Workshop "Statistical and computational challenges in networks and cybersecurity"

May 4-8, 2015

Program

 

Monday, May 4, 2015

08:30 - 08:50
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)

Session - Short Course - Eric D. Kolaczyk “Statistical analysis of network data”
Meeting room(s) : 6254

08:50 - 09:00
Opening remarks
09:00 - 10:15
Part I
Abstract
10:15 - 10:45
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:45 - 12:00
Part II
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:15
Part III
15:15 - 15:45
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:45 - 17:00
Part IV

 

Tuesday, May 5, 2015

08:30 - 08:50
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245

Session - Short Course - Eric D. Kolaczyk “Statistical analysis of network data”
Meeting room(s) : 6254

08:50 - 09:00
Tutte Institute Presentation
09:00 - 10:15
Part V
Abstract
10:15 - 10:45
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:45 - 12:00
Part VI
12:00 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 15:15
Part VII
15:15 - 15:45
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:45 - 17:00
Part VIII

 

Wednesday, May 6, 2015

08:30 - 08:50
Registration (Room 5345) and Coffee & Croissants (Room 6245)


Meeting room(s) : 6254

08:50 - 09:00
Opening remarks and Tutte Institute Presentation
09:00 - 09:35
Matt Taddy
(The University of Chicago )
Bayesian and empirical Bayesian forests
Abstract
09:40 - 10:15
Paramjit S. Gill
(University of British Columbia)
A Bayesian approach for the analysis of cognitive social structures data
Abstract
10:20 - 10:50
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:50 - 11:25
Daniel Dunlavy
(Sandia National Lab.)
Clustering network data using graphs,hypergraphs, and tensors
Abstract
11:30 - 12:05
Geoffrey Sanders
(Lawrence Livermore National Lab.)
Numerical analysis of spectral embedding in graph mining applications
Abstract
12:10 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:35
Leman Akoglu
(Stony Brook University)
Large scale graph analytics for anomaly detection & description
Abstract
14:40 - 15:15
François Théberge
(Université d’Ottawa)
Comparison measures and an ensemble method for large-scale graph clustering
Abstract
15:20 - 15:50
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:50 - 16:25
Jeannette Janssen
(Dalhousie University)
Spatial preferential attachment as a principle of link formation in networks
Abstract

17:00
Reception and Poster Session
Room(s) 6245

 

Thursday, May 7, 2015

08:30 - 09:00
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:00 - 09:35
David M. Blei
(Columbia University)
Scalable inference in probabilistic models of overlapping communities
Abstract
09:40 - 10:15
John M. Conroy
(IDA/Center for Computing Sciences)
Spectral partitions of brain graphs and stochastic block models
Abstract
10:20 - 10:50
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:50 - 11:25
Carey E. Priebe
(Johns Hopkins University)
Community detection and classification in hierarchical stochastic blockmodels
Abstract
11:30 - 12:05
Mu Zhu
(University of Waterloo)
Continuous-time stochastic block models for transactional networks
Abstract
12:10 - 14:00
Lunch break
14:00 - 14:35
Vyacheslav Lyubchich
(University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science)
Nonparametric bootstrap inference for a network degree distribution
Abstract
14:40 - 15:15
David Banks
(Duke University)
Political blogs: A text network
Abstract
15:20 - 15:50
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
15:50 - 16:25
David Banks
(Duke University)
Adversarial risk analysis

 

Friday, May 8, 2015

09:00 - 09:40
Coffee & Croissants
Room(s) 6245


Meeting room(s) : 6254

09:40 - 10:15
Steve Thompson
(Simon Fraser University)
Interventions in stochastic dynamic networks
Abstract
10:20 - 10:50
Coffee break
Room(s) 6245
10:50 - 11:25
George Michailidis
(University of Michigan)
Change-point estimation in high-dimensional Markov Random Field models
Abstract
11:30 - 12:05
Erico Neves de Souza
(Dalhousie University)
Time series enrichment with financial indicators
Abstract

12:10
Closure of the workshop