A list of earlier activities

• 22-23 April 2024, I participated in the workshop on Agent-based models of social networks, organized by Flaminio Squazzoni, Federico Bianchi and Rafaele Vacca at the University of Milan's Behave Lab. My contribution was titled 'Halting network cascades with ERGMs'.

• 22-26 January 2024, together with Tom Snijders and Anita van der Hoek, I was organising the 14th Winter School on Longitudinal Social Network Analysis & Advanced Siena Users' Meeting (ADSUM-2024) that took place at the University of Groningen.

• Together with Tom Snijders and Christine Timmerman, I was organising the 13th Winter School on Longitudinal Social Network Analysis & Advanced Siena Users' Meeting (ADSUM-2023) that took place at the University of Groningen in the week of 30 January to 3 February.

• 31 October-1 November, I taught an invited workshop 'Analysing network dynamics and peer influence processes with RSiena' at the Autumn Methods Workshops at Lund University's Faculty of Social Sciences. My host was Nils Gustafsson.

• 24-25 October, I participated in the POPNET Academic Workshop on Population-scale Network Science that took place at the Institute for Advanced Study in Amsterdam.

• 19 May, I contributed the talk 'Empirically calibrated network simulation as a tool to study social interventions' to The Dutch Network Science Society Symposium that took place in Leiden.

• April 8, 13 and 18, I was teaching the workshop 'Stochastic Network Modeling: Analyzing the Co-Evolution of Behaviour and Social Networks with SIENA' at the National Institute of Education, Singapore.

• On 28 March, I gave the presentation 'Understanding Social Network Processes: Peer Selection and Influence in Changing Social Networks' at the National Institute of Education, Singapore. My host was Imelda Caleon Santos.

• February 8th, I gave a talk titled 'Empirically calibrated network simulation as a methodology of the middle range' at the University of Manchester's Social Statistics Seminar Series. My host was András Vörös.

• 8-11 February, together with Anastasiia Menshikova and Madelene Töpfer from Linköping University, I was organising the 12th Winter School on Longitudinal Social Network Analysis & Master Class that took place online.

• Together with Tom Snijders and Christine Timmerman, I was organising the 11th Winter School on Longitudinal Social Network Analysis & Advanced Siena Users' Meeting (ADSUM-2021) twin events that took place online 1-3 and 11-12 February, respectively.

• On September 15th, I gave an invited lecture titles 'Micro-macro modelling with network models designed for empirical inference' at the Social Simulation Week 2020, online event launched by the European Social Simulation Association.

• On December 22nd, I held a talk titled 'Stochastic network modelling as Generative Social Science' at the Complex Human Data Hub of the University of Melbourne. My host was Johan Koskinen.

• November 16-17, I held the keynote lecture titled 'Social network mechanisms' at the 31st Annual Dokkyo International Forum at Dokkyo University in Saitama, Japan. I am grateful to Hideki Fujiyama for hosting me.

• June 13-14, I contributed a talk titled 'Analysing labour mobility networks from administrative register data' to the workshop How to Analyze Large-Scale Network Structures?, organised by Philipp Brandt, Sebastian Pink, and Katharina Burgdorf in Mannheim.

• June 11, I contributed a talk titled 'An empirically calibrated, counterfactual study of echo chambers' to the workshop Complex Systems perspectives on Algorithmic Bias, organised by Joseph Kenny and Ancsa Hannak as part of the International Conference of Web and Social Media (ICWSM-2019) in Munich.

• Together with Robert Krause, Christine Timmerman, and Tom Snijders, I was running the 10th Winter School on Longitudinal Social Network Analysis & Advanced Siena Users' Meeting (ADSUM-2019) that took place at the University of Groningen in the week of 14-18 January.

• I was part of the team organising the XXXVIII International Sunbelt Social Networks Conference that took place in Utrecht, the Netherlands, in the week of June 26-July 1.

• June 7, I was featured speaker at the 11th Annual INAS Conference on Analytical Sociology. My talk's title: 'Is generative sufficiency sufficient? Allocating macro outcomes to competing micro mechanisms'. The conference was held at Stanford University, organised by Eva Meyerson-Milgrom.

