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Fifteenth - 2017
The Fifteenth Annual NES/MAA Dinner Meeting in Memory of Kenneth J.
Preskenis was held on Thursday, April 6, 2017. Dr. Donna Beers,
Simmons College, gave the Preskenis Lecture, "Who is really
in charge?
Connecting Graph Theory
to Social Network Analysis".
Dr. Beers is the 2015 winner of the
NES/MAA Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching, the
2012 winner of the
Toby Sloane Award for Student-Centeredness in Teaching at Simmons
College, and the 2007 winner of
The Mathematical Association of America (MAA) Certificate for
Meritorious Service. She is co-author of the MAA Guidelines
for Undertaking a Self-Study in the Mathematical Sciences as well as
the author of numerous articles in the areas of group theory and group
algebras of infinite abelian groups, teacher education and preparation,
and the scholarship of teaching and learning.
Abstract: Have you ever wondered who is really in charge?
Who is at the center of whatever is trending? Who influences policy
decisions? Who motivates groups that bring about change?
Leaders, whether in business, government, or education, are interested
in who is at the heart of all that is happening, whether those
individuals be trendsetters, revolutionaries or superspreaders of a
contagious disease.
In this talk, we provide a brief introduction to network analysis and to
the graph theory tools and techniques for detecting the key actors
within a social network. With these tools, we will show how to find out
who was really in charge among the revolutionaries prior to the American
Revolution as well as among the individuals behind 9/11. We will offer
examples of projects where students may discover who is in charge by
applying graph theory and computational tools to analyze social
networks.
Dinner
Meeting Program
Lecture
Program
We thank Sodexho, the Office of the Vice
President of Academic Affairs, Pearson Education, and
W. H. Freeman/Worth Publisher/Macmillan Higher Education for
their support of the 2017 NES/MAA Dinner Meeting in Memory of Kenneth J.
Preskenis.
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