Selection/homophily or Influence: Dyad-level Analysis of
Delinquency and Network Ties (John Hipp)
Fall Quarter, 2008
- October 3
- Welcome and Sunbelt Abstract Presentation; bring your abstract to share with
the group! (Note: abstracts are due on 10/4.)
- October 10
- Open Discussion
- October 17
- Entailment and Political Belief Update [background manuscript
is here]
(Lorien Jasny)
- October 24
- Multi-Organizational Fields: Collaboration, Innovation and
Consequence [background manuscript is here]
(Scott Byrd)
- October 31
- Measuring Inter-group Crime [background manuscript is here] (John Hipp)
- November 7
- Message Diffusion on Large Spatial Networks (Ryan Acton and Carter
Butts)
- November 14
- "Open Mic Day" (bring your slides!), with a special visit from Filip
Agneessens [Note that we will be in SSPB 1208, and will start around
1:30; food will be provided]
- November 21
- Thanksgiving - No Meeting
- November 28
- Conversation with Jerker Denrell
- December 5
- Testing Preferential Attachment in the Katrina EMON (Lorien Jasny)
- December 12
- Friendship Among Graduate Students: an Application of Network
Inference with Missing Data [Miruna Petrescu-Prahova]
Spring Quarter, 2007
- April 5
- Comparing Entailment Structures for Attitudes Regarding National Participation (Lorien Jasny)
- April 12
- Open Discussion
- April 19
- Network Inference from Unstructured Sources (Carter Butts)
- April 26
- Age Preferences in an Online Dating System (Joy Pixley)
- May 3
- Open Discussion
- May 9, 3:30-5:00 (NOTE: Special Day/Time)
- Guest Session with Mark Mizruchi
- May 17
- Hurricane Katrina EMON - Research Update (Ryan Acton and Chris
Marcum)
- May 24
- Open Discussion
- May 31
- No Meeting (Sociology honors talks -- come see some of our
fledgling relational analysts in action!)
- June 7
- Biased Net Analysis of the DoJ Email Networks (Ben Lind)
- June 14
- Global Commodity Chains and Economic Development (Matt Mahutga) [Background paper can be found here (Webfiles login required).]
Winter Quarter, 2007
- January 11
- Open Discussion
- January 18
- Participation Shifts in the WTC Radio Communication Data (Carter
Butts)
- January 25
- Sunbelt Pre-Submission Roundup -- Bring your draft abstracts!
- February 1
- Conversation with James Holland Jones (to be followed by his IMBS
talk at 4:00 -- please join us!)
- February 8
- Selection and Influence in Delinquency (John Hipp)
- February 15
- Open Discussion
- February 22
- The Synergy of Structure, Position, and Content of Network Ties:
Relationships between Friendship Network Characteristics, Smoking
Related Social Influence Processes, and Past Month Cigarette Use among
Continuation High School Youth (Cynthia Lakon)
- March 1
- Comparing Public Sector Organizational Networks with Missing Data
(Helena Kovacic)
- March 8
- Perturbations and Interlock Networks (Joel Levine)
- March 15
- The Social Circles (Feedback) Generative Network Model and Its MLE
(Doug White) [A background paper can be found here.]
- March 22
- Open Discussion
Fall Quarter, 2006
- September 27
- Long-cycle Structure in the Add Health Data Set (Carter Butts)
[Those
who are interested in additional background may want to peruse this IMBS
technical report prior to the session.]
- October 4
- The Triad Space of Social Networks (Katie Faust)
- October 11
- Homophily and Propinquity in Neighborhood Ties (John Hipp)
- October 18
- Discussion of Handcock et al., JRSS 2007 [see paper], and of Invited Comments
Being Prepared by Group Members
- October 25
- Spatial Interaction Functions: A Discussion of What We Know
- November 1
- Dominance (Lin Freeman)
- November 8
- Organizational Brokerage in Two Communities During the Hurricane
Katrina Response (Ben Lind)
- November 15
- Open Discussion
- November 22
- Thanksgiving Holiday -- No Meeting
- November 29
- The Katrina EMON: a First Look (Ryan Acton)
- December 6
- Comparison and Modeling of Protein-Protein Interaction Networks;
Applications to Social Networks? (Natasa Przulj)
- December 13
- Interlock Network Structure as a Test of Bejan's Constructal
Theory (Lorien Jasny)
Spring Quarter, 2006
- April 10
- Sunbelt Warm-up Discussion (Bring your questions!)
- April 17
- Sunbelt Presentation Practice and Critique (Miruna Petrescu-Prahova
and Leah Reich)
- April 24
- Open Discussion
- May 1
- Open Discussion
- May 8
- Open Discussion
- May 15
- Open Discussion
- May 22
- Open Discussion
- May 29
- Open Discussion
- June 5
- Relational Event Models (Carter Butts)
- June 12
- Open Discussion
- June 19
- Open Discussion
Winter Quarter, 2006
- January 13
- Pre-Sunbelt Discussion (Bring your abstracts!)
- January 20
- Cycle Census Terms for ERGs (Carter Butts)
- January 27
- Open Discussion
- February 3
- Entailment Structures for US Household Ownership of Durable Goods
(Ryan Acton)
- February 10
- No Meeting -- Come to the UCI conference on Social Influence,
Geography, and Networks, instead!
