LANET2019: Latin American Conference on Complex Networks Universidad de los Andes Cartagena, Colombia, August 6-9, 2019

The aim of LANET is to provide a forum to join all scientists who are somehow related to the research on Network Science in Latin America. 

The rapid growth of the field of Network Science in the last two decades has manifested in the form of schools, workshops, and conferences in Latin America. However, the creation of LANET as a stable and periodic forum devoted to Network Science will further spur the formation of research groups interested in the field and help to establish it as a discipline across Latin American Universities and Research Institutions. 

The second edition will be organized by the Universidad de Los Andes (Bogtá, Colombia) and, tentatively, we plan LANET to have a periodicity of two years with different locations in Latin America. LANET 2019 will be held in Cartagena, Colombia from August 6 - 9 of 2019.

We have taken the advantage of having together the best scientists working on Network Science and organized a one-day School on Fundamentals and Applications of Network Science. The school will be held at the Conference location one day before its beginning, i.e. 5 August. 

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit abstracts reporting original, unpublished research and recent developments or applications in Network Science. The conference focuses on interdisciplinary research on all aspects of network science and modeling, ranging from foundational works to applications in various disciplines. The abstracts of up to two pages, written in English, Spanish or Portuguese and formatted according to the Springer LNCS templates. In the two pages, you must include your abstract with no more than 350 words, one (optional) descriptive figure or caption and references.

We accept contributed talks (regular talks in parallel sessions and lightning, shorter talks in plenary session) and posters. The selection will be organized according to the received abstracts.

Important Dates

• Deadline for abstract submissions: May 14th, 2019 (23:59 pm GMT-5)
• Notification four authors: June 4th, 2019
• Call for Minisymposium: November 16th, 2018

Invited Speakers

• Alex Arenas (Universidad Rovira I Virili)
• Bruno Gonçalves (JP Morgan Chase)
• Clara Granell (Universidad Rovira I Virili)
• Claudio Mirasso (Universitat Illes Balears)
• Dirk Brockmann (Humboldt University)
• Ernesto Estrada (University of Strathclyde)
• Francisco A Rodrigues (University of São Paulo)
• J.F.F Mendes (University of Aveiro)
• Joaquín Goñi (Purdue University)
• Juan G. Restrepo (University of Colorado at Boulder)
• Laura Lotero (Universidad Pontifica Bolivariana)
• Mario Chavez (CNRS)
• Mario Cosenza (Universidad Yachay Tech)
• Mauro Copelli (Federal University of Pernambuco)
• Olga Lucía Sarmiento (Universidad de los Andes)
• Ronaldo Menezes (University of Exeter)
• Ross Hammond (Santa Fe Institute)
• Ruth Hunter (Queen’s University)
• Samuel Scarpino (Northeastern University)
• Viviana Viña-Cervantes (Université de Namur)

Committees

Steering Committee

• Javier M. Buldú (URJC &; CTB, Spain)
• Jesús Gómez-Gardeñes (Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain)
• Johann Martínez-Huartos (INSERM, France)
• José Antonio Méndez-Bermúdez (Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico) 
• Ricardo Sevilla-Escoboza (Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico)

Organizing committee

• Felipe Montes (Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia)
• Andrés Felipe Useche (Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia)
• Ana María Jaramillo (Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia)
• Ana María Guerra (Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia)
• Olga Lucía Sarmiento (Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia)
• José David Meisel (Universidad de Ibagué, Colombia)

Venue

The conference will be held in Universidad de los Andes Caribe in Cartagena, Colombia.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to lanet.conference@gmail.com