Lab News

1.26.2012: Chris Marcum and Carter Butts published in Policy Studies Journal

An article by NCASD lab Alumnus Chris Marcum along with longtime lab-collaborator Christine Bevc (UNC) and lab director Carter Butts will be featured in an upcoming special edition of the Policy Studies Journal on network statistics ... (read more)


11.02.2011: Chris Marcum Defends Dissertation, Moves on to Post-Doc at RAND

We have our newest lab alumnus in Chris Marcum, who successfully defended his dissertation "Social Time: Variations in Social Interaction Across the Life Course ... (read more)


10.11.2011: Sean Fitzhugh Presents at UCI's Population, Society, and Inequality Series

Lab member Sean Fitzhugh was invited to present his joint work with Lab PI Carter Butts and Joy Pixley to the Sociology Department's weekly PSI Series ... (read more)


9.6.2011: NCASD Lab Makes Strong Showing at ASA Conference

Members of the Networks, Computation, and Social Dynamics (NCASD) Lab presented on various Lab research initiatives at the recent American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada ... (read more)


8.15.2011: Congratulations to Lab Alumni Cross and Lind

The Networks, Computation, and Social Dynamics Lab would like to congratulate Lab alumni B ... (read more)


7.5.2011: NCASD Lab Announces Post-Doc Position

The Networks, Computation, and Social Dynamics Lab at the University of California, Irvine, has a postdoctoral scholar position available ... (read more)


5.05.2011: Lab member Marcum releases informR Package for R

We are pleased to announce the introduction of the informR package for R by Lab member Chris Marcum, a new software tool to create sequence statistics for the egocentric relational events model using the relevent package for R ... (read more)


6.28.2011: Lab Member Spiro Elected to ASA Position

Lab member Emma Spiro was recently named the student representative to the American Sociological Association (ASA) Mathematical Sociology Section Council ... (read more)


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About Us

Our lab focuses on the application of formal (i.e., mathematical and computational) techniques to theoretical and methodological problems within the areas of social network analysis, mathematical sociology, quantitative methodology, and human judgment and decision making.


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Some research featured on this website has been supported by the National Science Foundation under awards BCS-0827027, CMS-0624257, CHE-0555125, and IIS-0331707, and Office of Naval Research under award N00014-08-1-1015. Any opinions, findings and conclusions, or recomendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation (NSF) or ONR.