Information & Social Networks Symposium October 4, 2010

The Social Media Lab at the School of Information Management headed by Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd is hosting a symposium on Information & Social Networks. The symposium will showcase the diversity of Social Networks Analysis (SNA)-related research at Dalhousie University, featuring talks by researchers from a variety of disciplines including Information Management, Business, Computer Science, Sociology, Biology, Mathematics and Statistics. The keynote talk, entitled Behind The Paradigm Shift Towards a Networked Society, will be presented by Dr. Barry Wellman from the University of Toronto. This event is free and open to all members of the greater Dalhousie community.

Come and learn more about Social Networks Analysis and how it can be used to better understand our modern networked society. Coffee and pastries will be provided, courtesy of the Social Media Lab. Visit http://SocialMediaLab.ca/event or a complete schedule of this free event and information on how to register.
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List of Presenters------
Barry Wellman (keynote), the S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto
Mary-Liz Grise, Assistant Professor, School of Business Administration, Dalhousie University
Anatoliy Gruzd, Assistant Professor, School of Information Management, Dalhousie University
Jeannette Janssen, Professor, Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University
Marek Lipczak, PhD Candidate, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University
Evangelos Milios, Associate Dean, Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University
Binod Sundararajan, Assistant Professor, School of Business Admin., Dalhousie University
Beverly Wellman, Medical Sociologist, University of Toronto
Hal Whitehead, University Research Professor, Faculty of Science, Dalhousie University