The Spring 2010 Networks and Complex Systems Talk Series will begin February 8, 2010. The talks will be normally be held on Mondays from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. in SLIS, Wells Library, Room 001. SLIS professor Katy Börner is the organizer of the talk series. Check the Talk Series website for updates, abstracts, and biographies.
2/8Mathew Palakal and Jake Chen, School of Informatics, IUPUI
•Bibliomics, Textmining, and Biomarker Identification
2/11 (Thursday) Bruce Weinberg, Department of Economics, OSU
• Age Dynamics in Scientific Creativity
2/15Matthias Scheutz, Cognitive Science, Computer Science, and Informatics, IUB
• The Limited Utility of Communication for Simple Organisms
2/22 David Hachen, Department of Sociology, University of Notre Dame
• Open Sourcing the Design of Civil Infrastructure
3/4 (Thursday) James Hendler, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• Linked Open Data (as part of the NSF/JSMF Workshop on Mapping Science and Semantic Web)
3/22 Porter, Director, R&D Search Technology, Inc., Co-Director, Technology Policy & Assessment Center, Georgia Tech and Ismael Rafols
• Diversity and Network Coherence as Indicators of Interdisciplinarity: Case Studies in Bionanoscience
4/5 Yves Gingras, Canada Research Chair in History and Sociology of Science, Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada
• Evolution of Interdisciplinarity (1900-2008)
4/12 Paul Thompson, Dartmouth Medical School
• Collaborative Utility - Theoretic Information Retrieval
4/19 Una O. Osili, Associate Professor of Economics, Interim Director of Research at The Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, Indianapolis, IN
4/26 Guilherme Rocha, Department of Statistics, IUB
Posted February 01, 2010