Advanced school, Lyon, June 11-15 2007
Scope
Graphs have become one of the favourite tools to quantify and model a variety of social systems (kinship networks, language evolution, disease spread...). The scope of this advanced school is to provide practical knowledge about how to use this mathematical tool to analyze social systems. This is accomplished by combining lectures on the mathematical tools (introduction to graph theory and introduction to different visualization/analysis software) and some applications (linguistics, anthropology, economics). Furthemore, an afternoon will be devoted to a philosophical discussion on complexity and the limits of social systems quantitative modelling.
Who
The school is intended for students/researchers in the social sciences willing to master the network tool and students/researchers in the modelling sciences willing to learn how to analyze social systems.
What
- 11/6 : Introduction to graphs : Alain Barrat (CNRS, Paris-Sud)
- 12/6 : Presentation of analysis/visulization software : Vladimir Batagelj (Ljubljana)
- 13/6 morning : Linguistics : Fabienne Venant (CNRS, LATTICE)
- 13/6 2pm : "Knowledge networks: from morphogenesis to information diffusion" : Camille Roth
- 13/6 5pm : Discussion on modelling and complexity epistemology
- 14/6 morning : Heterogeneous Networks Approach for Science and Technology studies (A Mogoutov, Paris)
- 14/6 afternoon : Structure of field networks : application to lexical networks (Bruno Gaume, Toulouse)
- 15/6 : "History. Analysis of spatio-temporal dynamics" Peter Turchin (U Conn, USA)
How
- Lectures in English. Limited to 40 persons.
- Deadline : May 1st, 2007
- Tuiton fees : 100€ (except for members of IXXI Rhône Alpes)
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