Academic Year 2012-2013

Nicholas Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, Harvard University

"Cutting Edge Topics in Social Networks, In My Humble Opinion"

Akihiro Nishi, MD, MPH, Harvard School of Public Health

"Indirect Genetic Effects on Menopause"

Manuel García-Herranz, PhD, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

"Using Friends As Sensors To Detect Globle-Scale Contagious Outbreaks"

John Yen, PhD, Pennsylvania State University

"Integrating Micro-Level Analysis Of Social Interaction With Macro-Level Analysis Of Online Community: From Sentiment Analysis To Leader Identification"

Andrey Liscovich, Harvard Kennedy School

"Preview of Popper: New Behavioral Experiments Platform"

Alison Hwong and David Kim, Harvard Medical School

"Network-Based Public Health Interventions In Rural Honduras"

Mark McKnight, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School

"Breadboard: The Prisoner’S Dilemma In Less Than 20 Lines Of Code"

David Rand, PhD, Department of Psychology, Yale University

"A Cooperative, Networked World"

Mark Pachucki, PhD, Massachusetts General Hospital

"Social Networks and Mental Health in Pre-Adolescence: Recent Advances & Future Challenges"

A. James O'Malley, PhD, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School

César Hidalgo, PhD, MIT Media Lab

Felix Elwert, PhD, Department of Sociology, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Jessica Perkins, Harvard University

Jukka-Pekka Onnela, DSc, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard School of Public Health

Academic Year 2011-2012

Nicholas Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, Harvard University

"Cutting Edge Topics in Social Networks, In My Humble Opinion"

Alison Hwong & David Kim, Harvard MD/PhD Program (HMS/GSAS)

"Network-based Public Health Interventions in Rural Honduras"

Hirokazu Shirado, MS, Sony Corporation, Japan

"From Robotics to Social Networks"

Thomas Barrios, Department of Economics, Harvard University

"Peer Effects in Prison"

Rose McDermott, PhD, Department of Political Science, Brown University

"Smells Like Political Spirit: Biological Correlates of Political Recognition"

Cancelled

Sudeshna Paul, PhD, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School

"Hierarchical Longitudinal Models of Relationships in Social Networks"

David Rand, PhD, Human Evolutionary Biology Department, Harvard University

"The Evolution of Human Cooperation"

Andrey Liscovich, Harvard Kennedy School

"Leveraging Game Development Tools in Online Experiments"

Feng Fu, PhD, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School

"Evolution of Homophily"

Sam Arbesman, PhD, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

"The Half-Life of Facts and the Dimensions of Knowledge Creation"

Marcella Nunez-Smith, MHS, MD, Yale School of Medicine

"Designing a Social Network Recruitment Strategy for a Prospective 'Framingham' Cohort in the Caribbean"

Kwan Hong Lee, MIT Media Lab

Serguei Saavedra, Northwestern University

"Linking Community Persistence to Individual Survival in Networks of Mutual Cooperation"

Coren Apicella, MS, AM, PhD, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School

"What Can Hunter-Gatherers Tell Us about the Origins of Human Attractiveness, Social and Economic Preferences?"

Feng Fu, PhD, Harvard University

"Homophily and Cooperation in Social Networks"

César Hidalgo, MIT Media Lab

Shermin de Silva, PhD, Uda Walawe Elephant Research Project

Pete DeWan, PhD, Activate Networks, Incorporated

Bruce Landon, MD, MBA, MSc, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School

"Using Administrative Data to Identify Physician Networks: Implications for Accountable care Organizations"

Nicolas Perony, PhD, Chair of Systems Design, ETH Zurich

"Quantitative Analysis of Social Interactions in Animal Groups"

Anshul Kumar, Department of Sociology, Harvard University

Andrey Liscovich, Harvard Kennedy School

Brian Uzzi, Northwestern University

A. James O'Malley, PhD, Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School

David Rand, PhD, Human Evolutionary Biology Department, Harvard University

Academic Year 2010-2011

Dirk Helbing, PhD, Zurich

"Cooperation, Norms, and Conflict: Toward Stimulating the Foundations of Society"

Nicholas Christakis, MD, PhD, MPH, Harvard University

"Social Networks and You: Overview of New Research for 2010-2011"

Luke Matthews, PhD, Harvard University

"Novelty-seeking DRD4 polymorphisms are associated with human migration distance out-of-Africa after controlling for neutral population gene structure"

Benjamin Waber, MIT

"Modeling Corporate Epidemiology"

Sae Takada, Harvard Medical School

"Collecting Social Network Data in a Ugandan Village"

Yanjie Bian, Phd, University of Minnesota

"Marketization and Job-Search Networks: A Decade of Change in Urban China"

Michael Barnett, Harvard Medical School

"Predicting Physician Relationship Networks with Administrative Data"

Samuel Arbesman, PhD, Harvard Medical School

"Large-Scale Regularities of Progress: Discovery, Innovation, and Prosocial Behavior"

Andrey Liscovich, Harvard Kennedy School

"Networked Public Goods Games With Heterogeneous Agents"

John Horton, Harvard University

"Tools for Online Experiments: A Guided Tour of our Software and its Applications"

Weihua An, Harvard University

"Why Buy Friendship? Socioeconomic Determinants of Friendship Network Centrality"

Elizabeth Lamont, MD, MS, Harvard Medical School

"Are Area Social Factors Associated with the Area Availability of Cancer Relevant Care in Urban Regions?"

