Welcome to SSIE 641 Advanced Topics on Network Science

Author

Sadamori Kojaku

Published

September 11, 2025

``Don’t think! Feeeeeel’’ is a famous quote by Bruce Lee in the movie Enter the Dragon, and this is my guiding philosophy of learning.

This course is designed to help you feel the concepts and tools of network science through pen-and-paper exercises and hands-on coding.

1 List of Exercises and Assignments

Module Pen and Paper Exercise Assignment Slides
M01: Euler Tour The Koningsberg Bridge - Slides
M02: Small World It’s a small world!! 6 degrees of separation Exercise Slides
M03: Robustness Build it, Break it, and Build it back! Exercise Slides
M04: Friendship Paradox Data Visualization Exercise Slides
M05: Clustering Perfect vs. Almost Perfect - Slides
M06: Centrality Who’s the Big Cheese in the University Clubs? - Slides
M07: Random Walks Random Walks on Networks - Slides
M08: Embedding Network Embeddings - Slides
M09: Graph Neural Networks Graph Neural Networks - Slides