Co-sponsored by:
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
American University College of Arts & Sciences
XacBank – Mongolia
University of Colorado Boulder
Info-Metrics Institute
Information, Instability and Fragility in Networks: Methods and Applications
Hotel Boulderado
University of Colorado Boulder
November 15, 2013
Program
(Location: Columbine Room)
7:45-8:30 AM
Registration-Coffee-Refreshments
8:30-8:45 AM
Introduction
Amos Golan (American U), Michael Stutzer (U Colorado Boulder)
8:45-10:15 AM
Financial Networks Session I
Chair: Robin Lumsdaine (American U)
1. Camelia Miniou (International Monetary Fund)
“Crisis Transmission in the Global Banking Network”
2. Andreea Minca (Cornell U)
“Systemic Risk with Central Counterparty Clearing”
10:15-10:30 AM
Coffee break
10:30 AM-12:00 PM Financial Networks Session II
Chair: Jeffrey Racine (McMaster U)
1. Charlie Brummitt (UC Davis)
“Inside Money and Procyclical Leverage in a Simple Model of a Banking
Crisis”
2. Michael Gofman (Wisconsin)
“Efficiency and Stability of a Financial Architecture with Too
Interconnected to Fail Institutions”
12:00-1:15 PM
Lunch with Keynote Address: Ed Ott (Maryland)
“The Influence of Network Topology on Stability of Discrete State
Systems”
(Lunch is provided)
1:15-2:45 PM
Science and Engineering Session I
Chair: David Wolpert (Santa Fe Inst.)
1. Juan Restrepo (U Colorado Boulder)
“Effect of network structure on the propagation of avalanches in
networks”
2. Hongdian Yang (Johns Hopkins U)
“Studying information processing in neuronal networks with statistical
mechanics and information theoretic approaches”
2:45-3:00 PM
Coffee break
3:00-4:30 PM
Science and Engineering Session II
Chair: Wojciech Szpankowski (Purdue U)
1. Aaron Clauset (U Colorado Boulder)
“A network approach to analyzing highly recombinant malaria parasite
genes”
2. Ian Dobson (Iowa State U)
“Quantifying outage propagation and cascading in electric power
networks”
4:30-6:00 PM
Round Table – Info-Metrics: Networks across the Sciences – Further
Explorations
Moderator: Robin Lumsdaine (American U)
Raphael Levine (Hebrew U and UCLA)
Eric Renault (Brown U)
Michael Stutzer (U Colorado Boulder)
Wojciech Szpankowski (Purdue U)
David Wolpert (Santa Fe Inst.)
6:00-8:00 PM
Reception (Location: Porch-Driftwood Room)