degree in a relevant field from an accredited program before they begin the fellowship. Applicants must have a record of accomplishment in modeling and systems science demonstrated in their publications and research background. Initial appointments will be for one year, with possibility of renewal. The salary will be in the range of $45,000 per year (depending on experience), plus fringe benefits. Compensation (salary and benefits) will be offered according to University of Michigan and NSF guidelines.

To apply please submit CV, names of references, and inquiries to Dr. Joseph Eisenberg, Professor of Epidemiology, at HYPERLINK "mailto:jnse@umich.edu"jnse@umich.edu. Starting date is negotiable. Applicants should send a cover letter, a detailed CV, a brief statement of research interests, and the names of three references to Dr. Joseph Eisenberg at HYPERLINK "mailto:jnse@umich.edu"jnse@umich.edu. The position will remain open until filled.

Joseph Eisenberg
Department of Epidemiology
School of Public Health
University of Michigan
1415 Washington Heights
Ann Arbor, MI 48109

------------------ SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------

Fifth International Workshop on Social Network Analysis (ARS’15)

Large Networks and Big Data: New Methodological Challenges

April 29-30, 2015, Capri, ITALY
http://www.ars15.unisa.it/

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Title and short abstract submission: Jan. 31, 2015
Notification of acceptance: Feb. 28, 2015
Abstract Final Version: Mar. 31, 2015

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SCOPE
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Following the four previous issues of the ARS  workshop in Salerno, Naples and Rome (http://www.ars15.unisa.it/past_ars) we are pleased to invite you to submit a paper to the fifth  issue of ARS that will be held in Anacapri (Capri island) on April 29-30, 2015.

ARS’15 aims at presenting the most relevant results and the most recent methodological developments in dealing with LARGE NETWORK and BIG DATA.
The workshop also aims to deepen existing scientific cooperation between social network analysts, to establish new cooperation between researchers, and to provide a multi-disciplinary forum for exchange of ideas
Papers of interest including (but not limited to) the following topics are solicited:
-          Analysis of Large-Scale Networks
-          Structural Large Network Properties
-          Community Detection and structure in Large Networks
-          Visualization of Large Networks
-          Methodological problems in large network studies
-          Dynamics and evolution patterns of large networks
-          Big data storage, processing and network analysis
-          Social network data mining and analytics

Applications in several fields (Telecommunications networks, Collaboration networks, Online Social Networks, Healthcare, etc.) are also strongly encouraged.

The scientific program includes plenary, invited and contributed paper sessions with oral presentation.

Plenary sessions:
Clustering and Large networks

Invited speakers:
Vladimir Batagelj (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Santo Fortunato (Aalto University in Espoo, Finland)
Renaud Lambiotte (University of Namur, Belgium) 
Large networks and big data

Invited speakers:
Noshir Contractor (Northwestern University, USA)
Fosca Giannotti (University of Pisa, Italy)
Ludo Waltman (Leiden University, NL)

Building on successes in previous years, a two-day short course will be held before the Work Shop (April 27-28, 2015).
This year edition of the short course will be on "Large Network Analysis"
Instructors: Patrick Doreian, Vladimir Batagelj, Anuska Ferligoj, Natasa Kejzar
Detailed program is at http://www.ars15.unisa.it/shortcourse

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Instructions for authors:
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Detailed submission instructions are at Paper Submission page http://www.ars15.unisa.it/submission.
Length of abstract: max 500 words.
Registration is required.


All submitted abstracts are subject to acceptance by the Scientific Program Committee members. Accepted papers will be presented at the  workshop as full talks.

For co-authored papers, at least one author must be registered and attend the conference. 

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Post-Proceedings
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Selected papers will be considered for publication in a special or in a regular issue of the journal Social Network Analysis and Mining.
(guest editors Patrick Doreian And Ludo Waltman)

Post conference full papers could be submitted for publication in the series Lecture Notes in Social Networks
(guest editors Pietrp Panzarasa, Giancarlo Ragozini, Giuseppe Giordano)

Regular peer-review process will be followed.
Detailed call for papers will follow.
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Contact information:

Website http://www.ars15.unisa.it
Email: ars15@unisa.it

• Giancarlo RAGOZINI
  giancarlo.ragozini@unina.it
  
• Maria Rosaria D'ESPOSITO
  mdesposito@unisa.it

Call for Workshops & Organized Session Proposals

Workshop Proposals

Proposals are now invited for workshops at Sunbelt XXXV in Brighton UK, 23 June 2015 - 28 June 2015.

Workshops are sessions of half a day (3 hrs) or a full day (2 sessions of 3 hrs) focused on teaching attendees specific methods, software or theories. These workshops are not free and require additional payment, namely £100 regular/£50 student for half-day workshops and £200/£100 for full-day workshops.

