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The UCI Social Network Research Group

Purpose

The objective of the UCI Social Network Research Group is to:

• provide an informal setting for discussion of current and ongoing network-related research at UCI (and elsewhere);
• facilitate the exchange of information regarding new techniques, tools, data sources, and research findings;
• support graduate student training in the network field; and
• encourage collaboration among faculty and students on network-related topics.

Meetings

The Network Research Group holds weekly meetings during the academic year, at a time and place which is determined on a quarterly basis (see schedule below). Attendance is open to all interested members of the university community, and "drop-ins" are welcome. Special topics may be designated for certain meetings -- all other meetings are considered to be available for open discussion. In the latter case, participants are encouraged to bring along their intractable problems, difficult questions, and mysterious software bugs, as well as topics for more general discussion or debate. Note that formal presentations of substantially complete research (although also welcome) may be more appropriate for one of our ongoing colloqiua; email Katherine Faust for more information.

Announcement and Discussion Lists

To obtain announcements of meeting topics and other event information, interested parties may subscribe to the Social Network Research Group announcement list (snrlist-announce@uci.edu); subscription information and archives of past posts may be found here. A separate list for discussion among researchers in the social network community is maintained here.

Spring Quarter Schedule

The Network Research Group currently meets Wednesdays from 4:00-5:00 in Calit2 4414. (For off-campus visitors, a map is available here.) Meetings for which a particular topic has not been indicated are listed as "open discussion." If you would like to reserve a time slot for the discussion of a particular paper or research problem, please email Carter Butts. Reserved discussion topics will be announced via email, in addition to being posted here; open discussion sessions are not announced, but the group still meets each week unless otherwise indicated.

April 1

Focused Discussion: Time Scales in Relational Processes

April 8

Political Community and Mutual Trust Between EU Nations [Ryan Acton]

April 15

Relational Event Models for Email Networks [Chris DuBois]

April 22

Patterns of Coordination: Brokerage Roles in the Immediate Wake of Hurricane Katrina [Emma Spiro]

April 29

Relational Aspects of Time Use Data [Chris Marcum]

May 6

Update on Triad Research [Katie Faust]

May 13

Open Discussion

May 20

The Responder Improvisation Data Set - A First Look [Lorien Jasny]

May 27

Open Discussion

June 3

Large-scale Spatially Embedded Networks from GIS Data [Carter Butts, Ryan Acton, and John Hipp]

June 10

Open Discussion

Past Agendas

Agendas for previous quarters are archived here, for those who are interested.

Other Events

• None currently - but stay tuned!

Carter T. Butts, buttsc@uci.edu