• February 8, I gave a talk titled 'Applying a mechanism-based approach to the study of economic and societal phenomena' (with Karl Wennberg) to the workshop 'Towards a mechanism-based approach in sustainability science', co-organised by Institute for Analytical Sociology and Stockholm Resilience Centre at Kungliga Vitterhetsakademien.

• November 17, I contributed to a lecture titled 'Big data analysis of Spotify- and Flashback data' (with Martin Arvidsson, Niclas Lovsjö, and Marc Keuschnigg) presented at the workshop 'Using Big data in management, organizational and social systems sciences', organised at Chalmers University of Technology by Hanns Hellsmark and Jonas Nässén.

• October 13, I gave a talk titled 'Stochastic actor-oriented network evolution models as simulation tools: the cases of echo chambers and peer-led interventions' at the Workshop on Agent-based Modelling and Simulation of Social Behaviour the University of Bremen. My host was Michael Windzio.

• March 28, I gave a lecture titled 'Social ties and the academic self. A multilevel network study' at the Swedish Institute for Social Research of Stockholm University. My host was Janne Jonsson.

• Together with Åsa Wallhagen and Niclas Lovsjö, I was organising the 9th Winter School on Longitudinal Social Network Analysis & Advanced Siena Users' Meeting (ADSUM-2017) that took place at the Norrköping campus of Linköping University in the week of 6-10 February. Teachers of the course were Tom Snijders, Johan Koskinen and Per Block (all AdSUM) and myself (winter school).

• December 7, I gave a lecture titled 'Studying network entry and exit in a dynamic communication network' at the Communicative Figurations conference taking place at the University of Bremen. My host was Thomas Friemel.

• October 27, I contributed a lecture titled 'Gender differences in networks of adolescents' and was part of the panel at the International Workshop & Panel Discussion on Social Networks & Gender at the GenTIC research group of the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya in Barcelona. Organisers were Jörg Müller and Natalia Garrido.

• October 13, I contributed a lecture titled 'Network Analysis' to the meeting Causal inference and network analyses in register-based research of the Swedish Initiative for Research on Microdata in the Social and Medical Sciences (SIMSAM). The meeting took place at the Norrköping campus of Linköping University; the organisers were Catarina Almqvist Malmros and Peter Hedström.

• April 5, I gave a presentation titled 'Assessing peer influence with panel data: Models and designs' at the Amsterdam School of Communications Research of the University of Amsterdam. My host was Wouter de Nooy.

• February 9-11, I taught an invited workshop on the use of the RSiena software package at the Department of Communication Sciences at Radboud University Nijmegen. My host was Moniek Buijzen.

• I was organiser of the 7th Groningen Winter School on Longitudinal Social Network Analysis that took place in the week of 19-23 January. Teachers of the course were Tom Snijders and myself.

• October 25, I gave the keynote lecture titled 'Endogenizing Network Nodes: The Bipartite Case' at the inaugural meeting of the Social Network Analysis Research Center at the University of Lugano, Switzerland.

• In the week of June 16-20, I taught an invited workshop on longitudinal network analysis en peer influence models at Penn State University's Department of Sociology and Criminology. My host was Wayne Osgood.

• In the week of February 10-17, I gave an invited lecture titled 'Network dynamics as a mixture of n×(n-1) waiting times' and taught a two-day workshop on 'Analysing network dynamics and peer influence processes' at Columbia University's Sociology Department. My host was Tom DiPrete.

• Together with René Veenstra, Jan Kornelis Dijkstra and Maarten van Zalk, I co-edited the 2013 Special Issue: Network and Behavior Dynamics in Adolescence of the Journal for Research on Adolescence.

• I gave an invited lecture on Advances in Actor-based Modelling of Network & Behavior Dynamics at the international workshop Trends in Social Network Research that took place November 15-16, at Academia Sinica, Taipei. Organizers of the workshop were Wei-chung Liu from the Institute of Statistical Science and Yen-sheng Chiang from the Institute of Sociology.

• September 16-20, I taught a workshop on Longitudinal Network Analysis with RSiena at Bertinoro Castle. Organisers were Raffaele Corrado and Simone Ferriani from University of Bologna's Department of Business Administration.

• In the week of June 17-21, I was teaching the yearly course on Social Network Dynamics in the Kansas University Summer Institute in Statistics. Organiser of the Summer Institute was Todd Little.

