Category: Social Networks
4th Annual Political Networks Conference and Training, 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
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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
The Network of Blogs Criticizing the NSF
See this recent post by David Lazer on how one of his studies became the focus of on-line political criticism: http://www.iq.harvard.edu/blog/netgov/2009/11/network_picture_of_attacks_on.html
Network Data for Download
Some sources of network data on the Web are as follows:
1. Zeev Maoz: http://psfaculty.ucdavis.edu/zmaoz/datasets.htm
2. National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health: http://www.cpc.unc.edu/projects/addhealth/data