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SUMMARY:Strategic Behavior and the Science of Social Networks - Professor 
 Michael Kearns\, University of Pennsylvania
DTSTART:20110202T173000Z
DTEND:20110202T183000Z
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CONTACT:Clare Kitcat
DESCRIPTION:The modern ability to carefully measure large-scale social net
 works has driven new empirical studies and theoretical models of growth\, 
 dynamics\, influence\, and collective behavior in such systems. This emerg
 ing science is inherently interdisciplinary\, with key contributions comin
 g from sociologists\, computer scientists\, mathematicians\, physicists\, 
 and economists.\n \nWhile much of the empirical investigation so far has f
 ocused on documenting the common structural properties of social networks\
 , less is understood about how such structure *matters* --- that is\, in w
 hat ways network structure influences behavior and collective outcomes. In
  this talk I will survey some of the progress on this topic\, particularly
  in settings in which there is some kind of strategic or economic interact
 ion taking place in the network. I will illustrate some of the concepts wi
 th results from an extensive series of human-subject experiments in networ
 ked interaction conducted at Penn.\n
LOCATION:Yusuf Hamied Centre\, Christ's College
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