Institute Hosts 4/24 DSI Colloquium with Sociology Department

Monday, April 24, 2017; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, refreshments at 11:45 am
Hariri Institute for Computing
111 Cummington Mall, Room 180

The Genesis of Homogeneity in Mating Patterns
Kevin Lewis
Assistant Professor of Sociology
University of California, San Diego

Hosted in collaboration with BU Department of Sociology.

Kevin Lewis is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego. His work examines the formation and evolution of social networks; the principles of human interaction that give rise to global network patterns; and the implications of these processes for the genesis and reproduction of inequality. To address these topics, he has analyzed a number of large-scale network datasets, spanning topics from online dating to internet activism to college students’ behavior on Facebook. His work has been published in a variety of sociological and interdisciplinary journals, including the American Journal of Sociology, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Sociological Science, Social Forces, and Social Networks.