SSIE 641: Advanced Topics in Network Science

Fall 2022 Course Materials

Copyright 2022 by Hiroki Sayama

 

Network Science Curricular Network

Course overview

Network science, expanding rapidly within the last few decades, has been causing a major paradigm shift in the way science is being done in the 21st century. It provides the concepts and tools to help us understand various complex systems in nature, society and technology from a viewpoint of connection and interaction. Topics range from the way cells function and create living things, to the ways neurons connect and configure the way brains and minds work, to the ways a disease spreads through social contacts and transportation channels. It has become an essential body of knowledge for scientific research in a wide variety of fields, including engineering, physics, computer science, biology, medicine, and social/organizational sciences.

This course provides students with concepts and mathematical/computational tools developed in network science, for modeling, analyzing and simulating the structures and dynamics of various complex networks. Specific topics to be discussed will include: Complex network topologies, methods for network analysis, visualization and simulation, models of dynamical/adaptive networks, techniques for mathematical analysis, network stability and robustness, and applications to social, biological and engineering systems. Python and NetworkX will be used for modeling and analysis of complex networks, in addition to other computational tools. Students should have a reasonable amount of experience in Python programming.

Schedule, slides & reading materials

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Link to Fall 2021 version

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