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Week 8: Small worlds
Content for the week of Monday, March 2, 2026
Tuesday
Assignment Due:
Readings:
- The Science of Six Degrees of Separation [video][9:22]
- Travers, J. and Milgram, S. (1969). An experimental study of the small world problem. Sociometry, 32(4):425-443
- (Optional but short) Dodds, P. S., Muhamad, R., & Watts, D. J. (2003). An Experimental Study of Search in Global Social Networks. Science, 301(5634), 827.
Lecture Video:
[18:45]- Slides