The Network Dynamics and Simulation Science Laboratory
Science of Complex Networks Seminar Series
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Schedule Summer 2008 :
| Date | Time | Name | Affiliation | Seminar Title |
| TBA | ||||
| TBA | TBA | Shweta Bansal | Center for Infectious Disease Dynamics at Penn State University | Network Frailty and the Geometry of Herd Immunity |
| June | ||||
| 24th | 11:30am | Katherine Wendelsdorf | PhD Student, NDSSL | Simulating HIV Recombination - What drives novel strain emergence? |
| 30th | 4:00pm | Bruno Apolloni | Full Professor, University of Milan, Italy; Head of the Neural Networks Research Laboratory | Time asymmetries in the bacteria life: a connectionist hypothesis implemented through the p-calculus paradigm |
| July | ||||
| 7th | 3:30pm | Floriana Gargiulo | I.S.I. Foundation, Turin, Italy | TBA |
Schedule Spring 2008 :
| Date | Time | Name | Affiliation | Seminar Title |
| January | ||||
| 11th | 3:30pm | 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 Polytechnic Institute | 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 | 3:30pm | Dr. Rahul Kulkarni | Department of Physics, Virginia Tech | On the scaling properties of small-world networks |
| April | ||||
| 7th | 3:30pm | Dr. Allen MacKenzie | Bradley Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Virginia Tech | Building and Analyzing Cognitive Radio Networks |
| 18th | 1:30pm | Dr. Sriram Pemmaraju | Department of Computer Science, University of Iowa | Geometric Embeddings of Unit Disk Graphs |
| 29th | 1:30 pm | Dr. Kevin Boyle | Agricultural & Applied Economics, Virginia Tech | Preference Measurement |
Schedule Fall 2007 :
| Date | Time | Name | Affiliation | Seminar Title |
| October | ||||
| 2nd | 4:00 pm | Dr.Yang Cao | Dept. Computer Science, Virginia Tech | Multiscale Stochastic Modeling and Simulation for Biochemical Systems |
| 9th | 3:30 pm | K.P. Unnikrishnan | General Motors Research | Data Mining Methods for Neuroinformatics |
| 30th | 3:30 pm | Sudipta Sarangi | Dept. of Economics, Louisiana State University | Heterogeneity in Nash Networks |
| November | ||||
| 6th | 3:30 pm | Nina Fefferman | The Center for Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science (DIMACS), Rutgers University | Disease Dynamic Modeling on Emergent Networks |
| 13th | 2:00 pm | Ken Kleinman, ScD | Associate Professor, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care | Spatial surveillance for public health: methods, evaluation, problems |
Schedule Spring 2007:
| Date | Time | Name | Affiliation | Seminar Title |
| March | ||||
| 12th | 3:00pm | Jim Koopman, M.D., M.P.H. | School of Public Health, University of Michigan | Modeling Environmental Mediation of Infection Transmission to Assess Intervention Effects |
| 15th | 4:30pm | Dr. Anand Sivasubramanium | Dept. Computer Science and Engineering, Penn State University | Power Management for Server Disks (Note: Seminar jointly organized with Center for High End Computing Systems and NDSSL) |
| 26th | 3:00pm | Dr. Biswarup Mukhopadhyay | Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech | Extreme Condition Microbiology |
| April | ||||
| 2nd | 3:00pm | Rajiv Raman | Dept. of Computer Science, University of Iowa | Chromatic Scheduling Problems |
| 9th | 3:00pm | Dr. Michael D. McKay | Los Alamos National Laboratory (ret.) | Introduction to Statistical Methods for Understanding Prediction Uncertainty in Simulation Models |
| 11th | 10:00am | Dr. Michael D. McKay | Functional Sensitivity Analysis | |
| 13th | 10:00am | Dr. Michael D. McKay | Functional Sensistivity Analysis II + Discussion | |
| 27th | 2:00pm | Prof. Nils A. Baas | Department of Mathematical Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology | Higher Order Structures |
| May | ||||
| 15th | 3:00pm | Dr. Fernando Vega-Redondo | Department of Economics, University of Alicante/University of Essex | Network organizations in a volatile environment |
Schedule Fall 2006:
| Date | Time | Name | Affiliation | Seminar Title |
| October | ||||
| 16th | 3:00pm | Dr. Alessandro Vespignani | School of Informatics, Indiana University | Epidemic Spreading and Complex Networks |
| 23rd | 3:00pm | Dr. João Setubal | Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, Virginia Tech | Inference of the Evolutionary History of Multipartite Rhizobiaceae Genomes |
| 30th | 3:00pm | Dr. Juan P. Aparicio | Department of Science and Technology, Universidad Metropolitana | Simple Models for Epidemics in Networks |
| November | ||||
| 13th | 3:00pm | Dr. Liwu Li | Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech | Molecular Signaling Network Regulating Innate Immunity |
| December | ||||
| 4th | 3:00pm | Dr. Wu Feng | Department of Computer Science, Virginia Tech | Parallel Genomic Sequence-Search on an Ad-Hoc Grid |
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 First 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.