Category: Meetings / Training

4th Annual Political Networks Conference and Training, June 14-18, 2011

Please SAVE THE DATE on your calendar for the 4th Annual Political Networks Conference and Training to be held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, June 14-18, 2011.

The Conference and Training will be held at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy and will be organized roughly as follows:

TRAINING June 14-16

June 14: Conceptual Introduction to Network Analysis (Beginner level)
June 15: Computer Applications in Network Analysis (R, Siena)
June 16: Specialized Topics in Network Analysis

CONFERENCE June 16-18

June 16, 5pm: Keynote Address and reception
June 17: First day of panels, plenary address, poster session
June 18: Second day of panels, plenary session, business meting

The Program Co-Chairs are Betsy Sinclair, University of Chicago and Meredith Rolfe, University of Oxford.

The following people are serving on the local host committee:

Michael T. Heaney, Chair
Philip B. K. Potter, Co-Chair
Robert J. Franzese, Jr.
Elisabeth R. Gerber
William G. Jacoby

More details will be forthcoming in the fall.

Sincerely,

Michael


Michael T. Heaney, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Organizational Studies & Political Science
University of Michigan
722 Dennison Building
500 Church Street
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1042

Cell phone: 202-236-3369
E-mail: mheaney@umich.edu
http://www.umich.edu/~mheaney/

7th Conference on Applications of Social Network Analysis

7th Conference on Applications of Social Network Analysis

September 15-17, 2010 @ EHT Zurich and University of Zurich

Keynotes: Prof. Thomas W. Valente, University of Southern California and Prof. Frans N. Stokman, University of Groningen

Workshops:
SIENA: Tom A.B. Snijders & Johan Koskinen, U of Oxford visone Ulrik Brandes & Jürgen Lerner, U of Konstanz Diffusion: Tomas W. Valente, U of Southern California

Submission deadline
June 1, 2010
www.asna.ch

Links Summer Networks Workshop at the University of Kentucky

The University of Kentucky runs a summer workshop on network anlysis.  Here is the link: http://linkscenter.org/workshops/

Applied Political Network Analysis

Paul Thurner (University of Mannheim) will be teaching a course on “Applied Political Network Analysis” at the APSA Annual Meeting.  Registration is available here: http://polmeth.wustl.edu/conferences/apsa2009/

Envisioning Information

envisioning-information-front-previewEdward Tufte, an emeritus professor at Yale University author of a popular series of books on the visual presentation of information, is holding a series of seminars around the United States over the next several months.  For information about the seminars, go to: http://www.edwardtufte.com/tufte/courses