Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Unravel Injustice: Taking Action (January 21, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58725 58725-14544830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 21, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A two-part discussion on our roles as citizens and scholars in movements to create a more just and humanistic society.

2019 University of Michigan MLK Symposium

Monday, January 21, 2019, 2:00-4:00pm, ISR Thompson Rm 1430

Keynote: Transforming ourselves to build an inclusive society
By: john a. powell, Director Haas Institute for a Fair & Inclusive Society, UC Berkeley

Panel discussion with noted citizen activists to follow keynote:
Moderator: Neda Ulaby, National Public Radio
-Nick Licata, Founding Chair, Local Progress (Seattle, WA), @NickJLicata
-Rosalie Lochner, Founder, Michigan Support Circle
-Jessyca Matthews, MI English Teacher of the Year, Carmen-Ainsworth High School (Flint, MI)
-Kayla Reed, Founder, St. Louis Action Council, @iKaylaReed

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 08 Jan 2019 17:01:08 -0500 2019-01-21T14:00:00-05:00 2019-01-21T16:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (January 23, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58198 58198-14441905@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 23, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Discourses of White nationalism & racism today" by Alexandra Stern, Professor & Chair
Dept of American Culture, University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:37:59 -0500 2019-01-23T09:00:00-05:00 2019-01-23T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Conflict and Peace, Research and Development (CPRD) Group (January 25, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60058 60058-14814824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, January 25, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Conflict & Peace, Research & Development (CPRD)

TBA

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Meeting Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:13:21 -0500 2019-01-25T13:30:00-05:00 2019-01-25T15:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Conflict & Peace, Research & Development (CPRD) Meeting
Population Studies Center Brown Bag (January 28, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58257 58257-14450650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 28, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Population Studies Center

2018-19 Population Studies Center Brown Bag series

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Presentation Thu, 06 Dec 2018 10:09:10 -0500 2019-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-28T13:25:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Population Studies Center Presentation
Population Studies Center Brown Bag Series, 2018-2019 (January 28, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59182 59182-14694668@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 28, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies.

Monday, January 28, 2019, 12:00 pm to 1:25 pm
Paul Fleming, University of Michigan, Health Behavior & Health Education

Location: 1430 ISR - Thompson

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Jan 2019 16:24:49 -0500 2019-01-28T12:00:00-05:00 2019-01-28T13:25:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (January 28, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59556 59556-14752317@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 28, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, January 28, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“A Culture of Racism: Conceptual and Methodological Innovations.”

By Courtney Cogburn, PhD
Assistant Professor of Social Work
Columbia University

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 09:29:57 -0500 2019-01-28T15:30:00-05:00 2019-01-28T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Conflict and Peace, Research and Development (CPRD) Group (February 1, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60059 60059-14814825@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 1, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Conflict & Peace, Research & Development (CPRD)

TBA

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Meeting Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:14:22 -0500 2019-02-01T13:30:00-05:00 2019-02-01T15:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Conflict & Peace, Research & Development (CPRD) Meeting
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (February 4, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58199 58199-14441906@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 4, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Perpetuation of cultural racism through social & mass media" by Travis Dixon, Professor, Dept of Communication, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:42:58 -0500 2019-02-04T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-04T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (February 4, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59559 59559-14752318@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 4, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, February 4, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“The Racialized Costs of ‘Traditional’ Banking in Segregated America.”

By Terri L. Friedline, PhD
Associate Professor of Social Work
University of Michigan

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 09:35:12 -0500 2019-02-04T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-04T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (February 11, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59561 59561-14752320@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 11, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, February 11, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“The Politics of Personal Responsibility and the Health Consequences for Black Americans of Working Twice as Hard to Get By.”

By Darrick Hamilton, PhD
Executive Director, Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
The Ohio State University

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 13:18:41 -0500 2019-02-11T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-11T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Yuki Shiraito (February 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60822 60822-14970677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Shiraito is excited to host a weekly Monday evening hackerspace from January 21 until April 22. On April 22 only, hackers will meet at 2 pm.

Dr. Shiraito is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with high performance computing clusters (Flux, Beta, Hadoop, Cavium), and other computational methods. He hopes that participants will actively help each other where able. His goal is to create a productive and inclusive community for hackers to share expertise, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. Dr. Shiraito looks forward to hacking with you.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:24:06 -0400 2019-02-11T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-11T18:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Christopher Fariss (February 12, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60825 60825-14970696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Fariss is excited to host a weekly Tuesday morning hackerspace from February 12 until April 23. Dr. Fariss uses computational methods and the statistical program R to study why governments around the world torture, maim, and kill individuals within their jurisdiction, and the processes monitors use to observe and document these abuses. Other research projects cover a broad array of themes but share a focus on computationally intensive methods, research design, and the analysis of data at a massive scale.

