YINS held its official kickoff event today with an open house at its newly refurbished headquarters, located on the third floor of 17 Hillhouse Avenue. Co-Directors Spielman and Christakis made opening remarks and YINS faculty member Sekhar Tatikonda (Electrical Engineering) relayed the story of the creating of the institute to the crowd of about 200 people. Provost Ben Polak rounded out the speaker list and helped to bring the full support of the university to the launch of this brand new inititiative.

New Haven Register article
http://www.nhregister.com/general-news/20140205/yales-newest-institute-probes-social-and-scientific-networks

Yale Daily News article:
http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2014/02/06/network-institute-launches/