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MA 4044: Structure and Analysis of Complex Networks

January 2024 Class Schedule

(content in red must be performed by the students before the class period of that day)

Week Monday Tuesday  Wednesday Thursday
JAN 8-11

CHUNK Learning ("NPS MA4004 Course Resources" unit, particularly Real Networks chunk  )

Real Networks 

Introduction to multilayer network activity   Create your personal network for the Network Profile Summary, Click here to find examples of networks you can reuse
JAN 15-18

CHUNK Learning ("Network Science Overview" unit)

Holiday - No CHUNK Learning this week

Network Science overview, 1st part - ER and

Synthetic Networks ER

Network Science overview, 2nd part - WS and

Synthetic Networks WS

Network Science overview, 3rd part - BA and

Synthetic Networks BA

 

JAN 22-25

PPT slide (network introduction) due by 9am 

 

Synthetic Networks and Network Analysis

Introduction to the Team  research project and PPT for research project

Multilayer Network Activity presentations  (each group has 15 min to present, followed by Q&A). 

 

Presenters: Group 1 & Group 2

JAN 29-31

PPT slide (synthetic networks) due by 9am

 

CHUNK Learning ("Communities" chunk from "MesoScale" unit)

Community Detection and a generative model (PDF)

Team research project (Goal: create Section 2, the literature review, in Overleaf/PPT)

February 2024 Class Schedule

Week Monday Tuesday  Wednesday Thursday
FEB 1

Network Profile PPT presentation (communities)

 

Presenters: Scott, Rachel, Dajah, Nathan.

FEB 5-8

PPT slide (communities) due by 9am

 

CHUNK Learning  ("Core-Periphery" chunk from "MesoScale" unit)

Core-Periphery k-clique, k-core

activity

Team research project (Goal: finish Sections 1 and 2 in Overleaf; finish first two slides of the presentation)

Network Profile PPT presentation (core-periphery, k-core, k-dense)

 

Presenters: Tom, Paolo, Richard, Joel.

FEB 12-15

PPT slide (core-periphery, k-core, k-dense) due by 9am

 

CHUNK Learning ("Network Centrality" unit)

Centralities activity

Centralities: Degree Centrality

Centrality: Eigenvector

Centralities: Katz

Centralities: PageRank

Centralities: HITS

Team research project (Goal: discuss possible methodologies, work on Section 3 in Overleaf; create your 3rd slide presentation)

Network Profile PPT presentation (adjacency driven centrality)

 

Presenters: Craig, Jessica, Scott, Rachel.

FEB 19-22

 

 

CHUNK Learning ("Network Centrality" unit)

Centralities Closeness

Centralities Betweenness

Gephi and Python

 

Team research project (Goal: decide the methodology and update Section 4 in Overleaf; create slide 4 of the final presentation)

Network Profile PPT presentation (distance driven centralities)

 

Presenters: Dajah, Natahan, Tom, Paolo.

FEB 26-29

PPT slides (all applicable centralities) due by 9am

 

CHUNK Learning ("Scale Free, Degree Distribution, Clustering coeff " chunk from the "MacroScale" unit)

 

Holiday

Scale Free, Degree Distribution 

Clustering Coefficient

Small world

Team research project (Goal: run experiments and update Section 5 in Overleaf; create slide 5 of the final team presentation)

Network Profile PPT presentation (scale free, degree distribution, small world, clustering)

 

Presenters: Jessica, Joel, Craig, Richard.

March 2024 Class Schedule

Week Monday Tuesday  Wednesday Thursday
MAR 4-7 

PPT slides (scale free, degree distribution, small world, clustering) due by 9am

 

CHUNK Learning: "NS Takeaways" chunk from the "MacroScale" unit

 

Optional: Information propagation in networks: TED talk and Robustness

Prof. Alderson's lecture

Team research project (Goal: draw results and conclusions. Update Section 6 and create section 7 in Overleaf; Create slides 6 & 7 of the final team presentation)

Prof. Alderson's lecture

MAR 11-14

PPT Slide due by 9am (over the points that Prof. Alderson talked)

 

CHUNK Learning: "Homophily and Assortativity" chunk from the "MacroScale" unit) 

Assortativity/Homophily

and

Similarity

Prof. Everton's lecture

 

Team research project presentation and discussions (Team 1)

 

Team research project presentation and discussions (Team 2)

MAR 18

PPT slides (over your takeaways from Prof Everton's talk) due by 9am

This is the final exam week (no classes this week, your final exam is the team research paper due on the 21st of March)

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Due by March 21st: final Network Profile Summary - complete PPT deck to include takeaways

Due by March 21st:  final Team Research Project due (PPT and paper).

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