Contractor featured in AP television story about Twitter and the Olympics
SONIC Lab Director Noshir Contractor featured in Associated Press television story on the role of Twitter in the 2012 Olympics. To view the clip go to: http://video.games.com/olympics-awash-in-twitter-for-better-or-worse-517431035
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Contractor participates in a panel at INGroup
Noshir Contractor participated in a panel titled “Beyond the small group: Cohesion in complex teams” at the annual conference of the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (INGRoup) in Chicago on July 13th, 2012
For more information, go to http://www.ingroup.net/
Contractor and Srivastava present a tutorial at the Army Research Lab
Noshir Contractor and Jaideep Srivastava, University of Minnesota, presented a tutorial titled “Network Science Models and Computational Methods” on June 25th 2012 at the Army Research Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD under the auspices of the Network Science: Collaborative Technology Alliance (NS-CTA)
For more information go to http://www.ns-cta.org
Contractor presents paper at Multilevel Social Networks Symposium
Noshir Contractor presented a paper titled “Correspondence Analysis in Multilevel Networks” co-authored with Mengxiao Zhu, Northwestern University and Stanley Wasserman, Indiana University at the Multilevel Social Networks Symposium in Manchester on June 19th 2012 organized by the Multilevel Network Modeling Group
For more information go to http://www.mnmg.co.uk/
Contractor delivers Big Data Presentation
Noshir Contractor delivered a presentation titled “Can Big Data Motivate New Theories and Methods?” in Manchester on June 18th 2012 at the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Data Horizons workshop as part of the ESRC Digital Social Research program.
Contractor facilitates Networking Exercise in Brazil
Noshir Contractor facilitated a networking exercise in Rio de Janeiro on June 16th 2012 at an event titled Women Networking for Sustainability: Celebrating the Past & Envisioning the Future held concurrently with the Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development.
lContractor participates in Committee for Aging Research
Noshir Contractor participated in the National Advisory Committee meeting for the Active Aging Research Center on May 31st -June 1st, 2012 in Madison, WI.
For more information go to http://aarc.chess.wisc.edu/?
Contractor presents paper at annual ICA convention
Noshir Contractor presented a paper titled “Origins and Consequences of Relational Pluralism in Multiteam Systems” coauthored with Leslie DeChurch, Georgia Institute of
Technology; Toshio Murase, Northwestern U and Amy Wax, Georgia Institute of Technology at the annual convention of the International Communication Association in Phoenix on May 25, 2012.