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Speaker: Anna Nagurney

John F. Smith Memorial Professor Director, Virtual Center for Supernetworks Department of Operations and Information Management Isenberg School of Management,University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Event time: 
Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - 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

Speaker: Edoardo M. Airoldi

 Associate Professor of Statistics, Harvard University
 Shutzer Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies

“Estimating causal effects in the presence of interfering units”

Event time: 
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 - 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

“A Network Account of Cognitive Computations”

Speaker: Danielle Bassett
Skirkanich Assistant Professor of Innovation
Department of Bioengineering
University of Pennsylvania

Event time: 
Wednesday, December 16, 2015 - 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

Local and Global Network Characteristics: The Paradox of the Paradox of Friends”

Speaker: Vineet Kumar
Assistant Professor of Marketing, Yale School of Management
joint work with David Krackhardt (Carnegie Mellon University) and Scott Feld (Purdue University)
Event time: 
Wednesday, December 2, 2015 - 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
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‘Outsiders’ Crack 50-Year-Old Math Problem

YINS
November 24, 2015

YINS co-director Dan Spielman (along with his postdoc Adam Marcus, now at Princeton University, and his graduate student Nikhil Srivastava, now at the University of California, Berkeley) finally succeeded in solving the Kadison-Singer problem, a question about the foundations of quantum physics that had remained unsolved for almost 50 years.  And they did it despite knowing little of quantum mechanics or the Kadison-Singer problem’s allied mathematical field, called C*-algebras. Word spread quickly through the mathematics community that one of the paramount problems in C*-algebras and a host of other fields had been solved by three outsiders — computer scientists who had barely a nodding acquaintance with the disciplines at the heart of the problem. Mathematicians in these disciplines have greeted the news with a combination of delight and hand-wringing.

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Researchers in the Human Nature Lab are spearheading a public health research study in Honduras, trying to map the true extent to which one’s connectivity can have a ripple effect on behavior.  The goal of the project, funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, is to evaluate the effectiveness of using social network strategies to implement maternal and neonatal health interventions in 160 villages in Honduras.

Global Health Project in Honduras: Can social networks be utilized to influence behavior and, more importantly, be leveraged to achieve positive health outcomes around the world? (VIDEO)

YINS
October 22, 2015

The Human Nature Lab at the Yale Institute for Network Science is conducting a new public health research study in Honduras. This study is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. We are seeking to evaluate the effectiveness of using social network strategies to implement maternal and neonatal health interventions in rural settings. Here, we discuss our driving motivations, our research design details, and our goals for the project.

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