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MA 4044: Structure and Analysis of Complex Networks

Class table - Jan 2022

January 2022 Class Schedule

Content in red must be performed by the students in preparation for class period

Week Monday Tuesday  Wednesday Thursday  
JAN 4, 6

CHUNK Learning ("NPS MA4004 Course Resources" unit, particularly )

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 Due Jan 20th  

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Create your personal network for the (). Click to find examples of networks you can reuse  
JAN 11, 13

CHUNK Learning ("Network Science Overview" unit)

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- WS () and

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- BA () and

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JAN 18, 20

PPT slide (network introduction) due by 9am 

 

No CHUNK Learning this week

 

Holiday

CoCalc and

Group presentations: Multilayer Network Activity  (each group has 15 min to present, followed by Q&A). 

 

Presenters:

Group 1 & Group 2

 

 

Introduction to the Team  research project (Goal: discussion of project and a similar project's references , 2, and )

Introduction to

 
JAN 25, 27

PPT slide (synthetic networks) due by 9am

 

CHUNK Learning ("Communities" chunk from "MesoScale" unit)

 

Community Detection and a generative model (PDF)

Network Profile PPT presentation (network introduction, community detection, with synthetic network slide if there is time)


Presenters: Nick, James, Phil

Team research project (Goal: create Section 2: the literature review, log them in Overleaf/PPT)

 

 

 

 

February 2022 Class Schedule

Week Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday  
FEFEB 1, 3

PPT slide (community detection) due by 9am

 

CHUNK Learning  ("Core-Periphery" chunk from "MesoScale" unit)

Core-Periphery k-clique, k-core (PDF)

 

Network Profile PPT presentation (core-periphery, k-core, k-dense)

 

Presenters: Mike, Brendan, Aaron, Wes.

Team research project (Goal: finish Sections 1 and 2 in Overleaf; create your first two slides of the presentation)

 

FEB 8, 10

PPT slide (core-periphery, k-core, k-dense) due by 9am

 

CHUNK Learning ("Network Centrality" unit)

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Centrality: Eigenvector (PDF)

Centralities: Katz (PDF)

Centralities: PageRank (PDF)

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Network Profile PPT presentation (adjacency driven centrality)

 

Presenters: Tim, Sean, Nick, James. 

Team research project (Goal: discuss possible methodologies, work on Section 3 in Overleaf; create your 3rd slide presentation)

 

FEB 15, 17

 

 

CHUNK Learning ("Network Centrality" unit)

Centralities Closeness (PDF)

Centralities Betweenness (PDF)

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Network Profile PPT presentation (distance driven centralities)

 

Presenters: Phil, Mike, Brendan.

 

Team research project (Goal: decide the methodology and update Section 4 in Overleaf; create slide 4 of the final presentation)

 

FEB 22, 24

PPT slides (all applicable centralities) due by 9am

 

CHUNK Learning ("Scale Free, Degree Distribution, Clustering coeff " chunk from the "MacroScale" unit)

 

Holiday

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Clustering Coefficient (PDF),


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Network Profile PPT presentation (scale free, degree distribution, small world, clustering)

 

Presenters: Aaron, Tim,Sean, Wes.

Team research project (Goal: run experiments and update Section 5 in Overleaf; create slide 5 of the final team presentation)

 

 

 

March 2022 Class Schedule

Week Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday  
MAR 1, 3

PPT slides (scale free, degree distribution, small world, clustering) due by 9am

 

CHUNK Learning: "NS Takeaways" chunk from the "MacroScale" unit

 

Optional: Information propagation in networks: and

Team research project (Goal: draw results and conclusions. Update Section 6 and create section 7 in Overleaf; Create slides 6 & 7 of the final team presentation)

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MAR 8, 10

PPT Slide due by 9am (over the points that Prof. Alderson talked)

 

CHUNK Learning: "Homophily and Assortativity" chunk from the "MacroScale" unit) 

(PDF)

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Prof. Everton's lecture

 

Team research project presentation and discussions (Team 1)

 

Team research project presentation and discussions (Team 2)

 
MAR 17

PPT slides (over your takeaways from Prof Everton's talk) due by 9am

This is the final exam week (no classes this week, your final exam is the team research paper due on the 17th of March)

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Due by March 17th, 9am: final Network Profile Summary - complete PPT deck to include takeaways

Due by March 17th, 9am:  final Team Research Project due (PPT and paper).

 

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