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21 April 2008
I was pleased to be invited to the:
International Meeting on Methodology for Empirical Research on Social Interactions, Social Networks, and Health
which will be held early in May in Cambridge. It's being organized by Chuck Manski and Nicholas Christakis, and hosted by The Institute for Quantitative Social Science (IQSS) at Harvard.
Objective: To bring together econometricians, social statisticians and social network analysts to improve research on the relationship between social interactions and healthy.
Speakers and topics:
Opening Remarks, Charles Manski, Northwestern University
"Social Contagion in Health Behaviors in Current and Future Longitudinally Resolved Social Network Datasets" Nicholas Christakis, Harvard University
"Stochastic Blockmodels for Networks with Mixed Membership and Challenges for Modeling Dynamically Evolving Networks" Steve Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University
"Social Interactions from the Perspective of Economics" Steven Durlauf, University of Wisconsin-Madison
"New Models for Dynamic Analysis of Multi-Sided (Large Scale) Conflict" Peter Bearman, Columbia University
"Human Dynamics: From Priorities to Human Travel Patterns" Laszlo Barabasi, Northeastern University
"Superspreaders or Limited Access Highways? Explaining Generalized Epidemics and Prevalence Disparities in HIV" Martina Morris, University of Washington
"Separating Social Influence from Social Selection on the Basis of Longitudinal Data and Statistical Models" Tom Snijders, University of Oxford
"Longitudinal Model of Network Formation: Heider's Theory of Balance vs. Simmel's Triadic Formation", Mark Handcock, University of Washington
"Network Topology and its Implications for Model-Building" Pip Pattison, University of Melbourne
"Selection and Influence: Models for Individual Attributes and Social Network Structures" Garry Robins, University of Melbourne
"The Average Outcome and Inequality Implications of Segregation in the Presence of Social Spillovers " Bryan Graham, University of California, Berkeley
"Point Process Estimation of Large-scale Spatial Dependencies", Matthew Harding, Stanford University
Closing remarks, Nicholas Christakis, Harvard University
Contact Info:
Gabrielle Stone, IQSS Events Coordinator
tel: 617-495-9489
Posted by Stan Wasserman at April 21, 2008 3:21 PM
Hi Stan! First of all congrats on being invited to International Meeting on Methodology for Empirical Research on Social Interactions, Social Networks, and Health. I hope its going to be a great meeting with so many speakers delivering speeches on various topics. I wish were there to hear it. I am really exicited about it do let me know what happened in the meeting.
All the best
Regards
Abhishek
Posted by: Abhishek at April 22, 2008 8:26 AM