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====== COSTNET, Ribno: Preliminary programme ======
 
=====  Wednesday 21 September, =====

| 12:00 – 14:00 | REGISTRATION  |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | LUNCH  |
| 14:00 - 18:00 ^ GENERAL CONFERENCE ^
| 14:15 – 14:30 | Opening, Ernst Wit |
| 14:30 – 15:00	| Tom Snijders: Continuous-time statistical models for network panel data  |
| 15:00 – 15:30	| Gesine Reinert: Estimating the number of communities in a network  |
| 15:30 – 16:00	| Kimmo Soramaki: Stress Testing Correlation Networks  |
| 16:00 – 16:30	| BREAK |
| 16:30 – 17:00	| Konstantin Avrachenkov: Overview and comparison of random walk based techniques\\ for estimating network averages  |
| 17:00 – 17:30	| Mathisca de Gunst: Estimating connectivity in the brain: modeling and analysis\\ of co-registered EEG-fMRI data  |
| 17:30 – 18:00	| Alan Whitmore: Network Science Aware Drug Discovery  |
| 19:00 – 21:00 | DINNER  |

=====  Thursday 22 September =====
 

| 9:00 - 12:00 ^ Working Group meetings  ^
|              | **WG1: Data** (Clelia di Serio/Silvia Fierascu)  |
|              | Veronica Vinciotti: Data Base In System Biology  |
|              | Vilda Purutcuoglu Gazi: Protein-protein interaction network data  |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | BREAK  |
|              | Vedran Podobnik: Modern database construction and analysis: data in social networks  |
|              | Punceva Magdalena: Data in social networks and relational databases  |
|              | **WG2: Models** (Steffen Lauritzen/Konstantin Avrachenkov)  |
|              | Claudia Klüppelberg: Max-linear recursive models  |
|              | Tatjana Turova: Random distance graphs  |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | BREAK  |
|              | Catherine Mathias: Statistical clustering of temporal networks through a\\ dynamic stochastic block model  |
|              | Robert Castelo: The networked partial correlation and its application to\\ the analysis of genetic interactions  |
|              | **WG3: Inference** (Arnoldo Frigessi/Nial Friel)  |
|              | Jelle Goeman: Inference for non-exchangeble hypotheses, tailored to graphs  |
|              | Gianpaolo Scalia Tomba: Network of hospital patient movements within a hospital\\ system and the potential effects on spreading hospital infections.  |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | BREAK  |
|              | Marco Grzegorczyk: Bayesian Networks  |
|              | Stephane Robin:  (tentative) Logistic models for random graphs  |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | LUNCH  |

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| 13:00 - 16:00 ^ GENERAL CONFERENCE  ^
| 13:00 – 13:30 | Sonja Petrovic: The role of algebraic statistics in estimation and modeling of random\\ graphs and networks  |
| 13:30 – 14:00	| Steffen Lauritzen: Random networks, graphical models, and exchangeability  |
| 14:00 – 14:30	| Anders Madsen: On Real-World Applications of Bayesian Networks  |
| 14:30 – 15:00	| BREAK  |
| 15:00 – 15:30	| Nelly Litvak: Structural degree-degree dependencies in large networks  |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Goeran Kauermann: Statistical Models for Network Data Analysis –\\ Review, Outlook, Problems and Challenges  |
| 16:00 ->      ^ Social visit to Bled  ^
| 20:00 – 21:00 | DINNER  |

=====  Friday 23 September =====
 

|  9:00 - 10:30 ^ GENERAL CONFERENCE / WHITE PAPER  ^
| 10:30 - 11:00 | BREAK       |
| 11:00 - 13:00 ^ MC meeting  ^
| 11:00 - 13:00 ^ Early Career Meeting  ^
| 11:00 - 11:20 | Jonny Beaumont: Mining conditional partial order graphs from event logs |
| 11:20 - 11:40 | Sabina Marchetti: A procedure for the propagation of uncertain evidence in\\ Bayesian networks based on probability kinematics |
| 11:40 - 12:00 | Marjan Cugmas: Factors driving the network to a certain blockmodel type |
| 12:00 - 12:20 | Stephanie Thiemichen: Stable Exponential Random Graph Models with\\ non-parametric components for large dense networks |
| 12:20 - 12:40 | Mirko Signorelli: Reconstructing collaborations between political parties\\ from bill cosponsorship networks |
| 12:40 - 13:00 |  |
| 13:00 – 14:00 | LUNCH  |