Contact Information
M.I.T. Sloan School
E52-564
50 Memorial Drive
Cambridge, MA 02142
Tel: 617-258-8912
Fax: 617-253-2660
E-mail: dcentola@mit.edu

Support Staff
Name: Michelle Cole
Tel: 617-258-5583
E-mail: mmcole@mit.edu

Areas
Behavior and Policy Sciences (BPS)
Management Science (MS)

Groups

• Economic Sociology
• System Dynamics

Social Dynamics Seminar

The social dynamics seminar brings together quantitative sociologists working on connecting formal and computational models with empirical data.

Fall 2009:  Meeting Mondays 1:00 - 4:00

September 14: Damon Centola, Empirical Tests of Network Diffusion Models

September 21: Arnout Van De Rijt , A Formal and Empirical Test of Immigration Dynamics

September 28: J.P. Onnela, A Generative Model of Empirical Patterns in Large Cell Phone Networks

October 5: Mary Burke, Social Multiplier Effects in the Spread of Obesity Ð A Calibration Model of Empirical Trends

October 13: P.J. Lamberson, A Model of Path Dependency in Winner Take All Markets

October 19: ----SIP----

October 29: Damon Centola, The New Petri Dish: Studying Social Science on the Internet

November 2: Lynn Wu, Experiments on Influence

November 9: David Lazar, Computational Social Science: The Big Picture

November 16: Sid Suri, Networks Experiments in the Lab and on the Internet

November 23: Research Presentations

November 20: Research Presentations

December 7: Peter Dodds, Experiments: The Future of Computational Social Science

Semester Break (IAP)

(MIT) October 8: Damon Centola, overview and orientation

(Harvard) October 15: Filiz Garip , Threshold Dynamics in the Digital Divide

(MIT) October 22: PJ Lamberson, Polya Urn Processes and Path Dependence in Market Dynamics

(Harvard) October 29: Damon Centola, Free Riding and Stability of Collective Behavior

(MIT) November 5: Filiz Garip, Path Dependence in Immigration Dynamics

(Harvard) November 12: Arnout Van De Rijt, Network Dynamics in Immigration

(MIT) November 19: Burak Eskici, Project Ideas on World Polity Theory

November 26: Thanksgiving

(MIT) December 3: John Lyneis, Applying Network Data to Models of Network Formation

Semester Break (IAP)