Draft Conference Program

You can view a draft copy of the 2013 INGRoup conference here. Or, you can download a draft overview of the conference, and the draft schedules for Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday.

Conference Registration

Hotel Information

A block of rooms has been reserved for INGRoup attendees at the Renaissance Atlanta Midtown Hotel, 866 W. Peachtree Street NW, Atlanta, Georgia, 30308, USA. Reduced rate rooms are available on a first-come, first served basis and available for the period July 9 through July 14. The reduced rate is $144 (plus taxes for single, double, triple, or quad room). Reservations can be made directly with Marriott reservations at 1-800-468-3571, by calling the hotel 678-412-2400, or through the Marriott reservation website. The cutoff for this rate is June 20, 2013. When making reservations you must mention INGRoup to receive the reduced rate.

Need more local information? Email Benjamin Herndon, or Leslie DeChurch.

Conference Information

The conference will begin on Thursday, July 11 with a welcome dinner and reception. All paper and panel sessions are scheduled for Friday, July 12 and Saturday July 13 in the conference hotel. The poster session and reception, and the McGrath Lecture will be held directly across the street in the Historic Academy of Medicine at Georgia Tech late afternoon/early evening Friday July 12. Our culminating activity will be held the evening of Saturday July 13.

2013 INGRoup Pre-Conference Workshops!

Two pre-conference workshops will be held Thursday afternoon, July 11th, 12:30-5pm. Workshop costs include materials and an afternoon snack break. Both workshops will be held at the conference hotel. Registration for both workshops closes on June 1st 2013. The price of both workshops is $90 for members; $180 for nonmembers. Be sure to register early as seating is limited and we expect both to fill early!

Workshop 1: Multilevel Modeling with R (Register here)

In this workshop, Dr. Bertolt Meyer, University of Zurich, first provides a brief introduction of R and a statistical background on multilevel modeling. The rest of the workshop is spent getting hands-on experience with R and with multilevel modeling using examples from Dr. Meyer. In addition, attendees will learn how to import data from SPSS for performing their own analyses. Prior to the workshop, attendees will receive an extensively-commented syntax file that includes all the examples and calculations needed, including detailed download instructions for installing R on most popular operating systems. Attendees will also receive a list of reference cards with necessary commands for using R.

Workshop 2: An Introduction to Social Network Analysis for Research on Teams and Organizations (Register here)

An Introduction to Social Network Analysis for Research on Teams and Organizations and will be facilitated by Filip Agneessens from the University of Groningen, Netherlands and ICS. This workshop is an introduction to main concepts in social network analysis (including measures and methods) that are important for organizational research and group research in particular. The free, open-source statistical environment R is used. The first topic focuses on measures of the position of a person in a network (including centrality and Burt's structural holes). That is followed by a discussion of measures of team structure (such as density, centralization, indices for hierarchy, homophily and transitivity/closure). Classic and recent empirical studies are used as examples.