Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Leveraging Advances in Social Network Thinking for National Security: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25057.
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Appendix B
Workshop Agenda
LEVERAGING ADVANCES IN SOCIAL NETWORK THINKING FOR NATIONAL SECURITY: A WORKSHOP
October 11, 2017
Keck Center
500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC
Room 201
| 8:30 a.m. | Workshop Registration Opens |
| 9:00 a.m. | Workshop Commence |
| 9:00 a.m. | Welcome and Overview of Events |
| Sujeeta Bhatt, Study Director | |
| Audience information | |
| Paul Sackett, University of Minnesota, SBS Decadal Survey Chair | |
| Welcome | |
| David Honey, Director of Science and Technology, ODNI, Study Sponsor | |
| Sponsor perspective and context for study and workshops | |
| 9:30 a.m. | Opening Remarks on the Future of Social Network Thinking |
| Kathleen Carley, Carnegie Mellon University, Workshop Committee Chair |
Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Leveraging Advances in Social Network Thinking for National Security: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25057.
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| Research Panel Presentations and Discussion | |
| 9:45 a.m. | Panel 1: Networks-Plus—Beyond the Individual |
| This panel will consider advances in combining social network thinking with new types of data. Research in this area will have an external focus on the position of individuals in the social and physical world. Key questions are as follows: What are the gains to be made from a multilevel network analysis approach? How is a social network science embedded in the physical world valuable from an Intelligence Community perspective? Where could major gains be made with a small investment in research? | |
| Moderators: Kathleen Carley, Carnegie Mellon University, and Matthew Brashears, University of South Carolina | |
| Leslie DeChurch, Northwestern University | |
| Title: Organizing in Teams | |
| Zachary Neal, Michigan State University | |
| Title: The Future of Urban Network Research | |
| Regina Joseph, New York University | |
| Title: Supersynthesizers: Confronting the Coming Analytical Crisis in an Age of Influence | |
| Guido Cervone, Pennsylvania State University | |
| Title: Use of Crowdsourced Data During Emergencies | |
| 10:35 a.m. | Response to Presentations |
| Randolph H. Pherson, Pherson Associates, LLC | |
| 10:45 a.m. | Discussion and Q&A |
| Moderators, Presenters, and Members of the Committee on a Decadal Survey of Social and Behavioral Sciences for Applications to National Security | |
| 11:45 a.m. | LUNCH |
Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Leveraging Advances in Social Network Thinking for National Security: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25057.
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| 12:45 p.m. | Panel 2: Networks-Plus—Within the Individual |
| This panel will consider advances in combining social network thinking with new types of investigations on cognition, neural influences, and social psychology. Research in this area will have an internal focus on how individuals perceive and process the social and physical world. Key questions are as follows: What are the gains to be made by bringing cognition, perception, affect, and an understanding of the actor’s identity into social network modeling? How is a “cognitive” network science useful from an Intelligence Community perspective? Where could major gains be made with a small investment in research? | |
| Moderators: Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University, and Emily Falk, University of Pennsylvania | |
| Carolyn Parkinson, University of California, Los Angeles | |
| Title: The Brain in the Social World: Integrating Approaches from Social Neuroscience, Psychology, and Social Network Analysis | |
| Emily Falk, University of Pennsylvania (virtual presenter) | |
| Title: Brain and Social Networks: Fundamental Building Blocks of Human Experience | |
| Jesse Hoey, University of Waterloo | |
| Title: Emotional Artificial Intelligence in Sociotechnical Systems | |
| Kenneth Joseph, Northeastern University | |
| Title: Studying Identities and Their Impact on Networks Using Social Media Data | |
| 1:35 p.m. | Response to Presentations |
| Randolph H. Pherson, Pherson Associates, LLC | |
| 1:45 p.m. | Discussion and Q&A |
| Moderators, Presenters, and Members of the Committee on a Decadal Survey of Social and Behavioral Sciences for Applications to National Security | |
| 2:30 p.m. | BREAK |
Suggested Citation:"Appendix B: Workshop Agenda." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2018. Leveraging Advances in Social Network Thinking for National Security: Proceedings of a Workshop. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/25057.
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| 2:45 p.m. | Panel 3: Multilevel, High-Dimensional, Evolving, and Emerging Networks |
| This panel will consider advances in understanding networks that take into account the dynamic nature of networks and core challenges that impact certainty, such as data bias, data stationarity, and hidden data. Key questions are as follows: How are advances in this area useful from an Intelligence Community perspective? Where could major gains be made with a small investment in research? What are the core challenges for social network analysis when dealing with large datasets where the data may be partially hidden or covert and the sampled network itself may be random, evolving, or stationary? | |
| Moderators: Noshir Contractor, Northwestern University, and Markus Mobius, Microsoft | |
| Hsinchun Chen, University of Arizona | |
| Title: Exploring Dark Networks: From the Surface Web to the Dark Web | |
| Benjamin Golub, Harvard University | |
| Title: Robust Summary Statistics for Strategic and Social Processes in Networks | |
| Alexander Volfovsky, Duke University | |
| Title: The Future of Complex Networks: Statistics, Algorithms, and Causality | |
| 3:35 p.m. | Response to Presentations |
| Randolph H. Pherson, Pherson Associates, LLC | |
| 3:45 p.m. | Discussion and Q&A |
| Moderators, Presenters, and Members of the Committee on a Decadal Survey of Social and Behavioral Sciences for Applications to National Security | |
| 4:30 p.m. | Summative Comments |
| Scott Feld, Purdue University | |
| 4:50 p.m. | Closing Remarks |
| Kathleen Carley, Carnegie Mellon University, Workshop Committee Chair | |
| 5:00 p.m. | ADJOURN |
