Workshop on Web Science meets Network Science
March 4-6, 2011
221 Allen Center, Northwestern University, Evanston IL
| Date | Start time | End time | Title (Chair) | Speaker |
| March 4 | 6 pm | 8.30 pm | Registration and Welcome Reception | |
| March 5 | 8 am | 8.15 | Welcome Remarks by Dean of McCormick School of Engineering | Julio Ottino |
| 8:15 | 9:45 | Session: Net/Web Science vs. Engineering (Noshir Contractor) | ||
| 8.15 | 9.00 | Discover, Understand, Engineer: Why this Sequence is so challenging in Emerging Systems | Luis Amaral | |
| 9.00 | 9.45 | Engineering the Web for a Scale-Free Society | Tim Berners-Lee | |
| 9.45 | 10.00 | Break | ||
| 10:00 | 11:30 | Session: Web Science and Net Science at Scale (Manuel Castells) | ||
| 10.00 | 10.45 | Rhythms of Information Flow through Networks | Jure Leskovec | |
| 10.45 | 11.30 | Social Networks Caught in the Web | Lada A. Adamic | |
| 11.30 | 11.45 | Photo | ||
| 11.45 | 1 pm | Lunch | ||
| 1:00 | 2:30 | Session: Is the Web just another Network? (Brian Uzzi) | ||
| 1.00 | 1.45 | From the WWW to network Science: Why Was Google’s Pagerank Successful After All? | Laszlo Barabasi | |
| 1.45 | 2.30 | Semantic Web Science | Jim Hendler | |
| 2.30 | 2.45 | Break | ||
| 2:45 | 4:15 | Session: Modeling the Web – Data Mining versus Theory Building (Peter Monge) | ||
| 2.45 | 3.30 | Web Structure Mining and Information Network Analysis: An Integrated Approach | Jiawei Han | |
| 3.30 | 4.15 | Modeling the Web – The Interaction Between Theory Building and Data-Driven Discovery | Scott Poole | |
| 4.15 | 4.30 | Break | ||
| 4:30 | 6:00 | Session: Causality in Web/Net Science (Kevin Lynch) | ||
| 4.30 | 5.15 | Network Autocorrelation: Causality and Culture Wars | Michael Macy | |
| 5.15 | 6.00 | Causality in Networks | Sinan Aral | |
| 6 | 6.30 | Drinks | ||
| 6.30 | 7.30 | Dinner | ||
| 7.30 | 7.45 | Welcome Remarks by Dean, School of Communication | Barbara O’Keefe | |
| 7.45 | 8.45 | After dinner talk (Contractor) | Duncan Watts | |
| March 6 | 8:30 | 10:00 | Session: Using Web/Net Science to understand Science (Peter Monge) | |
| 8.30 | 9.20 | Interactive Maps of Science and Technology | Katy Borner | |
| 9.15 | 10.00 | Web of Science, Multidisciplinarity, and Scientific Impact through Time | Brian Uzzi | |
| 10.00 | 10.15 | Break | ||
| 10.15 | 11.30 | Discussion: Envisioning a “Web Index” | Nigel Shadbolt (moderator) | |
| 11.30 | 12:00 | Closing remarks | Noshir Contractor |