THE SEVENTH ANNUAL AUSTRALIAN SOCIAL NETWORK ANALYSIS CONFERENCE was held on 27–29 November 2023 at the School of Mathematics and Statistics on University of New South Wales Kensington campus and online.
After taking 2022 off, when Australia’s SNA community hosted the International Network for Social Network Analysis’s Sunbelt Conference, ASNAC returns, in-person for the first time since 2019.
Conference Program
The program featured a keynote by Distinguished Professor Mark Handcock and the Pip Pattison Award lecture by Dr Johan Koskinen, as well as a number of contributed talks, a poster session, and an invited discussion panel on teaching social network analysis. Four post-conference workshops were offered.
Opening Keynote
Organising committee
Pavel Krivitsky (Chair, UNSW)
Kirsten Martinus (UWA)
Peter Braunsteins (UNSW)
Dan Chamberlain (La Trobe)
Student members:
Arya Karami (Sharif)
Yunhe Pan (UNSW)
Awards
Johan Koskinen received the third annual Pip Pattison award.
Peng Wang received the inaugural Garry Robins Award.
Awards committee:
Lucia Falzon (Adelaide)
Margaret Hellard (Burnet)
Garry Robins (Melbourne)
Dan Chamberlain (ASNAC Board representative, La Trobe)
Sponsors and Acknowledgements
Venue, equipment, technical, and administrative support were provided by the School of Mathematics and Statistics at UNSW and its staff members, including Ms Suzie Scandurra, Ms Jan Lin, Ms Kaye Sedgers, Mr Benjamin Lyall, Ms Susannah Waters, Ms Jing Xie, Mr Yohans Bastian, Mr Christian Bagshaw, Mr Alexander Gilbert, Prof Frances Kuo, and others.
Registration and graphic design support were provided by the Faculty of Science at UNSW and its staff members, including Ms Merrin Browne, Ms Marjorie Fox-Owens, and others.
The in-person conference was held on the traditional land of the Bedegal people.