Winter School 2010 - Programme


2nd Winter School in Complexity Sciences 
"Formal approaches for the representation and analysis of social network structures" 
Lisbon University Institute,  January 11-15, 2010

Programme and downloads

Monday 11.01.2010
  • 14:30-15:00  Registration (reception Building 2, 1st floor)
  • 15:00-17:00  Practical session: Jorge Louçã and David Rodrigues (computer room 0S2, Building 1) - "Software for the representation and analysis of networks". Resources:
- Ulrik Brandes and Dorothea Wagner: visone - Analysis and Visualization of Social Networks. In Michael Jünger and Petra Mutzel (Eds.): Graph Drawing Software, pp. 321-340. © Springer-Verlag, 2004. 
Tuesday 12.01.2010
  • 15:30-16:30  Research seminar: James P.G. Sterbenz (Auditório Afonso de Barros, Building Ala Autónoma) - "The Great Plains Environment for Network Innovation (GpENI): A Programmable Testbed for Future Internet Architecture Research" - see also http://iscte.pt/~rhcl/GpENItalk.html
  • 17:30-19:00  Theoretical session: John Symons (room C103, Building 2, 1st floor) - "Self-organization, emergence and the networks model of inquiry"
  • 19:00-20:30  Theoretical session: Gergely Palla (room C103, Building 2, 1st floor) - "Statistical properties of tagged networks
Wednesday 13.01.2010
  • 15:00-17:00  Practical session: Rui Lopes and Rui Marinheiro (computer room 0S1, Building 1) - "Computer network modelling approaches: theory and tools"
  • 17:30-19:00  Theoretical session: Santo Fortunato (room C103, Building 2, 1st floor) - "Community detection in graphs I"
  • 19:00-20:30  Theoretical session: Jeffrey Johnson (room C103, Building 2, 1st floor) - "An introduction to Hypernetworks
Thursday 14.01.2010
  • 15:00-17:00  Practical session: Jorge Louçã and David Rodrigues (computer room 0S1, Building 1) - "Software for the representation and analysis of networks"
- Zip file with Text and Datasets for R, Pajek and NWB. NOTE: If you're bringing your laptop, it would help if you could install R and go through the text file in this Zip and to the install packages zone and install the "statnet" package. 
Friday 15.01.2010
  • 15:00-17:00  Practical session: Jorge Louçã and David Rodrigues (computer room B201, Building 1) - "Software for the representation and analysis of networks"
Zip file with datasets for this session.
  • 17:30-19:00  Theoretical session: John Symons (room C103, Building 2, 1st floor) - "Causality and Pattern Discovery"
  • 19:00-20:30  Theoretical session: Jeffrey Johnson (room C103, Building 2, 1st floor) - "Hypernetworks for modelling multilevel dynamics

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