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“Inference and structure discovery in protein interaction networks”

Speaker: Alberto Paccanaro

Professor in Machine Learning & Computational Biology
Centre for Systems and Synthetic Biology & Department of Computer Science
Royal Holloway, University of London

Event time: 
Wednesday, February 22, 2017 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Event Type: 
Weekly Seminar
Location: 
Yale Institute for Network Science See map
17 Hillhouse Avenue, 3rd floor
New Haven, CT 06511

“Social Origins of Dictatorship: Theory, and Evidence from Haiti”

Speaker: Professor James Robinson

University of Chicago

Event time: 
Wednesday, February 15, 2017 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Event Type: 
Weekly Seminar
Location: 
Yale Institute for Network Science See map
17 Hillhouse Ave, 3rd Floor
New Haven, CT 06511

YINS Distinguished Lecturer Series

Speaker: Alex Peysakhovich
Research Scientist, Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research

“Going beyond average effects in experiments using machine learning”

Event time: 
Wednesday, February 1, 2017 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Event Type: 
Weekly Seminar
Location: 
Yale Institute for Network Science See map
17 Hillhouse Avenue, 3rd floor
New Haven, CT 06511

YINS Industry Seminar: Network Science in High-Tech, Think Tanks, and Government

ROI Checker: “Applying Network Science to Detect Brand Advocacy in the Restaurant Industry”

Speakers: Lucas E. Wall, CEO & Founder, and Roberto Fernandez-Borda Ph.D., Co-Founder

ROI Checker is an artificial intelligence commercial application under development that aims to optimize the way brands influence patrons with marketing initiatives.

Event time: 
Wednesday, January 25, 2017 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
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Event Type: 
Weekly Seminar
Location: 
Yale Institute for Network Science See map
17 Hillhouse Avenue, 3rd floor
New Haven, CT 06511
YINS

Datahack@Yale: February 18-19, 2017

Emily Hau
December 14, 2016

Network data poses unique analytic challenges. Network scientists create new methods to tame complex data and answer questions about the interconnected world. On February 18-19, 2017, students and postdocs in the fields of network science, data science, statistics, computer science, data visualization, and related disciplines will compete to solve the data challenge of their choice. Challenges have been devised by Yale faculty and corporate sponsors. Results will be judged by a panel of experts from academic and corporate life.

The application deadline is January 25th. Apply on the event website: http://datahack.yale.edu

For information about volunteering, mentoring, or sponsoring the Datahack, please contact us at datahack@yale.edu

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Map of world highlighting NGN's work in 12 countries across 4 continents

Symposium launches new Yale network focused on global chronic diseases

YINS
December 8, 2016

Non-communicable, chronic diseases such as heart disease and diabetes now account for more illness and death throughout the world than communicable diseases. This shift in the global disease burden spurred faculty from Yale School of Public Health and Yale School of Medicine to form the Yale Network for Global Non-Communicable Diseases (NGN) in 2015. The goal of this group is to develop a transdisciplinary, collaborative, on-campus network focused on global non-communicable disease (NCD)-related scholarship, education, and advocacy.

Earlier this fall, Yale NGN organized an inaugural symposium entitled, “Fostering Cross-Campus Collaboration at Yale on the Global Non-Communicable Disease Crisis.” The symposium was funded by The Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund from the Yale MacMillan Center, and co-sponsored by the Yale Global Health Leadership Institute (GHLI) and the Yale Institute for Network Science (YINS). It convened more than 80 faculty and students from across campus to galvanize action toward the WHO NCD Global Monitoring Framework — a global commitment to reach a 25% reduction in avoidable deaths due to NCDs by 2025.

The keynote speakers at the symposium were Ann Kurth, the Dean and Linda Koch Lorimer Professor of the Yale School of Nursing, and Dr. Venkat Narayan, the Ruth and O.C. Hubert Professor of Global Health and Epidemiology at Emory University. They discussed challenges and opportunities for global NCD work, pointing to specific strategies for successful collaboration. Together, they emphasized that academics working in silos are less likely to make an impact than those working in collaborative teams. Following the keynote speakers, the six founding members of Yale NGN gave a panel presentation introducing their diverse areas of academic focus and the overarching goals of the network.

The afternoon of the symposium was devoted to five round-table workshops. The primary objectives of the workshops were to identify and build collaborative research networks to advance education, research, and advocacy in five key topic areas. The topic areas were: ethical standards for academic global health efforts, mental health in the 21st century, maternal child health and NCDs, integrated health services delivery, and access to essential medicines. The workshops brought together diverse groups of faculty, trainees, students, and staff from across campus, placing lawyers and doctors, ethicists and sociologists side by side to tackle the issues together.    

Looking forward, NGN will continue to build upon the theme of innovative cross-campus collaboration by providing a platform for connecting individuals and groups across Yale who are interested or engaged in global NCD research, education, and advocacy. For more information, please email ngn@yale.edu

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Speaker: Alessandro Vespignani
Sternberg Family Distinguished University Professor,
Department of Physics
College of Computer and Information Sciences
Bouve’ College of Health Sciences
Northeastern University, Boston MA

Event time: 
Wednesday, March 29, 2017 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
Event Type: 
Weekly Seminar
Location: 
Yale Institute for Network Science See map
17 Hillhouse Ave, 3rd floor
New Haven, CT 06511

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