Summer Institute

The Summer Institute is a training program in computational and network modeling open to graduate students, faculty, and members of private industry and government. The institute is held hybrid on the campus of Carnegie Mellon University.

The week long event provides an intense hands-on introduction to network analysis and visualization from a combined social-network, network-science, link-analysis and dynamic network analysis perspective. Social network, high-dimensional networks, semantic networks, and meta-networks are covered as are network dynamics and geo-spatial networks.

Participants learn about current trends, practices, and tools available for analyzing complex systems as networks. Basic social network and dynamic network measure for one-mode, bi-partite and multi-mode data are covered. Network statistic, analysis and visualization techniques are covered for static and dynamic networks. Techniques for extracting networks from text and social media are covered. Simulation techniques for forecasting change in these networks and their impact on the diffusion of ideas and beliefs are covered. Key issues associated with social media analytics, and big data are covered. Participants gain experience through a series of hands-on exercises. Data sets are provided for these exercises; however, participants who wish to can bring their own data and use it in these exercises. An examination of social network methods, complexity theory and procedures for integrating network-based metrics and statistics into computational models completes the program.

The software tools participants will learn and work with include: ORA-PRO, NetMapper, and Construct, which are network analysis & visualization, information extraction/text mining, and simulations tools, respectively, that are developed at CASOS and widely used globally in business, government, and education.

All participants will be given trial software, and a deep discount on the professional versions of the tools. 

*2024 Summer Institute dates will be June 10-16, 2024. Visit the Summer Institute website for more details.

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CASOS Course Information

• 17-801/17-685/19-640 Dynamic Network Analysis (PhD level/Masters Level/EPP) - offered Spring 2024 Hybrid

**The course Dynamic Network Analysis can be counted as an elective for security students in Information Security Policy & Management (MSISPM).

• 17-821/17-621 Computational Modeling of Complex Socio-Technical Systems (PhD level/Masters level) - offered Fall Semesters, even years