[Colloquium] Talk by Mark Newman, University of Michigan, on Friday November 9, 2007 - Reminder - Today

[Nita Yack]

> DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE - TALK
>
> CO-SPONSORED BY TTI-C & UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
>
> Date: Friday, November 9, 2007
> Time: 2:30 p.m.
> Place: Ryerson 251, 1100 E. 58th St.
>
> -------------------------------------------
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> Speaker:  MARK NEWMAN
>
> From: Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex  
> Systems
>    University of Michigan
>
> Web page:  http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mejn/
>
> Title: The large-scale structure of real-world networks
>
> Abstract:
>
>    Many systems take the form of networks: the Internet, the World  
> Wide Web,
>    social networks, citation networks, metabolic networks, food  
> webs, and
>    neural networks are just a few examples.  In this talk I will  
> show some
>    recent empirical data for these and other networks and discuss  
> how we can
>    discover and understand their large-scale structure and its  
> implications.
>    The problem is that many networks are too large to visualize in  
> their
>    entirety, so to understand what they "look like" we need  
> algorithmic or
>    statistical techniques to pick useful patterns out of large  
> network data
>    sets.  I will describe recent work on several methods that  
> attempt to
>    detect structural features such as clustering and hierarchy using
>    spectral and other techniques.  I will give a variety of  
> illustrative
>    applications throughout the talk.
>
> If people want to look at the papers ahead of time, these two are  
> suitable:
>
>    Modularity and community structure in networks, M. E. J. Newman,
>    Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 103, 8577-8582 (2006).
>    http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0602124
>
>    Mixture models and exploratory data analysis in networks, M. E.  
> J. Newman
>    and E. A. Leicht, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 104, 9564-9569 (2007).
>    http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0611158
>
> ***The talk will be followed by refreshments in Ryerson 255***
>
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