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

2010 MURI ALL-HANDS MEETING

The meeting will take place at UC Irvine on November 12th, 2010.

The meeting will be held in Donald Bren Hall, room 6011, from 8:30am to 3:30pm.

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

SESSION 1: SCALABLE METHODS FOR NETWORK MODELING

8:55 Algorithms and Data Structures for Fast Computations on Networks
Mike Goodrich, Professor, Department of Computer Science, UC Irvine
9:20 Listing All Maximal Cliques in Sparse Graphs in Near-Optimal Time
Darren Strash, PhD student, Department of Computer Science, UC Irvine
9:45Fast Variational Algorithms for Statistical Network Modeling
David Hunter, Professor, Department of Statistics, Penn State University
10:10 Coffee Break

SESSION 2: MODELING SPATIAL, DYNAMIC, AND GROUP STRUCTURE IN NETWORKS

10:30Efficient Algorithms for Latent Space Embedding
David Mount, Professor, Department of Computer Science, University of Maryland
10:55Inferring Groups from Communication Data
Chris DuBois, PhD student, Department of Statistics, UC Irvine
11:15Extended Structures of Mediation: Re-examining Brokerage in Dynamic Networks
Emma Spiro, PhD student, Department of Sociology, UC Irvine
11:35Update on Publicly Available Software and Data Sets
David Hunter plus graduate students
12:15 Lunch: PIs + visitors at the University Club, Students and Postdocs in 6011

SESSION 3: POSTERS FROM 1:15-2:45 (see list below)

2:45 Advances in Scalable Modeling of Complex, Dynamic Networks [movie]
Carter Butts, Professor, Department of Sociology, UC Irvine
3:10 DISCUSSION AND FEEDBACK
3:30 ADJOURN

Poster Session Titles

Title Presenter Affiliation Status
Permutation tests for two-mode data Lorien Jasny UC Irvine PhD student
Seasonal modeling of association patterns from time-use data Chris Marcum UC Irvine PhD student
Logistic network regression for scalable analysis of dynamic relational data Zack Almquist UC Irvine PhD student
A network approach to pattern discovery in spell data Sean Fitzhugh UC Irvine PhD student
Rumoring in informal online communication networks Emma Spiro UC Irvine PhD student
Listing all maximal cliques in sparse graphs in near-optimal time Darren Strash UC Irvine PhD student
Extended dynamic subgraph statistics using the h-Index Lowell Trott UC Irvine PhD student
Modeling relational events via latent classes Chris DuBois UC Irvine PhD student
Self-adjusting geometric structures for latent space embedding Eunhui Park U Maryland PhD student
Latent variable models for network data over time Jimmy Foulds UC Irvine PhD student
Hierarchical analysis of relational event data Nicole Pierski UC Irvine PhD student
Retroactive data structures Joe Simons UC Irvine PhD student
Imputing missing data in sensor networks via Markov random fields Scott Triglia
Nicholas Navaroli
UC Irvine
UC Irvine
PhD student
PhD student
Viable and non-viable models of large networks, simulation and inference Michael Schweinberger Penn State Postdoctoral Fellow
Bayesian inference and model selection for exponential-family social network models Ranran Wang U Washington PhD student

Additional Information

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

Participating Universities