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Netsci Conference

The International School and Conference on Network Science, also called NetSci, is an annual conference focusing on networks. It is organized yearly since 2006 by the Network Science Society. Physicists are especially prominently represented among the participants, though people from other backgrounds attend as well. The study of networks expanded at the end of the twentieth century, with increasing citation of some seminal papers.

Following this increase in interest from the scientific community, network science was examined by the National Research Council (NRC), the arm of the US National Academies in charge of offering policy recommendations to the US government. NRC assembled two panels, resulting in recommendations summarized in two NRC Reports, offering a definition of the field of network science. These reports not only documented the emergence of a new research field, but highlighted the field’s role for science, national competitiveness and security. The NetSci conference series was set up in 2006 to address the need of the new and emerging highly interdisciplinary network science community to meet and exchange ideas. The NetSci conference has been a yearly event since then. In 2015, a shorter regional conference, called NetSci-X, was added.

History

The formal NetSci conference series was preceded by several meetings:

In 2006 these events became part of an organized structure with one network conference per year.

  • NetSci 2006 May 16–25, Indiana University Bloomington, USA. Organized by Albert-László Barabási, Katy Börner, Noshir Contractor, Alessandro Vespignani and Stanley Wasserman.
  • NetSci 2007 May 20–25, New York Hall of Science, USA
  • NetSci 2008 June 23–27, Norwich University, UK
  • NetSci 2009 June 29-July 3, INFM, Istituto Veneto, Venice, ITALY. Organized by Guido Caldarelli and Vittoria Colizza.
  • NetSci 2010 May 10–14, Northeastern University/MIT Boston, USA
  • NetSci 2011 June 1–6, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, HUNGARY
  • NetSci 2012 June 18–22 Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
  • NetSci 2013 June 3–7, Royal Library, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark. Organized by Petter Holme and Sune Lehmann (general chairs)
  • NetSci 2014 June 2–6, University of California, Berkeley, USA. Organized by Raissa D'Souza and Neo Martinez.
  • NetSci 2015 June 1–5, University of Zaragoza, SPAIN
  • NetSci 2016 May 30–June 3, Korean Academy of Science, Seoul, Korea. Organized by Hawoong Jeong (general chair), Guanrong Chen (co-chair), and Reka Albert (co-chair).
  • NetSci 2017 June 19–23, held in Indianapolis, USA, and organized by the Indiana University Network Science Institute, with Olaf Sporns and Filippo Menczer as general co-chairs. The 2017 conference was the largest yet, with 680 registrations from 29 countries. The event featured three keynote speakers, 10 plenary speakers, 22 pre-conference satellite workshops and 23 technical sessions with about 130 oral presentations and 218 posters.
  • NetSci 2018 June 1–15, 2018, Paris, France Organised by A. Barrat and Vittoria Colizza
  • NetSci 2019 May 27–31, 2019, Vermont, USA
  • NetSci 2020 ONLINE September 17–25 (before COVID-19 pandemic was originally planned for July 6–10), Rome, Italy Organised by Guido Caldarelli, Giulio Cimini, Tommaso Gili, Andrea Nicolai
  • Networks 2021 (joint Sunbelt and NetSci conference) ONLINE July 5–10
  • NetSci 2022 July 25–29, Shanghai, China
  • NetSci 2023 July 10–14, Vienna, Austria

In 2015, the Network Science Society added an additional, shorter regional conference, called NetSci-X, held in January:

Plenary Speakers

2020

School speakers

Invited speakers

Erdős–Rényi Prize 2020 Young Network Scientist Award

  • TBA

Euler Prize 2020 Network Scientist Award

  • TBA

Service Price 2020 NetSci outstanding service award

  • TBA

2019

School speakers

Keynote speakers

Invited speakers

  • Eleanor Power
  • C. Brandon Ogbunu
  • Nicola Perra
  • Hyejin Youn
  • Emily Bernard (dinner speaker)

Erdős–Rényi Prize 2019 Young Network Scientist Award

Euler Prize 2019 Network Scientist Award

Service Price 2019 NetSci outstanding service award

2018

School speakers

Keynote speakers

Invited speakers

  • Claudia Wagner
  • Sam Scarpino
  • Sonia Kéfi
  • Brooke Foucault Welles
  • Amy Wesolowski
  • Stefano Battiston
  • Sophie Achard
  • Paolo Ciuccarelli (dinner speaker)

Erdős–Rényi Prize 2018 Young Network Scientist Award

2017

Erdős–Rényi Prize 2017 Young Network Scientist Award

  • Vittoria Colizza

2016

Erdős–Rényi Prize 2016 Young Network Scientist Award

2015

Erdős–Rényi Prize 2015 Young Network Scientist Award

  • Chaoming Song

2014

Erdős–Rényi Prize 2014 Young Network Scientist Award

2013

Erdős–Rényi Prize 2013 Young Network Scientist Award

2012

Erdős–Rényi Prize 2012 Young Network Scientist Award

  • Roger GuimerÃÂ

2011

2010

2009

2008

2007

Event structure

The NetSci conference generally starts with two days of satellite meetings organized by different people, and classes offering an introduction into different aspects of network science. The formal NetSci conference starts on Wednesday, and has a series of keynote speakers, invited speakers, and contributed talks in parallel sections.

Erdős–Rényi Prize

The Erdös-Rényi Prize in Network Science is awarded annually at the NetSci meeting,

References