Modeling Social Behavior

Time	Topic	Speaker
Day 1

8:30 am	Welcome	Jeremy Berg
8:45 am	Why model social behavior?	Josh Epstein
9:00 am	Models of social isolation	John Cacioppo
9:30 am	Neural basis of social behavior	Steven Phelps
10:00 am	Neural network models of behavior	Lynn Miller/Stephen Read

10:30 – 10:45 am	BREAK

10:45 am	Patterns of self-organization	Iain Couzin
11:15 am	Emergent patterns of collective behavior	Robert Goldstone
11:45 am	Modeling person perception and spread of gossip	Eliot Smith

12:15 – 1:15 pm	LUNCH


1:15 am	Modeling the evolution of cooperation	Anna Dreber/David Rand
1:45 am	Generative statistical models for network dynamics	Martina Morris
2:15 pm	The evolution of cultural evolution	Richard McElreath
2:45 pm	Using cell phone networks to study human behavior	Nathan Eagle

3:15 – 3:30 pm	BREAK

3:30 pm	Knowledge sharing in social networks	Lada Adamic
4:00 pm	Information diffusion on social networks	Sinan Aral
4:30 pm	Social insects as a model for behavior	Gene Robinson
5:00 pm	Social behavior and ecology	Michael Barton
5:30 pm	Social behavior and evolution	Robert Sussman

6:00 pm	ADJOURN

Day 2

Case Studies
8:30 am	Prejudice

10:00 – 10:30 am	BREAK

10:30 am	Community Resilience
12:00 pm	Discussion and Summing Up

12:30 pm	LUNCH

Agenda