Date | Leader | Topic | Readings | Additional Refs |
Mar 31 | RD | Intro and course logistics (Lecture 1, pdf) | ||
Apr 2 | RD | Intro to network theory, cont. (Lecture 2, pdf) | ||
Apr 7 | Zachary | Subsumption architecture and autonomous control (zs47.pdf) | 1) Brooks.pdf; 2) Reynolds.pdf; (Optional Reif.pdf) | |
Apr 9 | Elizabeth | Community structure: eigenvalue and maximum likelihood methods (leicht1.pdf) | 1) Newman2006; 2) Newman/Leicht2006; (Optional Girvan/Newman2002) | |
Apr 14 | Daniel | Spatial distribution networks (dw414.pdf) | 1) Youn2008; 2) Gastner2006; (Optional Barthelemy2006.pdf) | |
Apr 16 | RD out of town (No class) | |||
Apr 21 | Shaxun | Content Delivery Networks (sc421.pdf) | 1) Dilley.pdf; 2) Vakali.pdf; (Optional HotSpot.pdf) | |
Apr 23 | Ryan | Phase transitions, directed percolation and algorithms (rj423.pdf) | 1) Parshani2009; 2) Monasson1999.pdf | MezardScience2002.pdf GomesScience2002.pdf Mertens.pdf |
Apr 28 | Ben | Synchronization dynamics and pattern evolution on networks (bj428.pdf) | 1) Arenas2006; 2) Zhou2005; (Optional Timme2006) | Power laws in data |
Apr 30 | David | Self-organizing networks of agents (dk430.pdf),(dk430.tex -- beamer template) | 1) das2007.pdf; 2) chen2006.pdf | |
May 5 | George | Anonymizing social networks (gc55.pdf),(gc55.tex -- beamer template) | 1) www07.pdf; 2) facebook1.pdf; (Optional hay2007.pdf) | |
May 7 | Rennie | Network coding and self-organizing networks (ra57.pptx) | 1) protocols.pdf; 2) coding.pdf; (Optional infoFlow.pdf) | |
May 12 | Nicholas | Transportation and land use networks (nl512.pdf) | 1) Bettencourt2007.pdf; 2) Gastner2006 (arxiv version); (Optional 1 Banavar1999.pdf; Optional2 Samaniego2008.pdf) | |
May 14 | Kevin | Intelligent adaptation and cognitive networking (kl514.pdf) | 1) ComMag_2007.pdf; 2) Genetic.pdf; (Optional Arslan_2007.pdf) | |
May 19 | RD out of town | |||
May 21 | Elizabeth | Percolation and generating functions | 1) NWS2001.pdf (Pages 1-6, through Sec II.D); 2) callaway2000_percolation.pdf | |
May 26 | Menglin | Metarouting and policy-based routing theory (ml526.pdf) | 1) metarouting.pdf; 2) policyBasedRouting.pdf | |
May 28 | RD | Model selection and validation (rd528.pdf) | 1) Middendorf2005.pdf; 2) Alderson2005.pdf; (Optional Filkov2009.pdf (pgs 4-6), Wang2008.pdf) | |
Jun 2 | Simone Linz | Phylogenetic trees and networks (sl62.pdf) | BLSS07.pdf | |
Jun 4 | RD | Kuhn (Structure of Scientific Revolutions) and wrap up | 1) Background
2) Dr. Pajares, Emory University, summary 3) Dr. Foster, U Wisc, summary |