Lectures on "Networks: A descriptive outline & a bit of theory" and "Networks: Some recent research" by Professor Valenciano were held.

DeCAn lab organized a visit of Professor Federico Valenciano from Departamento de Economía Aplicada IV Universidad del País Vasco (Bilbao, Spain) to our university. During the visit Professor Valenciano gavi a course of lectures on network analysis.

Lecture 1. Networks : A descriptive outline & a bit of theory
– A few examples
– Formalization: networks, graphs and matrices
– Observed regularities in actual networks
– Centrality measures
– Which is the impact of networks on behavior?
– Which network structures are likely to emerge?
– Random formation models
– Strategic formation models: Seminal papers

Lecture 2. Networks : Some recent research
– Towards richer models
– A marginalist model of network formation