Looking Forward to the 2012 Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction (SBP) Conference

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Registration is now open for SBP12, the 2012 International Conference on Social Computing, Behavioral-Cultural Modeling, and Prediction.

SBP12 will be held at the University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, April 2 – April 5, 2012.

The call for participation for the SBP 2012 conference is being circulated widely.

This year's conference should be terrific, as were the previous two, which I attended.

Two years ago, Patrick Qiang and I gave a tutorial on the theme of our Fragile Networks book and last year I became the Tutorial Chair for this conference. This year I am again serving as the Tutorial Chair.

THERE ARE SOME VERY EXCITING ITEMS ON THE PROGRAM!

New in 2012 – SBP 2012 Challenge – see: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/sbp2012/challenge.html

TUTORIALS:

Morning and afternoon tutorials are offered on Monday, April 2 (comes with registration fee, lunch included):

· Dynamic Network Analysis – Kathleen M. Carley;

· Crowdsourcing, Human Computation, and Collective Intelligence − Haym Hirsh; and

· Public Health Concepts: An Introduction for Modelers − Nathaniel Osgood & Patricia L. Mabry
To see a full description of tutorials, see: http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/sbp2012/tutorials.html


SBP12 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:

Dr. Bobby Milstein
Fannie E. Rippel Foundation
http://rippelfoundation.org/rethink-health/rethink-health-dynamics/whos-involved/
− April 3, 8:30 − 9:15am

Dr. Patrick A. Mason
Director, Human Performance, Training, and BioSystems Directorate
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/sbp2012/mason.pdf
− April 4, 8:15 − 9:00am

Dr. Joshua Epstein
Professor of Emergency Medicine.
Director, Center for Advanced Modeling in the Social, Behavioral and Health Sciences (CAM)
Departments of Economics, Biostatistics, and Environmental Health
Johns Hopkins University
http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/emergencymedicine/Faculty/JHH/EPSTEIN_joshua.html
− April 5, 8:15 − 9:00am

Please visit the conference website for further information:
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/conferences/sbp2012/index.html