Make sure you enter all required information:

• Contact information of a workshop organizer.
  
• A short title and a brief description of your workshop, including the length of the workshop (3 or 6 hours) and the maximum number of attendees. Please include names and institutional affiliations of all organizers. You may include url to supporting information for inclusion on the conference website.

After submission, you will receive a confirmation email. Decisions will be communicated to the corresponding organizer, 1st November, 2014.

Submission Deadline: Friday 31 October, 2014, 17:00 GMT
Submit Here: Sunbelt XXXV Workshop Proposal


Organized Session Proposals

Proposals are now invited for organized sessions at Sunbelt XXXV in Brighton UK, 23 June 2015 - 28 June 2015.

An organized session is a set of paper presentations centered around a specific theme, for which participants can submit abstracts from November, 2014. Organized sessions consist of at least one 2-hour time slot accommodating 4-6 paper presentations.

Make sure you enter all required information:

• Contact information for a session organizer.
  
• A short title and a brief description of your session, together with the name and institutional affiliations of all organizers and the session chair. You may include url to supporting information for inclusion on the conference website. 

After submission, you will receive a confirmation email. Decisions will be communicated to the corresponding organizer, 1st November, 2014.

Submission Deadline: Friday 31 October, 2014, 17:00 GMT
Submit Here: Sunbelt XXXV Organized Session Proposal

First Announcement and Call for Papers

---------------- FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS----------------

Fifth International Workshop on Social Network Analysis (ARS'15)

Large Networks and Big Data: New Methodological Challenges

April 29-30, 2015, Capri, ITALY

http://www.ars15.unisa.it/

---------------------------------------------------------------

IMPORTANT DATES

---------------------------------------------------------------

Title and short abstract submission: Jan. 31, 2015

Notification of acceptance: Feb. 28, 2015

Abstract Final Version: Mar. 31, 2015

---------------------------------------------------------------

SCOPE

---------------------------------------------------------------

Following the four previous issues of the ARS  workshop in Salerno,  

Naples and Rome (http://www.ars15.unisa.it/past_ars) we are pleased to  

invite you to submit a paper to the fifth  issue of ARS that will be  

held in Anacapri (Capri island) on April 29-30, 2015.

ARS?15 aims at presenting the most relevant results and the most  

recent methodological developments in dealing with LARGE NETWORK and  

BIG DATA.

The workshop also aims to deepen existing scientific cooperation  

between social network analysts, to establish new cooperation between  

researchers, and to provide a multi-disciplinary forum for exchange of  

ideas

Papers of interest including (but not limited to) the following topics  

are solicited:

-       Analysis of Large-Scale Networks

-       Structural Large Network Properties

-       Community Detection and structure in Large Networks

-       Visualization of Large Networks

-       Methodological problems in large network studies

-       Dynamics and evolution patterns of large networks

-       Big data storage, processing and network analysis

-       Social network data mining and analytics

Applications in several fields (Telecommunications networks,  

Collaboration networks, Online Social Networks, Healthcare, etc.) are  

also strongly encouraged.

For ARS'15, in addition to the usual program of contributed talks, the  

Workshop will include a selection of keynote talks from prominent  

researchers.

Building on successes in previous years, ARS'15 will also hold a  

two-day short course before the Workshop.

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Instructions for authors:

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Detailed submission instructions will be posted on Paper Submission  

page in due time.

Authors are invited to submit short abstracts (max 500 words)  after  

the registration using the abstract submission system:

http://www.ars15.unisa.it/submission

All submitted short abstracts are subject to acceptance by the  

Scientific Program Committee members. Accepted papers will be  

presented at the  workshop as full talks and possibly as poster  

presentations including a short introductory talk. In the abstract  

submission procedure please check off the appropriate box if you  

intend submit the paper for full talk or for poster session.

At least one author must be registered and attend the conference.

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Post-Proceedings

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A selection of original papers will be published in a volume edited by  

a international publisher and/or in special issues of international  

journals.

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Contact information:

Website http://www.ars15.unisa.it

Email: ars15@unisa.it

Giancarlo RAGOZINI

giancarlo.ragozini@unina.it

Maria Rosaria D'ESPOSITO

mdesposito@unisa.it

We are sorry for cross-posting



 -- 

Prof. Giancarlo Ragozini

Dipartimento di Scienze Politiche

Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II

Via L. Rodinò 28 - 80138 Napoli

++39 081 2537460

Save the Dates: Sunbelt XXXV, 24-28 June, Brighton UK

To join INSNA, visit http://www.insna.org

The International Sunbelt Social Network Conference is the official annual conference of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (HYPERLINK "http://www.insna.org/"INSNA). INSNA currently has over 1,000 members and more people than ever are interested in attending and presenting their work at Sunbelt conferences.