Niels Rosenquist, MD, PhD, Harvard Medical School

"Remember: We grade on effort, not content. Short answers (perhaps 30 words) are all that is expected for each question."

Peter DeWan, PhD, MedNetworks

"Targeted Detailing in Physician Networks: Initial Findings and Open Questions"

Cancelled due to weather

Cancelled due to weather

National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Population

February 18, 2011

(FRIDAY)

Mary Carmichael, Knight Science Journalism Fellow, MIT

"Medical Science and Journalism: What Gets Lost in Translation"

Jessica Perkins, Harvard University

"Social Networks, Health, and Development: Research Collaboration in Semi-Rural Uganda"

Tyler VanderWeele, PhD, HSPH

"Sensitivity Analysis for Contagion Effects in Social Networks"

Felix Elwert, PhD, University of Wisconsin

"Neighborhood Effects in Time"

Trapper Markelz, MeYou Health

"Neighborhood Effects in Time"

Coren Apicella, MS, AM, PhD, Harvard University

"Evolutionary Origins of the Endowment Effect"

Andrey Liscovisch, Harvard Kennedy School

"Optimization of Cooperation in Static Networks"

Ravi Goyal, Harvard University

"Sampling Sexual Disease Transmission Networks"

Cleo Samuel, Harvard University

"Health Information Technology and Healthcare Quality Improvement - Exploring the Role of Individual and Contextual Factors"

April 29, 2011

(Friday)

Mark Pachucki, UC Berkeley

Thomas Barrios & Ryan Sakoda, Harvard University

May 9, 2011

(Monday)

Vincent Blondel, PhD, MIT

"Geography, Community and Privacy in Complex Networks"

Marcel Salathé, PhD

"Social Networks & Infectious Disease Dynamics: Theory and Data"

Sae Takada, Harvard Medical School

Anshul Kumar, Harvard University

Burak Eskici, Harvard University

"Peer Effects in Migrants' Remittances: Evidence from Sibling Networks in 22 Rural Thai Villages"

Alison Hwong, Harvard Medical School

David Kim, Harvard Medical School

TBD

Academic Year 2009-2010

September 17, 2009

1:15-2:45

Nicholas Christakis, Harvard University

"Recent Results and Plans for the Coming Year"

September 24, 2009

1:15-2:45

Sudeshna Paul, Harvard Medical School

"Estimation of Inter-Atomic Distance Histograms of Protein Molecules from Small Angle Scattering Images"

October 1, 2009

1:15-2:45

Mark Pachucki, Harvard University

"A Taste for Tastes? Food Choice and Social Influence in Large Social Network"

October 8, 2009

1:15-2:45

Sam Arbesman, Harvard University
"Doing Well vs. Doing Good: Scaling of Productivity and Prosocial Behavior in Cities"

October 22, 2009

1:15-2:45

Sep Kamvar, Stanford
"Think Small"

October 29, 2009

1:15-2:45

Jessica Perkins, Harvard University
"Calling out and calling in: Social networks, cell phones and, and art in developing countries"

November 5, 2009

1:15-2:45

Rebecca Cadigan, Harvard University
"Growing Old Together? Social and Organizational Predictors of Where Elders Receive Long-Term Care"

November 12, 2009

1:15-2:45

JP Onnela, Harvard University
"Classifying networks using mesoscopic response functions and community detection in time-dependent, multiscale, and multiplex networks"

December 10, 2009

1:15-2:45

Coren Apicella, Harvard University
"Understanding the natural origins of economic risk preferences: Past research and future endeavors"

December 17, 2009

1:15-2:45

Sae Takada, Harvard University

"The Social Networks of Hidden Populations in Developing Countries: The Egocentric Networks of High-Risk Groups and HIV Stigma in Vietnam"

January 21, 2010

1:00-2:30

Luke Matthews, Harvard University

"Distinguishing Tree-Like Descent from Ongoing Network Transmission in Putatively Cultural Data"

January 28, 2010

1:00-2:30

Nicholas Christakis, Harvard University

"Social Networks in 18 Minutes"

February 4, 2010

1:00-2:30

Michael Barnett, Harvard University

"Informal Physician Networks and Patterns of Health Care Delivery"

February 18, 2010

1:00-2:30

Nicholas Christakis, Harvard University

"Tales from TED"

March 4, 2010

1:00-2:30

Nicholas Christakis, Harvard University

"Using Social Networks as Sensors for Contagious Outbreaks"

March 11, 2010

1:00-2:30

Frank Marlowe, Florida State University

"Hadza Hunter-Gatherers: What Kinds of Networks

Matter?"

