Advancing The Science of Networks in Communities
Contractor to deliver plenary address at the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) International Conference on Data Mining in Anaheim on April 26, 2012. SIAM is a world renowned society whose mission is to build cooperation between mathematics and the worlds of science and technology through their publications, research, and community.
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SONIC Lab is proud to welcome Duke University PhD candidate Catherine Shea. She will present her findings in a talk titled “Motivation as an Antecedent to Social Network Structure”. The talk will be on May 7th from 11:00am-12:30pm in Frances Searle Building, Room 1.421 on Northwestern’s Evanston Campus. All are welcome to attend.
Catherine is interested in experimental methods in social network research and has presented her research at various conferences and universities around the world. She received her Master of Science from Queen’s University, Canada and was a visiting scholar in the University of British Columbia in 2011.
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Prof. Roger Leenders from the Netherlands is visiting the SONIC lab for the entire Spring Quarter (and a few weeks beyond). Roger Leenders is Professor of Intra-Organizational Networks at Tilburg University. His research mainly focuses on the antecedents and consequences of networks in and of teams. A core research theme is the creativity of teams: what are the network drivers (and inhibitors) of the creative performance of teams?
Before moving to Tilburg, Roger was Professor of Networks in Market and Product Innovation at the University of Groningen. He has a MSc degree in Econometrics and Ph.D. in Sociology (ICS).
Dominic DiFranzo, PhD Student in the Department of Computer Science at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Insititute is visiting the SONIC lab. Dominic works with Prof. James A. Hendler and Prof. Deborah L. McGuinness in the Tetherless World Constellation research group. Dominic’s research focuses on the Semantic Web and Linked Open Data. During his visit Dominic will work on projects related to Virtual Worlds and the Semantic Web.