ARCHIVED EVENTS

• Seminar
  2008-09-18 | On Tuesday's September thru November
  Networks, Complexity and Economic Development
  
  SPEAKER: Cesar A. Hidalgo, PhD
  Harvard Kennedy School,Center for International Development
  LOCATION: Perkins Rm, 4th Fl Rubenstein Bldg., 79 JFK St, Cambridge MA

• Seminar
  2008-09-29 | 2:00 PM
  Dynamics of Large Networks
  
  SPEAKER: Jure Leskovec, PhD
  Cornell University,Computer Science Department
  LOCATION: 111 Dana Science Hall, 110 Forsyth - 5th Floor

• Colloquium
  2008-10-30 | 4 PM, Refreshments at 3:30 PM
  Global Warming as a Problem in Statistical Physics
  
  SPEAKER: Dr. Bruce J. West, Chief Scientist
  US Army Research Office,Mathematical & Information Science
  LOCATION: 114 Dana Science Hall, 110 Forsyth - 1st Fl

• Seminar
  2008-11-03 | 3:00 PM
  Modularity, polyrhythms, and what systems theory may yet learn from the brain
  
  SPEAKER: Jean-Jacques Slotine, Professor
  MIT,Nonlinear Systems Laboratory
  LOCATION: 111 Dana Science Hall, 110 Forsyth - 5th Floor

• Seminar
  2008-12-05 | 3:00 PM
  The emotional content of large-scale texts: the happiness of bloggers, song lyrics, and presidents.
  
  SPEAKER: Peter Sheridan Dodds, Professor
  The University of Vermont,Department of Mathematics and Statistics
  LOCATION: 111 Dana Science Hall, 110 Forsyth - 5th Floor

• Seminar
  2009-01-12 | 3:00 PM
  Network approaches to understanding the elastic and failure properties of the extracellular matrix: Implications for tissue engineering, emphysema and fibrosis
  
  SPEAKER: Béla Suki, Professor
  Boston University,Dept. of Biomedical Engineering
  LOCATION: NU's Department of Physics, 111 Dana Science Hall, 110 Forsyth - 5th Floor

• Seminar
  2009-01-13 | 1:30 PM
  Life in the Network: The Coming Age of Computational Social Science
  
  SPEAKER: David Lazer, Professor
  Harvard University,Kennedy School of Government
  LOCATION: NU's College of Computer and Information Sciences, 440 Huntington Ave., W. Village, Rm 366

• Seminar
  2009-01-21 | 4:00 p.m.
  Unexpected universality in equilibrium and non-equilibrium avalanches: are they the same?
  
  SPEAKER: Jang Liu
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Physics
  LOCATION: Dana Science Hall, 110 Forsyth - 5th Fl. (Large Elevator)

• Seminar
  2009-01-23 | 3:00 p.m.
  Epidemics in complex networks: K-shell perspective
  
  SPEAKER: Maksim Kitsak
  Boston University,Department of Physics
  LOCATION: Dana Science Hall, 110 Forsyth - 5th Fl. (Large Elevator)

• Seminar
  2009-01-26 | 3:00 p.m.
  Visualization in, and of, the Public Sphere
  
  SPEAKER: Martin Wattenberg, PhD
  Visual Communication Lab, IBM, Group Manager, Researcher
  LOCATION: Dana Science Hall, 110 Forsyth - 5th Fl. (Large Elevator)

• Seminar
  2009-02-02 | 3:00 p.m.
  Insights into the functional organization and robustness of genome scale metabolism
  
  SPEAKER: Calin Belta, Professor
  Boston University, Department of Mechanical Engineering
  LOCATION: Dana Science Hall, 110 Forsyth - 5th Fl. (Large Elevator)

• Seminar
  2009-02-09 | Mon., February 9th ~ 3:00 p.m.
  Contagion of Associative Memory and Behaviors
  
  SPEAKER: Kathryn A. Coronges, MPH
  University of Southern California,Department of Physics, Keck Medical School, Department of Health Behavior Research
  LOCATION: Dana Science Hall, 110 Forsyth - 5th Fl. (Large Elevator)

• Seminar
  2009-02-11 | Wed., February 11th ~ 4:00 p.m.
  Random growing planar graphs and the street network of London
  
  SPEAKER: Adolfo Paolo Masucci
  University College of London,Center for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA)
  LOCATION: Dana Science Hall, 110 Forsyth - 5th Fl. (Large Elevator)

