SISL Mini-Conference on Social Networks
May 11-12, 2007
All talks will take place in 25 Baxter Hall (Building 77 on campus map)
Social Science and Information Laboratory (SISL) at Caltech
Conference Program
Friday, May 11th
9:30 - 10:00 Registration and Breakfast
10:00 - 11:00 Matthew
Jackson, Stanford University
An Economic Model of
Friendship: Diversity, Minorities, and Integration
(joint with Sergio Currarini and Paolo Pin)
11:15 - 12:15 Shachar Kariv, University of California at
Berkeley
Trading
in Networks: A Normal Form Game Experiment
(joint with Douglas Gale)
12:15 - 2:00 Lunch
2:00 - 3:00
Michael Kearns, University of Pennsylvania
An Experimental Study of the Coloring Problem on Human Subject Networks
3:00 - 3:15
Coffee
3:15 - 4:15 Bong
Chan Koh, California Institute of Technology
Population Sustainability of Social and Economic
Networks
4:15 - 4:30 Coffee
4:30 - 5:30 MariaGiovanna
Baccara, New York University
How
to Organize Crime
(joint with Heski Bar-Isaac)
5:30 - Reception and Dinner
Saturday, May 12th
9:00 - 9:30 Breakfast
9:30 - 10:30
Phil Bonacich, University of California at Los Angeles
Network Consequences of Reciprocal Exchange
10:30 - 10:45 Coffee
10:45 - 11:45 Stanley
Wasserman, Indiana University
A Review of Statistical Models for Networks with a
Focus on Imputation
(joint with Douglas Steinley and Garry Robins)
11:45 - 1:30 Lunch
1:30 -
2:30
Maggie McConnell, California Institute of Technology
Linking and Giving among Teenage Girls
(joint with Jacob K. Goeree, Tiffany Mitchell, Tracey Tromp, and Leeat Yariv)
2:30 - 2:45
Coffee
2:45 - 3:45
Oriana Bandiera, London School of Economics
Social Incentives: The Causes and Consequences of Social Networks in the
Workplace
(joint with Iwan Barankay and Imran Rasul)
3:45 - 4:00 Closing Remarks