Plenary talk: Making sense of a connected world: An introduction to social network analysis

Summary form only given. Study of networks that arise in a variety of domains is a fast growing area that combines ideas from various disciplines such as graph theory, game theory, sociology, optimization, data mining, etc. In this talk I will present several examples where such networks arise and talk about canonical problems that researchers focus on in the area of social network analysis, which the study of networks among people, and their interactions on such networks.