Netsci Conference

The formal NetSci conference series was preceded by several meetings:

• XVIII Sitges Conference (2002)[4]
• COSIN Project Midterm Conference (2003)[5]
• CNLS Annual Conference 2003: Networks, Structure, Dynamics and Function,[6] May 12–26, Santa Fe, New Mexico. Organized by Zoltán Toroczkai, Eli Ben-Naim, Hans Frauenfelder, Pieter Swart, supported by Los Alamos National Laboratory.
• Aveiro Conference CNET 2004 August 29-September 2 (2004)
• School and Workshop on Structure and Function of Complex Networks, ICTP Trieste May 16–28 (2005)

In 2006 these events became part of an organized structure with one network conference per year.

• NetSci 2006 May 16–25, Indiana University Bloomington, USA. Organized by Albert-László Barabási, Katy Börner, Noshir Contractor, Alessandro Vespignani and Stanley Wasserman.
• NetSci 2007 May 20–25, New York Hall of Science, USA
• NetSci 2008 June 23–27, Norwich University, UK
• NetSci 2009 June 29-July 3, INFM, Istituto Veneto, Venice, ITALY. Organized by Guido Caldarelli (chair) and Vittoria Colizza (co-chair).
• NetSci 2010 May 10–14, Northeastern University/MIT Boston, USA
• NetSci 2011 June 1–6, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest, HUNGARY
• NetSci 2012 June 18–22 Northwestern University, Evanston, USA
• NetSci 2013 June 3–7, Royal Library, Technical University of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark. Organized by Petter Holme and Sune Lehmann (general chairs)
• NetSci 2014 June 2–6, University of California, Berkeley, USA. Organized by Raissa D'Souza and Neo Martinez.
• NetSci 2015 June 1–5, University of Zaragoza, SPAIN[7]
• NetSci 2016 May 30-June 3, Korean Academy of Science, Seoul, Korea. Organized by Hawoong Jeong (general chair), Guanrong Chen (co-chair), and Reka Albert (co-chair).[8]
• NetSci 2017 June 19–23, held in Indianapolis, USA, and organized by the Indiana University Network Science Institute, with Olaf Sporns and Filippo Menczer as general co-chairs. The 2017 conference was the largest yet, with 680 registrations from 29 countries. The event featured three keynote speakers, 10 plenary speakers, 22 pre-conference satellite workshops and 23 technical sessions with about 130 oral presentations and 218 posters.[9]
• NetSci 2018 June 1–15, 2018, Paris, France
• NetSci 2019 May 27–31, 2019, Vermont, USA
• NetSci 2020 July 6–10, Rome, Italy

In 2015, the Network Science Society added an additional, shorter regional conference, called NetSci-X, held in January:

• NetSci-X 2015 January 14–16, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
• NetSci-X 2016 January 11–13, Wrocław, Poland, Organized by Dr. Przemyslaw Kazienko of Wrocław University of Science and Technology and Dr. Boleslaw Szymanski of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
• NetSci-X 2017 January 15–18, Tel-Aviv, Israel, Organized by Dr. Erez Shmueli of Tel-Aviv University and Dr. Baruch Barzel of Bar-Ilan University.
• NetSci-X 2018 January 5–8, Hangzhou, China
• NetSci-X 2019 January 3–5, Santiago, Chile
• NetSci-X 2020 January 20–23, Tokyo, Japan

The NetSci conference generally starts with two days of satellite meetings organized by different people, and classes offering an introduction into different aspects of network science. The formal NetSci conference starts on Wednesday, and has a series of keynote speakers, invited speakers, and contributed talks in parallel sections.

The Erdös-Rényi Prize in Network Science is awarded annually at the NetSci meeting,[10]