The International School and Conference on Network Science, also called NetSci, is an annual conference focusing on networks, a scientific society founded by Albert-László Barabási, Guido Caldarelli and József Baranyi to help the Network Science community thrive. 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.M. Buchanan, G. Caldarelli, A networked world Physics World 23 22-24 (2010) DOI 10.1088/2058-7058/23/02/35
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,National Research Council. Network Science. Washington, DC, The National Academies Press, 2005.National Research Council. Strategy for an Army Center for Network Science, Technology, and Experimentation. Washington, DC, The National Academies Press, 2007. 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: RESEARCH WORKSHOP ON GRAPH THEORY AND STATISTICAL PHYSICS, ICTP Trieste May 22–25 (2000) XVIII Sitges Conference (2002)Statistical Mechanics of Complex Networks, Lectures Notes in Physics, Vol. 625 (2003) COSIN Project Midterm Conference (2003)European Physical Journal B Vol. 38, Number 2, March II, 2004 CNLS Annual Conference 2003: Networks, Structure, Dynamics and Function, May 12–26, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Organized by Zoltán Toroczkai, Eli Ben-Naim, Hans Frauenfelder, Pieter Swart, supported by Los Alamos National Laboratory. Aveiro Conference CNET 2004 August 29–September 2 (2004) School and Workshop on Structure and Function of Complex Networks, ICTP Trieste May 16–28 (2005)
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:
NetSci-X 2015 January 14–16, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Organized by Prof. Ronaldo Menezes of University of Exeter, Dr. Alexandre Evsukoff of FGV, and Dr. Nelson Ebecken of COPPE/UFRJ. NetSci-X 2016 January 11–13, Wrocław, Poland, Organized by Dr. Przemyslaw Kazienko of Wrocław University of Science and Technology and Dr. Boleslaw Szymanski of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute NetSci-X 2017 January 15–18, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Organized by Dr. Erez Shmueli of Tel-Aviv University and Dr. Baruch Barzel of Bar-Ilan University. NetSci-X 2018 January 5–8, Hangzhou, China NetSci-X 2019 January 3–5, Santiago, Chile NetSci-X 2020 January 20–23, Tokyo, Japan NetSci-X 2022 February 8–11, Porto, Portugal NetSci-X 2023 February 7–10, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Plenary Speakers
2020 School speakers Elsa Arcaute Ginestra Bianconi Petra Kralj Novak Jose F. Mendes Adilson Motter Filippo Radicchi
Invited speakers Réka Albert Stefano Boccaletti Lucilla de Arcangelis Diego Garlaschelli Gourab Ghoshal Kwang-Il Goh Joseph Loscalzo Miguel-Ángel Muñoz Mercedes Pascual Evimaria Terzi Francesca Tria Petra Vertes
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 Sidney Redner Peter Sheridan Dodds Vittoria Colizza Emma Towlson Daniel Larremore Puck Rombach
Keynote speakers Duncan Watts Tina Eliassi-Rad Michelle Girvan Mark Newman Paul Hines
Invited speakers Eleanor Power C. Brandon Ogbunu Nicola Perra Hyejin Youn Emily Bernard (dinner speaker)
Erdős–Rényi Prize 2019 Young Network Scientist Award Tiago Peixoto
Euler Prize 2019 Network Scientist Award Raissa D'Souza
Service Price 2019 NetSci outstanding service award Albert-Lászlo Barabási
