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Please note that the NDSSL website has been reorganized and that
this page will eventually be removed. The new seminar page can be
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Schedule Spring 2008 :
| Date |
Time |
Name |
Affiliation |
Seminar Title |
| January |
| 11th |
2:00pm |
Dr.Michael D. Porter |
Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University |
The Search for Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Anomalies |
| 28th |
3:30pm |
Dr. Scotland C. Leman |
Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech |
Modeling The Spread Of Infectious Disease Using
Genetic Information Within A Marked Branching Process |
| February |
| 18th |
3:30pm |
Dr. Ina Hoeschele |
Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech |
Inference of Causal Networks in Systems Genetics
|
| 29th |
11:00am |
Dr.Chris Rorres |
Veterinary Medicine School, University of Pennsylvania |
Modeling, Simulation, and Control of Animal Epidemics
|
| March |
| 3rd |
3:30 pm |
Dr. Andrea Apolloni |
NDSSL, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech |
Random matrices and complex networks |
| 31st |
TBA |
Dr. Rahul Kulkarni |
Department of Physics, Virginia Tech |
TBA |
| April |
| 7th |
TBA |
Dr. Allen MacKenzie |
Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech |
TBA |
| 28th |
3:30 pm |
Dr. Kevin Boyle |
Agricultural & Applied Economics, Virginia Tech |
TBA |
Schedule Fall 2007 :
Schedule Spring 2007:
Schedule Fall 2006:
Previous talks:
- 07/21/2006: A Substrate to Facilitate Large-scale Distributed
Applications. Speaker: Dr. Shrideep Pallickara, Community Grids
Labs, Indiana University
[Home page |
Flyer (PDF)]
- 06/28/2006: Fluctuations and Correlations in Stochastic Lattice
Models for Predator-Prey Interactions. Speaker: Professor Uwe
C. Täuber, Physics Department, Virginia Tech
[Home page |
Flyer (PDF)]
- 06/12/2006: Malaria - Prospects for Prevention and
Control. Speaker: Kofi Adasi, Liverpool School of Tropical
Medicine
[Home page |
Flyer (PDF)]
- 05/08/2006: Scouts, Promoters, and Connectors: The Roles of
Ratings in Recommender Systems. Speaker: Naren Ramakrishnan,
Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech [Home page |
Talk (PDF) |
Flyer (PDF)]
- 04/28/2006: SimCity for Real: The Application of Simulation Models
for Strategic Planning within Urban Areas. Speaker: Mark
Birkin, School of Geography, University of Leeds [Home page |
Flyer (PDF)]
- 04/24/2006: Bayesian Analysis for Multivariate Autoregressive and
Stochastic Volatility Models. Speaker: Professor Dongchu Sun,
Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech [Home page |
Flyer (PDF)]
- 04/10/2006: Modularity and Community Structure in
Networks. Speaker: Professor Mark Newman, Department of Physics
and Center for the Study of Complex Systems, University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor
[Home page |
Talk (PDF) |
Flyer (PDF)]
- 03/27/2006: Automatically Assembling the Building Blocks of
Cellular Circuitry Speaker: T. M. Murali, Department of
Computer Science, Virginia Tech.
[Home page |
Flyer (PDF)]
- 03/13/2006: The Influence Model: A Tractable Model of Networked
Markov Chains. Speaker: Chalee Asavathiratham, Senior Analytics
Engineer, Pivotal Systems Corporation.
[Flyer (PDF)]
- 02/27/2006: How to Plan a Road Trip.
Speaker: Martin Holzer, Institute of Computer Science,
University of Karlsruhe, Germany.
[Home page |
Talk (PDF) |
Flyer (PDF)]
- 01/30/2006: Network Dynamics and Cell Physiology.
Speaker: Professor John J. Tyson, Department of Biological Sciences and Virginia Bioinformatics Institute.
[Home page |
Flyer (PDF)]
- 01/03/2006: Net and the City.
Speaker: Ravi Sundaram, Associate Professor, College of Computer and Information Science, Northeastern University.
[Home page |
Talk (PDF)
(PPT) |
Flyer (PDF)]
- 11/16/2005: Discrete Models for Complex Systems.
Speaker: Reinhard Laubenbacher, Applied Discrete Mathematics
Group, VBI and Department of Mathematics
[Home page |
Talk (PDF)
(PPT) |
(Flyer [PDF])
- 11/02/2005: Algorithmic Aspects of Communication in Wireless Networks.
Speaker: Srinivasan Parthasarathy,
Dept. of Computer Science, University of Maryland
[ Talk (PDF) |
(Flyer [PDF])
- 10/19/2005: Models of Cascading Dynamics in Power Systems.
Speaker: Jim Thorp, ECE, Virginia Tech.
[Home page |
Talk (PDF)
(PPT) |
Flyer (PDF)]
- 10/05/2005: Simulating Epidemics on a Social Network.
Speaker: Stephen Eubank, NDSSL, VBI, Virginia Tech.
[Home page |
Talk (PDF)
(PPT) |
Flyer (PDF)]
Seminar Background:
In recent years systems in such diverse areas as physics, economics,
biology, ecology, and computer science have been successfully modeled
as networks of interacting entities. In these systems the
characteristics of each entity, as well as how the system interacts
with its network neighbors, is usually well understood. However, the
global system dynamics resulting from the composition of individual
entity dynamics is typically very complex.
These complex systems and models from varied fields describe very
different phenomena and dynamics, and may seem to have little in
common. Contrary to intuition, there are large classes of models with
fundamental similarities in both structure and dynamics. This common
and generic structure is an extremely active area of current research.
The Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory, a research
group within the Virginia Bioinformatics Institute at Virginia Tech,
is hosting an interdisciplinary seminar series on complex systems. The
purpose of this series is to bring together researchers and students
that are either working in this field or looking for new ideas and
approaches to modeling and analyzing systems.
The seminars have a formal flavor, and at least proof ideas or
outlines are encouraged in the talks. Presentations of experimental
data and findings that display interesting phenomena and point in the
direction of possible general results are welcome. Topics include
complex social networks, economic systems, networks in communication
and traffic, biological systems, and cognitive systems. As a result,
the series brings together theory, techniques, and results from
mathematics, computer science, physics, engineering, learning theory,
and psychology. An important goal is to initiate interdisciplinary
exchange between researchers, both experimentalists and theorists, in
this new emerging field.
Contacts:
Henning S. Mortveit, VBI/Dept. of Mathematics
(henning@vbi.vt.edu) (main contact)
V.S. Anil Kumar, VBI/Dept. of Computer Science
(akumar@vbi.vt.edu)
Stephen Eubank, VBI/Dept. of Physics
(seubank@vbi.vt.edu)
Seminar location/time:
The seminars take place in the
Second Floor Seminar Room at the CRC, Building XV, 1880 Pratt
Drive. (Please call 231-8252 with any questions.) The seminars are
held on Mondays unless other notice is given.
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