For those of you interested in the study of networked data, I would like to bring your attention to the "Workshop on Information in Networks (WIN)", a workshop organized by my colleagues Sinan Aral, Foster Provost, and Arun Sundararajan. It will take place on September 25-26, 2009. From the description:
The purpose of WIN is to bring together leading researchers studying ‘information in networks’ – its distribution, its diffusion, its value, and its influence on social and economic outcomes – in order to lay the foundation for ongoing relationships and to build a lasting multidisciplinary research community.
I should emphasize that the phrase "bring together leading researchers" is not a the standard template used in many call for papers. The lineup of speakers is truly outstanding! I would be very hard pressed to find any conference that would have such a lineup of invited speakers:
- Lada Adamic, University of Michigan
- Albert-Laszlo Barabasi, University of Notre Dame, Northeastern University
- Ronald Burt, University of Chicago
- Damon Centola, MIT
- Pedro Domingos , University of Washington
- Christos Faloutsos, Carnegie Mellon
- James Fowler, University of California, San Diego
- Sanjeev Goyal, University of Cambridge
- Bernardo Huberman, HP Labs
- Matthew Jackson, Stanford University
- Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania
- Jon Kleinberg, Cornell University
- Rachel Kranton, Duke University
- David Lazer, Harvard University
- Jure Leskovec, Stanford
- Michael Macy, Cornell University
- Alex (Sandy) Pentland, MIT
- Duncan Watts, Yahoo! Research
It is really as good as it gets. If you are interested in networked data and can be in New York on September 25-26, then this is an event that you must attend!
