9:00

Opening Remarks

9:10

Keynote by Yaron Singer (Harvard University)

10:10

Inferring Graphs from Cascades: A Sparse Recovery Framework. Thibaut Horel (Harvard University) and Jean Pouget-Abadie (Harvard University).

10:30

Coffee Break

11:00

Microscopic Description and Prediction of Information Diffusion in Social Media: Quantifying the Impact of Topical Interest. Przemyslaw Grabowicz (MPI-SWS), Niloy Ganguly (IIT-Kharagpur) and Krishna Gummadi (MPI-SWS).

11:20

Scalable Methods for Adaptively Seeding a Social Network. Thibaut Horel (Harvard University) and Yaron Singer (Harvard University).

11:40

Evolution of Conversations in the Age of Email Overload. Farshad Kooti (USC), Luca Maria Aiello (Yahoo Labs), Mihajlo Grbovic (Yahoo Labs), Kristina Lerman (ISI/USC), Amin Mantrach (Yahoo Labs).

12:00

The Dynamics of Micro-Task Crowdsourcing -- The Case of Amazon Mturk. Difallah Djellel Eddine (University of Fribourg), Michel Catasta (EPFL), Gianluca Demartini (University of Sheffield), Panos Ipeirotis (NYU) and Philippe Cudre-Mauroux (University of Fribourg).

12:20

Closing remarks

12:30

Lunch