The topic is message passing algorithms / opinion dynamics models and there will be short (~15 min) talks on different ideas / models within this topic. Presentations will include:

• Divya Mohan (Tel Aviv University) is presenting on asynchronous vs synchronous models (ref: https://web.stanford.edu/~arungc/BBCM.pdf)
• Jason Xu (Duke University) will briefly discuss ideas about different variants of the DeGroot model for opinion dynamics