Events Calendar

YINS Journal Club

Speakers, Conferneces & Workshops
Event time: 
Monday, November 14, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Monday, November 28, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Monday, December 12, 2016 - 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Location: 
Yale Institute for Network Science, Room 335 See map
17 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
Event description: 

This is an interdisciplinary lunch seminar designed for grad students, postdocs, faculty and research staff working on network science topics across the fields of EE, CS, Applied Math, Physics, Sociology, Medicine, Biomedical Engineering, Economics, Political Science, Psychology, Public Health, EEB, MCDB and MB&B.

The journal club meets Mon noon-1pm during the term (on the dates listed below) on the 3rd floor of 17 Hillhouse Ave.  The first 15 minutes are reserved for networking and lunch, followed by a 15 minute paper presentation and a 30 minute open discussion. The meeting is open to all members of the University and visitors. The papers to be discussed will be posted on the YINS Journal Club website by Friday of the week preceding the meeting.

2016-2017 YINS Journal Club Committee:
Marcus Alexander
Nicholas Christkis
Eric Felthman
Yongren Shi
Margaret Traeger

Meeting Schedule for Fall 2016:

Nov 14: Yongren Shi presenting: Shakya HB et al. 2017. An exploratory comparison of name generator content: Data from rural India. Social Networks 48: 157–168.

Nov 28: Eric Feltham presenting. Thomas, K. A., DeScioli, P., Haque, O. S., & Pinker, S. (2014). The psychology of coordination and common knowledge. Journal of personality and social psychology, 107(4), 657.

Dec 12: Marcus Alexander presenting: Brito IL et al. 2016. Mobile genes in the human microbiome are structured from global to individual scales.Nature 535: 7612: 435-43.

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