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Social Dynamics Seminar

The social dynamics seminar brings together quantitative sociologists working on connecting formal and computational models with empirical data.


Meeting Mondays 1:00 - 4:00  Fall 2009

 

9/14

Mon

1

Damon Centola:  Empirical Tests of Network Diffusion Models

 

9/21

Mon

2

Arnout Van de Rijt:  A Formalization and Empirical Test  of Immigration Dynamics

 

9/28

Mon

3

J.P. Onnela:  A Generative Model of Empirical Patterns in Large Cell Phone Networks.

 

10/5

Mon

4

Mary Burke:  Social Multiplier Effects in the Spread of Obesity – A Calibration Model of Empirical Trends

 

10/13

Tues

5

P.J. Lamberson:  A Model of Path Dependency in Winner Take All Markets

10/19

Mon

 

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10/26

Mon

6

Damon Centola:  The New Petri Dish:  Studying Social Science on the Internet

11/2

Mon

7

Lynn Wu

11/9

Mon

8

David Lazar:  Computational Social Science:  The Big Picture

11/16

Mon

9

Sid Suri:  Networks Experiments in the Lab and on the Internet

11/23

Mon

10

Research Presentations:  TBA


11/30

Mon

11

Research Presentations:  TBA


12/7

Mon

12

Peter Dodds:  Experiments: The Future of Computational Social Science

 

Meeting Wednesdays 2:00 - 3:30  Fall 2008



(MIT) October 8: Damon Centola, overview and orientation

(Harvard) October 15: Filiz Garip , Threshold Dynamics in the Digital Divide

(MIT) October 22: PJ Lamberson, Polya Urn Processes and Path Dependence in Market Dynamics

(Harvard) October 29: Damon Centola, Free Riding and Stability of Collective Behavior

(MIT) November 5: Filiz Garip, Path Dependence in Immigration Dynamics

(Harvard) November 12: Arnout Van De Rijt, Network Dynamics in Immigration

(MIT) November 19: Burak Eskici, Project Ideas on World Polity Theory

November 26: Thanksgiving

(MIT) December 3: John Lyneis, Applying Network Data to Models of Network Formation

Semester Break (IAP)

 

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