Seminar Series

DNAC hosts seminars regularly throughout the academic year. These events highlight cutting edge research from nationally and internationally renowned
scholars and serves as a forum for interdisciplinary exchange.

Series Schedule:
Tuesdays   |  12:00pm – 1:30pm  |  329 Soc/Psych (the McKinney Room)

Upcoming Seminars
There are no upcoming seminars at this time
 
Past Seminars
Apr. 24, 2012 Karen Joyce Wake Forest - Department of Biomedical Engineering
An Agent-Based Model of the Human Brain
Apr. 10, 2012 Peter Arcidiacono Duke University - Department of Economics
Terms of Endearment: An Equilibrium Model of Sex and Matching
Apr. 3, 2012 Yanjie Bian University of Minnesota - Department of Sociology
Corporate Social Capital in Chinese Guanxi Culture
Mar. 20, 2012 Giovanna Merli, James Moody, Robin Gauthier, and S Joshua Mendelsohn Duke University
Shanghai Sexual Mixing: Are sexual contact patterns in Shanghai compatible with an HIV/AIDS epidemic?
Feb. 21, 2012 Steve McDonald North Carolina State University - Department of Sociology
Dual Embeddedness and Institutional Transference: Network-based Job Finding and Macro-Institutional Dynamics in Germany and the United States
Feb. 14, 2012 Brian Southwell University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Leveraging social networks for health promotion: The promise and perils of peer-to-peer information sharing
Feb. 7, 2012 James Moody Duke University - Department of Sociology
Reconstructing the Ship of Theseus: Groups, Roles & Trajectories in Early Adolescent Friendship Networks
Jan. 31, 2012 Peter Mucha University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill - Department of Mathematics
Peter Mucha will be discussing research on network clustering
Nov. 28, 2011 Rebecca Willett
Scalable Tracking of Dynamic Networks
Nov. 17, 2011 Steven Durlauf University of Wisconsin - Dept of Economics
Linear Social Networks Models
Nov. 8, 2011 Jacob Foster University of Chicago - Department of Sociology
Novelty, metaknowledge, and models of discovery
Nov. 7, 2011 Jesse Blocher University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill - Kenan-Flagler Business School
Contagious Capital: A Network Analysis of Interconnected Intermediaries
Oct. 24, 2011 David Sparks Duke University - Department of Political Science
Ideological Extremity and Primary Success: A Social Network Approach
Oct. 4, 2011 David Banks Duke University - Department of Statistical Science
Mining Text Networks
Sep. 19, 2011 Jeff Smith Duke University - Dept of Sociology
Inferring Global Networks from Local Samples
Sep. 12, 2011 Balachander Krishnamurthy AT&T
Internet Privacy: It is not getting better
Sep. 5, 2011 DNAC Affiliates Duke Network Analysis Center
General Meeting
Apr. 25, 2011 Philip Benfey Duke University – Dept of Biology
Development rooted in interwoven networks
Apr. 18, 2011 Savithri Nageswaran Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
Using network analysis to study care-coordination system for children with complex-chronic conditions
Apr. 11, 2011 Ryan Light University of Oregon - Dept of Sociology
Modeling the content of science: The case of HIV/AIDS research, 1990-2008
Apr. 4, 2011 Mason Porter University of Oxford - Dept of Mathematics
Social Structure of Facebook Networks
Mar. 28, 2011 Regina Smardon University of Virginia - Institute for Advanced Studies In Culture
The Microsociology of Interdisciplinarity: Graduate students as networked social actors and cultural objects in motion
Mar. 14, 2011 Rick Durrett Duke University - Dept of Mathematics
Voter models in the age of Facebook, iPads, and Sarah Palin
Feb. 28, 2011 Ashton Verdery and Ted Mouw UNC Sociology
Estimated Sampling Variance in RDS
Feb. 21, 2011 James Moody Duke Sociology
Simulation Models for Diffusion over Multirelational Dynamic Networks
Feb. 7, 2011 Heather Rackin Duke Sociology
How Much Does it Cost to have a Baby? Differences in Perceptions of the Cost of Childbearing
Feb. 7, 2011 Robin Gauthier Duke Sociology
The Structure of Consensus: Cohesion and Hierarchy in Peer Networks
Feb. 7, 2011 S Joshua Mendelsohn Duke Sociology
Local Cities, Global Influence
Jan. 31, 2011 Jeff Smith Duke Sociology
Macrostructure from Survey Data: Generating Whole Systems from Ego Networks
Jan. 31, 2011 Yanlong Zhang Duke Sociology
Markets or Networks? Rural Households' Borrowing Choices in Western China
Jan. 24, 2011 Rachel Kranton Duke Economics
Strategic Interaction and Networks
Dec. 9, 2010 Skyler Cranmer UNC Political Science
Longitudinal Analysis of Networks: Temporal Exponential Random Graph Models, their Estimation, and Applications
Nov. 18, 2010 Tyler McCormick Columbia Statistics
Using network structure to estimate latent features in hard-to-reach populations
Nov. 11, 2010 Mauro Maggioni Duke Mathematics
Multiscale Analysis on Graphs
Nov. 4, 2010 Joshua Socolar Duke Physics
Dynamics of Boolean Networks