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Panel chair, Fifth International Conference "Hierarchy and Power in the History of Civilizations" June 23-26 2009, Moscow, Russia

Had to turn this one down, unfortunately: Would you accept an invitation to be a key note speaker at the 6th European Social Simulation Association conference in Surrey in the UK on Wednesday 16 September? The ESSA conferences are the oldest and best established social simulation conference series and (in my opinion) has the best papers.
You would be of particular interest to our attendees due to your mix of interests from social network analysis and ethnography. Social simulation is at a tipping point and I hope that your talk could play a small part in nudging the field towards some useful modelling and away from simplistic/toy models.

Panel on large scale historical dynamics.Budapest, on June 17-18, 2008: Conference on "The Unexpected Link Using network science to tackle social problems." We already have Laszlo Barabasi as confirmed participant. Invitation of Balazs Vedres

Paper on topic of Group as Individual in Social Dynamics April 30-May 2, 2009, Center for Social Dynamics and Complexity, Arizona State University. Co-Directors, Jennifer Fewell and William Griffin. Abstract: Structurally k-cohesive Groups have some of the causal influences usually attributed to individuals: They act, achieve objectives, and are attracted and attached to other social entities. Empirical evidence for these propositions is presented from a variety of sociological and anthropological network studies and is demonstrated in the study of empirical tie-formation dynamics.

Invited 2008 Lecture, Friday, 4pm December 5. Arthur Iberall Distinguished Lecture Series on "Life and the Sciences of Complexity," sponsored by the Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action. Previous lecturers were Yates, Bassingthwaighte, Kelso, Beek, and Kugler. A suggested title would be "Social Physics." The speaker typically arrives on the Wednesday, leads a workshop on Thursday, and gives the Iberall Lecture at 4pm on the Friday. Invitation of Michael T. Turvey michael.turvey AT uconn.edu. The speaker (and often spouse) stay in the guest facility of our home. It is noteworthy for having an English pub, "Sweet William's" on the premises! Wednesday night is usually a welcome pub night with relevant faculty. Thursday night after the workshop is a gathering and dinner at the home of Professor Claire Michaels with all CESPA faculty and students. Friday night is dinner and pub night at our house, typically with 40+ guests for dinner (Iberall family, faculty from a variety of universities and disciplines, doctoral students, etc). All speakers to date have had a grand time, intellectually and socially. You might wish to confirm with Gene Yates. Your fare and accommodations will be taken care of (as noted) and there is a $500 honorarium. I sincerely hope you can accept this invitation. Bringing Ibby's ideas on a social physics to the series would be of special significance. -- Mike Turvey
Sixth Annual Arthur S. Iberall Distinguished Lecture. The lecture will take place on Dec. 5, 2008 at 4:00 PM in Alvin M. Liberman Room in the Bousfield Building at the University of Connecticut at Storrs. Our speaker is Douglas White; the title of his lecture is "Social Physics: Networks and Causal Chains"
The flyer can also be read on the website of the Center for the Ecological Study of Perception and Action (CESPA): Social Physics: Networks and Causal Chains
Directions to the Storrs Campus, campus maps, and hotel information are available at the University of Connecticut's visitor website

Invited live videoconference presentation. 1.5 hour presentation, half hour discussion, Quai Branly anthropology museum, Paris October 24-25, on new approches to computing and kinship. 3-5PM, 6-8 AM US time, My talk is Friday the 24th, from the UCSD Distance Learning Center.

Santa Fe Institute, Behavior Group Talk, Friday Sept 12, 2008 "Testing causal effects of structural k-cohesion"

June 30-July 3 - Academy of International Business annual meetings in Milan, Italy, Competitive session - Tom Nakano and Douglas R. White "Power-Law and "Elite Club" in a Complex Supplier-Buyer Network: Flexible Specialization or Dual Economy?"

Invited Tutorial June 24th 3:30-17:00, "Organizational, social, and complex generative networks." International Workshop and Conference on Network Science (NetSci 08) will be held on June 23-27, 2008. Norwich BioSciences Conference Centre, located on the Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK (http://www.nrp.org.uk). Invitation from Jozsef Baranyi

Refereed paper 11:10-11:30 Wed June 25: Beyond modularity: density generalized block modeling. J. Reichardt, D. R. White. Network Science (NetSci 08) June 23-27, 2008. programme Norwich BioSciences Conference Centre, located on the Norwich Research Park, Norwich, UK (http://www.nrp.org.uk). Abstract: in pdf

Invited speaker, seminar on Advanced Statistics, Sociology Dept, U Geneva. 12:00 June 12, "Advanced methods for fitting competing models of degree distributions from networks and city size distributions" Invited by Eric Widmer, Michel Oris and Gilbert Ristchard

Invited colloquium speaker, Biweekly Sociology Colloquium, U. Cologne. June 4 or June 11 2008. "Autocorrelation Models in Cross-Cultural Research." Invitation of Joerg Roessel. (moving from Cologne to Zurich in February)

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