Connecting communities via the block model May 22 to May 26, 2017 American Institute of Mathematics, San Jose, CA Organizers: Emmanuel Abbe, Laurent Massoulie, and Elchanan Mossel Description: This workshop, sponsored by AIM and the NSF, will focus on the goal of leveraging newly established connections and techniques to study new challenges involving inference of combinatorial structures both in the context of network models and beyond. Deadline: November 22, 2016 Details: http://aimath.org/workshops/upcoming/blockmodel