Schedule
Thursday, June 15, 2017 (Room 230, Fields Institute)
- 8:45 - 9:00 --- Opening remarks
- 9:00 - 9:30 --- High Degree Vertices and Spread of Infections in Spatially Modelled Social Networks --- Joshua Feldman and Jeannette Janssen
- 9:30 - 10:00 --- Preferential placement for community structure formation --- Aleksandr Dorodnykh, Liudmila Ostroumova Prokhorenkova and Egor Samosvat
- 10:00 - 10:30 --- Coffee break
- 10:30 - 11:00 --- Moment-based parameter estimation in binomial random intersection graph models --- Joona Karjalainen and Lasse Leskela
- 11:00 - 11:30 --- Common adversaries form alliances: modelling complex networks via anti-transitivity --- Anthony Bonato, Ewa Infeld, Hari Pokhrel and Pawel Pralat
- 11:30 - 12:00 --- Kernels on Graphs as Proximity Measures --- Konstantin Avrachenkov, Pavel Chebotarev and Dmytro Rubanov
- 12:00 - 2:00 --- Lunch break
- 2:00 - 3:00 --- Jeannette Janssen --- Recognizing graphs formed by a spatial random process
- 3:00 - 3:30 --- Coffee break
- 3:30 - 4:00 --- Six Sigma effects in SPA markets: on endogenous differentiation of preferences under quality uncertainty --- Bogumil Kaminski, Tomasz Olczak and Pawel Pralat Short talks:
- 4:00 - 4:20 --- A New Graph Densification Method and Its Applications --- Rupei Xu and Andras Farago
- 4:20 - 4:40 --- Ensemble of sparse graphs with scale-free degree distribution that maximizes Gibbs entropy --- Pim van der Hoorn, Dmitri Krioukov and Gabor Lippner
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Friday, June 16, 2017 (Room BA 1160, Bahen Centre for Information Technology, UofT)
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- 10:00 - 11:00 --- Yuval Peres --- Evolving sets, local sparse cuts, and random walks in dynamically varying graphs: A pictorial introduction
- 11:15 - 11:30 --- Overview of NSERC grant opportunities --- John Jackson, Research & Innovation Development Officer, Ontario Regional Office, NSERC
- 11:45 - 12:45 --- Complex networks in industry and academia
- 1:00 - 2:00 --- Lunch (provided)
- 2:00 - 3:00 --- Jure Leskovec --- Higher-order analysis of networks
- 3:00 - 3:30 --- Coffee break
- 3:30 - 4:00 --- Correlation between clustering and degree in affiliation networks --- Mindaugas Bloznelis and Justinas Petuchovas
- 4:00 - 4:20 --- Analysis of nearest neighbor degrees in scale-free networks --- Pim van der Hoorn, Dong Yao and Nelly Litvak
- 4:20 - 4:40 --- Modularity of complex networks models --- Pawel Pralat, Liudmila Prokhorenkova, and Andrei Raigorodskii
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Important: please register for the panel/lunch here so that we know how much food we need to have ready!
Professors debate whether they should work on pure research or on industry-driven, applied research. Industry partners weigh whether they should work with their own R&D departments or be open to work with academics within universities. Graduate students and post-doctoral fellows often face the decision of choosing to work in the academia or industry (or a combination of the two). Given the background of our keynote speakers, we are hosting a panel consisting of four experts (Jeannette Janssen, Jure Leskovec, Yuval Peres, Andrei Raigorodskii) that will give a personal view of career options, challenges, and opportunities in both academia and industry for professors, students, and from within the academy and industry. Following the panel discussion, attendees will have an opportunity to meet and network with panelists over a casual lunch.
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