The 2015 conference, Sunbelt XXXV, to be held at the HYPERLINK "http://www3.hilton.com/en/hotels/united-kingdom/hilton-brighton-metropole-BSH..."Hilton Brighton Metropole Hotel on the beachfront of Brighton, UK, from June 24– June 28, 2015, provides an interdisciplinary venue for social scientists, mathematicians, computer scientists, ethnologists, epidemiologists, organizational theorists, and others to present current work in the area of social networks.

Calls for panels and workshops can be expected in early September, 2014.

Bruce Cronin and Martin Everett

Barry Wellman Honoured

Barry Wellman Honoured

The founder of INSNA, Professor Barry Wellman, co-director of NetLab at the Faculty of Information (iSchool) of the University of Toronto, has been awarded an OII Lifetime Achievement Award in recognition of his extraordinary record of scholarship in social network theory and Internet research which has contributed so much to our understanding of life online. A Canadian-American sociologist, his overarching interest is in the paradigm shift from group-centered relations to networked individualism. His research examines virtual community, the virtual workplace, social support, community, kinship, friendship, and social network theory and methods. His methodological contributions have been for the analysis of ego-centered or "personal" networks - defined from the standpoint of an individual. This calls for somewhat different techniques than the more common social network practice of analysing a single large network.

Barry Wellman said "I am deeply honoured by this. And want to pay tribute to the many NetLab members - and Networked co-author Lee Rainie - who have been my wonderful intellectual playmates through the years." OII Acting Director, Dr Victoria Nash said "Barry Wellman's approach to studying the networks that connect us as individuals has had a profound effect on the field of Internet research, reflected in much of the work of our colleagues and students. We are delighted to honour his contribution today. " The top-cited Canadian sociologist, Wellman's current work continues to focus on the interplay between information and communication technologies, especially the Internet, social relations and social structure. He was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2007.

The award will be presented on 7th November in Oxford, at an awards dinner and ceremony that also includes Lifetime Achievement awards for Sir Tim Berners Lee and Dame Stephanie Shirley.

INSNA Call for Award Nominations

Dear INSNA Members,

Just a short email to solicit nominations for two awards to be made at Sunbelt XXXIV 18-23 February 2014 in St Pete Beach. FL.

1. The Freeman Award. This award is given to a distinguished scholar in the field of social networks for significant contributions to the scientific study of social structure. The award is designed to be given to a young scholar, someone in the earlier stages of their research career -- someone under 40 years old or someone who has received their PhD within the past 10 years. Consideration is also given to persons who have come to education later in life or who have interrupted their career for any reason (family, health, etc.) The winner of this award is selected by a committee designated by the INSNA Board president. Suggested recipients are nominated by members of the committee and by any interested members of the social network community at large. The Committee considers the nominated candidates' contributions and qualifications through a series of electronic discussions. Carter Butts (Chair), Bruce Cronin, and Betina Hollstein have agreed to serve on the screening committee for this award. Nominations should be sent to the chair at buttsc@uci.edu. The recipient will be announced in February and deliver the Freeman lecture at Sunbelt XXXV in Brighton, UK, now scheduled for 23-28 June 2015.

2. The Best Student Paper Award. The award is given annually to a graduate student in recognition of research on social network analysis. For the 2014 competition, students should submit a paper (pdf file written in English) by 15 December 2013. The winner of the award will be announced at Sunbelt XXXIV in 2014. To be eligible, the student must be the first (or sole) author on the submitted paper at the time of submission. The paper may be published or unpublished and must have been completed within two years of the submission deadline. A letter of support should be submitted as well. Papers are evaluated by a committee based on the level of originality in the ideas and techniques, the possible applications and their treatment, and potential impact. The committee may arrive at the conclusion that none of the submitted papers merits the award. The monetary prize for the best student paper is $2,500. Filip Agneessens (Chair), Elisa Bellotti, and Chris McCarty have agreed to serve on this committee. Please send all application materials to INSNA President, John Skvoretz, jskvoretz@usf.edu.

