Previous Network Journal Club meetings

Monday 1st February 2010 13:30
Mendelssohn Room of the Clarendon Physics Laboratory
Speaker: Puck Rombach
Community detection in networks with positive and negative links
Author: V.A Traag, J. Bruggeman

Monday 25th January 2010 13:30
Mendelssohn Room of the Clarendon Physics Laboratory
Speaker: Sergey Melnik (Limerick)
Cascades on correlated and modular random networks
Author: J.P Gleeson

Monday 30th November 2009 13:30
Mendelssohn Room of the Clarendon Physics Laboratory
Speaker: Luke Heaton
Transoport and dispersion in random networks with percolation disorder
Authors: J. Koplik, S. Redner, D. Wilkinson

Monday 9th November 2009 13:30
Mendelssohn Room of the Clarendon Physics Laboratory
Speaker: David Smith
Diffusion-based method for producing density-equalizing maps
Authors: Michael T. Gastner and M. E. J. Newman

Monday 26th October 2009 13:30
Mendelssohn Room of the Clarendon Physics Laboratory
Speaker: Martin Gould
Elegance and Error: The Strengths and Weaknesses of Networks
Techniques as Tools for Data Mining
Authors: Mark McDonald, Omer Suleman, Stacy Williams, Sam Howison, Neil F. Johnson

Monday 19th October 2009 13:30
Mendelssohn Room of the Clarendon Physics Laboratory
Speaker: Sumeet Agarwal
A Markov model of the Indus script
Authors: Rajesh P. N. Raoa,1, Nisha Yadavb,c, Mayank N. Vahiab,c, Hrishikesh Joglekard, R. Adhikarie and Iravatham Mahadevanf

Monday 12th October 2009 13:30
Mendelssohn Room of the Clarendon Physics Laboratory
Speaker: Max Little
The Power of Convex Relaxation: Near-Optimal Matrix Completion
Authors: Emmanuel J. Candes, Terence Tao

Monday 5th October
11.00am
Audrey Wood Room on the first floor of the Clarendon Physics Lab
Speakers: Erik Bollt and Jie Sun
 
Tuesday 25th August 2009
11.30am
Audrey Wood Room in the Clarendon Lab in Physics
Speaker: Anna Lewis
“Tailored graph ensembles as proxies or null models for real networks I: tools for quantifying structure”
by A. Annibale, A.C.C. Coolen, L.P. Fernandes, F. Fraternali, J. Kleinjung

Monday 6th July 2009
11.30am
Seminar Room 501, Denys Wilkinson Building, Physics Department
Speaker 1: Guido Klingebeil
“Efficient Parallelization of Stochastic Simulation Algorithm for Chemically Reacting Systems on the Graphics Processing Unit”
by Hong Li & Linda Petzold
 
Speaker 2: Luke Heaton
“Sizing Up Allometric Scaling Theory”
by Van M. Savage, Eric J. Deeds, Walter Fontana
 
 
Monday 22nd June 2009
11.30am
Seminar Room 501, Denys Wilkinson Building, Physics Department
Speaker: Thanasis Athanasios
"Tracking Parkinson's disease progression using speech signal
processing in a telemonitoring framework"
by Athanasios Tsanas, Max A. Little, Patrick E. McSharry, Lorraine
Ramig.
 
 
Monday 8th June 2009
11.30am
Seminar Room 501, Denys Wilkinson Building, Physics Department
Speaker: Sumeet Agarwal
“Learning Nonlinear Dynamic Models”
by John Langford, Ruslan Salakhutdinov, Tong Zhang
 
 
Monday 1st June 2009
11.30am
Speaker: Tim Evans (Imperial)
“Line Graphs, Link Partitions and Overlapping Communities”
by T.S.Evans, R.Lambiotteminar Room 501, Denys Wilkinson Building, Physics Department

Monday 2nd March 2009
Speaker: Phillip Staniczenko
"Network structure and biodiversity loss in food webs: robustness increases with connectance"
by Dunne, J. A., Williams, R. J., and Martinez, N. D.

Monday 23rd February 2009
Speaker: Alex Fletcher
"The transition from differential equations to Boolean networks: A case study in simplifying a regulatory network model"
by Davidich, M. and Bornholdt, S.