Aim of the School

There is a growing need for graduate students and young researchers to have the tools necessary for the study of Computational Social Science. Network analysis is one of the most popular approaches to understanding social and economic phenomena. However, universities in Japan rarely provide students with an opportunity to learn state-of-the-art network science methods. This School will offer tutorial lectures on recent developments in network analysis and their applications to Computational Social Science. The speakers include:

Jesús Gomez-Gardeñes, University of Zaragoza (Spain)

Petter Holme, Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)

Kimmo Kaski, Aalto University (Finland)

Naoki Masuda, University of Bristol (UK)

Registration deadline: June 12th.

Program

June 20 (Thu)

13:00-13:30 Registration

13:30-13:40 Opening

13:40-15:10 Naoki Masuda 1, "Fundamentals of random walks on networks: random walks in one dimension, discrete- and continuous-time random walks on networks, random walks on temporal networks etc."

15:10-15:50 Coffee break

15:50-17:20 Kimmo Kaski 1, "Social Physics I: Data-driven discovery of social connectome of humans."

18:00- Banquet at a restaurant on campus

June 21 (Fri)

9:00-10:30 Naoki Masuda 2, "Applications of random walks on networks: various algorithms to mine information from network data (e.g. community detection, respondent-driven sampling), opinion formation dynamics on networks associated with random walks etc."

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:30 Kimmo Kaski 2, "Social Physics II: Human activity patterns."

12:30-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-15:30 Petter Holme 1, "Defining and finding important nodes in networks." (Covering centrality measures and measures related to dynamic systems. Robustness, vitality, controllability and other of the various concepts scoring the importance of a node.)

15:30-16:00 Coffee break

16:00-17:30 Jesús Gomez-Gardeñes 1, "Contagion processes: from epidemic models to contact processes applied to social contagions."

June 22 (Sat)

9:00-10:30 Petter Holme 2, "Analyzing empirical temporal networks." (1. Simplifying and coarse-graining temporal networks. 2. Identifying important nodes, links and events. 3. Finding out how temporal network structure affects dynamic processes.)

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:30 Jesús Gomez-Gardeñes 2, "Metapopulation dynamics: Analyzing the interplay between contagion processes and mobility patterns applied to the analysis of segregation of socioeconomic classes."

12:30 Closing

Venue: Frontier Hall 3F (building #29), Kobe University, Rokkodai 1st Campus. Map

Note for participants: Upon registration, please make sure to put your institution's name after your family name: e.g., Kobayashi (Kobe University).

The CCSS School is jointly supported by RIEB Seminar.