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SONIC Welcomes New Faculty Affiliate Michelle Shumate
We are very pleased to welcome Prof. Michelle Shumate as a faculty affiliate of the SONIC research group. Prof. Shumate, who is currently at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will join the faculty at Northwestern University in fall 2012.
Contractor, Foucault, and Young to attend Network Theory Workshop at USC
SONIC Lab members Lindsay Young, Brooke Foucault and Noshir Contractor will attend the 4th International Workshop on Network Theory jointly organized by the Annenberg Network of Networks (ANN) and SONIC Workshop on April 26-28 at the University of Southern California. The theme this year is on “Social Movements and Network Theory.”
Information and many excellent presentation videos from last year’s Network Theory Conference are available here:
http://sonic.northwestern.edu/news/events/webnetsciworkshop/
Check them out to discover what exciting science is motivating these three.