John Skvoretz, President INSNA John Skvoretz, Professor of Sociology, AAAS Fellow Carolina Distinguished Professor Emeritus President, International Network for Social Network Analysis Department of Sociology University of South Florida 4202 E Fowler Ave, CPR 107 Tampa, FL USA 33620-5550

Call for Abstracts Now Open - Sunbelt XXXIV

Sunbelt XXXIV: Call for Abstracts
Deadline: 30 November 2013

The Sunbelt XXXIV program committee is soliciting abstracts for paper presentations at the upcoming 2014 conference 18 Feb - 23 Feb in St Pete Beach, Florida, USA. Submission begins on 11 Oct 2013 and closes on 30 Nov 2013 at 5:00 EST. We invite abstract submissions for posters (120 minute poster session) and oral presentations (20 minute talk) on topics relevant to social network analysis, including theory, methods, and applications of social network analysis. Please limit your abstracts to 250 words. If a series of papers are being submitted as a single panel or session, please indicate this fact with the name of the panel/session in the Comments section of the abstract submission website. Paper and poster presentations will begin on Wednesday (19 Feb) and end on Sunday (23 Feb). Presenting authors of accepted submissions must register for and present their work at the meeting. This stipulation applies to both oral and poster presentations. Each person may present only one paper at the conference.

To submit an abstract visit the conference website at www.sunbelt2014.org.

John Skvoretz, Professor of Sociology, AAAS Fellow
Carolina Distinguished Professor Emeritus
President, International Network for Social Network Analysis
Department of Sociology
University of South Florida
4202 E Fowler Ave, CPR 107
Tampa, FL USA 33620-5550

Call for Proposals to Host the 2016 Sunbelt of INSNA

Dear Colleagues,

The Call for Proposals to host the 2016 Sunbelt of the International Network for Social Network Analysis is now open. Groups and individuals interested in hosting the Sunbelt should provide the information listed in the RFP to the Board of Directors of INSNA. Proposals should be submitted to the President of INSNA one month before the annual meeting which will be held in 2014 on February 18-23. 

Please forward any questions to John Skvoretz, President, International Network for Social Network Analysis

Please contact Julie@insna.org to request a copy of the proposal requirements.

Deadline Reminder! Submissions are due 4 October 2013 Sunbelt XXXIV

Deadline Reminder! Submissions are due 4 October 2013 The Sunbelt XXXIV program committee is soliciting workshop proposals for the upcoming 2014 conference in St. Petersburg Florida. Workshops precede the conference and are typically 3 hours or 6 hours in length. They feature a participant-centered and highly interactive approach. Workshops cover topics and skills that are important to researchers who use social network analysis and provide substantive training and opportunities for practice and critical discussion. Workshops will take place February 18-19, 2014 Please note that this time the workshop proposals have to be submitted through the INSNA website. INSNA has set the fee for all workshops: Students: 30$ for a 3-hour workshop, 60$ for a 6-hour workshop INSNA members and affiliate members: 50$ 3-hour workshop, 100$ 6-hour workshop Workshop submissions are due by 4 October 2013. No proposals can be accepted after this date. Workshop space is limited and it is possible that not all proposals can be accommodated. When submitting a proposal the following information will be required: - Name/s of workshops instructor/s with affiliation and email - Name and email of the lead instructor who will be responsible for conference correspondence - Title of the Workshop - Brief Synopsis (Abstract) of the workshop (500 Word limit) - Attendance limit - Workshop length Proceed to Workshop Proposals submission Specific questions concerning the Workshops can be addressed to jskvoretz@usf.edu The organizing committee: Russ Bernard Chris McCarty John Skvoretz

Second Position Available - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

The Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seeks a full-time tenure-track or tenured faculty member at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in organizational communication. A PhD is required at time of appointment. Senior candidates should have distinguished records of research and teaching appropriate to a tenured appointment. In addition, the ability to secure external funding is highly desirable. Assistant Professor applicants must have or show clear promise of developing a distinguished record of undergraduate and graduate teaching and independent research. Target start date is August 16, 2014. Salary level is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience.

We seek an outstanding candidate who specializes in any area of organizational communication. Particular areas of specialization within organizational communication might include (but are not limited to) globalization and global organizations, communication technology in organizations, interorganizational collaborations, workplace diversity, and social networks in organizations.

Successful candidates will join departmental colleagues with varied disciplinary backgrounds in a unit of 24 graduate faculty members. The department supports undergraduate and master's programs (including an online MS program in health communication) as well as one of the nation's oldest and most distinguished doctoral programs. For information about us, visit www.communication.illinois.edu.

To apply, create your candidate profile through http://go.illinois.edu/COMFaculty_OrgComm and upload application materials: application letter, curriculum vitae, and teaching materials (including evidence of teaching excellence). The online application will require the contact information for three professional references. To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by October 18, 2013.

For further information please contact John Lammers, Professor and Search Chair; phone: (217) 333-8912; email: jclammer@illinois.edu.

Illinois is an Affirmative Action /Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and ideas who embrace and value diversity and inclusivity. (www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu).

