| Date | Topic | Assignments |
| March 30 | Intro to course and to networks. (Lecture 1) | |
| April 4 | Random graphs and phase transitions. (Lecture 2) | |
| April 6 | Power laws and preferential attachment. (Lecture 3) | |
| April 11 | Exploring Robustness of Networks. (Lecture 4) Online reference materials (Including Rcode and sample Graphviz input files). | |
| April 13 | Optimization and network growth. (Lecture 5) | HW 1 assigned |
| April 18 | Software tools for network analysis. Guest lecture, Prof. Duncan Temple Lang, UC Davis, Dept. of Statistics (Lecture 6) | |
| April 20 | No Lecture | |
| April 25 | Paritioning of Networks (Spectral methods) (Lecture 7) | HW1 due |
| April 27 | Spectral methods, sensor networks and self-organization (Lecture 8) | |
| May 2 | Web search and decentralized search on small-worlds (Lecture 9) | |
| May 4 | Percolation and spreading on networks (SIR and SIS models) (Lecture 10) | HW 2 assigned |
| May 9 | "Complex Interactive Networks and Systems Initiative: Self-Healing Infrastructures" (review of Massoud Amin's work). | |
| May 11 | More network measures and modeling (layered networks), (Lecture 12) | |
| May 16 | Guest Lecture: Christian Bird, Software networks (SoftwareNetworks.ppt) (MiningEmailSocialNetworks.ppt) | HW2 due |
| May 18 | Guest Lecture: Dr. Eivind Almaas (Lawrence Livermore Natn Lab), Biological Networks (BioNetworks.ppt) | |
| May 23 | Guest Lecture: Ram Keralapura, Internet measurement and overlay networks (Keralapura.ppt) | |
| May 25 | Guest Lecture: Prof. Sergey Nuzhdin, Biological Networks | Prelim report due |
| May 30 | Guest Lecture: Prof. Mark Lubell, Social and Policy Networks (Lubell.ppt) | |
| June 1 | Guest Lecture: Prof. Michael Zhang, Network modeling and urban transportation (Zhang.ppt) | Class evaluations |
| June 6 | Class review and student presentations (Final Lecture) | Class Project Due! (Information and template for report) |