• Seminar
  2009-02-18 | Wednesday, February 18th ~ 4:00 p.m.
  Evolution into Epilepsy & Circadian Rhythms
  
  SPEAKER: Dong-Uk Hwang, Ph.D.
  University of Florida,Department of Biomedical Engineering
  LOCATION: Dana Science Hall, 110 Forsyth - 5th Fl. (Large Elevator)

• Seminar
  2009-02-26 | Thursday ~ 3:00 p.m.
  Assembly reflects evolution of protein complexes
  
  SPEAKER: Emmanuel Levy, Ph.D.
  University of Montreal,
  LOCATION: Dana Science Hall, 110 Forsyth - 5th Fl. (Large Elevator)

• Seminar
  2009-03-11 | 3:00 p.m.
  Is the real world really random? Well, kind of..
  
  SPEAKER: Gourab Ghoshal, Doctoral Student
  University of Michigan,Department of Physics
  LOCATION: Dana Science Hall, 110 Forsyth - 5th Fl. (Large Elevator)

• Seminar
  2009-03-12 | 4:00 p.m.
  The entropy of network ensembles: theoretical implications and application to inference problems
  
  SPEAKER: Ginestra Biaconi, Ph.D.
  International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP), Italy,Condensed Matter Group
  LOCATION: Dana Science Hall, 110 Forsyth - 5th Fl. (Large Elevator)

• Seminar
  2009-03-26 | 3:00 p.m.
  Interdisciplinary in the Age of Networks
  
  SPEAKER: Dr. Jennifer Tour Chayes
  Microsoft Research New England,Managing Director
  LOCATION: 110 West Village H, Northeastern University

• Seminar
  2009-03-26 | 4:00 p.m.
  The Three-Tiered Science of Complex Systems: Data, Knowledge and Information. A Multidisciplinary Overview About the Challenges of Interpreting Complex Systems
  
  SPEAKER: Nicola Scafetta, PhD
  Duke University,Department of Physics
  LOCATION: Dana Science Hall, 110 Forsyth, Room 114

• Seminar
  2009-04-02 | 4:00 p.m.
  Protein folding and dynamics: from simplicity to complexity and back
  
  SPEAKER: Francesco Rao, PhD
  Universite Louis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France,Laboratorie de Chimie Biophysique/ISIS
  LOCATION: Dana Science Hall, Rm 114, 110 Forsyth

• Seminar
  2009-04-10 | 4:00 p.m. ~ Friday
  "Genome-Scale Metabolic Analysis Of Host-Pathogen Interaction"
  
  SPEAKER: Rishi Jain, Ph.D.
  University of Connecticut, Storrs,Department of Chemical, Materials & Biomolecular Engineering
  LOCATION: Dana Science Hall, 110 Forsyth - 5th Fl. (Large Elevator)

• Seminar
  2009-04-14 | 4:00 p.m. ~ Tuesday
  "Shocks and spreading in social systems"
  
  SPEAKER: Riley Crane, Ph.D.
  Swiss Federal Institute of Technology,ETH Zurich
  LOCATION: Dana Science Hall, Rm 114, 110 Forsyth

• Seminar
  2009-04-17 | 3:00 p.m. ~ FRIDAY
  Recommendation networks and the long tail of electronic commerce
  
  SPEAKER: Gal Oestreicher-Singer, PhD
  Tel Aviv University,Faculty of Management
  LOCATION: Dana Science Hall, 110 Forsyth - 5th Fl. (Large Elevator)

• Seminar
  2009-04-28 | 3:00 p,m. ~ TUESDAY
  Mobility, Data Mining and Privacy
  
  SPEAKER: Dino Pedreschi, Professor
  University of Pisa,Dipartimento di Informatica
  LOCATION: Dana Science Hall, 110 Forsyth, 5th Fl (Large Elevator)

• Seminar
  2009-05-08 | 3:00 PM ~ Friday
  A solvable model of the genesis of amino-acid sequences via coupled dynamics of folding and slow genetic variation
  
  SPEAKER: Sabrina Rabello
  Imperial College London,Dept. of Mathematics
  LOCATION: Dana Science Hall, 110 Forsyth, 5th Fl (Large Elevator)

• Seminar
  2009-05-11 | 4:00 PM ~ MONDAY
  Understanding the interplay of structure and dynamics in neuronal networks
  
