CASOS Awards, 2011

October
- Miray Kas received the prestigious and highly competitive Grace Hopper Celebration Scholarship. The GHC Scholarship supports attendance to the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing Conference. This is an NSF sponsored fellowship. The 2011 meeting will be in Portland Oregon. Jana Diesner, another CASOS graduate, previously received this scholarship.
June
- CASOS PhD student Jana Diesner was selected by the Consortium for the Science of Socio-Technical Systems' (CSST) for participation in the NSF sponsored 2011 CSST Summer Research Institute. Participation is highly competitive and only a small number of students are selected to attend and receive participation scholarships such as Jana has received. CSST '11 will meet from June 5-9 at the South Seas resort on Captiva Island, FL.
March
- CASOS PhD student Geoffrey Morgan received the Best Student Paper award for his paper "Exploring the Impact of a Stochastic Hiring Function in Dynamic Organizations" at BRIMS 2011. His paper was very well received, and got unanimously high ratings. The paper is available in the CASOS Publications database.

March
- Professor Kathleen M. Carley was the keynote speaker during Technical Session 3: Sociocultural, Organizational and Collective Behavior Modeling at the Behavioral Representation in Modeling and Simulation (BRIMS) Conference in Sundance, UT on March 23, 2011. Her talk was entitled "Networks of Learners: Linking Network Science and Agent Based Modeling."
February
- Professor Kathleen M. Carley gave the Keynote Address at the Sunbelt XXXI International Sunbelt Social Network Conference in St. Pete Beach, FL on February 10, 2011. It was entitled "Embedded Conversations: Trails of Constraints in Every Day Life," and can be viewed here. She was also awarded The Simmel Award which is given by the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA). Established in 1982, the Simmel Award recognizes individuals who have made major scientific contributions to the field of network science and social network analysis.

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