University of California Multi-Campus Complexity Events 2009-2010

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Co-Directors: Douglas R. White and Laurent Tambayong
CLICK HERE for past 2008-2009 events.
Our dates are chosen so as not to conflict with the UCLA Marschak colloquium 2009 Calendar printable (two saturday 3.5 hour conferences with lunch provided to be scheduled)

Contents

[edit] COURSE CREDITS- Grad and Undergrad

  1. UCI fall:SOC SCI 240A (fall 72100) grad and undergrad 1.33 credits per quarter. Instructor Douglas R. White, drwhite@uci.edu
  2. UCLA fall: Anthro M193/Hum CS M193P (both undergrad) and Anthro 294 (grad). Journal Club, Human Complex Systems Seminar. 1 unit. Instructor: Dwight Read, dread@anthro.ucla.edu and Course Coordinator: John Bragin, jbragin@ucla.edu
  3. UCSD fall:ANTH 203 "Four-Campus Video conference" seminar (undergrads may also take for credit) Instructor: Geoff Braswell anthro, gbraswel@weber.ucsd.edu

[edit] MEETING TIMES FALL: 12:30-1:45

PLEASE NOTE: For fall quarter, all meeting times are 12:30-1:45.

  • For winter and spring we will try to return to the usual times, 1:30-3:00

[edit] MEETING PLACES

  1. UCI fall: AIRB 3030 UCI, WINTER AIRB 1030, Spring AIRB 3030 UCI (Anteater I&R Bld) Soc Sci 240A-B-C fall-winter-spring D.R. White
  2. UCLA f-w-s 285 Powell Library
  3. UCSD f-w-s UCSD 260 Galbraith Hall Anth 203 (G. Algaze) "Four Campus Video Conference" in Human Social Complexity

Nonconflicting dates for Marschak talk October 9, October 23, November 6, November 20, December 4

[edit] Speakers who have not yet chosen dates

[edit] Fall focus on games and networks, networks and conflict, network dynamics, business netwokrs

Prominent paper on games and networks, subject of our fall colloquia: please add to the list

Ballester, Coralio & Calvó-Armengol, Antoni & Zenou, Yves, 2005. "Who’s Who in Networks. Wanted: The Key Player" Econometrika 74(5):1403-1417.
Ranjay Gulati Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School - books and papers.

[edit] HSC Videoconference Friday Sept 25 2009 Michael König

Michael König - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich

12:30-1:45 Friday Sept 25 2009
Games of Dynamic Network Formation Presentation
  1. UCI fall: 3030 Anteater I&R Bld (AIRB) Soc Sci 240A (72100) Social Networks and Human Social Complexity (D. White)
  2. UCLA f-w-s 285 Powell Library Anthro M193/Hum CS M193P (ugrad) and Anthro 294 (grad). (D. Read) Human Social Complexity
  3. UCSD f-w-s 260 Galbraith Hall Anth 203 (G. Algaze) "Four Campus Video Conference" in Human Social Complexity

König is an ETH postdoc visiting US Universities and visiting UCSD Sept 20/21-26th.

Abstract: We combine a network game introduced in Ballester et al. (2006), where the Nash equilibrium action of each agent is proportional to her Bonacich centrality, with an endogenous network formation process. Links are formed on the basis of centrality while the network is exposed to a volatile environment introducing interruptions in the connections between agents. Taking into account bounded rational decision making, new links are formed to the neighbors' neighbors with the highest centrality. The volatile environment causes existing links to decay to the neighbor with the lowest centrality. We show analytically that there exist stationary networks and that their topological properties completely match features exhibited by social and economic networks. Moreover, we find that there exists a sharp transition in efficiency and network density from highly centralized to decentralized networks.

emailings: Economics, business/management, networks and MBS program (UCI), political science and anthropology (UCSD)

topics: complexity, tipping points, dynamics of network centrality, simulation and fit to stylized aspects of empirical dynamics of R&D organizations

Reference: Coralio Ballester & Antoni Calvó-Armengol & Yves Zenou, 2006. Who's Who in Networks. Wanted: The Key Player, Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 74(5): 1403-1417.

