The Centre for Mathematical Social Sciences is an interdisciplinary research centre whose members include mathematicians, computer scientists, philosophers and economists. Our summer workshops are an opportunity for researchers to meet and discuss work on social science, complex systems, and network science, using quantitative methods such as formal theorems, data-mining, mathematical models, and controlled experiments.
This year’s theme is diffusion in social networks, but submissions on any aspect of mathematical social science are welcome.
Talks will be held in the Lecture Theatre MLT3, located on the first floor of Building 303 (38 Princes street) at the University of Auckland City Campus. (Note: this differs from the lecture theatre that was initially advertised.)
Download a PDF map of the city campus.
Download the programme and list of abstracts as a pdf.
Contributed talks are 20 minutes with an additional five minutes for questions and change-over included in the timetable.
| Time | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome | |
| 9:15-10:15 | Matt Jackson | Identifying Central Individuals in Networks and Diffusion Processes |
| 10:15-10:45 | Coffee Break | Level 4, Blg 303 |
| 10:45-11:10 | Shaun Hendy | Regional Innovation Favours the Diverse |
| 11:10-11:35 | Elsa Guillot | Modelling the Influence of Human Social Rules on Population Genetics |
| 11:35-12:00 | Jonathan Newton | The Evolution of Shared Intentions |
| 12:00-12:20 | Francois Vallee | Modelling History in Islands of Southeast Asia |
| 12:20-13:30 | Lunch | Level 4, Blg 303 |
| 13:30-13:55 | Richard Vale | Imputing Attitude Scores on a Network |
| 13:55-14:20 | Mark C. Wilson | Experimental Study of Belief Diffusion |
| 14:20-15:00 | Isabelle Sin | People, Books, and Flows of Knowledge |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break | Level 4, Blg 303 |
| 15:30-15:50 | Matthew Ryan | Binary Choice Probabilities on Mixture Sets |
| 16:45-18:45 | Recovery Drinks | Old Government House, Waterloo Quadrant (In the gardens opposite the Quadrant Hotel) |
| 19:00- | Workshop Dinner | Mai Thai, 57 Victoria St (opposite the Sky Tower) |
| Time | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00-9:15 | Welcome back | |
| 9:15-10:15 | Damon Centola | The Origins of Social Order: New Theory and Experiments |
| 10:15-10:45 | Coffee Break | Level 4, Blg 303 |
| 10:45-11:10 | Catriona Sissons | Collaboration Networks for Innovation |
| 11:10-11:35 | Nina Anchugina | A new (and simpler) axiomatization of exponential and quasi-hyperbolic discounting |
| 11:35-12:00 | Arkadii Slinko | The Single-crossing Property on Median Graphs |
| 12:00-12:20 | James Taylor | Cycles and Common Priors Without Full Support |
| 12:20-13:30 | Lunch | Level 4, Blg 303 |
| 13:30-13:55 | Mikhail Anufriev | Connecting the Dots: Econometric Methods for Uncovering Networks with an Application to the Australian Financial Institutions |
| 13:55-14:20 | Sergey Ozernikov | Axiomatic Approach to Trust Metrics in Certification Networks |
| 14:20-15:00 | Tava Olsen | Modelling Emergency Department Patient Flows |
| 15:00-15:30 | Coffee Break | Level 4, Blg 303 |
| 15:30-15:50 | ||
| 15:50-16:20 |
Stanford University
Identifying Central Individuals in Networks and Diffusion Processes
Registration for the workshop is now closed. If you still wish to attend the Workshop, please contact the organisers directly.
Getting here:
The University of Auckland campus is located near the centre of Auckland city. It is approximately a 45 minute drive from the airport to the university.
A taxi from the airport to the city centre costs around $70. A shuttle costs around $30 and the airbus costs $16.
Popular hotels and serviced apartments in the vicinity of campus include: