[Aspuru-Guzik group list] [IACS-events] REMINDER: IACS Seminar with Aaron Adcock and Shankar Kalyanaraman from FACEBOOK ---TODAY @ 1pm

Date: Friday, November 21, 2014--- TODAY!!! Location: Maxwell Dworkin G115, 33 Oxford Street, Cambridge MA 02138 Speakers: Aaron Adcock and Shankar Kalyanaraman (Facebook) Time: Informal lunch with speaker, 12:30pm; talk, 1:00pm gCal <https://www.google.com/calendar/render?cid=http://www.seas.harvard.edu/calendar/event/77976/feed.ics> ; iCal<UrlBlockedError.aspx> Talk 1: Tree-like Structure in Social and Information Networks Presenter: Aaron Adcock It is often noted that social and information networks exhibit tree-like structure and properties. In the past few years several tools have been developed to more closely quantify this structure. I will discuss some of the results of applying these tools to real-world social and information networks. In particular, I will discuss two alternatives for measuring this structure: Gromov hyperbolicity and tree-width. Talk 2: Data-mining for development Presenter: Shankar Kalyanaraman Over the last few years, we have witnessed innovative uses of big data to model and predict complex human behavior and patterns. Google's use of search query data to accurately forecast flu incidence and Ushahidi's crowdsourced crisis maps following the Haiti earthquake in 2010 for quicker and more effective deployment of humanitarian aid are two leading examples in this domain. My research interests draw inspiration from these examples; and in this talk, I will showcase some previous work I have done in disease surveillance and post-conflict violence prevention. In the end, time-permitting, we’ll briefly chat about data science at Facebook. <UrlBlockedError.aspx> <https://email.seas.harvard.edu/owa/UrlBlockedError.aspx> _______________________________________________ Iacs-events mailing list Iacs-events(a)seas.harvard.edu https://lists.seas.harvard.edu/mailman/listinfo/iacs-events