UCI host: Laurent Tambayong, IMBS PhD. UCSD host: Doug White UCLA host: Dwight Read

[edit] HSC Videoconference Friday October 2 2009 Matthew O. Jackson (CANCELED)

Matthew O. Jackson, Economics, Stanford. Title: TBA.
Abstract: TBA.

[edit] HSC Videoconference Friday October 16 2009 Michael T. McBride

Michael T. McBride, Associate Professor Economics, UCI.

12:30-2:00 (UCI host Matthew Feldman)

Title: Game Theory and Network Formation with Local Information presentation

  1. UCI fall: 3030 Anteater I&R Bld (AIRB) Soc Sci 240A (72100) Social Networks and Human Social Complexity (D. White)
  2. UCLA f-w-s 285 Powell Library Anthro M193/Hum CS M193P (ugrad) and Anthro 294 (grad). (D. Read) Human Social Complexity
  3. UCSD f-w-s 260 Galbraith Hall Anth 203 (G. Algaze) "Four Campus Video Conference" in Human Social Complexity

Abstract: An individual in a social network generally has only very local information about the structure of her network. I will address the issues involved in trying to accommodate local information into a game theoretic approach to network formation. I will discuss how standard solution concepts approach the issue, offer a new way of formally modeling local information in networks, and provide some theoretical results for simple connection models.

UCI host: Matthew Feldman, IMBS 2nd year grad student. UCSD host: Doug White UCLA host: Dwight Read

[edit] UCI Open Access program Wednesday, October 21 2009 Douglas R. White

(PodCasted) Open Access Day - Open Access Week - Events celebrating Open Access Week

UCI celebrates Open Access Week 2009, being held around the globe, with five 8-9 minute speakers addressing the themes of the OA movement encouraging free and timely access to research.

UCI's Libraries program, moderated by Lorelei Tanji, is Open Access at UCI: Status & Success With Different Disciplines, co-sponsored by the Associated Graduate Students and the Graduate Resource Center, organized in part by Julia M. Gelfand. (See: Communication and Management Program.

The program is from 3:30-5:00 at the Langson Library #570, beginning with a short and light reception. The program convenes at 3:50 and is followed by time for questions.

4:00 Mathematics: "Why Math Adopted OA from the Onset" Chuu-Lian Terng, Professor and Chairperson of Mathematics,

4:10 Chemistry: "Why Not More Chemistry via OA?" Scott Rychnovsky, Professor of Chemistry & Associate Editor, Journal of Organic Chemistry

4:20 Medicine: "Never Too Many: Multiple OA Journals in Emergency Medicine" Dr. Mark Langdorf, Chair & Medical Director of Emergency Medicine, & Editor, Western Journal of Emergency Medicine,

4:30 Social Sciences/Anthropology: "Maturation of Open Access Journals in Anthropology and experience with the OA InterSciWiki and EduMod Wiki-based OA Educational Program" Douglas White, Professor of Anthropology. Bookmark links:

1 WORLD CULTUREs eJ (IMBS Social Dynamics and Complexity Faculty, editor Pat Gray) NOW SPONSORED BY IMBS
http://repositories.cdlib.org/wc/worldcultures/vol16/iss1/ WORLD CULTURES in eScholarship
http://escholarship.org/uc/search?smode=browse;browse-journal=aa OUR SECOND JOURNAL in eScholarship thru IMBS
Two of the four UC Irvine
2 STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS eJ (IMBS Social Dynamics and Complexity Faculty, editor Doug White) OUR IMBS FACULTY SUBGROUP AS EDITORS
http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/Structure_and_Dynamics_contents#Volume_1_2005-2006 OUR SECOND JOURNAL Str&Dyn CONTENTS
http://www.doaj.org/doaj?func=openurl&issn=15543374&genre=journal DOAJ INDEX of our 2nd eJournal
http://repositories.cdlib.org/imbs/socdyn/sdeas/vol3/iss3/art1/ direct link to current issue
  • TWO WIKI sites FOR TELECONFERENCES AND INSTRUCTION
3 The InterSciWiki (IMBS Social Dynamics and Complexity Faculty, editor Doug White)
http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki home page for this OA wiki site
4 The EduMod Wiki-based Educational Program (IMBS Social Dynamics and Complexity Faculty, editor Doug White)
http://intersci.ss.uci.edu/wiki/index.php/EduMod A NEW INSTRUCTIIONAL SYSTEM on the OA wiki

4:40 Humanities: "Open Humanities Press: A Collective in the Humanities" Wikipedia:Open Humanities Press Barbara Cohen, Former Director, UCI HumaniTech and Editorial Board Member of Open Humanities Press.