Job Announcement - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA-CHAMPAIGN

The Department of Communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign seeks a full-time tenure-track or tenured faculty member at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor in new media technologies. A PhD is required at time of appointment. Senior candidates should have distinguished records of research and teaching appropriate to a tenured appointment. In addition, the ability to secure external funding is highly desirable. Assistant Professor applicants must have or show clear promise of developing a distinguished record of undergraduate and graduate teaching and independent research. Target start date is August 16, 2014. Salary level is competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience.

We seek an outstanding candidate who specializes in new media technologies, including the role of new technologies in communication among individuals, groups, organizations, or cultures. Research on new media may be situated within any area of communication study, so topics might include social media, workplace communication, diffusion of technologies, new media and politics, communication technology design, mediatization of institutions and culture, or a wide range of other possibilities. Applicants should be developing theory that accommodates and transcends any particular new emerging technology.

Successful candidates will join departmental colleagues with varied disciplinary backgrounds in a unit of 24 graduate faculty members. The department supports undergraduate and master's programs (including an online MS program in health communication) as well as one of the nation's oldest and most distinguished doctoral programs. For information about us, visit www.communication.illinois.edu .

To apply, create your candidate profile through http://go.illinois.edu/COMFaculty_NewMediaTechnologies and upload application materials: application letter, curriculum vitae, and teaching materials (including evidence of teaching excellence). The online application will require the contact information for three professional references. To ensure full consideration, applications must be received by October 11, 2013.

For further information please contact Ned O'Gorman, Associate Professor, Associate Head, and Search Chair; phone: (217) 265-0859; email: nogorman@illinois.edu.

Illinois is an Affirmative Action /Equal Opportunity Employer and welcomes individuals with diverse backgrounds, experiences, and ideas who embrace and value diversity and inclusivity. (www.inclusiveillinois.illinois.edu)

Call for Workshop Proposals Now Open! Sunbelt XXXIV

The Sunbelt XXXIV program committee is soliciting workshop proposals for the upcoming 2014 conference in St. Petersburg Florida.

Workshops precede the conference and are typically 3 hours or 6 hours in length. They feature a participant-centered and highly interactive approach. Workshops cover topics and skills that are important to researchers who use social network analysis and provide substantive training and opportunities for practice and critical discussion. Workshops will take place February 18-19, 2014

Please note that this time the workshop proposals have to be submitted through the INSNA website. INSNA has set the fee for all workshops: Students: 30$ for a 3-hour workshop, 60$ for a 6-hour workshop INSNA members and affiliate members: 50$ 3-hour workshop, 100$ 6-hour workshop

Workshop submissions are due by 4 October 2013. No proposals can be accepted after this date. Workshop space is limited and it is possible that not all proposals can be accommodated.

When submitting a proposal the following information will be required:

- Name/s of workshops instructor/s with affiliation and email
- Name and email of the lead instructor who will be responsible for conference correspondence
- Title of the Workshop
- Brief Synopsis (Abstract) of the workshop (500 Word limit)
- Attendance limit
- Workshop length


Proceed to Workshop Proposals submission

Specific questions concerning the Workshops can be addressed to jskvoretz@usf.edu

The organizing committee:

Russ Bernard
Chris McCarty
John Skvoretz

CompleNet 2014 | Call for Papers and Abstracts

CompleNet 2014 | Call for Papers and Abstracts

CompleNet 2014
5th Workshop on Complex Networks
http://2014.complenet.org/


Bologna, Italy
March 12-14, 2014


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Important Dates
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Abstract/Paper Submission
October 6, 2013
Author Notification
November 10, 2013
Submission of Camera-Ready
December 10, 2013
Early Registration Date
December 10, 2013


Confirmed Speakers
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Alessandro Vespignani, Northeastern University, Boston, MA, USA
Raffaella Burioni, Università di Parma, Italy
Stephen Uzzo, New York Institute of Technology, NY, USA
Juyong Park, Social Computing Laboratory, KAIST, South Korea
Adriano Barra, Università "La Sapienza", Roma, Italy
Giorgio Fagiolo, Sant’Anna School of Advanced Studies, Pisa, Italy
Mirko degli Esposti, Università di Bologna, Italy
Bruno Gonçalves, Aix-Marseille Université, France


Description
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The 5th international workshop CompleNet 2014 aims at bringing together researchers working on areas related to complex networks. In the past two decades scientific research has witnessed a remarkable increase on studies in this field. Applied to problems that span from biology to computer sciences, from economics to social sciences, complex networks are becoming increasingly pervasive in many fields of science. It is this interdisciplinary nature of the complex networks approach that the workshop is addressing.

