Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) Project,
funded by the Office of Naval Research (ONR)

MURI ANNUAL REVIEW MEETING

The meeting will take place at UC Irvine on January 10th, 2012.

All events in room 6011 in Donald Bren Hall unless indicated otherwise. Research talks are scheduled to be 20 minutes long with an additional 10 minutes per session available for discussion and questions. Links to the slide talks and the posters will be available on this Web page on the day of the meeting.

8:30 Continental Breakfast
9:00Introduction and Project Overview
Padhraic Smyth, Professor, Department of Computer Science, UC Irvine

SESSION 1

9:20 External-Memory Network Analysis Algorithms for Naturally Sparse Graphs
Michael Goodrich, Professor, Computer Science, UC Irvine
9:45 New Models for Exponential Family Random Networks
Ian Fellows, Statistics, UCLA
10:05Set-Differencing Data Structures
David Eppstein, Professor, Computer Science, UC Irvine
10:30 COFFEE BREAK

SESSION 2

10:50Hierarchical Statistical Models for Event-Based Social Network Data
Chris DuBois, Statistics, UC Irvine
11:10Scalable Statistical Estimation Methods for Large Time-Varying Networks
David Hunter, Professor, Statistics, Penn State
11:30Large-Scale Social Network Analysis of Facebook Data
Emma Spiro, Sociology, UC Irvine
12:00 Break for lunch (lunch for PIs + visitors at the University Club)

POSTER SESSION

1:00 - 2:30 James Foulds, UC Irvine
Interpretable Latent Feature Models for Text-Augmented Social Networks
Lowell Trott, UC Irvine
Category-Based Routing in Social Networks: Membership Dimension and the Small-World Phenomenon
Joe Simons, UC Irvine
Fully Retroactive Approximate Range and Nearest Neighbor Searching
Michael Schweinberger, Penn State
Scalable Models of Networks: the Importance of Local Dependence
Duy Vu, Penn State
Nested Case-Control Sampling for Egocentric and Relational Cox Models
Pavel Krivitsky, Penn State
Adjusting for Network Size and Composition Effects in ERGMs
Zack Almquist, UC Irvine
Point Process Models for Household Distributions within Small Areal Units
Ragupathyraj Valluvan, UC Irvine
Semi-parametric vertex set prediction for dynamic networks using latent tree models
Sean Fitzhugh, UC Irvine
Enumeration of Vertex Sets via Link-Trace Methods
Eunhui Park, U Maryland
Self-Adjusting Geometric Data Structures for Latent-Space Embedding

SESSION 3

2:30Order-Stable Parametrizations for ERGMs
Carter Butts, Professor, Sociology, UC Irvine
2:50ERGMS for Rank-Order Networks
Pavel Krivitsky, Statistics, Penn State
3:20Estimating the Size of Hidden Populations based on Partially-Observed Network Data
Mark Handcock, Statistics, UCLA
3:40 WRAP-UP, CLOSING COMMENTS
4:00 ADJOURN

Additional Information

For any additional questions about parking, directions, hotels, please contact:
Cindy Kennedy
ckennedy@ics.uci.edu,
tel: 949 824 4479.

Participating Universities