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Social Networks Seminar (WS 2012/2013)

Teaching Staff:

Jan Nagler, Karin Kurz, Margarete Boos, Xiaoming Fu, Dieter Hogrefe, Jens Grabowski, Philip Makedonski, Kerstin Denecke

Type: Seminar

Organization

Time, place, etc.: Thursdays, 8-10 a.m. (c.t.), Institute of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics & Computer Science,

Goldschmidtstr. 7, Room 2.101 Organization and coordination meeting: Friday, 1st of November 2013, 8-10 a.m. (c.t) Workload: 2 SWH, 5 ECTS CP

Course description

The purpose of this interdisciplinary seminar is to present different perspectives on social networks from the various fields of research involved in the seminar in order to identify common interests and facilitate future collaborations among the participanting parties. Participating graduate students will be assigned a topic and corresponding materials related to the it and will outline potential topics for further work in the field, in the form of a student's project or a Master's thesis. The topics and materials are based on the supervisor's own work or related work of particular interest that has the potential to establish future collaborations among the participating parties.

Course topics

  • Foundations
    • Introduction to Social Networks and Social Networks Analysis: Sociology, History, Methods (supervised by Karin Kurz)
    • Online Social Networks and Online Social Networks Analysis: Technology, Problems, Challenges, Methods (supervised by Wenzhong Li)
    • Psychological Perspectives on Social Networks: Cognitive Maps (supervised by Margarete Boos)
    • Dynamics and Self-Organization Aspects of Social Networks: The Physics Backbone of Network Science - Networks, Structure, Function, Percolation (supervised by Jan Nagler)
  • Applications
    • Social Interactions in Software Development (supervised by Philip Makedonski / Jens Grabowski)
    • Trust and Reputation in (Online) Social Networks (supervised by Parisa Memarmoshrefi / Dieter Hogrefe)
    • Social Networks and Epidemiology (TBC, supervised by Otto Rienhoff)
    • Laws of Population Distribution and Growth in Online Social Networks (supervised by Wenzhong Li / Xiaoming Fu)
  • Invited Talks
    • TBC - Ming Li
    • TBC - Christian Stegbauer

Passing requirements

  • Presentation (30 minutes + discussion)
  • Written report (12-15 pages of content)
  • Active participation in all sessions

Presentation guidelines

  • The talks should be roughly 30 minutes in length and focus on encouraging productive follow-up discussions.
  • In order to ease the transition and guide the ensuing discussion, all talks should conclude with a slide containing
    • potential points for interdisciplinary collaboration,
    • points of particular interest for future work and ideas for projects and theses,
    • open questions.
  • The material should be presented in a manner understandable by participants from all invoved fields of research and not from the presenter's field only.
  • Students must discuss their talks with their supervisors at least two weeks before their scheduled presentation appointment, so that they have the opportunity to get feedback and incorporate any necessary adjustments.