Wednesday, January 6, 2010

[DMANET] MITACS International Focus Period - Advances in Network Analysis and its Applications

Dear colleagues,

First Call for Participation (apologies for multiple copies)

MITACS International Focus Period on Advances in Network Analysis and its
Applications
Canada 2010

Web: www.mitacsfocusperiods.ca <http://www.mitacsfocusperiods.ca>

Starting in May 2010, MITACS (www.mitacs.ca<http://www.mitacs.ca>) plans to
hold an international focus period in Canada entitled, "Advances in Network Analysis and its Applications".
The focus period will be run over one year and will consist of a number of scientific events including workshops,
summer schools, industry-academic forums, short courses and public lectures around the topic of network analysis.
MITACS would like to invite you to attend and participate in what will be a stimulating and productive series of events.

Focus Period Topics:
-Financial networks for risk assessment
-Network security and cryptography
-Social Networks
-Biological networks and systems biology
-Wireless and mobile computing
-Internet and network economics

Lead Organizer:
Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University

Focus Period Steering Committee:
Allan Borodin, University of Toronto
Evangelos Kranakis, Carleton University
Peter Glynn, Stanford University
Ron Graham, University of California San Diego
Kurt Mehlhorn, Max Planck Institute
William Pulleyblank, IBM
D. Sivakumar, Google
Jeffrey Ullman, Stanford University

Preliminary Program of events (more to be added):
-Workshop on Financial Networks and Risk Assessment - 17th - 21st of May 2010, Toronto, Canada
-2010 Summer School through IGTC - May 10, 2010 - Jun 2, 2010, Victoria, Canada
-The 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Network Coding - June 9 - 11, 2010 Toronto, Canada
-Workshop on Network Security & Cryptography - 21st-15th of June 2010, Toronto
-CAMBAM-MBI Summer School 2010 - Nonlinear Dynamics in Biological Networks May 17, 2010 - May 28, 2010
-Workshop on Social Networks - 9th-14th of August 2010, Vancouver
-Workshop on Biological Networks and Systems Biology - December 2010, Vancouver
-Workshop on Wireless & Mobile Computing - May 2011, Ottawa
-Workshop on Internet & Network Economics - August 2011, Vancouver

For details on specific topics, registration for events, speakers, submission
of abstracts and locations, please visit our website - www.mitacsfocusperiods.ca<http://www.mitacsfocusperiods.ca>.
We look forward to meeting you there.
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