President-Elect Peter Salovey announced today that Yale will establish an interdisciplinary Institute of Network Science. YINS will be co-directed by sociologist and physician Dr. Nicholas Christakis, who will join the Yale faculty this summer, and Dan Spielman, of Computer Science and Mathematics. The fields involved include engineering, computer science, the social sciences, biology, math, physics, and medicine. In addition to Christakis, affiliated Yale sociologists include Jim Baron, Scott Boorman, Emily Erikson, Marissa King, Andy Papachristos, and Olav Sorenson. May their individual research enterprises – and network interactions – prosper!

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