Wednesday, June 17 (CEU Auditorium)
8.30-9.00: Registration
9.00-9.15: Welcome
Yehuda Elkana, President and Rector of CEU
Balazs Vedres, Director of CNS
9.15-10.45: Network Science - Achievements and Open Problems
Harrison C. White, Columbia University, USA:
Meanings from Switchings: Connections between Networks and Language
Moderator: Balazs Vedres
10.45-11.00: Coffee break
11.00-12.30: Networks linking nature and society
Jeffrey Johnson, East Carolina University, USA:
Social structures in extreme environments
Santiago Saura, Polytechnic University of Madrid, Spain:
Forestry and forest bird habitat: quantitative compromise
Joe Luczkovich, East Carolina University, USA:
Coastal environments - ecosystems and human impact
Discussant: Antonio Bodini
Moderator: Marco Scotti
12.30-13.30: Lunch at CEU
13.30-15.30: Global networks of risk
Valdis Krebs, independent researcher, USA:
The web of Al-Qaeda
Maoz Zeev, University of California, Davis, USA:
International conflicts 1816-2001
Discussant: Dan Rabinowitz
Moderator: Don Kalb
15.30-16.00: Coffee break
16.00-18.00: Teams of collaboration - creativity and collusion
Brian Uzzi, Kellogg School of Business, USA:
Outstanding Scientific Impact: Formation patterns of Scientists' Collaboration Networks and their Performance
Mario Diani, University of Trento, Italy:
The network structure of collective action
Istvan Janos Toth - Zoltan Szanto, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary:
Some typical network configurations of corruption cases in Hungary. Preliminary research results
Discussant: Ferenc Jordan
Moderator: Prem Kumar Rajaram
18.00-19.30: Plenary keynote talk
David Stark, Columbia University, USA:
Postsocialist network dynamics as strategic case: foreign investment, politicization and business group dynamics in Hungary, 1987-2006
19.30: Dinner (reception) - CEU. Drinks will follow on the Negro café, next to St. Stephen's Basilica (optional)
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Thursday, June 18 (CEU Popper Room)
9.00-10.30: The emergence of social order
Tamas Vicsek, ELTE University, Hungary:
New method to generate graphs with desired properties
Douglas R. White, University of California Irvine, USA:
The evolution of the medieval world economic network, and the Chinese link
Emmanuel Lazega, University of Paris-Dauphine, France:
Structural stability regardless of membership turnover? The added value of blockmodelling in the analysis of network evolution
Discussant: David Stark
Moderator: Karoly Takacs
10.30-10.45: Coffee break
10.45-12.30: Organizations, markets, and governance
Bruce Kogut, Columbia University, USA:
Computational Social Science and Public Policy: an Application to Gender, Quotas, and Corporate Boards
Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University, USA:
Using Digital Media to Organize Knowledge Networks
Ilan Talmud, University of Haifa, Israel:
The Social Structure of Israeli Venture Capital Industry: Preliminary Findings on Network Position and Performance
Discussant: Harrison C. White
Moderator: Zoltan Szanto
12.30-13.45: Lunch
13.45-15.15: Biological Webs and Human Impacts on the Environment
Antonio Bodini, University of Parma, Italy:
How networks change our perception of cause and effects in ecological communities
Villy Christensen, University of British Columbia, Canada:
Using food web analysis to inform policy on food security
Ernesto Estrada, University of Strathclyde, Scotland:
Communicability and the evolution of communities in networks
Discussant: Marco Scotti
Moderator: Aleh Cherp
15.15-15.45: Coffee break
15.45-17.45: Bridging the gap between social and biological networks
Raghavendra Gadagkar, Indian Institute of Science, India:
Insect Societies as Networks of Cooperation and Conflict
Frederik Liljeros, Stockholm University, Sweden:
Sexual networks and disease transmission
Peter Csermely, Semmelweis University, Hungary:
Creative elements: Key players in the development, survival and evolvability of biological and social networks
Discussant: Jeffrey Johnson
Moderator: Ferenc Jordan
17.45-19.00: Roundtable discussion
Future directions in network science and transnational - interdisciplinary collaborations: What should a Center for Network Science aim at?
19.30: Closing dinner (seated) - Hungarian Academy of Sciences
