International workshop on
Detection and visualization of communities in large complex networks


UCL, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
March 13-14, 2008



This international workshop aims at gathering specialists of different disciplines (computer scientists, mathematicians and physicists) in order to present new methods for detecting and visualizing communities in large complex networks and analyzing their evolution with time.

The workshop will take place on March 13-14, 2008 in Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium). There will be a single stream of invited talks. Registration is free but there is limited seating availability and so those who are interested to attend are invited to send an email request to Renaud Lambiotte or to Michèle Termolle before March 10, 2008. Louvain-la-Neuve is located 20 km South of Brussels and is easy to reach from Brussels' airport and train stations. Travel informations are available here.

Organizers: Vincent Blondel, Paul Van Dooren, Jean-Charles Delvenne, Renaud Lambiotte
Sponsors: UCL Large graphs and networks,  ARC research grant of the Communauté Francaise de Belgique, PAI-IAP Dysco of the Belgian Federal State. 



Thursday March 13, 2008

09:45-10:00: Welcome and introduction
10:00-10:45: Gergely Palla, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary
         k-clique percolation and clustering in directed and weighted networks
10:45-11:30: Santo Fortunato, ISI, Torino, Italy
         Detecting the overlapping and hierarchical community structure of complex networks
11:30-12:15: Jean-Loup Guillaume, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium and Université de Paris 6, France
         Ultra-fast multi-resolution method for detecting communities in large networks

12:30-14:00: Lunch break

14:00-14:45: Tamás Vicsek, Eötvös University, Budapest, Hungary
         Statistics and evolution of the community structure of large social networks
14:45-15:30: Jukka-Pekka Onnela, University of Oxford, UK
         Structure and modeling of large-scale social networks
15:30-16:00: Coffee break
16:00-16:45: Panos Argyrakis, University of Thessaloniki, Greece
         Scientific collaboration between European countries in the FP5 and FP6
16:45-17:30: Mauricio Barahona, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, UK
         Synchronization over networks: dynamics and graph theory

Friday March 14, 2008

9:00-9:45: Vladimir Batagelj, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
         Hierarchical clustering in large networks  
9:45-10:30: Marco Gaertler, Universität Karlsruhe, Germany
         Algorithm engineering applied to graph clustering  
10:30-11:00: Coffee break
11:00-11:45: José Fernando Mendes, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
         Complex networks: Transition from small to large world  
11:45-12:30:  János Kertész, Budapest University of Technology, Hungary
         Resolution problems in community detection  

12:30-13:30: Lunch break

13:30-14:15:  Jean-Charles Delvenne, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
         Clustering and time scales in graphs and Markov chains  
14:15-15:00: Paolo De Los Rios, EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland
         Coarse Graining of Networks and Matrices: Towards a System-Based Size Reduction  
15:00-15:45: Jari Saramäki, Helsinki University of Technology, Finland
         Communities in genetic distance networks