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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: Nodes, Links and Layers: How Network Science Can Help Us Understand Our Complex World Thursday, March 21, 2013 A lecture byCsilla SzaboCandidate for the position in MathematicsNetworks are all around us! From our social interactions to the neurons in our brains to financial markets, we find network structure. Network science can help us to better understand how these complex systems in our world work. We will begin our discussion with a brief introduction to network science; including the components of a network, how we measure the center of a network and other network metrics. I will present some interesting applications of network science that you may encounter in your daily life. Finally, I will conclude with an overview of three ongoing projects in network science. The first looks at how use network structure to classify a financial market. Second, we will explore how Twitter can be used to predict an event such as a protest or revolution during the time of the Arab Spring. Finally, I will present a project examining the links between water, energy and social networks in developing countries and plans of how this multi-layered network can be synchronized to build a resilient and robust network, which could supply more people with these resources. Location: RKC 111 Sponsor: Division of Science, Mathematics, and Computing Contact: John Cullinan. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 845-758-7104 If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://www.bard.edu/news/events/