Events - Colloquia & Seminars

CCIS Colloquium Fall 2007

Network Science: From the Web to the Cell

Speaker: Albert-Laszlo Barabasi

Date: Monday, November 26, 2007

Talk: 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m., 366 WVH

Brief Biography

Albert-Laszlo Barabasi is the Distinguished University Professor of Physics at Northeastern University, where he directs the Center for Complex Network Research. He is also a member of the Center for Cancer Systems Biology at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard University. Born in Transylvania, and educated in Bucharest and Budapest, he received a Ph.D. in Physics in 1994 from Boston University. After a year at IBM T.J. Watson Research Center he joined Notre Dame in 1995. His research has lead to the discovery and understanding of scale-free networks, capturing the structure of many complex networks in technology and nature, from the World Wide Web to the cell. His current research at Northeastern University, focuses on applying the concepts developed by his group for characterizing the topology of the www and the Internet to uncovering the structural and topological properties of complex metabolic and genetic networks. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, an external member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, and a foreign member of Academia Europeae. He is the recipient of the 2005 FEBS Annual Award for Systems Biology and the 2006 van Neuman Prize for Computer Science. His recent general audience book entitled Linked: The New Science of Networks (Perseus, 2002) is currently available in 12 languages. For more information see http://www.nd.edu/~alb.