Social Networks Working Group at Yale
Co-Conveners:
Jason Fletcher (Public Health)
Emily Erikson (Sociology)
Members:
Marissa King (SOM), Jennifer Flashman (Sociology), Yuxiu Zhang (Public Health), Ach Adhvaryu (Public Health), Xi Chen (Public Health), Andrew Papachristos (Sociology), Olav Sorenson (SOM), Justin Cook (Public Health), Rodrigo Canales (SOM)
Spring 2013 Events
January 15, 2013
Biostatistics Seminar
Elizabeth Ogburn
"Some Challenges and Results for Causal and Statistical Inference with Social Network Data"
11:30am -12:45 pm
LEPH 101, 60 College Street
January 25, 2013
Social Networks Working Group Meeting
David Gibson
"Talk at the Brink: Deliberation and Decision during the Cuban Missiles Crisis"
Princeton, Sociology
493 College Street, Room 208
Friday, 11:30-1:30 PM
January 31, 2013
Social Behavioral Sciences Seminar
Damon Centola
The Spread of Health Behaviors in Social Networks: Theory and Experiments
MIT
60 College St, Room 216
Thursday, 1pm-2pm
February 1, 2013
Social Networks Working Group Meeting
John Levi Martin
“The Double-Embeddedness of Ties: A Long-Term Perspective”
University of Chicago, Sociology
493 College Street, Room 208
Friday, 11:30-1:30 PM
February 6, 2013
American Politics Workshop
Matt Grossman, MSU
Artists of the Possible:
Governing Networks and American Policy Change Since 1945
12:00-1:15 p.m.
ISPS, 77 Prospect Street, Room A002
February 8, 2013
Social Networks Working Group Meeting
Cancelled
February 18, 2013
Development Workshop (Economics)
Arun Chandrasekhar, MIT
Network Structure and the Aggregation of Information: Theory and Evidence from Indonesia
4:00-5:30pm 28 Hillhouse Ave, Room 106
February 22, 2013
Social Networks Working Group Meeting
Jerry Kane
Multimodal Networks and Healthcare Team Performance: Centrality-Proficiency Alignment
Boston College, School of Management
60 College St, #313
11:30-1:30PM
March 8, 2013
Social Networks Working Group Meeting
Adalbert Mayer
First Friends Then Co-Workers: An Empirical Investigation of Social Connections and the Initial Employment of College Graduates
Washington College, Economics
493 College Street, Room 208
Friday, 11:30-1:30 PM
March 22, 2012
Social Networks Working Group Meeting
No Meeting--Spring Break
March 26th, 2013
SOM Seminar
Rachel Kranton
Strategic Interaction and Networks
Duke University, Economics
55 Hillhouse Ave.,
Horchow Seminar Room
11:30 a.m. – 12:50 p.m.,
March 29, 2012
Social Networks Working Group Meeting
Sinan Aral
Measuring and Propagating Influence in Networks
NYU, Stern School of Business
55 Hillhouse Avenue
Horchow Seminar Room
Friday, 11:30-1:30 PM
April 16th, 2013
SOM OB Seminar
Betsy Paluck
Princeton University, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
Assistant Professor of Psychology and Public Affairs
11:30 a.m. – 12:50 p.m.,
55 Hillhouse Ave., Horchow Seminar Room
April 17, 2013
Microeconomic Theory
Workshop
Brian Rogers, Northwestern University
"Cooperation in Anonymous Dynamic Social Networks"
28HH, Rm 106
Wednesday, 2:30-4pm
April 19, 2013
Social Networks Working Group Meeting
Marcel Salathe
Social Contagion on Twitter: the Dynamics of Vaccination Sentiments during the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic
Penn State, Biology
493 College Street, Room 208
Friday, 11:30-1:30 PM
April 26, 2013
Social Networks Working Group Meeting
Xi Chen
"Gender Imbalance and Social Network Pressures: Parental Health-Compromising Behavior in Rural China"
Yale, School of Public Health
&
Andrew Papachristos
"The (In)Significance of Al Capone."
Yale, Sociology
493 College Street, Room 208
Friday, 11:30-1:30 PM
May 3 , 2013
Social Networks Working Group Meeting
Giorgos Zervas
The Groupon Effect on Yelp Ratings: A Root Cause Analysis
Yale, Computer Science
493 College Street, Room 208
Friday, 11:30-12:30 PM
May 6, 2013
Social Networks Working Group Meeting
Eleonora Patacchini
Peer Effects: Social Multiplier or Social Norms?
Syracuse, Economics
210 Prospect St, Rm 203
Monday, 12:00-1:30 PM
Fall 2012 Events