Schedule
21st Workshop on Modelling and Mining Networks (WAW 2026)
June 15-19, 2026
Fields Institute
222 College Street, Toronto, Ontario, M5T 3J1, Canada
Monday, June 15, 2026
- 9:15 - 9:30 — Opening remarks
- 9:30 - 10:30 — Tutorial: Synthetic Networks with Community Structure — Lukasz Krainski
- 10:30 - 11:00 — Coffee
- 11:00 - 12:00 — Plenary talk: Which links matter most? Sparsifying epidemic models with effective resistance — Cris Moore
- 12:00 - 14:00 — Lunch
- 14:00 - 14:30 — Twinning Complex Networked Systems: Data-Driven Calibration of the mABCD Synthetic Graph Generator — Mateusz Stolarski
- 14:30 - 15:00 — Impact of one-way constraints on random walk dynamics: a case study on urban street networks — David Bowater
- 15:00 - 15:30 — Coffee
- 15:30 - 16:00 — Planted clique recovery in random geometric graphs — Riccardo Michielan
- 16:00 - 16:30 — Recovering the Geometry from Noisy Observations in the Spatial Preferential Attachment Model — Jordan Barrett
- 16:30 - 17:00 — The Iterated Local Model for Tournaments — Ketan Chaudhary
- 17:00 - 18:30 — Welcome party
Tuesday, June 16, 2026
- 9:30 - 10:30 — Tutorial: Hypergraphs — François Théberge
- 10:30 - 11:00 — Coffee
- 11:00 - 12:00 — Plenary talk: Rethinking Optimization through Hypergraphs — Tina Eliassi-Rad
- 12:00 - 14:00 — Lunch
- 14:00 - 14:30 — Edge Clustering on Temporal Hypergraphs — François Théberge
- 14:30 - 15:00 — Node Degree and Hyperedge Size Dependencies in Empirical Hypergraphs — Mateusz Zawisza
- 15:00 - 15:30 — Coffee
- 15:30 - 16:00 — Network analysis and link prediction in competitive women's basketball — Morganna Hinds
- 16:00 - 16:30 — Optimization algorithm for the clique partitioning problem and its applications in optimization-based community detection and portfolio analysis — Samin Aref
- 16:30 - 17:00 — Mitochondrial network branching enables rapid protein spread with slower mitochondrial dynamics — Aidan Brown
Wednesday, June 17, 2026
- 9:30 - 10:30 — Tutorial: Graph Embeddings — Pawel Pralat
- 10:30 - 11:00 — Coffee
- 11:00 - 12:00 — Plenary talk: AI meets network science — Przemysław Kazienko
- 12:00 - 14:00 — Lunch
- 14:00 - 14:30 — Computing Stationary Distribution via Dirichlet-Energy Minimization by Coordinate Descent — Lorenzo Gregoris
- 14:30 - 15:00 — Network Effects in Distressed Markets: Contagion Model of Securities Sales in Euro Area — Łukasz Kraiński
- 15:00 - 15:30 — Coffee
- 15:30 - 16:00 — The Needle is a Thread: Finding Planted Paths in Noisy Process Trees — Francois Theberge
- 16:00 - 16:30 — Fast, Parallel, and Scalable Differential Graph Compression — Davide Cologni
- 16:30 - 17:00 — Beyond Individual Influence: The Role of Echo Chambers and Community Seeding in the Multilayer Three-State q-Voter Model — Igor Hołowacz
Thursday, June 18, 2026
- 9:30 - 10:30 — Tutorial: Community Detection — Bogumil Kaminski
- 10:30 - 11:00 — Coffee
- 11:00 - 12:00 — Plenary talk: From Signs to Matrices on Edges: Generalising Structural Balance on Networks — Renaud Lambiotte
- 12:00 - 14:00 — Lunch
- 14:00 - 14:30 — TRIAD: quadratic optimization method for accurate overlapping community detection — Zihe Zhou
- 14:30 - 15:00 — The overlap gap property for modularity in the Stochastic block model — Nelly Litvak
- 15:00 - 15:30 — Coffee
- 15:30 - 16:00 — Algorithmic Aspects of the Clustering Regularity Lemma — Nicholas Sieger
- 16:00 - 16:30 — Gradient Boosted Decision Trees for Modularity Maximization: An Interpretable Framework for Community Detection in Attributed Graphs — Hriday Chheda
- 16:30 - 17:00 — Who should we vaccinate? Designing public health pandemic policy with large-scale simulation and optimization — Forrest Mayer
Friday, June 19, 2026
- 9:30 - 10:00 — Tutorial: Embedding Graphs — Ash Dehghan
- 10:00 - 10:30 — Tutorial: Fairness in Graph Mining — Daniel Kaszynski
- 10:30 - 11:00 — Coffee
- 11:00 - 12:00 — Plenary talk: Homophily within and across groups — Clara Stegehuis
- 12:00 - 14:00 — Lunch
- 14:00 - 14:30 — The anonymization problem in social networks — Rachel de Jong
- 14:30 - 15:00 — Tempological Control of Network Dynamics — Sean Cornelius
- 15:00 - 16:30 — Coffee and farewell party