4:50 Questions and discussion

[edit] HSC Videoconference Friday October 30 2009 Zeev Maoz

12:40-2:10 Zeev Maoz, Political Science, UC Davis. (Zeev Maoz)

How Cooperation Emerges from Conflict: An Agent-Based Model of Security Network Formation - powerpoint - with Open office

  1. 3030 Anteater I&R Bld (AIRB) UCI fall: Soc Sci 240A (72100) Social Networks and Human Social Complexity (D. White)
  2. 285 Powell Library UCLA f-w-s Anthro M193/Hum CS M193P (ugrad) and Anthro 294 (grad). (D. Read) Human Social Complexity
  3. 260 Galbraith Hall UCSD f-w-s Anth 203 (G. Algaze) "Four Campus Video Conference" in Human Social Complexity
  4. 250 Olson Hall UC DAVIS UC Davis classroom technology Services Bill Sykes Academic Technology (530) 752-2133 ats@ucdavis.edu

Abstract. This paper develops and tests a theory on how international security networks form and how they evolve. The theory integrates ideas from the realist, liberal, and constructivist/cultural paradigms. The basic idea of the theory is that states are driven to security cooperation by the wish to balance the capabilities of their Strategic Reference Group (SRG). A SRG is a set of states that are perceived to pose a security challenge to the focal state. The propositions of the theory cover the process by which states seek allies, the choice of allies, and the emergent structure of security networks that result from these choices. The process envisioned by the theory forms the basis for an agent-based model of security networks. This model allows a general exploration of the network implications of alliance formation and alliance change processes. The agent-based model is tested on simulated data, as well as on real world data covering the 1816-2001 period. The implications of the agent-based model and the empirical findings are discussed.

[edit] HSC Videoconference Friday November 13 2009 Phil Bonacich

12:40-2:20 Phil Bonacich, Sociology Dept., UCLA

Power and Exploitation in Exchange Networks: A Social-Psychological Model

Abstract: Social exchanges are governed both by the pro-social norm of reciprocity, which asks that one discharge obligations to others by reciprocating their gifts and favors, and by opportunistic exploitation of others who are in weak and dependent positions. Which of these antagonistic motivations predominates has far-reaching implications for inequality and the distribution of power within exchange networks.

[edit] HSC Videoconference Friday January 15 2009 Doug White

1:30-3:15 Date can be changed: Douglas R. White, IMBS, UCI Multiscale/Multilevel Progeny Networks: Progenerative causal and evolutionary analysis ("Bringing networks to life") A joint project with Andrej Mrvar

Abstract: Living beings have phylogenetic and genealogical networks and exist in the context of multi-level emergent entities such as ecosystems, social and kinship networks, and geographic distributions. Modeled with multi-level graphical and formal network analysis, explanatory and causal models are evaluated in ways that include the mutual causality of cohesive communities, resources, inheritance, and migration. Clickable multi-level SVG graphs, Pajek, R, ArcGIS and other analytical systems are brought into a new systems-modeling configuration for trial analysis of sustainability in evolutionary and ecological processes. tinyurl: http://tinyurl.com/cqu697

  • [C:\pajek\URLnet\url1.htm pretest url.htm]
  • The key to the software

Svg to svg url networks

  • Cohesive community cutoffs (k-cohesion level and size)
sustainability/extinction thresholds
Ecosystem
Species
Farming community
Foraging community
Kinship community
bubble creation/collapse
city growth
market growth
empire expansion
inequality expansion

Marschak talks January 8 and 22, February 5 and 19, and March 5.

[edit] HSC Videoconference Friday January 29 2009 TBA

[edit] HSC Videoconference Friday February 12 2009 TBA

[edit] HSC Videoconference Friday February 26 2009 Eugene F. Yates

1:30-3:00 "Complexity and Consciousness"

[edit] HSC Videoconference Friday March 12 2009 TBA

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