MAE 298, Spring 2009
Advanced Topics in Network Theory
Potential Topics

  • Design of transportation/distribution networks/energy networks
  • Biological networks: Genetic regulation, microarray data, protein interactions
  • Social networks: Community structure, influence, consensus building, survey data
  • Software networks: Function call graphs, developer communication, socio-technical congruence
  • Immunology/epidemiology/computer viruses
  • Resilience principles for networks
  • Visualization software
  • Graph theory, random graphs, new network metrics
  • Random graphs as models of real-world networks
  • Preferential attachment, optimization, Internet growth and modeling
  • WWW crawling and searching
  • Dynamic networks, self-organization and ad hoc/sensor networks
  • Ecological networks, foodwebs
  • Economic networks
  • Random walks on different kinds of networks (scale-free, random graphs, small-worlds)
  • Dynamic networks