Authors are encouraged to submit previously unpublished papers/abstracts on their research in complex networks. Both theoretical and applied papers are of interest. Specific topics of interest are (but not limited to):

Applications of Network Science
Behavioral & Social Influence
Community Structure in Networks
Complex Networks in Technology
Complex Networks and Epidemics
Complex Networks and Mobility
Complex Networks in Biological Systems
Complex networks in Statistical Mechanics
Emergence in Complex Networks
Geometry in Complex Networks
Interacting Social Networks
Information Spreading in Social Media,
Link Analysis and Ranking
Modeling Human Behavior in Complex Networks
Models of Complex Networks
Network Evolution
Networks as Frameworks
Rumor Spreading
Search in Complex Networks
Shocks and Bursts
Social Networks
Structural Network Properties and Analysis
Synchronization in Networks


Publication
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Original papers/abstracts in the above-mentioned and other related areas will be considered. Each submitted paper/abstract will be fully refereed and undergo a double-blind review process by at least two referees. Accepted papers (not abstracts) of registered authors will be published in the workshop proceedings to be published by Springer on the "Studies in Computational Intelligence" Series.

Accepted abstracts of registered authors will be presented at the conference but their abstract itself will not be included in the Springer book.

Instructions for Submissions
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Submit your paper/abstract electronically in PDF format. Neither hardcopy nor fax submissions will be accepted. Submissions should be printable on a standard printer on common paper formats such as A4 or letter.

Submitted papers/abstracts should follow the Springer format (please visit website for more details).

Abstracts length should not exceed 2 pages. Papers should not exceed 12 pages in this format. Some works may be accepted as short papers and shall be limited to 8 pages maximum.

All papers should be submitted electronically through the conference web site
 http://2014.complenet.org The website includes detailed information about the submission process.

Organisation
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General Chair
Andrea Omicini, Università di Bologna, Italy


Program Chairs
Julia Poncela-Casasnovas, Northwestern University, USA
Pierluigi Contucci, Università di Bologna, Italy


Organizing Chair, Poster Chair
Enrico Denti, Università di Bologna, Italy


Webmaster
Ronaldo Menezes, Florida Institute of Technology, USA

Steering Committee
Giuseppe Mangioni, Università di Catania, Italy
José Mendes, University of Aveiro, Portugal
Ronaldo Menezes, Florida Institute of Technology, USA


Main Contact for CompleNet
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info@complenet.org
complenet2014@easychair.org

ASNA 13

The 10th Conference on Applications of Social Network Analysis (ASNA 13) taking place at the University of Zurich, August 29th-30th 2013 (Workshops on August 27th and 28th) is approaching. Registration is still open. Please visit www.asna.ch

Even if you are not a paper giver, you may wish to attend the sessions and key notes. The program is online.

Before the conference, we offer two days of SNA training in workshops given by some of the most outstanding specialists in the field. There are still some open spots in several workshops, thus please have a look at the workshop list at the end of this email, or on www.asna.ch.

Also, we are extremely happy to welcome Prof. James Fowler for a keynote speech. You may attend the key note speech even without being registered to the conference.

We would be very happy if you would join us for the 10 years' celebration!

For the organizing committee

Manuel

Keynote presentation on August 30th, 2013

James Fowler, Professor of Medical Genetics and Political Science at the University of California, San Diego

Big Data and Big Experiments with Millions of People

James Fowler will discuss several observational and experimental studies we have been doing using Twitter and Facebook data. This work uses new methods to (1) get voters to the polls on a massive scale, (2) predict which pieces of information will go viral, (3) turn "likes" into a measure of political ideology, (4) test a 40 year old theory on the strength of weak ties using employment data, and (5) measure the transmission of emotion online using rainfall.

Workshops on August 27th and 28th, 2013

ñ Introduction to SNA by Thomas Friemel, UZurich
ñ Advanced Applications of SNA by Filip Agneessens, UGroningen
ñ SIENA by Johan Koskinen, UOxford
ñ visone by Ulrik Brandes, UKonstanz
ñ ERGM by Skyler Cranmer, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
ñ DNA by Philip Leifeld, EAWAG / UKonstanz

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Manuel Fischer, PhD
Post-doc researcher
Department of Environmental Social Sciences (ESS)
Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag)
Überlandstrasse 133
8600 Dübendorf
Switzerland

Faculty Position at USC

Assistant, Associate or Full Professor Position with a Focus on Systems Science Applied to Public Health & Disease Prevention

University of Southern California

The Institute for Prevention Research (IPR) and the Department of Preventive Medicine at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California invite applications for a tenure track faculty position. IPR includes transdisciplinary faculty who conduct research on disease prevention with particular emphasis on understanding complex levels of disease risk behaviors of youth and families and designing appropriate prevention strategies based on risk analysis. IPR is well known for the conduct of large community, neighborhood, and school based field trials.

