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DUNCAN J. WATTS
Professor
Department of Sociology
815 International Affairs Building
420 West 118 Street
New York, NY 10027
Email djw24 _at_ columbia _dot_ edu
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Ph 1-212-854-4343
Fax 1-212-854-2963
Education
Ph.D. 1997 Cornell University (Theoretical and Applied Mechanics)
Dissertation Title: The Structure and Dynamics of Small-World Systems
B.Sc. (Hons, 1st class) 1991 University College, University of New South Wales, Australian
Defence Force Academy (Physics).
Employment
2006- Professor of Sociology, Columbia University
2003-2006 Associate Professor (with tenure), Sociology, Columbia University
2002-2003 Associate Professor (without tenure), Sociology, Columbia University
2002- Director, Collective Dynamics Group (research program in ISERP)
2000-2002 Assistant Professor, Sociology, Columbia University.
1999-2000 Postdoctoral fellow, Sloan School of Management, MIT.
1998-1999 Postdoctoral fellow, Santa Fe Institute
1997-1998 Postdoctoral fellow, Lazarsfeld Center for the Social Sciences, Columbia University
1993-1997 Teaching assistant and research assistant, Department of
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University
Sub-Lieutenant, Royal Australian Navy
1988-1991 Midshipman, Royal Australian Navy
Awards and Fellowships
2000 NSF Early Career Award
1999 American Sociological Association award for best paper in Mathematical Sociology
1996 H. D. Block teaching award, Department of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Cornell University
1993 Fulbright Scholarship for graduate study in USA
1990 Chief of Defence Force Navy Prize for academic and military performance
1988 Australian National Undergraduate Scholarship
1987 Member, Australian team for International Physics Olympiad
National medallist, BHP national science prize
Books
M. E. J. Newman, A. L. Barabasi, and D. J. Watts (Eds).
The Structure and Dynamics of Complex Networks
(Princeton University Press, Princeton, 2006).
D. J. Watts.
Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age.
(Norton, New York, 2003).
D. J. Watts.
Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks Between Order and Randomness
(Princeton University Press, Princeton, 1999).
Peer-Reviewed Publications
N. Hanaki, A. Peterhansl, P. S. Dodds, and D. J. Watts.
Cooperation in evolving social networks.
Management Science (in press).
M. J. Salganik, P. S. Dodds, and D. J. Watts.
Experimental study of inequality and unpredictability in an artificial cultural market.
Science, 311, 854-856 (2006).
G. Kossinets and D. J. Watts.
Empirical Analysis of Evolving Social Networks.
Science, 311, 88-90 (2006).
D. J. Watts, P. S. Dodds, R. Muhamad, and D. Medina.
Multiscale, recurrent epidemics in a hierarchical compartment model.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 102(32), 11157-11162 (2005)
P. S. Dodds and D. J. Watts.
A generalized model of social and biological contagion.
Journal of Theoretical Biology 232(4), 587-604 (2005).
D. J. Watts.
The “new” science of networks.
Annual Review of Sociology, 30, 243-270 (2004).
P. S. Dodds and D. J. Watts.
Universal behavior in a generalized model of contagion.
Physical Review Letters, 92(21), 218701 (2004).
P. S. Dodds, D. J. Watts, and C. F. Sabel.
Information exchange and robustness in organizational networks.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 100(21), 12516-12521 (2003).
P. S. Dodds, R. Muhamad, and D. J. Watts.
An experimental study of search in global social networks.
Science, 301, 827-829 (2003).
D. J. Watts, P. S. Dodds, and M. E. J. Newman.
Identity and search in social networks.
Science, 296, 1302-1305 (2002).
D. J. Watts.
A simple model of global cascades on random networks.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 99, 5766-5771 (2002).
M. E. J. Newman, D. J. Watts, and S. H. Strogatz.
Random graph models of social networks.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 99, 2566-2572 (2002).
M. E. J. Newman, S. H. Strogatz, and D. J. Watts.
Random graphs with arbitrary degree distributions and their applications.
Physical Review E, 64, 026118 (2001).
D. S. Callaway, M. E. J. Newman, S. H. Strogatz, and D. J. Watts.
Network robustness and fragility: Percolation on random graphs.
Physical Review Letters, 85, 5468-5471 (2000).
M. E. J. Newman, C. Moore, and D. J. Watts.
Mean-field solution of the small-world network model
Physical Review Letters, 84, 3201-3204 (2000).
M. E. J. Newman and D. J. Watts.
Renormalization group analysis of the small-world network model.
Physics Letters A, 263, 341-346 (1999).
M. E. J. Newman and D. J. Watts.
Scaling and percolation in the small-world network model.
Physical Review E, 60, 7332-7342 (1999).
D. J. Watts.
Networks, dynamics and the small world phenomenon,
American Journal of Sociology, 105(2):493-527 (1999).
D. J. Watts and S. H. Strogatz.
Collective dynamics of 'small-world' networks,
Nature, 393:440-442 (1998)
Other Publications
D. J. Watts and S. Hasker
Marketing in an unpredictable world.
Harvard Business Review (September, 2006)
D. J. Watts
Decentralized Intelligence.
Slate Magazine (August 5, 2004)
D. J. Watts
The Kerry cascade.
Slate Magazine (February 24, 2004)
D. J. Watts
Six degrees of interconnection.
Wired Magazine, 136 (June, 2003)
D. J. Watts
In epidemics, is fear a good thing?
Slate Magazine (April 30, 2003)
D. J. Watts
How many degrees of separation are there? Ask the Experts,
Scientific American Online, (July 21 2002).
D. J. Watts.
The Internet, The Small World and The Nature of Distance.
Boston Science Museum Exhibit on Messages (May 1999).
D. J. Watts.
"It's a Big Company, But a Small World."
Invited editorial, www.execmag.com (Jan, 1999)
D. J. Watts.
"The Place of Science and Technology in Australia's Future", in R. Williams (Ed),
All Us Apes - and other scientific wisdom from Ockham's Razor.
ABC Books, Sydney (1997)
Popular Press Accounts
US Newspapers and Wire Services:
New York Times, Financial Times, LA Times, Washington Post, USA Today, International Herald Tribune, New York Daily News, Reuters, UPI, AP, Bloomberg, Gannet News Service, New York Post, Courier Mail, Philadelphia Enquirer.
US Magazines:
Newsweek, US News and World Report, New Yorker, Discover Magazine, Science News, Business Week, Physics Today, American Scientist, Cornell Magazine, Wired Magazine, Harvard Business Review, Chronicle of Higher Education, Scientific American, Spin, Focus, MIT Tech Review, The Week, Red Herring, Seed Magazine, Billboard
Foreign Print Media:
London Times, The Guardian, Sydney Morning Herald, Melbourne Age, New Scientist, Süddeutschen Zeitung (Germany), Die Welt (Germany), Berliner Morgenpost (Germany), Svenska Dagbladet (Sweden), Tiede (Finland), Dagbladet (Norway), Noorderlicht (Netherlands), Kijk (Netherlands), ORF (Austria), Focus (Italy), Galileo (Italy), Český rozhlas (Czech Republic), Estadio (Brazil), El Universal (Venezuela), Clarin (Argentina), Cronica (Mexico), New Kerala (India), Pravda (Russia)
Radio and Television:
CNN, Fox, NPR, BBC Radio, CBS, BBC TV, Australian Broadcast Corporation, Austrian Broadcast Corporation.
Online:
Yahoo, MSNBC, Slashdot, Boing Boing
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