NTD10 - Nonlinear Dynamics of Networks

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Nonlinear Dynamics of Networks

April 5-9, 2010

CSIC Building (#406), Seminar Room 4122.
Directions: home.cscamm.umd.edu/directions

Monday, April 5
9:00 - 9:25	*COFFEE*
MORNING SESSION	Chair: Edward Ott (University of Maryland)
9:25 - 9:30	Eitan Tadmor (CSCAMM) Welcoming Remarks
9:30 - 10:10	Iain Couzin (Princeton University) “Collective Motion and Decision-Making in Animal Groups”
10:15 - 10:55	Mason Porter (University of Oxford) “Community Structure in Time-Dependent, Multiscale, and Multiplex Networks” [Presentation Slides]
11:00 - 11:30	*COFFEE BREAK*
11:30 - 12:10	Adilson Motter (Northwestern University) “Sensitive Dependence on Network Structure: To Sync or Not to Sync”
12:15 - 2:00	LUNCH - hosted by CSCAMM
AFTERNOON SESSION	Chair: Carl Kingsford (University of Maryland)
2:00 - 2:40	Damon Centola (M.I.T. Sloan School) “Experiments on Social Contagions”
2:45 - 3:15	*COFFEE BREAK*
3:15 - 3:55	Edward Ott (University of Maryalnd) “The effect of network topology on the stability of discrete state models of genetic control” [Presentation Slides]
4:00 - 4:40	John Baras (University of Maryalnd) “Network Constrained Coalitional Dynamic Games and Evolution of Network Topologies” [Presentation Slides]
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Tuesday, April 6
9:00 - 9:30	*COFFEE*
MORNING SESSION	*Chair:* Eitan Tadmor (CSCAMM/University of Maryland)
9:30 - 10:10	Sidney Redner (Boston University) “Dynamics of Heterogeneous Voting Models” [Presentation Slides]
10:15 - 10:55	Dietmar Plenz (National Institute of Mental Health) “Neuronal avalanches and coherence potentials”
11:00 - 11:30	*COFFEE BREAK*
11:30 - 12:10	Juan Restrepo (University of Colorado at Boulder) “The role of network topology on the dynamic range of coupled excitable systems”
12:15 - 2:00	*LUNCH BREAK*
AFTERNOON SESSION	Chair: James Yorke (University of Maryland)
2:00 - 2:40	P.S. Krishnaprasad (University of Maryland) “Pursuit and Collective Behavior” [Presentation Slides]
2:45 - 3:15	*COFFEE BREAK*
3:15 - 3:55	David Liben-Nowell (Carleton College) “Tracing information flow on a global scale using Internet chain-letter data”
4:00 - 4:40	Albert-László Barabási (Northeastern University) “From human mobility to social networks and predictability”
EVENING ACTIVITIES
6:30	DINNER at Frankin's Restaurant and Brewery Directions to the restaurant
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Wednesday, April 7
9:00 - 9:30	*COFFEE*
MORNING SESSION	Chair: Rajarshi Roy (University of Maryland)
9:30 - 10:10	Aaron Clauset (Santa Fe Institute) “Extreme degeneracies in the module identification problem” [Presentation Slides]
10:15 - 10:55	Alessandro Vespignani (Indiana University) “Predicting the Behaviour of Techno-Social Systems: How Complex Networks, Physics and Computing Help to Fight Off Global Pandemics”
11:00 - 11:30	*COFFEE BREAK*
11:30 - 12:10	Michael Rosenblum (University of Potsdam) “Partially integrable dynamics of ensembles of nonidentical oscillators” [Presentation Slides]
12:15 - 2:00	LUNCH - hosted by CSCAMM
AFTERNOON SESSION	Chair: Michelle Girvan (University of Maryland)
2:00 - 2:40	Poster Talks
2:45 - 3:55	Poster Talks and Coffee
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Thursday, April 8
9:00 - 9:30	*COFFEE*
MORNING SESSION	Chair: Ernest Barreto (George Mason University)
9:30 - 10:10	Michelle Girvan (University of Maryland) “Finding New Order in Biological Functions and Evolutionary Patterns from the Network Structure of Gene Annotations”
10:15 - 10:55	Reuven Cohen (Bar-Ilan University) “Dynamic networks and directed percolation”
11:00 - 11:30	COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 12:10	Raissa D'Souza (University of California, Davis) “Explosive percolation in random graphs” [Presentation Slides]
12:15 - 2:00	*LUNCH BREAK*
AFTERNOON SESSION	Chair: Louis Pecora (Naval Research Laboratory)
2:00 - 2:40	Jürgen Kurths (University of Potsdam) “The Backbone of the Climate Network” [Presentation Slides]
2:45 - 3:15	*COFFEE BREAK*
3:15 - 3:55	Erik Bollt (Clarkson University) “Judging Model Reduction of Chaotic Systems via Optimal Shadowing Criteria” [Presentation Slides]
4:00 - 4:40	V.S. Subrahmanian (University of Maryland) “Fast Subgraph Matching and Optimization Queries in Social Networks”

Friday, April 9
9:00 - 9:30	*COFFEE*
MORNING SESSION	Chair: Paul So (George Mason University)
9:30 - 10:10	Dan Gauthier (Duke University) “Learning Link Characteristics in a Boolean Network” [Presentation Slides]
10:15 - 10:55	Carl Kingsford >(University of Maryland) “Determining Protein Function By Clustering Within Interaction Networks” [Presentation Slides]
11:00 - 11:30	COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 12:10	Jim Crutchfield (University of California, Davis) “Causal decompositions of spacetime”
12:10	*CLOSING*
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