Yale University will launch an Institute of Network Science, as part of an effort to motivate collaboration among researchers and educators to study solutions that could help address important epidemics of germs, misinformation, financial panic and behaviors as diverse as smoking and violence.
The Yale Institute of Network Science will focus on connecting experts in engineering, computer science, the social sciences, biology, math, physics, and medicine.
The institute is designed to bring together faculty who analyze networks with those who use networks to make predictions and those who attempt to design and control network processes. Researchers will study driving fresh discoveries, applying novel methods of analysis and developing more effective approaches
to interventions.
The institute, announced Thursday, will conduct large-scale experiments to learn the impact of social networks on individual behaviors, use algorithms to analyze networks across various disciplines and use online and offline resources to track communicable diseases.
It will launch July 1 and will be housed at 17 Hillhouse Ave. in New Haven.