March 25, 2010

1:00-2:30

Akihiro Nishi, HSPH

"Predictive Ability of Self-rated Health in Different Socioeconomic Status, Living Arrangement, Social Support, and Social Capital Groups"

April 1, 2010

1:00-2:30

Kate Strully, Albany

"Health Behavioral Responses to Friends' and Family Members' Heart Attacks/Strokes"

April 8, 2010

1:00-2:30

Elizabeth Lamont, Harvard Medical School & Charles MGH

"Social Determinants of Cancer Stage at Presentation"

April 9, 2010

1:00-2:30

Derek Stafford, UMich Ann Arbor & Alex Hughes, UC San Diego

"Rural Network Identification Procedures: Photographic Cross-Identification and an Introduction to Netrik"

April 15, 2010

1:00-2:30

Mark Fricker, Oxford University

"Self-organized Biological Transport Networks"

April 29, 2010

1:00-2:30

Sae Takada & Jessica Perkins Harvard University

"Kayunga!: Examining social networks in rural SW Uganda"

May 6, 2010

1:00-2:30

James O'Malley, Harvard University

"Modeling Dynamic Behavior of Social Relationships: Past, Present, and Future"

May 20, 2010

1:00-2:30

Niels Rosenquist, Harvard University

"Estimation with Genetic Markers: Applications for Network Researchers and Social Scientists"

Edoardo Airoldi, Harvard University

"Statistical Problems in Complex Networks"

Coren Apicella, Harvard University

"Hunting, Food Sharing and Social Networks in the Hadza"

Weihua An, Harvard University

"Peer Effects on Adolescent Cigarette Smoking and Social Network Based Interventions: Experimental Evidence from China"

Academic Year 2008-2009

September 11, 2008

1:00-2:30

Nicholas Christakis, Harvard University

September 25, 2008

1:00-2:30

David Cesarini, MIT

"Experimental Game Theory and Behavior Genetics"

October 9, 2008

1:00-2:30

Alan Zaslavsky, Harvard Medical School

Data Security Session

November 6, 2008

1:00-2:30

Virginia Chang, UPenn

"Neighborhood Racial Segregation, Disorder, and Obesity"

November 20, 2008

1:00-2:30

Jure Leskovec, Carnegie Mellon

"Dynamics of Networks"

December 4, 2008

1:00-2:30

Felix Elwert, University of Wisconsin

"Networks, Neighborhoods and Health"

December 18, 2008

1:00-2:30

Sam Arbesman, Harvard Medical School

"Facebook, Gallup, and Leadership Insularity"

February 5, 2009

1:00-2:30

Carol Graham, Brookings Institute

"Lessons – and Questions – for Public Policy from the Economics of Happiness"

February 12, 2009

1:00-2:30

Jukka-Pekka Onnela, Kennedy School of Government

"Using mobile phones and Facebook to study social networks and social influence"

February 19, 2009

1:00-2:30

Marc Alexander, Harvard University

"The Human Costs of Recessions: Death, Politics, and Economic Crises"

February 26, 2009

1:00-2:30

Andrew C. Thomas, Harvard University

"Uncertainties in Network Analysis Due to the Thresholding Problem"

March 5, 2009

1:00-2:30

Mark Pachucki, Harvard University

"Eating behaviors in the Framingham Offspring Cohort"

March 12, 2009

1:00-2:30

Alison Hill, Harvard University

"Infectious disease modeling of emotions and behaviors in a social network"

April 2, 2009

1:00-2:30

Coren Apicella, Harvard University

"On the evolutionary significance of human preferences: From attractiveness to risk"

April 16, 2009

1:00-2:30

Michael Manapat, MIT

"Epidemiological Effects in Blog Networks"

April 23, 2009

1:00-2:30

Andrew C. Thomas, Harvard University

"Network Graphics"

May 7, 2009

1:00-2:30

Jessica Perkins, Harvard University

"Bullying and social networks"

Sae Takada, Harvard University

"The spread of HIV Stigma in high-risk populations of Vietnam"

May 14, 2009

1:00-2:30

J Niels Rosenquist, MD, PhD, Harvard University

"Using Genetic Data in the Social Sciences"

May 21, 2009

1:00-2:30

Jason Block, MD, MPH

"Longitudinal Analyses of Body Mass Index, Restaurants and Food Stores in the Framingham Offspring Cohort"

May 26, 2009

1:00-2:30

Rebecca Cadigan, Harvard University

"Social Networks, Social Capital, and Aging"

May 28, 2009

1:00-2:30

Weihua An, Harvard University

"Bayesian Causal Inference and Propensity Score Matching"