NetSciEd 2024: Satellite Symposium on Network Science and Education @ NetSci 2024

NetSciEd 2024: The Symposium on Network Science and Education will be held on Monday June 17th, 2024, at the NetSci 2024 Conference, following the previous editions. 

NetSciEd 2024 is a perfect venue to discuss anything related to network science and education, including educational activities to teach/learn network science and applications of network science to understand, model, and improve educational systems and practices. Teachers, students and education researchers are welcome to participate, and we look forward to further discussions about developing a network science curriculum for K-12 students.

PROGRAM:

NetSciEd 2024 will take place on Monday June 17th, 2024.  Details of the program will be announced later.

REGISTRATION: Attendees should formally register through the Conference's website: https://netsci2024.com/en/participate/registration 

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS:

Contributed oral presentations will be 15 minutes long in total (including both talk and Q & A). If you are interested in presenting at NetSciEd 2024, please submit a brief abstract to Evelyn Panagakou by April 20th, 2024 (deadline extended).   Your abstract should:

* Include the title of your presentation, the list of authors and their affiliations, and the contact information (e-mail address) of the corresponding author.

* Include a summary of your presentation (up to 300 words).

* Be formatted as a single PDF file (maximum 2 pages including figures/tables, if any).

TOPICS OF DISCUSSION:

Topics to be discussed at the Satellite include but are not limited to:

• Outreach activities, tools, and materials

• Curricular development and practices for teaching network science 

• Use of network science concepts and tools to teach traditional subjects in K–12 education

• Teacher education

• Informal education

• Network modeling and analysis of educational systems, curricular materials, classroom/school dynamics

• Applications of network science for the improvement of education

INVITED SPEAKERS:

• Phil Chodrow (Middlebury College)

• Nicole Eikmeier (Grinnell College)

• Sucheta Soundarajan (Syracuse University)

• Liubov Tupikina (Bell labs, CRI, France)

CONTRIBUTED TALKS:

TBA

PUBLICATION OF A JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE:

Invited and contributing speakers are invited to submit a full paper based on their presentations to the NetSciEd 2024 special issue of the Northeast Journal of Complex Systems (NEJCS). NEJCS is an open-access journal which does not require any APCs.

ORGANIZERS:

Catherine Cramer (UCSD, USA,  cbcramer@ucsd.edu)

Ralucca Gera (Naval Postgraduate School, USA, rgera@nps.edu)

Evelyn (Evangelia) Panagakou (Northeastern University, USA, e.panagakou@northeastern.edu — Main Contact)

Mason A. Porter (UCLA, USA, mason@math.ucla.edu)

Hiroki Sayama (Binghamton University, USA, sayama@binghamton.edu)

Stephen Uzzo (National Museum of Mathematics, USA, uzzo@momath.org)