Schedule of the workshop
Abstracts of talks
List of participants
List of poster presentations
The workshop will be held in the framework of 2014 Fall Theme Semester on Discrete Networks: Geometry, Dynamics and Applications at the University of Pittsburgh.
A network is a very general concept, encompassing any structure that can be represented as a collection of discrete nodes, some of which are joined by links called edges. An extremely broad variety of systems can be represented as networks; these range from man-made constructs such as power grids, the internet, and rigid structures, to abstract entities such as social interaction and disease contact networks, to biological systems such as neuronal or genetic networks. Mathematical and computational tools being developed to analyze such networks offer great potential for impact, given that the same mathematical framework can be used to represent such a wide diversity of systems.
This three-day workshop will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas relating to quantitative research about networks, pursued with a variety of perspectives and approaches. The event will bring together leading researchers in the field, with backgrounds in areas such as applied mathematics, mathematical biology, statistical physics, and computational methods, along with a diverse pool of graduate students, postdocs, and other scientists who are early in their careers. By doing so, it will highlight cutting edge advances in the analysis of network dynamics and structures, it will foster connections across mathematical areas and disciplines, and it will promote the involvement of junior researchers in the field.
Invited Speakers:
Reka Albert
, Department of Physics, Penn State University
Network analysis and discrete dynamic modeling elucidates the
outcomes of within-cell networks
Omer Angel ,
Department of Mathematics, University of British Columbia
Unimodular planar graphs
Igor Belykh ,
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University
Repulsive inhibition promotes synchrony in excitatory bursting
networks: help from the enemy
Ginestra Bianconi ,
School of Mathematics, Queen Mary University of London
Structure and dynamics of multilayer networks
Bard Ermentrout , Department of Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh
Graphs, dynamics, persistent activity
Nina Fefferman , Department of Ecology, Evolution and Natural
Resources, Rutgers University
A local density-based method for network comparison
Yannis Kevrekidis , Department of Chemical and Biological
Engineering, Princeton University
Coarse-graining the
dynamics of (and on) complex networks: an equation free/variable free
approach
Dimitri Krioukov ,
Department of Physics, Northeastern University
Lorentz-invariant edge-independent maximum-entropy esambles of
random graphs and simplicial complexes
Ashok Litwin-Kumar , Center for Theoretical Neuroscience, Columbia University
Networks as random simplicial complex
Adilson Motter , Department of Physics, Northwestern University
To what extent can networks be controlled? And what for?
Sayan Mukherjee ,
Department of Statistical Science, Duke University
Networks as random simplicial complex
Duane Nykamp , School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota
Exploiting low-rank netweork structure to construct effective
equations equations of neuronal network dynamics
Mason Porter ,
Oxford Centre for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
Multilayer community structure and functional brain networks
Mei Yin ,
Department of Mathematics, University of Denver
Asymptotics for exponential random graphs
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Funding is available for PhD students, postdocs and young
researchers. For funding application, please
fill in the form .
Funding for this Workshop has been kindly provided
by the
Mathematics Research Center at the University of
Pittsburgh and the
National Science Foundation under the grant DMS-1446452.
The organizing committee consists of: Brent Doiron , Bard Ermentrout , Marta Lewicka and Jonathan Rubin. |
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