Presentation Information
Presenters should prepare to speak for approximately 30 minutes. Projection equipment will be provided, but presenters will need to bring their own laptops (and adapters for Macs).

8:30am-9:00am Continental Breakfast
CGIS South Building Concourse

9:00am-10:30am Presentations

Panel 1
Tsai Auditorium (Room S010)

Race, Gender, Geography and Biases in Congressional Cosponsorship Networks
Skyler Cranmer
University of North Carolina, skyler@unc.edu
Co-Authors: Bruce Desmarais, University of North Carolina; James Fowler, University of California, San Diego

Sparsed Network Analysis of the Senate Voting
Laurent El Ghaoui
University of California, Berkeley, elghaoui@berkeley.edu
Co-Authors: Alexandre d' Aspremont, Princeton University; Jee-Kwang Park, Princeton University

Panel 2
Belfer Case Study Room (Room S020)

Exceptional agency: Political brokerage in EU lobbying
Dimitrios Christopoulos
University of the West of England, dc.christopoulos@uwe.ac.uk

The Beltway Network: A Network Analysis of Lobbyists' Donations to Members of Congress
Jennifer Victor
University of Pittsburgh, jnvictor@pitt.edu

Panel 3
Room S250

National Party Committees and 527s: Linkages in the Same Network
Seth Masket
University of Denver, smasket@du.edu
Co-Authors: David Dulio, Oakland University; Richard Skinner, Bowdoin College

Who's Leading Whom: Leadership PAC Networks through the Republican Era of Congress
Suzanne Robbins
George Mason University, srobbin1@gmu.edu

Panel 4
Room S050

Collaborative politicians- the intended consequence of the decentralization reforms: Evidence from Pakistan using social network analysis
Ghazia Aslam
George Mason University, gaslam@gmu.edu

Human Security Networks in the Indian Ocean Tsunami
Annelies Kamran
Graduate Center/CUNY, akamran@gc.cuny.edu

Network Governance in Malaysia's Telecommunications Industry
G. Sivalingam
Monash University, gslingams@gmail.com

10:30am-10:45am Break

10:45am-12:15pm Presentations

Panel 1
Tsai Auditorium (Room S010)

Mapping Culture, Politics, and Religion in the Arabic Blogosphere
John Kelly
Morningside Analytics, kjw1@columbia.edu
Co-Author: Bruce Etling, Harvard Law School

Mining the Malaysian Sopo Blogosphere
Brian Ulicny
VIStology, Inc., bulicny@vistology.com
Co-Authors: Mieczyslaw M. Kokar, VIStology, Inc. and Northeastern University; Christopher J. Matheus, VIStology, Inc.

Panel 2
Belfer Case Study Room (Room S020)

Persistence of Collaborative Relationships in Post-Katrina Emergency Response
Scott Robinson
Texas A&M University, srobinson@bushschool.tamu.edu

Democracy by Design:  The Institutionalization of Neighborhood Participation Networks in Los Angeles
Chris Weare
University of Southern California, weare@usc.edu
Co-Authors: Juliet Musso, University of Southern California; Kyu-Nahm Jun, Wayne State University

Panel 3
Room S250

Civil society campaigns and social resistance to water privatisation in Latin America: A study of policy networks
Emanuele Lobina
University of Greenwich, e.lobina@gre.ac.uk
Co-Authors: Vladimir Popov, University of Greenwich; Philipp Terhorst, Loughborough University

Water Management Networks in an Ecology of Games
Mark Lubell
University of California, Davis, mnlubell@ucdavis.edu

12:15pm-1:30pm Break for Lunch

1:30pm-3:15pm Journal of Politics Plenary Panel Session
Tsai Auditorium (Room S010)

Networks in National Random Samples
Betsy Sinclair
University of Chicago, betsy@uchicago.edu

Whole Network Analysis vs. Network Sampling
Michael Heaney
University of Florida, mtheaney@ufl.edu

Network Data Collected through Field Experiments
David Nickerson
University of Notre Dame, david.w.nickerson@gmail.com

Evidence for Causal Relationships in Observational Network Data
James H. Fowler
University of California, San Diego, jhfowler@ucsd.edu

3:15pm-3:30pm Break

3:30pm-4:30pm Keynote Address
Tsai Auditorium (Room S010)

Network Science: From the WWW to Social Networks
Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
Northeastern University

4:30pm-5:30pm Business Meeting
Tsai Auditorium (Room S010)

Please note that this preliminary program is subject to change.

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