We are seeking assistant to full professor candidate(s) with an interdisciplinary background in applying a systems science approach to the understanding and prevention of disease and disease risk behaviors. Academic rank will depend on experience, funding, and evidence of research leadership. At the full professor rank, the successful candidate will be considered a USC transformative hire, and is expected to transform the way prevention is conceived and apply novel methods to design prevention programs. Evidence of discipline cross-over or integration is preferred, particularly engineering, computer science, and the social and behavioral sciences. The candidate will be encouraged to develop a systems science core at USC that involves collaboration among existing methodologists and systems scientists from across USC who are interested in prevention.

In addition to an active research program, IPR and the department offer degrees at the bachelors, masters and doctoral level. Applicants must have a commitment and evidence of the ability to provide high quality teaching in the classroom as well as mentoring at the graduate and undergraduate levels.

The successful applicant will be recruited as a faculty member in the Department of Preventive Medicine - Health Behavior Research Division. The department includes an outstanding, collegial faculty in health behavior research, epidemiology, environmental health sciences, and biostatistics. Minimum requirements include a PhD, MD or Dr.PH with demonstration of extramural research funding. USC is an equal opportunity employer and encourages minority and women candidates to apply for this position. USC offers superb health benefits and matching retirement funds. Applicants please submit curriculum vitae and statements of research and teaching interests. Letters of reference and representative publications or preprints will be requested from finalists. Review of applicants will begin immediately and continue until the candidate is selected.

Please send statement and CV in one PDF file to Dr. Tom Valente tvalente@usc.edu and Ryan Wilkerson wilkerso@usc.edu.

Interested applicants should submit material by October 30, 2013.

Thomas W. Valente, PhD, Professor
Institute for Prevention Research, Department of Preventive Medicine
Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California
2001 N. Soto Ave., 302w
Los Angeles, CA 90032
Mobile (310) 977-4123


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CALL FOR PAPERS and PARTICIPATION :: ICEEE2013 :: IEEE :: POLAND

The Second International Conference on E- Learning and E- Technologies in Education (ICEEE2013)

http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/iceee2013/

September 23- 25, 2013
Lodz University of Technology,
Lodz, Poland

The ICEEE 2013 is technically co-sponsored by IEEE Poland.
All papers will be submitted to IEEE for potential inclusion to IEEE Xplore.
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For inquiries, please contact: Jackie Blanco cn@sdiwc.net www.sdiwc.net

Call for Papers - Special issue in the journal Societies on Cross-Racial and Cross Ethnic Personal and Group Relationships

Call of papers.
Deadline is December 31, 2013.
Special issue in the journal Societies on Cross-Racial and Cross Ethnic Personal and Group Relationships.

What makes people develop heterogeneous networks across race and ethnicity? What do people gain from these heterogeneous networks?

In the face of an increasingly complex society, people seek out and form relations with those whom they feel safe and comfortable and perceive to be similar. As a result, racial and ethnic groups form their own distinct social networks that are separated and isolated from others, limiting information and awareness and the ability to develop consensus to address community problems and promote mobility. Homogenous networks also limit the ability of affluent groups to appreciate and address the social barriers of less fortunate groups. They are thus more likely to reinforce negative views of minorities, and the poor. Frequently, inter-racial/ethnic division is the norm rather than the exception. In fact, very few people have access and/or opportunity to develop cross-racial, or ethnic relationships due to the long lasting high levels of racial and ethnic segregation. Nevertheless, we know that Asians and Latin Americans have high rates of intermarriage, which signifies the emergence of networks that cross ethnicity and or racial lines. This special issue provides a window into the social mechanisms that foster cross ethnic and cross-racial and ethnic networks.

Please look at the Special Issue's websute at : http://www.mdpi.com/journal/societies/special_issues/race_ethnic_relations

Please get in touch with us if you have a paper to consider.

Dr. Silvia Dominguez Dr. Cid Martinez Guest Editors Silvia Dominguez, Phd

Chair of the Latino Section of ASA
Ford Fellow Woodrow Wilson Fellow
Associate Professor Sociology and Human Services
Northeastern University Boston, MA 02115 
s.dominguez@neu.edu
http://www.nyupress.org/books/book-details.aspx?bookId=5501

Call for papers for Special Section in Network Science on “Networks in space and in time: Methods and applications”

Call for papers for Special Section in Network Science on “Networks in space and in time: Methods and applications”

Social network research is rapidly evolving toward the inclusion of geography and time into the social space, Accounting for their effect on network structure and on network dynamics.

