Yahoo India: Research Carnival 2011, Bangalore

Research Carnival

Yahoo!'s Research Carnival brings together researchers working in Web sciences who will distill current research results and discuss trends and the future direction of research. Our Carnival line up of WWW speakers will cover some of the hottest, most relevant research topics in social networks, machine learning, information dissemination and computational advertising.

We're keeping the format interactive, so do expect break out sessions where you can have productive research discussions with our featured speakers, researchers from the IT industry and students India's premier tech colleges.

Event Details

Where: Yahoo! India R&D, Bangalore. ( Bagmane Tech Park )

Cost: FREE! Includes Lunch & Beverages

Tentative AGENDA

• 10:00 - 11:00

1. Information Credibility on Twitter

•    Carlos Castillo, Marcelo Mendoza and Bárbara Poblete

2. Differences in the Mechanics of Information Diffusion Across Topics: Idioms, Political Hashtags, and Complex Contagion on Twitter

• Daniel Romero, Brendan Meeder and Jon Kleinberg

• 11:30 - 12:30

3. Like like alike -Joint friendship and interest propagation in social networks

•    Shuang-hong Yang, Bo Long, Alex Smola, Narayanan Sadagopan, Zhaohui Zheng and Hongyuan Zha

4. Limiting the Spread of Misinformation in Social Networks

• Ceren Budak, Divyakant Agrawal and Amr El Abbadi

• 12:30 - 13.30  -- Lunch

• 13:30 - 14:30

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Courtesy: Yahoo India