Final details have now been announced for MoN8. The meeting will take place in the William Gates Building, Cambridge, Lecture Room 2. Full directions are on the website. To attend this free meeting you must register by the 11th September (email to [log in to unmask] keith dot briggs at bt dot com). http://www.richardclegg.org/mon/meeting8/ The timetable is as follows: 10:30 – 11:00 Welcome and coffee Session 1 Internet Theme 11:00 – 11:45 Ahmed Shaikh (Aston) – Significance of second-order statistics in Markov internet traffic modelling 11:45 – 12:30 Glenford Mapp (Middlesex) – Exploring Markov models for gate-limited service and their application to network-based services 12:30 – 13:30 Lunch Session 2 Social Networks Theme 13:30 – 14:15 Danica Greetham (Unilever) – Simulating word-of-mouth influence on individual physical activity 14:15 – 15:30 Shi Zhou (UCL) – Second-order mixing in networks 15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break Session 3 Graph Theme 16:00 – 16:45 Renaud Lambiotte (Imperial) – Dynamics and hierarchical structure in networks 16:45 – 17:30 Vitaliy Kurlin (Durham) – Connectivity of random 1-dimensional networks 17:30 Closing remarks and drinks in nearby hostelry Abstracts can be seen on the website and slides should be available there soon. -- Richard G. Clegg, Dept of Elec. Eng., University College London http://www.richardclegg.org/