Agents of Influence: 60 Years of Connections
Join us for a mini conference in celebration of the 60th year of our esteemed colleague, Fil Menczer
Location | Photo Drop | Program | Logistics | Organizers
Location
- Luddy Center for Artificial Intelligence
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Indiana University
1015 E. 11th Street, Room 1001
Bloomington, IN 47408
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Program
| Friday, Oct 3 - Afternoon Session 1 Chair: Santo Fortunato |
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| 14:00 - 14:15 | Dean Joanna Millunchick | Welcome | |
| 14:15 - 14:30 | Alex Vespignani | All Roads Lead to Complex Models: From the Seven Hills to the Frontiers of Complexity | |
| 14:30 - 14:45 | Stasa Milojevic | The quest to understand science | |
| 14:45 - 15:00 | Filippo Radicchi | Modeling resource consumption in networks via minimum-cost percolation | |
| 15:00 - 15:15 | YY Ahn | Menczer's Missions: Memes, Misinformation, Manipulation, and Models of Minds, Media, and Metascience | |
| 15:15 - 15:30 | Harry Yan | Fil-tuned Intelligence: Building the Perfect Bot for Interdisciplinary Science | |
| 15:30 - 16:00 | Coffee Break | Group photo | |
| Friday, Oct 3 - Afternoon Session 2 Chair: Emilio Ferrara |
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| 16:00 - 16:15 | Giovanni Ciampaglia | Foosball, Baristas, and Simpsons Characters: The Tacit Knowledge of Filippo Menczer | |
| 16:15 - 16:30 | Santo Fortunato | Fil Menczer and me: 20 years of networks, search engines, and chopped horse's heads | |
| 16:30 - 16:45 | Kristina Lerman | Making enemies: exposing the hidden power of negative connections | |
| 16:45 - 17:00 | Kazu Sasahara | XFinch Experiment: How Can We Leverage AI Tools on Social Media | |
| 17:00 - 17:15 | Francesco Pierri | Last Talk Standing Between You and Dinner | |
| Friday, Oct 3 - Evening | |||
| 18:30 - 21:30 | Social Dinner* | State Room, Indiana Memorial Union (second floor) (*) Private event for invited guests |
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| Saturday, Oct 4 - Morning Session 1 Chair: Giovanni Ciampaglia |
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| 10:00 - 10:15 | Apu Kapadia | Spinformation: A Ten Year Examination of Close Matches and Baseline Detection (Highlights) | |
| 10:15 - 10:30 | Matt DeVerna | Political Fact-checking with LLMs + Il Filo | |
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Kevin Yang | Mentored into Professorship: Lessons I Learned from Fil | |
| 10:45 - 11:00 | Jasleen Kaur | Connecting the Dots: From Urban Lighting to Financial Networks | |
| 11:00 - 11:30 | Coffee Break | ||
| Saturday, Oct 4 - Morning Session 2 Chair: Alessandro Flammini |
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| 11:30 - 11:45 | Emilio Ferrara | The Cassandra Curse, or Why We Should Have Been Listening: How Fil Sees the Future | |
| 11:45 - 12:00 | Rik Belew | Fil, the early years | |
| 12:00 - 12:15 | Jisun An | Belief Resonance in the Age of AI | |
| 12:15 - 12:30 | Filippo Menczer | Which of my students do I love the most? | |
| 12:30 - 13:00 | Good Bye | ||
Logistics
Travel to Indiana University-Bloomington from Indianapolis Airport
Lodging (all close to campus)
- Biddle Hotel (on campus)
- Grant Street Inn
- Hilton Garden Inn
- Home2 Suites
Organizers
On behalf of the Center for Complex Networks and Systems Research: