[Editors] CEE's DES4: "From Network Science to Human Dynamics" - Oct. 26, 4 p.m.

[Denise Brehm]

Dear All:
If you think it's relevant, please share this announcement of the upcoming Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering's DES4 lecture with the students and faculty in your area.

Many thanks!

Denise
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Denise Brehm
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MIT Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Room 1-378
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DES4: CEE's Distinguished Engineering and Science Speaker Seminar Series
"From Network Science to Human Dynamics"
Albert-László Barabási, Ph.D.
Distinguished Professor and Director, Center for Complex Network Research, Northeastern University
Wednesday, October 26, 2011
4-5 p.m.
Room 32-D463
Star Conference Room, Stata Center, MIT

Abstract: Highly interconnected networks with complex topology describe systems as diverse as the World Wide Web, our cells, social systems or the economy. Dr. Barabási will discuss the signatures of order characterizing our interconnected world and its implications to network behavior. The dynamics of these networks is driven by the temporal patterns characterizing human activity, ranging from web browsing to mobility patterns. Dr. Barabási will use mobile phone and other dynamical data to explore the patterns characterizing these temporal processes, helping us uncover the laws characterizing human dynamics.

Speaker's Bio: Born in Transylvania, and educated in Bucharest and Budapest, Albert-László Barabási received a Ph.D. in physics in 1994 from Boston University. After a year at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, he joined the faculty at the University of Notre Dame in 1995. In 2007, he was named distinguished professor and director of Northeastern University's Center for Complex Network Research. Professor Barabási's research has led to the discovery and understanding of scale-free networks, capturing the structure of many complex networks in technology and nature, from the World Wide Web to the cell. Professor Barabási is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and a foreign member of Academia Europaea. He is recipient of the 2005 FEBS Annual Award for Systems Biology and the 2006 John von Neumann Prize from the John von Neumann Computer Society of Hungary. His general-audience book, "Linked: the New Science of Networks" (Perseus, 2002), is currently available in 12 languages.
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