The University of California, Santa Barbara NSF-sponsored Interdisciplinary Graduate Education Research and Training (IGERT) program in "Network Science and Big Data" will train 25 PhD students over the next 5 years to become experts in the next generation of network science. The program brings together faculty and students from seven disciplinary backgrounds -- Computer science, Communication, Ecology, Evolution & Marine Biology (EEMB), Electrical & Computer Engineering (ECE), Geography, Mechanical Engineering (ME), and Sociology. All of these areas are grappling with the same core issues of extending and applying network science to address large-scale computing challenges in areas as diverse as studying idea flows through social media networks to the mapping of gene regulatory networks, or food webs in environmental science.
Interested graduate students or graduate applicants, please see http://www.comm.ucsb.edu/graduate/interdisciplinary