  SPEAKER: Sarah E. Feldt
  University of Michigan,Dept. of Physics
  LOCATION: Dana Science Hall, 110 Forsyth, 5th Fl (Large Elevator)

• Seminar
  2009-05-13 | 3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
  On the Frequency of Severe Terrorist Attacks
  
  SPEAKER: Aaron Clauset, PhD
  Santa Fe Institute,
  LOCATION: Dana Science Hall, 110 Forsyth, 5th Fl (Large Elevator)

• Seminar
  2009-05-14 | 3:00 PM ~ THURSDAY
  Collective motion: models and experiments
  
  SPEAKER: Tamás Vicsek, Professor
  Eötvös Loránd Uni., Dept. of Biological Physics
  LOCATION: Dana Science Hall, 110 Forsyth, 5th Fl (Large Elevator)

• Seminar
  2009-05-15 | 2:00 PM ~ FRIDAY
  The modular structure of complex networks
  
  SPEAKER: Tamás Vicsek, Professor
  Eötvös Loránd Uni., Dept. of Biological Physics
  LOCATION: Center for Cancer Systems Biology, One Jimmy Fund Way, Smith Bldg. 858

• Seminar
  2009-05-18 | 3:00 PM ~ MONDAY
  Physical Networks: Constraints, Form-function, and Evolution
  
  SPEAKER: Daniel Whitney, Professor
  MIT, Engineering Systems Division
  LOCATION: Dana Science Hall, 110 Forsyth, 5th Fl (Large Elevator)

• Seminar
  2009-06-23 | 2:30 PM ~ Tuesday
  Making the Electric Grid Smarter, Stronger, Greener and More Secure
  
  SPEAKER: Massoud Amin, Professor
  University of Minnesota, Center for the Development of Technical Leadership
  LOCATION: Webinar

• Seminar
  2009-07-30 | Thursday, July 30th ~ 3:00 pm
  Tracking Transience: The Orwell Project
  
  SPEAKER: Hasan Elahi, Professor
  San Jose State University, Dept. of Art & Design
  LOCATION: Center for Complex Network Research, 110 Forsyth St 5th Floor Dana, Northeastern University

• Seminar
  2009-08-12 | 3:00 p.m. ~ Wednesday
  Real Networks?
  
  SPEAKER: Alan Baker, Professor
  Swarthmore College, Department of Philosphy
  LOCATION: 111 Dana Research Center, 110 Forsyth - 5th Fl. (Large Elevator)

• Seminar
  2009-08-18 | 3:00 PM ~ TUESDAY
  Network structure of Japanese Business Firms
  
  SPEAKER: Misako Takayasu, Tokyo Institute of Technology
  ,Hideki Takayasu, Sony Computer Science Laboratories
  LOCATION: 111 Dana Research Center, 110 Forsyth - 5th Fl. (Large Elevator)

• Seminar
  2009-10-06 | TUESDAY ~ 3:00 PM
  Mobility, Data Mining and Privacy: Mining Human Movement Patterns from Trajectory Data
  
  SPEAKER: Fosca Giannotti and Dino Pedreschi
  Università di Pisa,Dipartimento di Informatica
  LOCATION: Dana Research Hall, 110 Forsyth, 5th Fl (Large Elevator)

• Seminar
  2009-10-19 | Monday ~ 3:00 pm
  Mapping the Worlds Photos
  
  SPEAKER: Daniel Huttenlocher, Professor
  Cornell University,Computer Science Department and Johnson Graduate School of Management
  LOCATION: Dana Research Hall, 110 Forsyth, 5th Fl (Large Elevator)

• Seminar
  2009-10-21 | Wednesday ~ 3:00 PM
  Hidden Connections: The Impact of Interacting Networks
  
  SPEAKER: Elizabeth A. Leicht, PhD
  University Of California, Davis,Department of Mechanical & Aeronautical Engineering
  LOCATION: Dana Research Hall, 110 Forsyth, 5th Fl (Large Elevator)

• Seminar
  2009-11-11 | 3:15 pm
  Didier Sornette ETH Zurich, Professor of Finance (Chair of Entrepreneurial Risks)
  
  SPEAKER: Didier Sornette
  ,ETH Zurich, Professor of Finance (Chair of Entrepreneurial Risks)
  LOCATION: 110 Forsyth Street, CCNR

