Schedule

The workshop took place Sept 3-6. It consisted of invited and contributed talks, organized dinners and time for discussions.

The talks took place at "Sala Macarella", at Hotel Audax. The dinners and the gala dinner took place at "Restaurante Oliva", at Hotel Audax.

Sept 2

Sunday

19:00

Registration

21:00

Welcome dinner (Restaurante Oliva, Audax Hotel) and discussion

Sept 3

Monday

Morning chair: Kun Zhang

9:00

David Liben-Nowell
Patterns of Information Diffusion

9:45

Benjamin Doerr
Rumor Spreading in Social Networks

10:30

Coffee break

11:15

Francesco Bonchi
A Data-Based Approach to Social Influence Maximization

12:00

Masahiro Kimura
Opinion Formation by Voter Models in Social Networks

12:45

Lunch, discussions and free time

Afternoon chair: Peter Spirtes

16:00

Bernhard Schoelkopf
Causal and Anticausal Learning

16:45

Dominik Janzing
Causal inference using non-statistical information

17:30

Coffee break

18:15

Jonas Peters
Identifiability of Restricted Structural Equation Models

19:00

Discussions and free time

21:00

Dinner (Restaurante Oliva) and discussion

Sept 4

Tuesday

Morning chair: Bernhard Schoelkopf

9:00

Demian Battaglia
Dynamic information routing in neuronal networks of the brain

9:45

Michel Besserve
Assessing the organization of functional brain networks

10:30

Coffee break

11:15

Manuel Gomez Rodriguez
Structure and Dynamics of Information Pathways in On-line Media

12:00

Le Song
Learning Networks of Heterogeneous Influence

12:45

Lunch, discussions and free time

Afternoon chair: Isabelle Guyon

16:00

Peter Spirtes
Causal Clustering of Variables with Multiple Latent Causes

16:45

Coffee break

17:30

John Winn
Gated graphs and causal inference

18:15

Discussions and free time

21:30

Gala dinner (Restaurante Oliva, Audax Hotel) and discussion

Sept 5

Wednesday

Morning chair: Le Song

9:00

Gabor Lugosi
Connectivity of random irrigation graphs

9:45

Coffee break

10:30

Morteza Alamgir
Label Propagation with Random Walk

11:15

Navid Hassanpour
A Dynamic Threshold Model of Collective Action in Social Networks

12:00

Lunch, discussions and free time

Afternoon chair: John Winn

16:00

Isabelle Guyon
Can causal models be evaluated?

16:45

Kun Zhang
Functional causal models: Beyond linear instantaneous relations

17:30

Coffee break

18:15

Ricardo Silva
Representation and learning in directed mixed graph models

19:00

Discussions and free time

20:00

Dinner (Restaurante Oliva) and discussion

Sept 6

Thursday

Morning chair: Francesco Bonchi

9:30

Felix Biessmann
Canonical Trend Analysis for Social Networks

10:15

Krishna P. Gummadi
All Group Detection is Local: Analysing Detectability of Groups in Large Social Networks

11:00

Coffee break

11:45

Closing remarks

12:00

End of the workshop