First ANR-Lab's International Conference on Social Network Analysis

On November 20-21, The NRU HSE International Laboratory for Applied Network Research held its First International Conference on Social Network Analysis. The conference was organized in cooperation with the NRU HSE Faculty of Management, as part of its 7th Annual Conference "Contemporary Problems in Management: Exploring the Boundaries".

In editorial to the first issue of “Network Science” S. Wasserman and colleagues cite Duncan Watts, who said that “Networks are important because if we don’t understand networks, we can’t understand how markets function, organizations solve problems, or how societies change.” (Network Science, 1, p. 2). There is no question of whether the field of social networks is important: as several recent publications at HSE demonstrate, social networks are becoming one of the priority research areas. What makes this field unique is that it is truly multidisciplinary: many social fields are interconnected and should be studied in parallel using the same instruments.

The conference was aimed at the international, interdisciplinary community of scholars interested in network analysis methodology and applying it in a variety of fields of inquiry. Among the invited speakers were Stanley Wasserman, Academic Supervisor at ANR-Lab from Indiana University, and Vladimir Batagelj from the University of Ljubljana. Within the framework of the conference, V. Batagel conducted a workshop on the analysis and visualization of networks in the Pajek program.

The conference was held at the HSE Faculty of Management: Kirpichnaya 33/5, Moscow.

More details on the conference website.