• Seminar
  2009-11-23 | 12:00-1:30 PM | Monday, November 23rd
  The Length of Weak Ties
  
  SPEAKER: Michael Macy
  Cornell University,Department of Sociology,
  LOCATION: 440 Huntington Ave., 366 West Village H

• Seminar
  2009-12-02 | Wednesday ~ 3:00 PM
  A statistical perspective on complex networks
  
  SPEAKER: Edoardo Airoldi, Professor
  Harvard University,Department of Statistics
  LOCATION: 110 Forsyth Street, CCNR, 5th Fl (Large Elevator) , Dana Research Bldg.

• Seminar
  2009-12-04 | Friday ~ 2:30 PM
  Complex Ecological Networks: Advances and Applications
  
  SPEAKER: Neo Martinez
  Director,Pacific Ecoinformatics and Computational Ecology Lab, Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory
  LOCATION: UMASS, 100 William T Morrissey Blvd Boston, MA 02125, Small Science Auditorium on the first floor of the Science Building

• Seminar
  2009-12-07 | Monday ~ 3:00 pm
  Catastrophic cascade of failures in interdependent networks
  
  SPEAKER: Shlomo Havlin, Professor
  Bar-Ilan University, Department of Physics
  LOCATION: 110 Forsyth Street, CCNR, 5th Fl (Large Elevator) , Dana Research Bldg.

• Seminar
  2009-12-08 | TUESDAY ~ 3:00 PM
  Optimization, preferential attachment and phase transitions in random networks
  
  SPEAKER: Raissa D'Souza, Professor
  University of California, Davis,Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering & Center for Computational Science and Engineering
  LOCATION: 110 Forsyth Street, CCNR, 5th Fl (Large Elevator) , Dana Research Bldg.

• Seminar
  2010-02-10 | WEDNESDAY ~ 6:30
  Visualization: The Joy of Revelation
  
  SPEAKER: Fernanda Viegas & Martin Wattenberg
  IBM,Visual Communication Lab
  LOCATION: Northeastern University, Dept. of Art + Design, 105 Shillman Hall, Boston, MA 02115

• Seminar
  2010-02-12 | FRIDAY ~ 3:00 PM
  Spoken Networks: Analyzing face-to-face conversations and how they shape our social connections
  
  SPEAKER: Tanzeem Choudhury, Professor
  Dartmouth College,Department of Computer Science
  LOCATION: 110 Forsyth Street, 5th Fl., Boston, MA (Large Elevator) , Northeastern University

• Seminar
  2010-02-17 | Wednesday ~ 11:30 a.m.
  Topics in Computational Molecular Biology
  
  SPEAKER: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, Professor
  Northeastern University, Departments of Physics, Biology and Computer Science
  LOCATION: MIT's Computer Science and Artifical Intelligence Laborary, Theory of Computation Lab Bldg. 32, Rm G57, Cambridge, MA 02139

• Seminar
  2010-02-19 | 3:00 p.m.
  Diffusion in Social Networks: New Theory and Experiments
  
  SPEAKER: Damon M. Centola, Professor
  Sloan School, MIT
  LOCATION: Dana Research Center, 110 Forsyth, 5th Fl (Large Elevator), Boston, MA 02115

• Seminar
  2010-03-05 | FRIDAY ~ 4:00 PM
  Community Structure in Large Networks: Natural Cluster Sizes and the Absence of Large Well-Defined Clusters" by Jure Leskovec, et al. sponsored by the Network Reading Group
  
  SPEAKER: Sune Lehmann, PhD
  Northeastern University,Computer Science and Information
  LOCATION: Dept. of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, 180A Longwood Ave., Conf. Rm 224-E, Boston, MA

• Seminar
  2010-03-09 | TUESDAY ~ 4:00 PM
  Predicting the Behavior of Techno-Social Systems: How Complex Networks, Physics and Computing Help to Fight Off Global Pandemics
  
  SPEAKER: Alessandro Vespignani, Professor
  Indiana University, Bloomington, School of Informatics and Computing
  LOCATION: Dana Research Centerl, 110 Forsyth, 5th Fl (Large Elevator), Boston, MA 02115

• Seminar
  2010-03-10 | WEDNESDAY ~ 5:00 PM
  Boston Area Systems and Synthetic (BASS) Biology
  
