Network Science

The objective of this course is to provide introduction to network science, an emerging interdisciplinary discipline with applications to various disciplines including social sciences, security and biomedical sciences. The student will be provided with understanding of fundamentals of network science and its applications. Through lectures, hands-on exercises and assignments, the student is expected to achieve a good grasp of the concepts and applications of network science.

• Students are able to explain basic concepts of network science (random networks, scale free networks, network evolution, robustness and community structure).
• Students are able to model and implement computation of network properties from empirical data.
• Students are able to analyze and visualize networks.
• Students are able to tweak and design algorithms to answer specific questions.