2018 School speakers Javier M. Buldú Ciro Cattuto Emilio Ferrara Chiara Poletto
Keynote speakers Brenda McCowan Mason Porter Miriah Meyer Rowland Kao Filippo Menczer
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 Danielle Bassett
2017 Danielle Bassett (keynote) Stephen Borgatti (keynote) Jennifer Dunne (keynote) Cha Meeyoung Alex Fornito Lise Getoor César A. Hidalgo Shawndra Hill Maximilian Schich M. Ángeles Serrano Roberta Sinatra Xiaofan Wang
Erdős–Rényi Prize 2017 Young Network Scientist Award Vittoria Colizza
2016 Albert-László Barabási Janos Kertesz Jeong Han Kim Olaf Sporns
Erdős–Rényi Prize 2016 Young Network Scientist Award Aaron Clauset
2015 Edward Bullmore Raissa D'Souza Jordi García-Ojalvo Jürgen Kurths Tomás Saraceno (dinner speaker), Alessandro Vespignani
Erdős–Rényi Prize 2015 Young Network Scientist Award Chaoming Song
2014 Reka Albert Sinan Aral Eric Berlow Vittoria Colizza Jessica Flack James P. Gleeson Dirk Helbing Michael Kearns Jon Kleinberg Cristopher Moore Saul Perlmutter (dinner speaker) Frank Schweitzer Thilo Gross Naoki Masuda Tina Eliassi-Rad
Erdős–Rényi Prize 2014 Young Network Scientist Award Mason Porter
2013 Bernhard Palsson Kim Sneppen Mason Porter Shlomo Havlin Noshir Contractor Jennifer Neville Jure Leskovec Sue Moon Aaron Clauset Dirk Brockmann Matthew O. Jackson Jordi Bascompte Albert-László Barabási (school speaker)
Erdős–Rényi Prize 2013 Young Network Scientist Award Adilson E. Motter
2012 Lada Adamic Stefano Allesina Luís Amaral (keynote) Duygu Balcan Albert-László Barabási (dinner speaker) Ronald S. Burt Iain Couzin (keynote) Jennifer Dunne J. Doyne Farmer (keynote) James Fowler (keynote) Neil Johnson Jon Kleinberg (keynote) Adilson E. Motter Michael W. Macy Sandy Pentland Marta Sales-Pardo
Erdős–Rényi Prize 2012 Young Network Scientist Award Roger Guimerà
2011 Uri Alon Guanrong Chen Raissa D’Souza Robin Dunbar (dinner speaker) Marta C. González János Kertész László Lovász (keynote) Neo Martinez Gergely Palla Brian Uzzi Alessandro Vespignani Duncan Watts (keynote)
2010 Uri Alon Sinan Aral James J. Collins (keynote) Ricardo Hausmann Stuart Kauffman (dinner speaker) Mark Newman (keynote) Sinan Aral Guido Caldarelli Jennifer Chayes Vittoria Colizza Riley Crane César A. Hidalgo Hawoong Jeong David Lazer Alan Mislove Yamir Moreno Jukka-Pekka Onnela Asuman Özdağlar Sandy Pentland Sidney Redner Olaf Sporns H. Eugene Stanley Balázs Vedres
2009 Alessandro Vespignani Alain Barrat Ginestra Bianconi Dirk Brockmann Debora Donato Raissa D'Souza James Fowler Anne-Claude Gavin Kwang-Il Goh Shlomo Havlin Dirk Helbing Matthew O. Jackson János Kertész Amos Maritan José Fernando Mendes Joshua Lo Spinoso Luciano Pietronero Frank Schweitzer H. Eugene Stanley Bruce J. West
2008 Albert-László Barabási Nicholas Christakis (keynote) Ian Gibson (honorary speaker) Robert May (keynote) Andre Watson (dinner speaker) Brian Uzzi (keynote)
2007 Eivind Almaas Sinan Aral Katy Börner William Cheswick Aaron Clauset James J. Collins Pam DiBona Jennifer Dunne Marta C. Gonzales Natali Gulbahce César A. Hidalgo Peter A. Hook Ricardo Hausmann Weixia Huang Jon Kleinberg Joseph Loscalzo Mark Newman Stephen North Han Woo Park Dorion Sagan (dinner speaker) Chao Tang Stephen Uzzo Tamás Vicsek Chris H. Wiggins Muhammed Yildirim
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