INTERNATIONAL SUNBELT SOCIAL NETWORK CONFERENCE XXVI

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

24-30 April 2006

The International Sunbelt Social Network Conference XXVI, sponsored by the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) will take place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada with Symposia on April 24-25, Workshops April 25-26, Papers April 26-30, 2006.

Workshops are scheduled to start on Tuesday, April 25 in the afternoon and continue Wednesday, April 26 in the morning. General paper sessions will begin on Wednesday the 26th in the afternoon and finish on Sunday, the 30th.

The Keynote Speaker will be Edward Laumann, and a plenary lecture will be given by the winner of the first Visual Path competition.

PLANNED SESSIONS

We invite you to propose or chair a session by letting us know at your earliest convenience via insna@sfu.ca.

To chair a session, please select from the list below or propose a topic of your interest that isn't on the list.

• Algorithms and Analytic Methods
• Applications of p*
• Characteristics of Ethnic Personal Nets
• Co-Evolution of Knowledge Networks
• Cognition and Networks
• Collecting Network Data
• Computer Networks as Social Networks
• Corporate and Inter-Organizational Networks
• Deviant and Criminal Networks
• Dynamics of social networks
• Evolution of Social Networks
• Focus on the Alters
• Infectious Diseases and Social Networks
• Informant Accuracy
• Innovation
• Interlocking Directorates
• International Networks
• Intra-Organizational Networks
• Kinship and Family Networks
• Large Scale Networks
• Mathematical Models
• Mergers, Alliances and Partnerships
• Methods and Statistics
• Micro-Macro Link
• Network Visualization
• Networks and Game Theory
• Networks and Infectious Diseases
• Networks and Science
• Networks and Social Systems
• Networks Through Time
• Networks, Collective Action & Social Movements
• New Analytic Answers
• On-Line Communities
• Partnership, Cooperation, Competition
• Personal Community Networks
• Politics and Networks Structures
• Powerful Experiments
• Research using position generator
• Sex, Diseases and Networks
• Social Capital
• Social Influence and Diffusion
• Social Support
• Status, Wealth, Power and Control
• The Individual Networks of Managers
• Trust, Uncertainty and Advantage
• Women, Men and Research Networks

CONFERENCE HOTEL

The conference will be held at the Coast Plaza Hotel & Suites at Stanley Park, 1763 Comox St. The hotel is located in Vancouver's trendy West End which offers the convenience and flavor of its true neighborhood. Over looking English Bay and Stanley Park the hotel is close to a variety of specialty restaurants, shops and services.

Make a room reservation on the Sunbelt conference page by clicking on Hotel Registration. To get the conference rate, enter "network" where the form says "Booking code". The room prices quoted below are in $CDN.

Comfort Room - $165 Single/ Double

One Bedroom Suite - $185 Single/ Double

*** Conference rates for the hotel are in effect (3) days pre and post event (reservation in advance will be required) ***

CONFERENCE BANQUET

A banquet that you will enjoy, remember, and probably write home about will be held at 6:00 PM on Thursday, April 27th. US$55

WORKSHOPS (not a final list)

Wouter de Nooy, Andrej Mrvar, and Vladimir Batagelj

-- Exploratory Social Network Analysis with Pajek

Stephen Borgatti and Martin Everett

-- Introduction to the Analysis of Network Data via UCINET, Pajek and NetDraw

Barry Wellman

-- Networks for Newbies

Andrew Seary and Bill Richards

-- Multinet

Allen Tien, Chris McCarty, Emmanuel Koku, and Paul Broome

-- SocioMetrica Suite -- EgoNet, LinkAlyzer, VisuaLyzer

Christian Steglich

-- The Analysis of Longitudinal Social Network Data or Dynamics of Networks and Behaviour

Garry Robins, Pip Pattison, Dave Hunter (Penn State), maybe others from the

University of Washington

-- p* and statnet (which among other things can estimate the models)

CALL FOR PAPERS

Abstracts are to be submitted electronically via the Sunbelt XXVI website (go to www.insna.org, click Sunbelt XXVI, click Abstract Subission), and need to be received no later than January 16th, 2006.

CONTACT INFORMATION
Sunbelt XXVI Local Committee (first incarnation)
Bill Richards insna@sfu.ca
Sheila McCarthy spmcc@shaw.ca
Timothy R. Huerta tim.huerta@ttu.edu

Posted by prolurkr at December 12, 2005 09:00 PM

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