Lectures, recitations, case study examples, lab sessions, reading assignments, homeworks, project This course is designed to balance and complement a principled, theoretical approach to network science with a highly practical and goal-oriented approach. In particular, the course will present the underlying theory in a mathematically rigorous manner (with carefully chosen proof derivations), but every new concept will be introduced, motivated and illustrated through a real-world problem and example. Further, there will be bi-weekly slots in the duration of one hour dedicated to detailed real-world case studies with emphasis on the most recent topics covered in lectures (WWW, Financial networks, Internet, etc., see [4]). Finally, lab sessions will be designed as hands-on tutorials for the relevant lab equipment (USRP testbed, software), which will gradually shift towards students’ individual, project driven work as the course progresses.