Games, Networks, and Cascades

Cornell Club (NYC), October 7-9, 2005

This workshop provided a focused venue for researchers from different disciplines (sociology, economics, computer science, and physics) to explore their common interest in understanding how social networks affect the dynamics of strategic interaction and cascade propagation.

Group Picture

 

Participants

From the US:	From Europe:
Robert Axtell Center for Social & Economic Dynamics The Brookings Institution raxtell@brook.edu	Marcel van Assen Faculty of Social & Behavioral Sciences Methodology and Statistics Tilburg University M.A.L.M.vanAssen@uvt.nl
Damon Centola Department of Sociology Cornell University dc288@cornell.edu	Vincent Buskens Department of Sociology / ICS Utrecht University v.buskens@fss.uu.nl
Peter Dodds ISERP Columbia University peter.dodds@columbia.edu	Victor Eguiluz Center for Cross-Disciplinary Physics Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies victor@imedea.uib.es
Joshua Epstein Center for Social & Economic Dynamics The Brookings Institution jepstein@brook.edu	Andreas Flache Department of Sociology / ICS  University of Groningen a.flache@ppsw.rug.nl
Douglas Heckathorn Department of Sociology Cornell University ddh22@cornell.edu	Arno Riedl CREED Faculty of Economics & Econometrics University of Amsterdam a.m.riedl@uva.nl
Michael Macy Department of Sociology Cornell University mwm14@cornell.edu	Fernando Vega Redondo Faculty of Economics University of Alicante  fvega@merlin.fae.ua.es
Mark Newman Department of Physics University of Michigan mejn@umich.edu	Stephanie Rosenkranz Utrecht School of Economics Utrecht University S.Rosenkranz@econ.uu.nl
Brian Skyrms Logic and Philosophy of Science University of California, Irvine bskryms@uci.edu	Maxi San Miguel Center for Cross-Disciplinary Physics Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies maxi@imedea.uib.es
Steven Strogatz Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Cornell University shs7@cornell.edu
Peyton Young Center for Social & Economic Dynamics The Brookings Institution pyoung@brook.edu

Presentations

Rob Axtell

Radicals, Revolutionaries and Reactionaries in a Model of Endogenous Classes

Vincent Buskens

Consent or Conflict: Coevolution of Coordination and Networks

Damon Centola and Michael Macy

Spatial Networks and Complex Contagion

Peter Dodds

Models of Social and Biological Contagion

Andreas Flache, ICS

Why Globalized Communication May Increase Cultural Polarization

Mark Newman

Percolation Processes on Networks

Arno Riedel

Social Behavior on Endogenously Forming Networks: Recent Results from Laboratory Experiments

Maxi San Miguel and Victor Eguiluz

Two Case Studies of Coevolution in Social Networks

Brian Skyrms

The Emergence of Signaling Systems

Steven Strogatz

Sync: Fireflies and the Millennium Bridge

Marcel van Assen

The Evolution of Exchange Networks

Fernando Vega-Redondo

The Emergence of Complex Social Networks

Peyton Young

The Spread of Innovations through Social Learning

 

 

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