This weekly meeting with Dr. Fariss is for those with an interest in the R statistical programming language. Both beginners and experienced users are invited to attend. Dr. Fariss plans to introduce mostly introductory material during these sessions but will also cover Bayesian modeling in R and STAN.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:47:04 -0500 2019-02-12T10:30:00-05:00 2019-02-12T12:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (February 13, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58201 58201-14441908@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Structural racism & residential segregation" by Joe T. Darden, Professor, Dept of Geography, Michigan State University

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:44:09 -0500 2019-02-13T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-13T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
ISR Hackerspace with SRC faculty Erin Ware (February 13, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60823 60823-14970688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 13, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly hackerspace from February 13 to April 3, 2019. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background.

In this hackerspace, Dr. Ware is particularly interested in addressing issues of data manipulation in Linux, efficient documentation and file naming structures, data management (SAS/R), setting up an HPC connection, WinSCP, getting around a server using basic Linux, genomic analysis, and high-dimensional data analysis. Dr. Ware would like to learn about SFTP using Globus, Python, and more advanced batch scripting in Slurm. Dr. Ware hopes you will join her hackerspace this term.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:49:05 -0500 2019-02-13T10:30:00-05:00 2019-02-13T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Unravel Injustice: Taking Action (February 15, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58726 58726-14544831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A two-part discussion on our roles as citizens and scholars in movements to create a more just and humanistic society.

2019 University of Michigan MLK Symposium

Friday, February 15, 2019, 1:00-3:00pm, ISR Thompson Rm 1430

Keynote: The promise and peril of evidence-based activism
By: William Darity
Professor, School of Public Policy, Duke University

Round table discussions with noted scholar activists to follow keynote:
-Kristie Dotson, Associate Professor, Dept of Philosophy, Michigan State University, @DrBlkFeminist
-Alexes Harris, Professor, Dept of Sociology, University of Washington, @AlexesHarris ‏
-Mary Romero, Professor, Dept of Sociology, Arizona State University
-Kyle Whyte, Associate Professor, Dept of Philosophy, Michigan State University, @kylepowyswhyte
-Camille Wilson, Professor, School of Education, University of Michigan

After the keynote and brief panel presentations, each of the speakers will lead a round table discussion, facilitated by ISR's RacismLab members, on how we can integrate action for equality into our roles as researchers and educators. Round table discussion participation is limited and available through sign up. If you would like to participate, please sign up here: https://goo.gl/forms/46rQzoLYni48V0h62

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Jan 2019 13:13:46 -0500 2019-02-15T13:00:00-05:00 2019-02-15T15:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Conflict and Peace, Research and Development (CPRD) Group (February 15, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60060 60060-14814826@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 15, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Conflict & Peace, Research & Development (CPRD)

TBA

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Meeting Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:15:45 -0500 2019-02-15T13:30:00-05:00 2019-02-15T15:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Conflict & Peace, Research & Development (CPRD) Meeting
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (February 18, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59562 59562-14752321@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, February 18, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Perinatal Mental Health: racial disparities and rural mental health needs.”

By Karen Tabb Dina, PhD
Assistant Professor, School of Social Work
University of Illinois

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:19:26 -0500 2019-02-18T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Yuki Shiraito (February 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60822 60822-14970678@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Shiraito is excited to host a weekly Monday evening hackerspace from January 21 until April 22. On April 22 only, hackers will meet at 2 pm.

Dr. Shiraito is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with high performance computing clusters (Flux, Beta, Hadoop, Cavium), and other computational methods. He hopes that participants will actively help each other where able. His goal is to create a productive and inclusive community for hackers to share expertise, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. Dr. Shiraito looks forward to hacking with you.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:24:06 -0400 2019-02-18T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-18T18:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Christopher Fariss (February 19, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60825 60825-14970697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 19, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Fariss is excited to host a weekly Tuesday morning hackerspace from February 12 until April 23. Dr. Fariss uses computational methods and the statistical program R to study why governments around the world torture, maim, and kill individuals within their jurisdiction, and the processes monitors use to observe and document these abuses. Other research projects cover a broad array of themes but share a focus on computationally intensive methods, research design, and the analysis of data at a massive scale.

This weekly meeting with Dr. Fariss is for those with an interest in the R statistical programming language. Both beginners and experienced users are invited to attend. Dr. Fariss plans to introduce mostly introductory material during these sessions but will also cover Bayesian modeling in R and STAN.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:47:04 -0500 2019-02-19T10:30:00-05:00 2019-02-19T12:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
ISR Hackerspace with SRC faculty Erin Ware (February 20, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60823 60823-14970689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 20, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly hackerspace from February 13 to April 3, 2019. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background.