• On May 21, together with Christoph Stadtfeld, I taught the RSiena workshop attached to the XXXIII Sunbelt Social Networks Conference in Hamburg.

• April 2-5, I participated in the interdisciplinary workshop Statistical Network Science with Applications organised at the Lorentz Center in Leiden by Veronica Vinciotti and Ernst Wit.

• March 20-22, I taught a workshop on Actor-based Analysis of Social Network Dynamics and Peer Effects at the Institute for Empirical and Applied Sociology (EMPAS) of the University of Bremen. My host was Michael Windzio.

• March 14-16, together with Christoph Stadtfeld and Per Block, I was teaching a workshop on Applied Network Analysis at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES); our hosts were Frank Kalter and Dirk Hofäcker.

• February 13-14, together with Andrea Knecht, I taught a workshop titled Akteursbasierte Analyse von Netzwerkdynamiken mit der RSiena-Software at the University of Hamburg's Department of Social Sciences. Our host was Betina Hollstein.

• October 1-5, I taught a PhD seminar titled Analyzing Social Network Dynamics and Peer Effects at the Institute of Business Administration of the University of Zurich. Organiser of the Guest Lecture Series is René Algesheimer.

• In the week of June 18-22, I was teaching the yearly course on Social Network Dynamics in the Kansas University Summer Institute in Statistics. Organiser of the Summer Institute was Todd Little.

• June 13-16, I was teaching a short workshop on longitudinal network analysis as part of the 5th Annual Political Networks Conference & Workshops that took place at University of Colorado's Wolf Law School. Organizers of the conference were Anand Edward Sokhey and Seth Masket.

• March 11-12, I participated in the 2nd Advanced Siena Users Meeting organised at Arizona State University's School of Social and Family Dynamics by David Schaefer and Tom Snijders.

• On March 7, as part of the SRA Peer Relations Preconference attached to the 14th SRA Biennial Meeting in Vancouver, British Columbia, I gave an invited methods lecture about Assessing Peer Influence in Dynamic Social Networks. Organisers of the preconference were Christina Salmivalli and René Veenstra.

• I was organiser of the 6th SIENA Workshop in Groningen on longitudinal network analysis with the Siena software, which took place 23-27 January. I taught this course together with Filip Agneessens and Mark Huisman.

• December 15, I was teaching a workshop on The Analysis of Dynamic Networks with RSiena at the ESC-Toulouse. The workshop was part of the 6ème journée des réseaux sociaux à Toulouse (ReSTo), organized by Ainhoa de Federico, Brigitte Gay, and Frédéric Amblard.

• November 17-18, I was teaching a Sociometry Workshop at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES); my hosts were Frank Kalter and Jörg Dollmann.

• October 10-11, I was teaching a workshop on longitudinal network analysis as part of the 7th China Social Network and Guanxi Management Conference that took place October 9-13, at East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai. The local organisers were prof. Yi Guo and dr. Stanley Chen.

• September 20, I was giving a colloquium talk on Modelling & Measuring Peer Influence in Changing Social Networks at the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES).

• Together with Tom Snijders, Alessandro Lomi, and Filip Agneessens, I was teaching the Summer School on Network Dynamics in Groningen, August 29 - September 6. The summer school is part of the European Science Foundation's QMSS-2 program.

• In the week of July 11-15, together with Liesbeth Mercken I taught a Summer School in the Analysis of Longitudinal Network Data at Bertinoro Castle. Organisers of the summer school were Raffaele Corrado and Simone Ferriani from University of Bologna's Faculty of Economics.

• In the week of June 20-24, I was teaching a course on Social Network Dynamics in the Kansas University Summer Institute in Statistics. Organiser of the Summer Institute was Todd Little.

• June 16-18, I was enjoying the hospitality of my host Keith Warren at Ohio State University's College of Social Work.

• On May 13, I was speaker at the ICS' 25th Anniversary in Groningen.

• April 11-13, together with Marijtje van Duijn I was teaching and consulting at the sociology of Education and Science Laboratory of the St. Petersburg branch of the State University - Higher School of Economics. Our hosts were Daniel Alexandrov and Valeria Ivaniushina. Some impressions from the visit can be found here.

• April 6-8, I participated in the 1st Advanced Siena Users Meeting organised at the University of Konstanz by Ulrik Brandes, Natalie Indlekofer, and Tom Snijders.

