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=Socio-Mathematics Working Group (SMAWG)=

We would like to welcome you to the new Socio-Mathematics Working Group (SMAWG). This multi-disciplinary working group has two purposes: learning and doing. Learning, because the social sciences have a long history of adopting mathematical and quantitative methods. We don't want to reinvent the wheel, and it will serve us well to learn what others have done before us. The other purpose, doing, only comes after the learning. After repeated interactions with social science and social scientists, we will be able to speak their language, and translate their problems, phenomena and models into our native language of mathematics.

The weekly announcements are by the SMAWG listserv. To keep updated, please add yourself here: @http://cims.nyu.edu/mailman/listinfo/smawg


 * No participation is ever necessary**, though any level of participation is always welcome. All we ask is that you keep an eye out on what we're doing, and offer us feedback if you think we're going down the wrong path. Just knowing that there is a crowd following the weekly emails will help keep us honest and hard-working. This is an experiment in open science.

Each Monday, we will meet for two or three 20-minute long presentations, plus discussion. The presenter should not describe her past research accomplishments. Instead, she should present either some reading material she is trying to learn, or research material she is currently working through.

Where: Room 705, Warren Weaver Hall When: Every Monday from 3:30pm - 4:45pm

You don't have to log on to edit this wiki, so please feel free to offer any reference suggestions below. If you would like, please add yourself to the list of members. (again, you need not do this. Any participation is voluntary)

I also ask that if you know of other people who may be interested in participating in SMAWG, please forward them a link to this wiki. In fact, if you're new to SMAWG, I ask that you immediately forward it to 1 or 2 people whom you think may be interested in hearing what we have going on.

Schedule

 * Monday, 10 October 2011
 * Tom LaGatta: "Modeling Aggregate Behavior and Fluctuations in Economics" (Aoki)
 * Arka Banerjee: "Bayesian Learning in Social Networks" (Acemoglu, Dahleh, Lobel, Ozdaglar)
 * Monday, 17 October 2011
 * Monday, 24 October 2011
 * Monday, 31 October 2011
 * Monday, 7 November 2011
 * Monday, 14 November 2011
 * Monday, 21 November 2011
 * Monday, 28 November 2011
 * Monday, 5 December 2011
 * Monday, 12 December 2011
 * Monday, 19 December 2011
 * Monday, 21 November 2011
 * Monday, 28 November 2011
 * Monday, 5 December 2011
 * Monday, 12 December 2011
 * Monday, 19 December 2011
 * Monday, 12 December 2011
 * Monday, 19 December 2011
 * Monday, 19 December 2011
 * Monday, 19 December 2011

Members of SMAWG
Courant Math: Ben Bakker, Arka Banerjee, Tom LaGatta, Nimrod Priell Courant CS: NYU Politics: NYU Economics:

CUNY Biology: Elliot Aguilar New School, Milano (Policy): Zoé Hamstead

Some Possible Topics

 * Diffusion
 * [|Economics in the Next Ten Years]? "A young economist, or an economics journalist interested in what the young are working on, could do a lot worse than reading through, as I did the other day, 55 very short papers written by distinguished economists describing the large questions they think are likely to dominate the next generation of research in their respective fields."

Cascades on Complex Networks


 * [|Diffusion and Cascading Behavior in Random Networks] by Marc Lelarge
 * [|Bootstrap Percolation in Living Neural Networks] by Hamed Amini