9th Network Theory Workshop | Kellogg School of Management

Northwestern University hosted the 9th Ann / SONIC / NICO Network Theory Workshop from October 25-27, 2018 at the Evanston campus. This invitation only workshop is convened annually and sponsored by Annenberg Networks Network (ANN), Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) research group, and Northwestern Institute of Complexity (NICO). Northwestern University and University of Southern California alternate hosting the workshop on their campus. The theme of this year's workshop was Brain Science and Social Networks.

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Closing Remarks / Poem from Moran Cerf, Associate Professor of Marketing, Northwestern University

HOW DO YOU MAKE YOUR BRAIN NETWORK THINKS?
How do you make your brain network think?
Emily Falk looks at it in the context of risk?
Running a yellow light is bad
Just as using this most-popular figure by Ron Burt, according to Ned
Kevin put our mind to rest
By pitting Emily and Moran in a popularity test
Then Matthew to the front of the room rise
Only to remind us that the world is full of lies
And his talk was a perfect prediction
Of Diana Tamir’s hidden matrix transition
Then Carolyn showed us how movies make our minds bend
Demonstrating how we see the world like our friend
Together with Adam - flocking together like a feather of birds
Who followed and added the usage of language styles and words
Talia took us a on a journey inside and showed us that
You can build or break habits even in a rat
And then I took the stage and my social network broke
Due the inability to come up with a joke
And then, just before leaving us to go lose in a game of soccer,
Ned explained to us about being a broker
And Brian Uzzi, following, was able to state
Why all of my work failed to replicate
Then we had some beer
Thanks to Noshir
We were able to cheer
Before an orchestra appear
And made Emily want to change career
But just before the musicians made their mark
We had the session known as ‘spark’
Jean showed us data about how people drive
In a talk that took her less than the allotted five
And then Rene talking about prediction
Showed us that the current models have some contradiction
And then, Philip, spoke about the mind of a child
In an Irish accent that was very styled
Joseph Bayer’s talk came to mind
When explaining how personal networks construction is aligned
And then Ralf spoke about isc and polls
Because after all - that’s how he rolls
And finally Aaron showed a model or how our brains chime
Making us yearn for more when he ran out of time
This morning, Sylvia, measured how social value form
By looking at brains of people in a dorm
And Eric concluded by changing network controls
Intervening in the world of semiconductors and structural holes
Finally, Tim, talking about white matter
Said, I quote: that it’s not the size but the width or “how fat is the axon” that matters
And Morteza, who ended by saying the his methods are bad and the data gigantic
Still was able to show remarkable default mode network for language and semantic
So while at the end there’s still room to think on where the brains and social networks agree
I think it is safe to safe to say that it was not Ned’s son who lost, but it was the fault of the referee.

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Thursday, October 25, 2018

Time	Event
5:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.	Opening Reception Terra & Vine, 1701 Maple Avenue, Evanston, IL Welcome Michael J. Fishman, Senior Associate Dean, Faculty and Research and Norman Strunk Professor of Financial Institutions, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Friday, October 26, 2018

Time	Event
7:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.	Transportation from Hilton Garden Inn to Kellogg Global Hub (chartered shuttle will be available for this duration) Participants staying at Hampton Inn & Suites will be provided Uber codes for transport
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.	Breakfast Seminar Room 5101, 5th Floor, Kellogg Global Hub, 2211 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL
9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.	Welcome & Opening Remarks Noshir Contractor, Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University Julio M. Ottino, Dean of the Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Distinguished Robert R. McCormick Institute Professor and Walter P. Murphy Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering at Northwestern University
9:15 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.	Session 1 Brain and Social Network Dynamics Associated with Susceptibility to Social Influence Emily Falk, Associate Professor of Communication, Psychology and Marketing, Annenberg School for Communication at Penn Neural Markers of Popularity and the Evolution of Liking Over Time Kevin Ochsner, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Psychology, Columbia University
10:15 p.m. – 10:45 p.m.	Break
10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.	Session 2 Wilde’s Dilemma: The Role of Deception in Social Networks Matthew Brashears, Associate Professor, Sociology, University of South Carolina Making Predictions in the Social World Diana Tamir, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Princeton University
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m.	Lunch Seminar Room 4101, 4th Floor, Kellogg Global Hub
1:15 p.m. – 2:15 p.m.	Session 3 Neural Homophily: Similar Neural Responses Predict Friendship Carolyn Parkinson, Assistant Professor, Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles Linguistic Homophily: Language Style Similarity and Friendship Networks Adam Kleinbaum, Associate Professor of Business Administration, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
2:15 p.m. - 3:15 p.m.	Session 4 Contributions of Parallel Nigrostriatal Dopamine Circuits to Reward Learning and Habit Formation Talia Lerner, Assistant Professor of Physiology, Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University What Synchronicity Between Brains Can Predit when it Comes to Content and Experiences Moran Cerf, Associate Professor of Marketing, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
3:15 p.m. – 3:45 p.m.	Break
3:45 p.m. – 4:45 p.m.	Session 5 An Artificial and Human Intelligence Approach to the Replication Problem in Science Brian Uzzi, Richard L. Thomas Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change at Kellogg School of Management and Co-Director of Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems (NICO), Northwestern University Cognitive Search and Social Networks Edward (Ned) Smith, Associate Professor of Management and Organizations, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
4:45 p.m. - 5:00 p.m.	Group Photo Gies Plaza, 1st Floor, Kellogg Global Hub
5:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.	Reception & Spark Talks White Auditorium, 2nd Floor, Kellogg Global Hub Understanding Social Influence on Communication Success in a Real-Risk Environment Jean Vettel, Senior Science Lead / Neuroscientist, U.S. Army Research Laboratory Network Neuroscience: Superior in Explanation, Inferior in Prediction. A Dimensionality Problem? Rene Weber, Professor Media Neuroscience, University of California Santa Barbara Childhood Peer Network Characteristics: Genetic Influences, Links with Early Mental Health Trajectories, but What of the Brain? Philip Shaw, Earl Stadtman Investigator, Neurobehavioral Clinical Research Section of the National Human Genome Research Institute Who Comes to Mind? Dynamic Construction of Personal Networks Joseph Bayer, Assistant Professor, School of Communications, The Ohio State University The Coupled Brains of Captivated Audiences Ralf Schmӓelzle, Assistant Professor, Communication, Michigan State University New Methods for Event Network Analysis Aaron Schecter, Assistant Professor, Management Information Systems, University of Georgia, Terry College of Business
6:15 p.m. – 7:15 p.m.	Presentation & Performance Stephen Alltop, Senior Lecturer, Conducting and Ensemble, Bienen School of Music, Northwestern University and Orchestra
7:15 p.m. – 8:45 p.m.	Dinner
8:15 p.m. – 9:15 p.m.	Transportation from Kellogg Global Hub to Hilton Garden Inn (chartered shuttle will be available for this duration) Participants staying at Hampton Inn & Suites will be provided Uber codes for transport