The special section of Network Science will publish a range of high quality research papers about the analysis of spatial-temporal network data and its substantive applications. The main goal is to present the most relevant results and the most recent methodological developments in social network research, when data are collected across space and time.

Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to:

• Dynamic network visualization
• Large networks
• Longitudinal social networks
• Statistical and computational models for spatial-temporal networks
• Networks and geography
• Network data collection
• Social network analysis methods for longitudinal data
• International Networks

The special section will be guest-edited by Luca De Benedictis (University of Macerata, Italy), Maria Prosperina Vitale (University of Salerno, Italy), and Stanley Wasserman (Indiana University, USA).

Submission details

Researchers and practitioners are requested to submit any relevant and innovative papers for publication in this Special Section. Submitted papers can be based on presentations made at ARS 13 – Fourth International Workshop on Social Network Analysis in June 2013, Rome (Italy); however, submissions not based on presentations at this conference will also be considered.

Submitted papers must contain original unpublished work that has not been submitted for publication elsewhere. All manuscripts submitted to the special section will undergo double-blind review which is used for submission to Network Science.

Papers should be submitted following the instructions given at the journal homepage http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nws.

Important dates
• Submission of full paper for the special section: December 15, 2013 at the latest (earlier submission is encouraged)
• Notification to authors: June 15, 2014 (tentative)
• Final paper for the special section: October 15, 2014 (tentative)

For details, visit the website http://www.ars13.unisa.it

PhD Opportunity at Manchester

University of Manchester

Mitchell Centre for Social Network Analysis, School of Social Sciences, Doctoral award in Social Network Methodology

The award will be based in the world renowned Mitchell Centre, an interdisciplinary group of social network analysts based in the School of Social Sciences. The project is funded by Leverhulme (RPG-2013-140) and the successful student will work alongside a project entitled: “Collecting and analyzing secondary covert social network data”

Standard social network data consist of relations amongst an homogenous group of actors. So that when we represent the data in matrix form the rows and the columns represent the same actors. In contrast, in two mode data we have two types of actors (modes) and there are only connections between different types of actors and no connections within each type. The modes usually represent very different sorts of data. The classic example is when one mode is people and the other mode is events. It should be noted that a lot of historical data and as a consequence covert network data is derived from who attended particular events. Keeping the data in this form allows us to have greater flexibility in any subsequent analysis. However, this means we need to develop innovative and new methods which recognise the restrictions in structure that data in this form implies.

The classic way of analyzing such data is to convert it to two one mode datasets by pre and post matrix multiplication to produce two new matrices. These matrices are proximity matrices and there is a wide variety of standard method available for analyzing such matrices. However, when the data are valued it is not quite so simple to convert them and other projection techniques for example using correlation or the Jaccard coefficient may be preferable.

Also very little consideration has been given to directed two mode data and very little work has been done on the development of new methods which specifically recognize the nature of two mode data. Recently consideration has been given by Everett and Borgatti (2013) to combining both the projections and mapping these results back onto the original data. While some preliminary results look promising there is much work to be done in combining the different projection methods with this approach. In addition there is an opportunity to look in detail at some of the more statistical methods that have recently been developed for two mode data and combining these with some of the multivariate techniques discussed above.

Hence the studentship will focus one or more of the following areas:

Investigate alternative and novel projection methods for valued data. Consider issues with respect to normalization of projected networks. Develop new methods (either mathematical or statistical or both) for the direct analysis of multi mode data in particular valued and directed data. Extend and evaluate the dual approach to multimode networks. Examine the relationship between the various approaches available for multi-mode networks.

Studentship details - The studentship comprise an annual stipend of £13,700, payment of fees up to the level charged for UK/EU students (currently £3,900; overseas students would need to pay the balance in fees themselves) and £750 for research training. The studentship will be for direct entry onto the three year PhD programme. The programme will commence in October 2013. Continuation of the award is subject to satisfactory performance.

Entry Requirements - Applicants must have (or expect to gain) a UK Masters level degree (or overseas equivalent) at Merit level (overall taught course average of 60% and a dissertation mark of 60% or more) in a mathematically or statistically orientated subject.

How to apply - Applicants should email martin.everett@manchester.ac.uk a full cv together with a covering letter. The successful candidate will be required to submit a full University of Manchester on-line application, plus supporting documents (two academic references and degree transcripts) to fulfill the normal admissions process.

Further information - For further information or to discuss your proposal, please email martin.everett@manchester.ac.uk

Deadline - The deadline for applications is 30th August, 2013.