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Invitation to the 2018 SMA Best Student Paper Award for the INFORMS Social Media Analytics Section

  • 1.  Invitation to the 2018 SMA Best Student Paper Award for the INFORMS Social Media Analytics Section

    Posted 11-03-2018 11:06

    Dear Colleagues,

    We invite you all to attend the 2018 SMA Best Student Paper Award for the INFORMS Social Media Analytics Section at the INFORMS annual conference in Phoenix. The award session has four presentations which will take place on Sunday morning, Nov 4th, 11am-12:30pm in North 231C. The awards will be announced at the SMA business meeting on Monday at 6:15pm-8:00pm in North 231C. We invite you all to attend our business meeting as well. Please come and enjoy free beer and food.

    Our finalists and the titles of their presentation are listed as the following. 

    1. Nicolas Guenon des Mesnards, "Detecting Influence Campaigns in Social Networks Using the Ising Model", Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
    2. Shuang Li, "Detecting changes in dynamic events over networks", Georgia Institute of Technology.
    3. Yuan Zhang, "How do Sales Responses to Various User-generated-content? - A Panel VAR Analysis based on Twitch, YouTube and Steam data", University of Texas at Arlington.
    4. D. Scott Hunter, "Opinion Dynamics with Stubborn Agents", Massachusetts Institute of Technology.    

     

    Looking forward to seeing you at the award session and business meeting.

     

    Best Regards, 

    Julie Zhang

    Chair of the 2018 SMA Best Student Paper Award for the INFORMS Social Media Analytics Section

     

     



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    Manning School of Business
    University of Massachusetts Lowell

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