Saturday, October 27, 2018

Time	Event
7:45 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.	Transportation from Hilton Garden Inn to Kellogg Global Hub (chartered shuttle will be available for this duration) Participants staying at Hampton Inn & Suites will be provided Uber codes for transport
8:30 a.m. – 9:00 a.m.	Breakfast Seminar Room 5101, 5th Floor, Kellogg Global Hub
9:00 a.m. – 9:15 a.m.	Opening Remarks Barbara J. O'Keefe, Dean of the School of Communication and Annenberg University Professor of Communication Studies, Northwestern University
9:15 a.m. – 10:15 a.m.	Session 6 Neural Detection of Socially Valued Community Members Sylvia Morelli, Assistant Professor of Psychology, University of Illinois at Chicago Do Structural Holes Increase Innovative Performance: Evidence from a Field Experiment Eric Quintane, Associate Professor of Management, The University of Los Andes, Bogota, Colombia
10:15 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.	Break
10:45 a.m. – 11:45 a.m.	Session 7 Linking the Social World to the Structural Human Connectome Tim Verstynen, Associate Professor of Psychology, Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University Decoding the Neural Representation of Story Meanings Across Languages Morteza Dehghani, Associate Professor of Psychology, University of Southern California
11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.	Boxed Lunch & Panel Discussion on Charting the Future Moderators: Emily Falk & Moran Cerf Panelists: Alessandro Lomi, Professor of Organization Theory and Behavior, University of Lugano (Switzerland) Kevin Ochsner, Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Psychology, Columbia University Jean Vettel, Senior Science Lead / Neuroscientist, U.S. Army Research Laboratory
12:30 p.m. – 12:45 p.m.	Workshop Wrap-Up

Speakers

Participants

Conference Organizers

Manuel Castells

UNIVERSITY PROFESSOR AND THE WALLIS ANNENBERG CHAIR IN COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY / UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ANNENBERG SCHOOL FOR COMMUNICATION AND JOURNALISM

Manuel Castells is University Professor and the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Communication Technology and Society at the University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles. He is Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, and holds joint appointments in the Department of Sociology, in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development, and in the School of International Relations.

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Noshir Contractor

Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Science & Director of SONIC Research Group / Northwestern University

Noshir Contractor is the Jane S. & William J. White Professor of Behavioral Sciences in the McCormick School of Engineering & Applied Science, the School of Communication and the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University, USA. He is the Director of the Science of Networks in Communities (SONIC) Research Group at Northwestern University.

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Janet Fulk

Professor of Communications / UNIVERsity of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

Janet Fulk is a professor of communication in the USC Annenberg School for Communication and professor of management & organization in the USC Marshall School of Business. She holds M.B.A. and Ph.D. in administrative sciences from The Ohio State University.

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Peter Monge

Professor of Communications / University of Southern California Anneberg School for Communications and Journalism

Peter Monge is Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism and Professor of Management and Organization at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. He is also the Director of the Annenberg Networks Network, a research center focused on communication network theory and research.

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Brian Uzzi

RICHARD L. THOMAS PROFESSOR OF LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE / KELLOGG SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT

Brian Uzzi is a globally recognized scientist, teacher, consultant and speaker on leadership, social networks, data science, artifical intelligence and machine learning. He is the Richard L. Thomas Professor of Leadership and Organizational Change at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

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Program Co-Organizers

Emily Falk

Associate Professor of Communications/ UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA

Emily Falk is an Associate Professor of Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, with secondary appointments in Psychology and Marketing at Penn. Falk employs a variety of methods in the performance of her research, with a focus on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI).

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Moran Cerf

Associate Professor of Marketing/ Kellogg School of Management

Moran Cerf is a professor of neuroscience and business at the Kellogg School of Management and the neuroscience program at Northwestern university, and a member of the institute on complex systems.

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Presentations & IMAGES from the Workshop

Workshop Sponsors

Schedule

Thursday, October 25, 2018

Friday, October 26, 2018

Saturday, October 27, 2018

Speakers

Joseph Bayer

Matthew Brashears

Moran Cerf

Morteza Dehghani

Emily Falk

Adam Kleinbaum

Talia Lerner

Alessandro Lomi

Sylvia Morelli

Kevin Ochsner

Carolyn Parkinson

Eric Quintane

Aaron Schecter

Ralf Schmäelzle

Philip Shaw

Edward (Ned) Smith

Diana Tamir

Brian Uzzi

Timothy Verstynen

Jean Vettel

Rene Weber

Participants

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