• In the week of June 21-25, I was teaching a course on Social Network Dynamics in the Kansas University Summer Institute in Statistics. Organiser of the Summer Institute was Todd Little.

• As part of the LINKS Center Summer SNA Workshop at the University of Kentucky, I taught a 2-day module on Stochastic Modelling of Networks with SIENA. The workshop took
  place June 7-11.

• I was organiser of the 5th Groningen workshop on profitable use of the SIENA software, which I taught together with Tom Snijders, Mark Huisman, and Marijtje van Duijn. The workshop took place January 11-14, in Groningen.

• I was invited speaker at the VOC Jubilee Meeting of the Dutch/Flemish Classification Society that took place November 12-13, in Wageningen.

• Together with Mike Pearson, I taught a master class on Social Network Analysis Methodology and Software, which preceded the Stirling Conference on Social Network Analysis at the University of Stirling. Convener of both events was David Griffiths; the date was 17-18 September.

• In the week of June 15-20, I taught a Summer School in the Analysis of Longitudinal Network Data in Forlì (Bertinoro Fortress). Organisers of the summer school were Raffaele Corrado and Simone Ferriani from University of Bologna's faculty of Economics.

• As part of the LINKS Center Summer SNA Workshop at the University of Kentucky, I taught a 3-day module on Stochastic Modelling of Networks with SIENA. The workshop took
  place June 1-5.

• I participated in the kickoff meeting of the working group "Evolution and Co-Evolution" of the ESF COST Action on Physics of Competition, Cooperation and Conflict, which took place in Madrid, January 26-28.

• At the 7th International Conference on Social Research Methodology in Naples (1-5 September), I co-hosted the sessions on social network analysis - together with Nuša Ferligoj (three sessions on network analysis in general), and Tom Snijders (session on network dynamics).

• In the context of the summer course Theory, methods and applications of social networks, organised by José Luis Molina at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, I was teaching the SIENA components. The workshop took place July 7-11.

• At the Harvard conference on Networks in Political Science (June 13-14), I taught a SIENA workshop module, together with John Scholz. The workshops preceded the main conference and took place June 11-12.

• Together with Mark Huisman, Marijtje van Duijn, and Tom Snijders, I was teaching the 4th Groningen workshop on profitable use of the SIENA software. The workshop took place
  March 31 - April 3, in Groningen.

• Together with Tom Snijders, I taught the SIENA workshop at the XXVIII Sunbelt Social Networks Conference in St. Petersburg, Florida, January 22-27.

• Attached to the 4th conference on Applications of Social Network Analysis (ASNA 2007) that took place in Zürich, September 12-14, I was teaching a SIENA workshop focused on longitudinal network modelling.

• May 15-18, I participated in the DIMACS workshop on Spatio-temporal and Network Modelling of Diseases that took place at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh. Click here for my contribution.

• Together with Tom Snijders, I was teaching the SIENA workshop at the XXVII Sunbelt Social Networks Conference on Corfu, May 1-6.

• On invitation by the Graduate Centre Social Sciences at the University of Vienna, I have been teaching a workshop on social network analysis. The German-language workshop took place April 10-12.

• I have been working at the Cardiff Institute for Society, Health and Ethics in early February. The visit took place in the context of the MRC-financed project Social Network Analysis of Peers.

• Together with Tom Snijders, I have been teaching the 3rd one-week workshop on profitable
  use of the SIENA software. The workshop took place January 8-11 in Groningen.

• On the 2006 XVI ISA World Congress of Sociology in Durban (23-29 July), I hosted two social network sessions that took place in the Research Committees RC33 (Logic and Methodology) and RC45 (Rational Choice).

• Together with Mark Huisman, I have been teaching the SIENA workshop at the XXVI Sunbelt Social Networks Conference in Vancouver, April 24-30.

• Together with Tom Snijders and Michael Schweinberger, I have been teaching the second one-week workshop on the profitable use of the SIENA software. The workshop took place January 16-20 in Groningen.

• I participated in the workshop on Social Networks and Cyberinfrastructure, held at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, November 5-8.
  

• I launched this website on August 7.

For information about the regular curricular courses that I have been teaching in Groningen,
see the teaching page.

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