Registration is now open! Go to the Summer Institute webpage for the link to register.
CASOS Summer Institute
The CASOS Summer Institute is a week long event that provides an intense hands-on introduction to network analysis and visualization from a combined social-network, network-science, link-analysis and dynamic network analysis perspective. Social network, high-dimensional networks, semantic networks, and meta-networks are covered as are network dynamics and geo-spatial networks.
Participants learn about current trends, practices, and tools available for analyzing complex systems as networks. Basic social network and dynamic network measure for one-mode, bi-partite and multi-mode data are covered. Network statistic, analysis and visualization techniques are covered for static and dynamic networks. Techniques for extracting networks from text and social media are covered. Simulation techniques for forecasting change in these networks and their impact on the diffusion of ideas and beliefs are covered. Key issues associated with social media analytics, and big data are covered. Participants gain experience through a series of hands-on exercises. Data sets are provided for these exercises; however, participants who wish to can bring their own data and use it in these exercises. An examination of social network methods, complexity theory and procedures for integrating network-based metrics and statistics into computational models completes the program.
The software tools participants will learn and work with include: ORA-PRO, AutoMap, NetMapper, and Construct, which are network analysis & visualization, information extraction/text mining, and simulations tools, respectively, that are developed at CASOS and widely used globally in business, government, and education.
All participants will be given trial software, and a deep discount on the professional versions of the tools.
Summer Institute 2022 webpage.
Registration Fees:
In-person:
Virtual:
- Industry: $2,000.00
- Government/Military (with ID): $1,000.00
- Faculty/Postdocs: $800.00
- Students: $400.00
Registration will open in April 2022. For those attending in-person, you will have the option to arrange on-campus accomodations and parking. We are offering fellowships to students to defray the cost of registration for some students wanting to attend the institute. To apply, interested students should email a letter from their advisor stating they are in good standing and why attendance is valuable for the student, just a short paragraph with contact information of the advisor. Also a statement from student applying for the fellowship about what they want to learn and how they will apply network analytics, no more than 2 paragraphs. Application information can be sent directly to casos@cmu.edu.
IDeaS Summer Institute
For those interested in doing a deeper dive into combating disinformation, hate speech and extremism online, the IDeaS Center (Center for Informed Democracy and Social-cybersecurity) is offering a 3 day Summer Institute following our program. At the time of registration, you can register for both events. Both Summer Institutes will be hybrid format and co-located at CMU. Registration Fees for both events:
In-person:
Virtual:
- Industry: $3,500.00
- Government/Military (with ID): $2,000.00
- Faculty/Postdocs: $1,200.00
- Students: $600.00
1 Virtual and 1 In-person registration:
- Industry: $4,000.00
- Government/Military (with ID): $2,125.00
- Faculty/Postdocs: $1,700.00
- Students: $1,200.00
