WTFNS 2019
WTFNS features leading researchers in the field of network science who come from a variety of social science disciplines. The goal of WTFNS is to garner constructive feedback from leading network scientists on work in progress, and to build a professional support network for members of the NYUAD community working in this area.
Keynote Speakers
Vanderbilt University
From Chatter to Action: How Social Networks Inform and Motivate in Rural Uganda
University of California San Diego
Agency and structure in the genesis of network segregation
Monash University
The Value of Information in Technology Adoption: Theory and Evidence from Bangladesh
with Asad Islam, Philip Ushchev and Xin Zhang
Presenters
The preeminence of ethnic diversity in scientific collaboration
Self-fulfilling equilibrium in social contest: expectation and neighborhood effects
The network formation origin of tribal societies
Monte Carlo simulation of co-evolving social dilemma
Hiding in social networks
Job referrals and strategic network formation: experimental evidence from urban neighborhoods in Ethiopia
Co-occurrence Networks of Place in Literary Corpora