Social Networks Colloquia for '98-99

Colloquia from '96-97 '97-98

Please email suggestions for invitations (see below) to Doug White or John Boyd '98-99 colloquium chairs


Wednesday, September 30, Noon: SSPA 2214 (SN / IMBS) POSTPONED TO JANUARY AS JOINT SN/MBS

[first neeting cancelled]
Duncan Watts
Santa Fe Institute
Collective Dynamics of 'Small World' Networks (reprints available)

Wednesday, October 7, Noon: SSPB 1208


ORGANIZING MEETING

Wednesday, October 14, Noon:SSPB 1208

Duran Bell
Quanxi: An incorporation of Groups, not just a Network of Individuals

Wednesday, October 21, Noon: SSPB 1208

Network Program
Organizing Session

Wednesday, October 28, Noon: SSPB 1208

Rick Grannis
Authority, Power, Class Consciousness, and Centrality in Auto Factory Work Groups

Wednesday, November 4, Noon: SSPB 1208

Silvia Casasola
Spanish Colonialism and Guatemalan Elites: A Historical Network Study

Wednesday, November 11, Noon: SSPB 1208

Pat Skyhorse
What's the Chuukese Network of Adoptions All About?

Wednesday, November 18, Noon: SSPB 1208

Narda Alcantara Valverde
Corporate Kinship Groups in Colonial Guatemala

Wednesday, November 25, Noon: SSPB 1208


Thanksgiving Break


Wednesday, December 2, Noon: SSPB 1208

Ben Jester
Kinship Roles and Social Networks: Beyond the Hsu Hypotheses

Thursday, January 14, 4:00: SSPA 2112

Duncan Watts
Santa Fe Institute
Collective Dynamics of 'Small World' Networks (reprints available)

Wednesday, WINTER, Noon: SSPB 1208 (SN / IMBS)

Doug White
Rethinking Cohesion: Definitions, Group Size, and Small Worlds

Thursday, WINTER, 4:00: SSPA 2112

Phil Bonacich, UCLA
Dynamic Network Evolution

Thursday, WINTER, 4:00: SSPA 2112

Ron Breiger (on Sabbatical at UCSB, 1998-99)
Social Capital and Social Networks: Toward Models and Measures

Networks/IMBS Colloquia Suggestions

  • Noah Friedkin, UCSB
  • Sigi Lindenberg (Center for Advanced Studies, 1998-99)
  • Robert Aunger, Postdoc at Cambridge University
  • John Mohr, UCSB
  • Jeff Johnson, Fisheries Research Institute
  • Gene Johnson, UCSB
  • Elisa Bienenstock, Stanford, "Networks and Game Theory"
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Networks Colloquia Suggestions