  SPEAKER: Panelists: Michael Rust (O'Shea lab, Harvard FAS), Pyne Saumyadipta (DFCA)
  SPONSORED BY: Broad Institute, CCSB & CCNR,
  LOCATION: Broad Institute, 7 Cambridge Ctr., 415 Main Street, Cambridge, MA 02142 (Monadnock Rm)

• Seminar
  2010-03-17 | 3:15 PM
  Mobility, Data Mining and Privacy: Mining Human Movement Patterns from Trajectory Data
  
  SPEAKER: Fosca Giannotti and Dino Pedreschi
  University of Pisa,Information Science
  LOCATION: Cambridge, MA MIT 77 Mass. Ave. Room: 1-242

• Seminar
  2010-03-19 | FRIDAY ~ 4:00 PM
  Cooperative Behavior Cascades in Human Social Networks
  
  SPEAKER: James H. Fowler, Professor
  University of California, San Diego, CA, Political Science Department
  LOCATION: Dana Research Centerl, 110 Forsyth, 5th Fl (Large Elevator), Boston, MA 02115

• Seminar
  2010-03-22 | MONDAY ~ 3:00 PM
  Networks and Network Analysis for the Humanities
  
  SPEAKER: Gregory R. Crane, Professor
  Tufts University, Medford Mass, Department of Classics
  LOCATION: Dana Research Centerl, 110 Forsyth, 5th Fl (Large Elevator), Boston, MA 02115

• Seminar
  2010-04-01 | THURSDAY ~ 4:00 PM
  A Thermodynamic Approach to Complex Nonequilibrium Problems in Materials Science
  
  SPEAKER: James Langer, Professor
  University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, Department of Physics
  LOCATION: Northeastern University, 114 Dana Science Hall, 110 Forsyth Str., Boston, MA 02115

• Seminar
  2010-04-02 | FRIDAY ~ 4:00 PM
  New perspectives on human mobility and human disease dynamics
  
  SPEAKER: Dirk Brockmann, Professor
  Northwestern University, IL, Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics
  LOCATION: Dana Research Center, 110 Forsyth, 5th Fl (Large Elevator), Boston, MA 02115

• Seminar
  2010-04-09 | FRIDAY ~1:00 PM
  Statistical mechanics of complex networks
  
  SPEAKER: Ginestra Bianconi
  Northeastern Univerity,Department of Physics
  LOCATION: UMass-Boston, Science Bldg., Rm 3-126

• Seminar
  2010-04-12 | MONDAY ~ 4:00 PM
  Population spatial structure and human mobility: how networks shape epidemics
  
  SPEAKER: Vittoria Colizza,Ph.D., Research Scientist
  Institute for Scientific Interchange (ISI) Foundation, Italy,Computational Epidemiology Lab
  LOCATION: Dana Research Center, 110 Forsyth, 5th Fl. (Large Elevator), Boston, MA 02115

• Seminar
  2010-05-05 | WEDNESDAY ~ 11:00 AM
  Wednesday May 5, 11AM GOOGLE CAMBRIDGE
  
  SPEAKER: Albert-László Barabási, Distinguished University Professor
  Northeastern Univerity,Department of Physics and the College of Informatin Sciences
  LOCATION: Google Cambridge, 5 Cambridge Center,Cambridge, MA

• Seminar
  2010-05-07 | Friday ~ 12:00 PM
  Envisioning Science and Technology
  
  SPEAKER: Katy Borner, Professor
  University of Indiana, Bloomington,School of Library and Information Science
  LOCATION: Harvard Business School, Baker Library, 25 Harvard Way Soldiers Field, Boston, MA 02163

• Seminar
  2010-06-21 | MONDAY ~ 3:00 PM
  Overlapping modules, stress and aging of biological networks
  
  SPEAKER: Péter Csermely, PhD, DSc
  Semmelweis University, Hungary, School of Medicine, Department of Medical Chemistry
  LOCATION: Dana Research Center, 110 Forsyth, 5th Fl. (Large Elevator), Boston, MA 02115

• Seminar
  2010-06-21 | MONDAY ~ 3:00 PM
  Visualization of top organizations and personalities for every year from 1985 to 2001
  
  SPEAKER: Jer Thorp
  Langara College, Electronic Media Design Program
  LOCATION: IBM Center for Social Software, 1 Rogers St., Cambridge, MA 02142

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