Lecture: The Architecture of Real Networks
Professor Albert-Lazlo Barabasi from the Department of Physics at University of Notre Dame will deliver the fourth lecture in the Spring 2006 Operations Research / Management Science Seminar series.
Title: The architecture of real networks: from the Web to social networks
Abstract: Networks with complex topology describe systems as diverse as the society, cell, or the World Wide Web. The emergence of most networks is driven by self-organizing processes that are governed by simple but generic laws. The analysis of social, biological and technological systems shows that nature and human designs share the same large-scale topology, and are governed by similar evolutionary laws. I will show that the structure of these complex webs have important consequences on their robustness against failures and attacks, with implications on drug design, the Internet's ability to survive attacks and failures, and the ability of ideas and innovations to spread on the network.
This series is organized by the UMass Amherst INFORMS Student Chapter. Support for this series is provided by the Isenberg School of Management, the Department of Finance and Operations Management, and the John F. Smith Memorial Fund.
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