Great Problems, Great Minds Seminar Series: Mapping Social Networks: Visualization, Metrics and Case Studies

 

Join the Department of Social Sciences for this Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series event featuring guest speaker Clio Andris, an associate professor in the School of City and Regional Planning and the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. 

Social networks are critical structures for understanding the transfer of information, capital, goods, and diseases. This talk will describe new methods and research infrastructure for the analysis of spatial social networks (SSNs), i.e. social network structures where nodes and edges have a defined geographic location. Clio Andris will describe a broad research framework for embedding SSNs into geographic space and analytically modeling their non-linear dynamics using new methods, technologies, and research approaches. She will use case studies on the topics of criminology and organization science.

Biography

Clio Andris is an associate professor in the School of City and Regional Planning and the School of Interactive Computing at Georgia Institute of Technology. Her research is on mathematical models of social networks, social flows, and interpersonal relationships in geographic space, applied to issues of urban planning, visualization, transportation, and geography. At Georgia Tech, she directs the Friendly Cities Lab. She received her Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in urban information systems in 2011.

The event is part of the Great Problems, Great Minds seminar series that explores the major problems facing humanity as we move into the heart of the twenty-first century. To see the full schedule and videos from previous events, visit the seminar series page.

For more information, contact Assistant Professor of Social Sciences Hao Huang at hhuang48@iit.edu.

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