tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76832337143597323462023-12-19T02:28:42.621-08:00Math C5.4: NetworksThis is the blog website for the Part C networks course at University of Oxford.Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04415369043595429843noreply@blogger.comBlogger70125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683233714359732346.post-28283267854550621572016-03-18T17:40:00.002-07:002017-05-05T18:25:33.841-07:00Complex Networks Tarot Cards!Peter Dodds has produced some seriously awesome <a href = "http://www.uvm.edu/~pdodds/teaching/courses/2016-01UVM-303/things/tarotcards/">Complex Networks tarot cards</a>!<br />
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(Tip of the cap to YY Ahn.)Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04415369043595429843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683233714359732346.post-23813361195611452062016-03-03T15:54:00.001-08:002016-03-03T15:54:30.133-08:00Statistics Seminar by Mark Newman (Friday of Week 8)Mark Newman will be speaking in the Department of Statistics's <a href = "http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/events/distinguished_seminars">Distinguished Seminar Series</a> on Friday of week 8. He will be speaking about statistical inference.<br />
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<b>Date and Time:</b> Week 8, Friday 11th March, 3.30 p.m. <br />
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<b>Location:</b> LG.01, Department of Statistics, 24-29 St Giles.Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04415369043595429843noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683233714359732346.post-83763648084030653832016-03-03T12:35:00.002-08:002016-03-03T12:35:19.774-08:00Solution Sheet 6 PostedI have posted solution sheet 6.Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04415369043595429843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683233714359732346.post-66028580163129709662016-03-01T10:31:00.003-08:002016-03-01T10:31:49.307-08:00Updated Version of Solution Set 3 PostedI posted an updated version of solution set 3. The only change is that I gave an incorrect description of the degree distribution of the Watts–Strogatz model. You should take a look at the revised description. (The overall point is the same, but the WS model is z-regular only for rewiring probability p = 0. In the ER limit, the degree distribution is binomial.)Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04415369043595429843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683233714359732346.post-5301158346106435892016-03-01T09:51:00.002-08:002016-03-01T09:51:06.701-08:00Slides from Monday of Week 6I have tried to upload these slides to the course website on multiple occasions, and on the second case I double-checked it and it definitively worked right after the upload. Now it doesn't (and I am trying to upload it for a third time to see if I can get it to work), and I really don't know what it is going on.<br />
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In case the situation persists with the course-materials page, you can find it <a href = "http://people.maths.ox.ac.uk/porterm/temp/community-structure-intro.pdf">at this website</a>.Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04415369043595429843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683233714359732346.post-59065294792531808322016-03-01T07:00:00.002-08:002016-03-01T07:00:19.075-08:00"Milgram Reloaded": A Version of Milgram's Experiment on Multilayer NetworksSome researchers are conducting a version of Stanley Milgram's 'small world' experiment on multilayer networks. Go to <a href = "http://milgram.cs.unibo.it/info.php">this page</a> if you are interested in participating.Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04415369043595429843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683233714359732346.post-46172601392412221922016-02-28T14:31:00.002-08:002016-02-28T14:31:29.424-08:00Sample Referee ReportI have posted a sample referee report. (It's on a very good paper, so you should also read that paper carefully!)Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04415369043595429843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683233714359732346.post-42058071770677601852016-02-25T11:54:00.002-08:002016-02-25T11:54:21.720-08:00Solution Sheet 5 PostedI have posted solution sheet 5.Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04415369043595429843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683233714359732346.post-48435739069473280662016-02-23T11:32:00.002-08:002016-02-23T11:32:26.962-08:00Scanned Lecture Notes on Community Structure, Dynamical Systems on NetworksI have uploaded scanned versions of last year's lecture notes on community structure (unit 6) and dynamical systems on networks (unit 7).Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04415369043595429843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683233714359732346.post-76789823564399145012016-02-23T09:03:00.002-08:002016-02-23T09:03:36.159-08:00Slides from this Week's Lectures PostedI have posted slides from this week's lectures (as well as another set of slides with more discussion of community structure) onto the course-materials page.Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04415369043595429843noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683233714359732346.post-56030655108287837892016-02-18T11:41:00.002-08:002016-02-18T11:41:43.845-08:00Solution Sheet 4 is PostedI have posted solution sheet 4.Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04415369043595429843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683233714359732346.post-75996924351340055332016-02-16T12:50:00.002-08:002016-02-16T12:50:28.227-08:00Scanned Lecture Notes from Week 5 PostedSee the title.Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04415369043595429843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683233714359732346.post-42209580423878732282016-02-15T08:11:00.000-08:002016-02-15T08:11:13.873-08:00"In Conversation with Mark Newman: The Future of Network Science": Wednesday at 4pm at the Oxford Internet InstituteThis Wednesday at 4pm at 1 St Giles, Bernie Hogan of the Oxford Internet Institute (OII) will be <a href = "http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/events/?id=772">interviewing Mark Newman</a>.Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04415369043595429843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683233714359732346.post-26037245036522484742016-02-11T10:35:00.002-08:002016-02-11T10:35:46.321-08:00Solution Sheet 3 PostedI have posted solution sheet 3 on the course materials page.Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04415369043595429843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683233714359732346.post-28076924286076608012016-02-09T09:25:00.002-08:002016-02-09T09:25:22.982-08:00Week 4 Scanned Lecture Notes AvailableI have posted a scan of the lecture notes from week 4. <br />
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I will briefly discuss k-cores next Monday, but please read the bits that I am not covering in lecture.Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04415369043595429843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683233714359732346.post-84419333390174426102016-02-08T00:26:00.004-08:002016-02-08T00:26:44.020-08:00Physics Colloquium by Mark Newman: Friday 12 February 15:30Mark Newman will be giving the physics colloquium this Friday at 15:30 in the Martin Wood Lecture Theatre in Clarendon Laboratory. The title of the lecture is "Epidemics, Erdos Numbers, and the Internet: the Physics of Networks".Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04415369043595429843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683233714359732346.post-32527695782077667992016-02-04T15:34:00.002-08:002016-02-04T15:34:13.819-08:00Week 3 Scanned Notes PostedI have posted scanned notes from week 3. I posted the week 2 scanned notes last year, though I forgot to mention it in a blog post.Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04415369043595429843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683233714359732346.post-62668190002451667462016-02-04T15:33:00.002-08:002016-02-04T15:33:28.239-08:00Solution Sheet 2 PostedI have posted Solution Sheet 2.Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04415369043595429843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683233714359732346.post-75006475731028970002016-02-04T00:35:00.002-08:002016-02-04T00:35:54.992-08:003.5 Degrees of SeparationApparently, the mean geodesic distance between nodes in the Facebook network is <a href = "https://research.facebook.com/blog/three-and-a-half-degrees-of-separation/">down to 3.5</a>.Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04415369043595429843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683233714359732346.post-50767690325766026362016-01-30T08:32:00.002-08:002016-01-30T08:32:26.392-08:00MFoCS Extra Homework Sheets now PostedI have posted the two extra homework sheets for MFoCS students. <br />
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The first one is due at the end of Week 4, and the second one is due at the beginning of Week 7.Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04415369043595429843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683233714359732346.post-52664436717152273632016-01-29T00:16:00.000-08:002016-01-29T00:16:09.672-08:00Some Python Code for Homework 1Se Wook Oh (a class tutor) has kindly prepared a python package (with some data sets) to go with homework 1 for any of you who want to look at networks with Python. (It is optional to use these files.)Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04415369043595429843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683233714359732346.post-86228269401585618282016-01-28T14:20:00.002-08:002016-01-28T14:20:51.568-08:00Now Posted: Solution Set 1 and Scanned Lecture Notes for Week 2 MaterialI have now posted a solution sheet for homework 1 and a scanned copy of the lecture notes from the week-2 material.Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04415369043595429843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683233714359732346.post-45673899597062912252016-01-24T15:20:00.002-08:002016-01-24T15:20:43.143-08:00Week 1 Scanned Notes PostedI have posted the scanned lecture notes from week 1 in the course materials. Note that these scribbled notes were created last year (so ignore the 'unit 0' preamble from 2014–2015 and use what I presented this year in lecture).Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04415369043595429843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683233714359732346.post-36185250479813139602016-01-18T01:34:00.002-08:002016-01-18T01:34:51.311-08:00Miniprojects from Past YearsAssessment for C5.4 this year will be via "Miniprojects", which in past years have been used for MFoCS students but not for undergraduates. You can see them from 2013–2015 on <a href = "https://www.maths.ox.ac.uk/members/students/undergraduate-courses/examinations-assessments/past-papers/part-c-2011-2015">this website</a>.Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04415369043595429843noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7683233714359732346.post-56494314355779736992016-01-15T09:47:00.002-08:002016-01-15T09:47:22.488-08:00Homework Sheets PostedI have now posted homework sheets 1–6.Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04415369043595429843noreply@blogger.com0