Saturday, February 22, 2014

[DMANET] Summer school on Network analysis and applications

Summer school on Network analysis and applications takes place at a beautiful location in the Pyrenees,
Ecole de sciences avancees de Luchon
Luchon, France
June 21 - July 5, 2014
http://www.quantware.ups-tlse.fr/ecoleluchon2014/

Organized by:
A.Benczur (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
A.Kaltenbrunner (Barcelona Media)
D.Shepelyansky (CNRS Toulouse)

List of confirmed lecturers and main topics:

* Alain Barrat (CNRS Marseille)
<http://www.cpt.univ-mrs.fr/%7Ebarrat/> - /Epidemics and networks/
* András Benczúr (MTA_SZTAKI Budapest)
<https://dms.sztaki.hu/en/people/andras-benczur> - /Recommendation
systems/
* Paolo Boldi (U Milano) <http://boldi.di.unimi.it/> - /Algorithms for
search engines/
* Sergey Dorogovtsev (U Averio) <http://sweet.ua.pt/sdorogov/> -
/Giant components in complex networks and epidemics/
* Klaus Frahm (U Toulouse) <http://www.quantware.ups-tlse.fr/> -
/Spectral properties of Google matrix/
* Aristides Gionis (U Aalto) <http://users.ics.aalto.fi/gionis/> -
/Dense-subgraph discovery/
* Andreas Kaltenbrunner (Barcelona Media)
<http://www.dtic.upf.edu/%7Eakalten/> - /Network analysis and
visualization for social media/
* Victor Solovyev (KAUST)
<http://www.molquest.kaust.edu.sa/?topic=about&no_menu=on> -
/Genomics and transcriptomics big data analysis/

Special topics:

* Young-Ho Eom (CNRS Toulouse) <http://www.quantware.ups-tlse.fr> -
/Network based rankings of people across multilingual Wikipedia
editions /
* Bertrand Georgeot (CNRS Toulouse)
<http://www.lpt.ups-tlse.fr/spip.php?article28> - /Game of GO as a
complex network/
* Katia Jaffres-Runser (ENSEEIHT Toulouse)
<http://www.irit.fr/%7EKatia.Jaffres/> - /Network analysis for
context and content oriented wireless networking/
* Bertrand Jouve (CNRS - U Toulouse 2)
<http://framespa.univ-tlse2.fr/m-jouve-bertrand-52811.kjsp> -
/Graphs to analyze medieval social networks/
* Nelly Litvak (U Twente)
<http://www.utwente.nl/ewi/sor/about/staff/litvak/> - /Quick
detection of popular entities in large on-line networks /
* Esteban Moro (U Carlos III de Madrid )
<http://matematicas.uc3m.es/index.php/dpto-people/titulares/emoro-menu>
- /To be announced /
* Dima Shepelyansky (CNRS Toulouse)
<http://www.quantware.ups-tlse.fr/dima/> - /Google matrix analysis
of world trade network /
* Marc Spaniol (MPI Saarbrucken)
<http://www.mpi-inf.mpg.de/%7Emspaniol/> - /Entity-level temporal
Web analytics /
* Taha Yasseri (Oxford Internet Inst)
<http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/yasseri/> - /Conflict and editorial
wars in Wikipedia, a network approach /
* and others
<http://www.quantware.ups-tlse.fr/ecoleluchon2014/index.html> - /TBA /

Registration form is available at the school web page.
We are looking forward to see your students at the school.


Dr. Nelly Litvak
Associate Professor,
Department of Applied Mathematics,
University of Twente, The Netherlands
Tel: +31(53)4893388


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