Nicola Perra, Ph.D.
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  • Home
  • About Me
  • Research
    • Mathematical and digital epidemiology
    • Dynamics of and on networks
    • Social networks and media
    • Cyber Security
    • Teams' dynamics and success
  • Publications
  • In the Press
  • Softwares and Online Projects
  • Talks
  • Contacts

Syllabus PHYS 7331

January 13
Introduction to the course

Basic concepts in Network Science pt1 (Theory)

January 15
Basic concepts in Network Science pt 2 (Theory)

Readings:

Ourselves and Our Interactions: The Ultimate Physics Problem?
Science 24 July 2009: 406-408

The Network Takeover

Nature Physics, 8, 14-16, 2008


Predicting the Behavior of Techno-Social Systems
Science 24 July 2009: 425-428


General References
Networks: An Introduction. M.E.J. Newman. Oxford University Press. Chapters 2,3,4,5
Network Science, A.L. Barabási, Chapter 1 


January 20
Introduction to python

Helpful material:
Official tutorial
Google Python course
Interactive Python tutorial
Course IPython notebook


January 22
Networks metrics and their statistical features (Theory)

Readings:

Networks: An Introduction. M.E.J. Newman. Oxford University Press. Chapter 6
Dynamical Processes on Complex Networks, A. Barrat, M. Barthelemy, A. Vespignani, Cambridge University Press. Chapter 1.
Network Science, A.L. Barabasi, Chapter 2


January 29
Computational techniques to store and describe networks (Real data hands on)

February 3
Networks metrics and their statistical features (Real data hands on)    


February 5
Centrality measures (Theory)


Readings:
Networks: An Introduction. M.E.J. Newman. Oxford University Press. Chapter 7.
Dynamical Processes on Complex Networks, A. Barrat, M. Barthelemy, A. Vespignani, Cambridge University Press. Chapter 8
The anatomy of a large-scale hypertextual Web search engine, S. Bring, L. Page, Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, 30, 1–7, April 1998, Pages 107–117 

February 12
Centrality measures (Practice)   
 

February 17
Centrality measures II (Real data hands on) 
  

First assignment

February 19
Community detection (Theory)

Readings:
Community detection in graphs. S. Fortunato, Physics Reports 486.3 (2010): 75-174.
Networks: An Introduction. M.E.J. Newman. Oxford University Press. Chapter 11    


February 24
Community detection (Real data hands on)


February 26
Dynamics on networks (Theory)

Readings:   
Networks: An Introduction. M.E.J. Newman. Oxford University Press. Chapter 16,17,18,19
Dynamical Processes on Complex Networks, A. Barrat, M. Barthelemy, A. Vespignani, Cambridge University Press. Chapters 8,9
Network Science, A.L. Barabasi, Chapter 10


First assignment due

March 3
Dynamics on networks (Practice)   


March 5
Dynamics on networks II (Real data hands on)

March 17
Temporal networks (Theory)

Readings:
Temporal Networks, P. Holme, J. Saramaki, Physics Reports, 2012


March 19
Temporal networks (Real data hands on)

March 24
Web data mining (Theory)
Guest Lecturer: Dr Q. Zhang
  
Mining of Massive Datasets, J. Leskovec, A. Rajaraman, J. D. Ullman, Cambridge University Press (2011) : Chapter 1, 4, 10
Mining the Social Web 2nd Ed, M. A. Russell, O'Reilley Publishing (2013): Chapter 1,2,9 

March 26
Web data mining (Practice)    
Guest Lecturer: Dr Q. Zhang   

March 31
Web data mining (Real data hands on)    
Guest Lecturer: Dr Q. Zhang


Second assignment

April 2
Network sampling (Theory)

Readings: 
Sampling Community Structure, A Maiya, T. Berger‐Wolf. WWW’10, 701‐710, 2010
Walking in Facebook: A case study of unbiased sampling of OSN, M. Gjoka, M. Kurant, C. Butts, A. Markopoulou. INFOCOM, 2498‐2506, 2010
Network Sampling: From Static to Streaming Graphs, N. Ahmed, J. Neville, R. Kompella, TKDD, 8, 2 2014
Damage detection via shortest path network sampling, F. Ciulla, N. Perra, A. Baronchelli, A. Vespignani, PRE, 89, 052816, arxiv:1401.6982, 2014


April 7
Network sampling (Practice) 


April 9 
Network sampling (Real data hands on)


Second assignment due

April 14
Networks visualization (Theory)

Readings: 
Network visualization: a review. M. Withall, M. Phillips, D. Parish, IET Communications, 1 (3), pp. 365-372 
Large scale networks fingerprinting and visualization using the k-core decomposition, J. I Alvarez-Hamelin, L. Dall'Asta, A. Barrat, A. Vespignani, Advances in neural information processing systems, 41--50, 2005    


April 16
Network visualization I (Real data hands on)    


April 21
Project presentations   
 

Aril 23 
Project presentations    

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