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Noshir and Leslie will be delivering the Welcome Plenary at INGroup 2020

2020-09-29 No Comments

We are excited to announce that our Lab Director Noshir Contractor and ATLAS’ Lab Director Leslie DeChurch will be delivering the Welcome Plenary titled “Teaming in the Time of COVID-19: Reconfiguration of Workplace Communication Networks” at the 15th Annual 2020 INGRoup Conference.

They will present their latest work on Enterprise Social Media and the effect COVID-19 has on the nature of work and teams. As many of us may have known, COVID-19 strongly affected the working force, forcing many, if not all, companies to transition to remote work. This transition, in turn, changed an organization’s communication structure and produced interesting effects.

Check out a full description of their speech here and join the livestream here. It’ll be this Thursday (Oct 1) from 10AM – 11AM EDT.

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SONIC director to deliver keynote at GWU Crossroads seminar series

2012-04-05 No Comments

Contractor to deliver a keynote titled “Some Assembly Required: Organizing in the 21^st Century” on April 5, 2012 as part of the Crossroads Seminar Series at George Washington University. For more information go to http://departments.columbian.gwu.edu/orgsci/newsevents/crossroads

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How to get started with p*/ERGM

2011-10-28 No Comments

What’s all this about p*/ERGM? So you’ve just experienced Prof. Noshir Contractor’s keynote, and he was all over this new-fangled technique for the statistical modeling of social networks, and you’ve never heard of it. Curious? Try one of these articles from our collaborators, generally acknowledged as excellent starting points:

Anderson, C. J., Wasserman, S. and Crouch, B. (1999) “A p* primer: logit models for social networks.” Social Networks, 21: 37-66.
Robins, G., Pattison, P., Kalish, Y., & Lusher, D. (2007). “An introduction to exponential random graph (p*) models for social networks.” Social Networks, 29(2): 173-191.

Read both – a slight edge to Robins, Pattison, Kalish and Lusher on the strength of their Figures which may elicit a genuine “Ah, ha!” moment, while the worked examples in Anderson, Wasserman, and Crouch are more substantial.

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Contractor Delivers keynote at ACM Conference on Recommender Systems

2011-10-26 No Comments

SONIC Lab director Noshir Contractor delivers opening keynote address titled “From Understanding to Enabling Networks: Using Web Science to Enhance Recommender Systems” at the 5^th ACM Conference on Recommender Systems, Chicago IL on October 24^th For more information see:

http://bit.ly/RecSys11

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Contractor to give keynote address in Eindhoven, Netherlands

2011-06-06 No Comments

This Wednesday, June 8th, Professor Noshir Contractor will be giving the keynote address at the 22nd annual ACM conference on hypertext and hypermedia in Eidhoven, Netherlands. The title will be “From Disasters to WoW: Using Web Science to Understand and Enable 21st Century Multidimensional Networks”. More information can be found at the ACM website.

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Noshir Contractor Presents Keynote at Rutgers University Conference

2011-05-18 No Comments

Professor Noshir Contractor will present a keynote lecture entitled “Social and Knowledge Network-Building to Advance Global Health Decision-Making” at Rutgers University’s “Advancing Global Health Decision-Making” conference. The conference will be held May 20-21, 2011 and marks the launch of a new initiative on health decision- making by EABIS, Rutgers Universiy, and Johnson & Johnson.

The conference website can be found at: http://www.eabis.org/projects/project-detail-view.html?uid=20.

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Noshir Contractor Presents Keynote at VOSS Conference

2011-05-18 No Comments

SONIC director, Noshir Contractor, was the keynote presenter at VOSS “Toward a Science of Virtual Organizations” invitational workshop. The workshop was hosted by the University of Central Florida and National Science Foundation in Orlando, Florida, May 16-17, 2011.

For more information regarding the workshop please visit: https://sites.google.com/site/ucfdelta/voss2011.