Program

When: 2nd of September 2024

Where: Room 9, University of Exeter Great Hall, Forum, University of Exeter, Exeter.

Morning

	Speaker	Title	Chair
9:30 - 9:35	Welcome and introduction
9:35 - 10:15	Keynote speaker: Chiara Boldrini	Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer: signed ego networks on Twitter/X	A.S. Teixeira
10:15 - 10:35	Contributed: Piotr Gorski	Under-representation of nonhierarchical triads in structural balance model	F. Diaz Diaz
10:35 - 10:55	Contributed: Szymon Talaga	Density-based clustering of signed networks	F. Diaz Diaz
11:00 - 11:30	Coffee break
11:35 - 12:15	Keynote speaker: Anxo Sanchez	There is more to signed networks than social balance	M.Á. González Casado
12:15 - 12:35	Contributed: David Ferenczi	Inferring Signed Networks From Contact Patterns	E. Candellone
12:35 - 12:55	Contributed: Fernando Diaz-Diaz	International relations networks through the lens of local balance	E. Candellone

Afternoon

	Speaker	Title	Chair
14:00 - 14:30	Invited speaker (main conference)
14:35 - 15:15	Keynote speaker: Anna Gallo	Testing structural balance theories in undirected and directed signed networks	E. Candellone
15:15 - 15:35	Contributed: Elena Candellone	Community detection in bipartite signed networks is highly dependent on parameter choice	E. Fraxanet
15:35 - 15:55	Contributed: Emma Fraxanet	Unpacking polarization: Antagonism and alignment in signed networks of online interaction	E. Candellone
16:00 - 16:30	Coffee break
16:35 - 17:15	Keynote speaker: George Cantwell	Defining and detecting balance	E. Fraxanet
17:15 - 17:55	Panel: Opportunities and Challenges for Signed Networks in Complex Systems		A.S. Teixeira