Friday, April 9, 2010

[DMANET] MITACS International Focus Period on Advances in Network Analysis and its Applications

Dear colleagues,

Second Call for Participation (apologies for multiple posts)

MITACS International Focus Period on Advances in Network Analysis and its Applications

Canada 2010-2011

Web: www.mitacsfocusperiods.ca

Starting in May 2010, MITACS (www.mitacs.ca) plans to hold an international
focus period in Canada entitled, "Advances in Network Analysis and its
Applications". The focus period will consist of a number of scientific
events including workshops, summer schools, industry-academic forums, short
courses and public lectures around the topic of network analysis.

Focus Period Topics:
-Financial networks for risk assessment
-Network security and cryptography
-Social Networks
-Biological networks and systems biology
-Wireless and mobile computing
-Internet and network economics

Preliminary Program of events (more to be added):

-Workshop on Financial Networks and Risk Assessment
- 19th - 21st of May 2010, Toronto, Canada
-Public Lecture - Jonathan Farley, Mathematics and Countercounterterrorism
- May 26th 2010, Edmonton, Canada
-2010 Summer School through IGTC - May 10, 2010
- Jun 2, 2010, Victoria, Canada
-The 2010 IEEE International Symposium on Network Coding
- June 9 - 11, 2010 Toronto, Canada
-Workshop on Network Security & Cryptography
- 21st-25th of June 2010, Toronto
-3rd Annual Canada-France Workshop on Foundations & Practice of Security
- June 22nd 2010, Toronto
-CAMBAM-MBI Summer School 2010 - Nonlinear Dynamics in Biological Networks
- May 17, 2010 - May 28, 2010
-Workshop on Social Networks - 9th-14th of August 2010, Vancouver
-Workshop on Biological Networks and Systems Biology
- 24th-28th of January 2011, Vancouver
-Workshop on Wireless & Mobile Computing - May 2011, Ottawa
-Workshop on Internet & Network Economics - August 2011, Vancouver

For further details on specific topics, registration for events, speakers,
and locations, please visit our website - www.mitacsfocusperiods.ca. We are
also accepting abstracts for contributed talks to some focus period
workshops. Submission details and deadlines are available on our website.

A volume of selected papers will be published by Springer
(http://www.springer.com/series/4650) from each of the workshops in the
series "Mathematics in industry". All papers will be refereed.

We look forward to meeting you there.

On behalf of Prof. Evangelos Kranakis (lead organizer) and the steering and
scientific committees
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