CASOS News 2017
November 2017
- CASOS Director Kathleen will be the invited speaker for the ETH Risk Center Seminar Series on Resilience and its Applications on Tuesday November 14th in Zurich. Details can be found here.
- Prof. Jose M.F. Moura will be presenting at the CASOS Network Science Seminar Series on Tuesday October 10 in GHC 8102, more info...
- CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley will be giving a keynote at the 2017 Social Simulation conference in Dublin Ireland entitled "Diffusion in the Social-Cyber Landscape: Using simulation to explore the link between off-line and on-line activity".
- CASOS Center is supporting NATO Trident Joust 2017. CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley and graduate students David Beskow and Binxuan Huang developed a dashboard to track indicators of bot influence.
- CASOS graduate student Sumeet Kumar has been selected to receive GSA/Provost Conference Funding for Fall 2017 and has been accepted to attend the Doctoral Consortium at the 2017 Winter Simulation Conference in Las Vegas Nevada this December.
- 2018 Summer Institute will be held at CMU June 10th-16th, 2018. Details and Registration to be updated soon.
- Director Kathleen M. Carley has been invited to give a talk at the NASN2017 Conference in Washington, DC. The talk entitled, "Controlling Communities in Social Media" is part of the Dark Networks Panel scheduled for Saturday the 29th. Dr. Carley will also be presenting a paper Saturday on Socio-cultural Cognitive Mapping and facilitating a tutrial on Dynamic Networks to open the conference.
- The Office of Naval Research has just granted a MURI award to Carnegie Mellon focusing on "Near Real Time Assessment of Emergent Complex Systems of Confederates". CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley is the PI for the award.
- Dr. Kathleen M. Carley to give a Keynote address at the ic2s2, International Conference on Computational Social Science in Cologne Germany July 12th. Keynote is titled "Social Influence on the Web: Bots and Fake News".
- CASOS graduate students Adam Tse with a paper entitled "Event-based Model Simulating the Change in DDoS Attack Trends after P/DIME Events", Geoffrey Dobson's paper entitled "Cyber-FIT: An Agent-Based Modelling Approach to Simulating Cyber Warfare" and Binxuan Huang's paper entitled "On Predicting Geolocation of Tweets using Convolutional Neural Network" are scheduled to presented at the 2017 SBP-BRiMS conference on July 6th.
- CASOS graduate students Geoffrey Morgan and Sumeet Kumar are elected to be a part of the 1st Graduate Student Consortium at the 2017 SBP-BRiMS Conference.
- CASOS Director Dr. Kathleen M. Carley and other members of CASOS to give tutorials at the 2017 SBP-BRiMS Conference on July 5th.
- Summer Institute starts on Sunday June 4th! We are excited to welsome participants across academic and industry fields to join us for the week.
- CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley has been invited to give a keynote address at the 2017 ic2s2 International Conference on Computational Science July 10th - 13th in Cologne, Germany https://ic2s2.org/2017/.
- CASOS Director Kathleen M. Carley will be presenting and facilitating a tutorial at the 2017 INSNA XXXVII Sunbelt Conference in Beijing China May 30th - June 4th, http://insna.org/sunbelt2017/.
- Papers submitted by CASOS Center graduate students Geoffrey Morgan and Binxuan Huang along with masters student Adam Tse have been accepted for the 2017 SBP-BRiMS Conference. Geoffrey Morgan's paper is entitled "Socio-cultural Cognitive Modeling"; Binxuan Huang's paper is entitled "On Predicting Geolocation of Tweets using Convolutional Neural Networks"; Adam Tse's paper is entitled "Event-based Model Simulating the Change in DDoS Attack Trends after P/DIME Events".
- CASOS graduate student Matthew Benigni will defend his PhD on Thursday April 20th at 11:30am in Newell-Simon Hall room 3305. His thesis is entitled Detection and Analysis of Online Extremist Communities
- Dr. Kathleen M. Carley and Jeff Reminga to teach social network analysis in Riga Latvia, as part of the Social Media Analysis Course being designed with NATO. March 21-24, 2017.
- Dr. Kathleen M. Carley to give plenary talk
Wisdom or Ignorance: The Thoughtful Use of Networks
at the 8th Annual ANN SONIC workshop on Network Theory at the University of Southern California March 23rd-25th in Los Angeles. - Dr. Kathleen M. Carley to give invited talk -
Wisdom or Ignorance: The Heedful Manipulation of Networks
at the Informatics Institute, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL. - The South Big Data Innovation Hub will bring together four experts for a roundtable discussion including our Director Kathleen M. Carley, that explores how bots and other new phenomena are shaping conversations and shifting public discourse on March 9th. Information about attending the discussion via live cast or in person, visit the South Big Data website at https://southbdhub.wordpress.com/programs/virtual-roundtables/.
- Kathleen M. Carley to give invited talk
Dynamic Network Analysis: Health Applications
at the Public Health Dynamics Laboratory (PHDL) at the University of Pittsburgh Monday February 13th at noon. - A new ABC news article mentions the Hazard SEES project that CASOS is collaborating on. For more info on the Hazard SEES project and a link to the article, visit here.
- The 2017 CASOS Summer Institute will be held at the Gates/Hillman Complex at Carnegie Mellon University June 4th through 11th. Registration and other information will follow in the upcoming months. To see what the Summer Institute is all about and see information from previous years, visit here.
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