- February 17
- Open Discussion
- February 24
- Graph Convexity of Vertex Sets as a Measure of Cohesion (Carter
Butts)
- March 3
- Computational Models of Movement/Countermovement Interaction (Ben
Lind)
- March 10
- Co-Authorship Network Position and the Adoption of Innovations:
Implications for Diffusion of New Knowledge (Jennifer Chandler)
- March 17
- Efficiency and Corporate Interlock Networks (Lorien Jasny)
- March 24
- No Meeting (Spring Break!)
Fall Quarter, 2005
- October 4
- Open Discussion
- October 11
- Corporate Interlocks and Patterns of Philanthropy
(Lorien Jasny)
- October 18
- Comparative Triad Census Findings for Cross-Species Networks (Katie
Faust)
- October 25
- Discussion: The Boundary Problem in Network Analysis (Open)
- November 1
- Open Discussion
- November 8
- Discrete Exponential Families for Assignment Processes (Carter Butts)
[Background Paper]
- November 15
- Assignment Models for Settlement and Migration Processes (Miruna
Petrescu-Prahova)
- November 22
- Rethinking the Strength of Weak Ties (Lin Freeman) [Draft
Paper (via WebFiles))]
- November 29
- Power and Hierarchy in Voluntary Organizations (Leah Reich)
- December 6
- Open Discussion
- December 13
- Open Discussion
Spring Quarter, 2005
- April 4
- Open Discussion
- April 11
- The Hamming Geometry of Small (and Large) Worlds: Some Early Findings
(Carter Butts)
- April 18
- International Networks/CoW Group
- April 25
- Updates on the Political Weblog Project (Remy Cross)
- May 2
- International Networks/CoW Group
- May 9
- Propinquity in Hollenbeck (George Tita and Katie Faust)
- May 16
- International Networks/CoW Group
- May 23
- Open Discussion
- May 30
- International Networks/CoW Group
- June 6
- Open Discussion
- June 13
- International Networks/CoW Group
Winter Quarter, 2005
- January 11
- Radio Communication in the WTC Disaster (Miruna Petrescu-Prahova,
Carter Butts)
- January 18
- Longitudinal Properties of Networks in Nang Rong, Thailand (Katie
Faust)
- January 25
- Open Discussion
- February 1
- International Networks in the World System (Matt Mahutga)
- February 8
- Consensus Models and Network Analysis: Moving Forward
(Tentative: Carter Butts and others TBA)
- Suggested background material: Sunbelt Slides; see also Butts,
CT. (2003). ``Network Inference, Error, and Informant (In)accuracy: A
Bayesian Approach.'' Social Networks, 25:103-140. and Batchelder,
WH and Romney, AK. (1988). ``Test Theory Without an Answer Key.''
Psychometrika, 53(1):71-92.
- February 15
- Open Discussion
- February 22
- Advances in Testing for Regular Equivalence (John Boyd)
- March 1
- Open Discussion
- March 8
- Open Discussion
- March 16
- Open Discussion
- March 22
- Open Discussion
Fall Quarter, 2004
- September 28
- Welcome, Summer Wrap-Up, and Open Discussion
- October 5
- Citation Dynamics in the Weblog Community (Carter Butts, Remy Cross)
- October 12
- Friendship and Delinquency in Early Adolescence: A Study of
Selection and Influence Effects (Andrea Knecht)
- October 19
- Concept Networks (Lin Freeman)
- October 26
- Open Discussion
- November 2
- Determinants and Outcomes of Selection and Influence Processes Based
on School-Related Behavior (Andrea Knecht, Katie Faust)
- November 9
- Vertex Disambiguation and the WTC Data (Carter Butts, Miruna
Petrescu-Prahova)
- November 16
- Open Discussion
- November 23
- Intrest Group Access to Congressional Deliberations (Kelly Ramsey)
- November 30
- Open Discussion
- December 7
- Resources and Policy Outcomes: Grassroots Mobilization and Political
Consequences of the Los Angeles Tenants' Movement (Ben Lind)
Spring Quarter, 2004
- April 13
- Open Discussion
- April 20
- Open Discussion
- April 27
- Exponential Family Models for Network Data -- Current Status
(Carter Butts)
- (Participants are encouraged to peruse
Snijders
(2002) prior to the meeting)
- May 4
- Edge Prediction (Joshua O'Madadhain and Padhraic Smyth)
- (Some background notes can be found here)
- May 11
- Open Discussion
- May 18
- Sunbelt 2005 (in Los Angeles!) -- Brainstorming Session (Katie Faust)
- May 25
- Lessons from a Failed Experiment (Katie Faust)
- June 1
- Information Technology and the Collection of Social Network Data (Carter Butts)
- June 8
- Networks and Labor Disputes -- an Instrument Design Problem (Matt Mahutga)
- (Some background notes can be found here)
- June 15
- Analysis of Data from the WTC -- First Impressions (Miruna Petrescu-Prahova)
Past Events
- Thanks to all who assisted in making the Sunbelt Social Network
Conference (in Redondo Beach, CA, February 16-20, 2005) a huge
success!
- The Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences sponsored a
symposium entitled "Current Research on Network Comparison" on July 7,
2004. The speakers for this event were David Dekker (Radboud
University),
Carter Butts (UCI), and Paulette Lloyd (UCLA). Thanks to all who
attended!
- The 2004 UCI Social Network Analysis Workshop was held at UCI on
June
5, 2004. See the workshop homepage for more
information.
Carter T. Butts, buttsc@uci.edu