News
NetSci High 2014 Slideshow
NetSci High 2014 Trailer
NetSciEd3 Berkeley
NetSciEd3 was held June 2, 2014 at the NetSci International Conference at University California Berkeley. The satellite workshop focussed on network science teaching and learning at all levels of formal and informal education, as well as how network science helps inform and understand learning processes and organizations. The morning included presentations, posters, and a hands-on […]
NetSci High 2013 Retrospective
Changing the world one network at a time
We all know networks facilitate human communication, deepen insight into the human condition, and solve myriad problems in business and society on timescales of seconds. But increasingly, the same ideas about how these connections are made are being leveraged against the most complex and pernicious problems of our time. The science of complex networks, also […]
NetSciEd2 Copenhagen
The Second NetSci Satellite Symposium on Network Science in Education (NetSciEd2) at NetSci 2013 in Copenhagen followed the success of the first NetSciEd held last year, and focussed on how to expand network science-oriented educational outreach on a global scale. NetSciEd2 sought to identify trends in the use of network science to investigate the structure […]
NetSci High Student Retrospective 2012-13
In preparation for our talk “NetSci High: An Infrastructure for Advancing Science Education”, a subset of participating students recorded video of their academic year research nearing conclusion. We hope you enjoy it! This work is part of the Network Science in Education satellite conference of the NetSci Meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark on June 3, 2013. […]
Summer 2013 Workshop & Conference
Planning for our Summer 2013 workshop and conference is underway. Our workshop will be July 15 – 24, 2013 at Boston University’s Science Center (590 Commonwealth Avenue). The broad schedule is: Monday, July 15 and Tuesday July 16: Teacher Focus Workshop Wednesday, July 17: Welcome, Class of 2013 Conference, Keynotes Thursday, July 18 to Wednesday […]
Newburgh Student-Teacher Teams Visit West Point
Several cadets and NSC faculty members met with students, teachers, and family members from Newburgh Free Academy to share a few of the many network science (NS) projects cadets are conducting at West Point. Cadets gave presentations on research they have recently completed and also offered the students some advice based on lessons they learned […]
Graphr: Visualizing Congressional Collaboration
Graphr is an interactive software which visualizes collaboration networks in the 112th US Congress. Collaborations are implied from the “signers” on congressional statements. To launch the online software click here: Graphr Congressional Visualizer Some questions: Select 2011 colored by party. How many clusters do you see? (A cluster is a collection of highly interconnected nodes). […]