Schedule for 2009 ION Conference

Friday night

7pm                 Casual dinner at Tony Roma’s

Saturday

7:30am             Leave Hilton lobby for breakfast

7:45am             Arrive at University of Kentucky faculty club for breakfast

8:45am             Leave faculty club for WT Young Library

9am                 Keynote Address

Galaskiewicz     Auditorium, WT Young Library

Observing Rather than Modeling: A Gentler But More Tedious Approach to Studying Social Networks

10:15am           Break – Gallery Room, WT Young Library

10:30am           Plenary Sessions (35 minutes each)

Burt                  Preferences: A new perspective on brokerage

Kilduff               Meaning emergence among virtual team members

Brass                Networks and creativity

12:15pm           Lunch – Gallery Room, WT Young Library

1:15pm             Plenary Workshops/Presentations (45 minutes each)

Blythe & Lawrence         The accumulation of disadvantage:   The impact of perceptual diffusion on career advancement

Carley                           Networks through space and time

2:45pm             Break – Gallery Room, WT Young Library

3:00pm

Mid-stage Sessions (35 minutes each)

Session A

Baker                Generalized network exchanges

Casciaro           Task interaction and relational affect: An analysis of causality

Lynch               Networks and organizational structure

Session B

Klein                 Networks and teams

Perry-Smith       Social network ties beyond non-redundant information: Understanding the effect of exposure to heterogeneous problem framing on creativity

Oldroyd             Networks and teams (Taking one for the team)

Session C

Mehra               Academic co-authorship networks

Sasovova           Self-Monitoring Personality and Network Churn: A Longitudinal Study of the Psychological Origins of Social Network Centrality

Tortoriello          Social structure and status evaluation in an R&D division

4:45pm             Break – Gallery Room, WT Young Library

5:00pm             Early stage sessions

Session A

Shah                 Multiplex brokerage       

Dirks                 Evolving trust in a military setting

Krebs                IBM Project

Session B

Gibbons            Health Network Effects on Systemwide Vaccine Distribution under Varying Availability and Demand

Mizruchi

6pm                 Return to Hilton

7pm                 Assemble at Hilton for transport to Portofino’s for dinner

Sunday Morning

7:45am             Leave Hilton lobby for breakfast

8:00am             Arrive at Lexmark Room, Main Administration Bldg, for breakfast

9am                 Plenary Sessions (45 minutes each)

Halgin               All in the families: Network ties as determinants of reputation and identity in NCAA basketball

Shipilov             The missing link:  The effect of customers on the links between producers

10:30am           Break

10:45am           Plenary Sessions

Obstfeld, Borgatti & Burt

                        Brokerage: Position or Process?

Krebs                How to convey networks research to managers

11:45am          

Conference wrap-up