In this hackerspace, Dr. Ware is particularly interested in addressing issues of data manipulation in Linux, efficient documentation and file naming structures, data management (SAS/R), setting up an HPC connection, WinSCP, getting around a server using basic Linux, genomic analysis, and high-dimensional data analysis. Dr. Ware would like to learn about SFTP using Globus, Python, and more advanced batch scripting in Slurm. Dr. Ware hopes you will join her hackerspace this term.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:49:05 -0500 2019-02-20T10:30:00-05:00 2019-02-20T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Conflict and Peace, Research and Development (CPRD) Group (February 22, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60061 60061-14814827@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 22, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Conflict & Peace, Research & Development (CPRD)

TBA

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Meeting Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:17:38 -0500 2019-02-22T13:30:00-05:00 2019-02-22T15:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Conflict & Peace, Research & Development (CPRD) Meeting
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (February 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58202 58202-14441912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Historical racism & contemporary social structure" by
David Cunningham, Professor, Dept of Sociology
Hedwig Lee, Professor, Dept of Sociology
Geoff Ward, Associate Professor, Dept of African & African American Studies
all of Washington University in St. Louis

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:41:38 -0500 2019-02-25T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-25T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Constraints and Conventions in African Assortative Mating (February 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61496 61496-15117151@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Educational attainment is a central determinant of social positioning in African society, particularly as schooling has spread across the continent. When the educational composition of a population changes, longstanding systems of social stratification are transformed, including intra-marital assortative norms. The relative scarcity or abundance of a given credential influences marital sorting processes in two ways: by altering the composition of the population and by reconfiguring cultural conventions and gendered valuations of status. Using DHS data representing 32 sub-Saharan African countries and five decades of birth cohorts, we examine the prevalence and propensity of educational assortative outcomes as a function of educational access (the percentage of a cohort who ever attended school) and wife's educational attainment. We demonstrate that educational expansion created gendered changes in educational compositions, which led to increased prevalence of hypergamy (wives who married "up") in most countries, despite a growing aversion to hypergamy in nearly all countries and across all educational groups.

BIO:

Margaret Frye's research investigates the complex and often misaligned relationships between culture, ideas, and demographic patterns. Much of our shared culture is about what people do during key life junctures—finishing school, getting married, having a child, starting a career—but our beliefs, ideals, and expectations are imperfect reflections of these demographic regularities. Frye uses a diverse set of both qualitative and quantitative methods to investigate these questions. Her research is primarily located in sub-Saharan Africa, and she is currently in the midst of a longitudinal data collection project in Kampala, Uganda, examining changing understandings of status resulting from Uganda’s simultaneous expansion of university education and contraction of formal employment opportunities. Her research has been published in journals including the American Sociological Review, American Journal of sociology, Demography, and Population and Development Review.

A PSC Brown Bag Seminar.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 21 Feb 2019 14:22:48 -0500 2019-02-25T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-25T13:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Margaret Frye
Population Studies Center Brown Bag Series, 2018-2019 (February 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59183 59183-14694669@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies.

"Constraints and conventions in African assortative mating"

Monday, February 25, 2019, 12:00 pm to 1:25 pm
Maggie Frye, University of Michigan, Sociology

Location: 1430 ISR - Thompson

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Feb 2019 10:48:21 -0500 2019-02-25T12:00:00-05:00 2019-02-25T13:25:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (February 25, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59563 59563-14752322@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 25, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA, MCUAAAR, and U-M School of Social Work

Monday, February 25, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Recruitment and Retention Studies with African American Adults: Lessons Learned.”

By Marvella Ford, PhD
The Medical University of South Carolina

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:19:08 -0500 2019-02-25T15:30:00-05:00 2019-02-25T17:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Yuki Shiraito (February 25, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60822 60822-14970679@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 25, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Shiraito is excited to host a weekly Monday evening hackerspace from January 21 until April 22. On April 22 only, hackers will meet at 2 pm.

Dr. Shiraito is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with high performance computing clusters (Flux, Beta, Hadoop, Cavium), and other computational methods. He hopes that participants will actively help each other where able. His goal is to create a productive and inclusive community for hackers to share expertise, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. Dr. Shiraito looks forward to hacking with you.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:24:06 -0400 2019-02-25T16:00:00-05:00 2019-02-25T18:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Christopher Fariss (February 26, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60825 60825-14970698@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Fariss is excited to host a weekly Tuesday morning hackerspace from February 12 until April 23. Dr. Fariss uses computational methods and the statistical program R to study why governments around the world torture, maim, and kill individuals within their jurisdiction, and the processes monitors use to observe and document these abuses. Other research projects cover a broad array of themes but share a focus on computationally intensive methods, research design, and the analysis of data at a massive scale.

This weekly meeting with Dr. Fariss is for those with an interest in the R statistical programming language. Both beginners and experienced users are invited to attend. Dr. Fariss plans to introduce mostly introductory material during these sessions but will also cover Bayesian modeling in R and STAN.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:47:04 -0500 2019-02-26T10:30:00-05:00 2019-02-26T12:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Combining Social and Biological Data (February 26, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61437 61437-15099359@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 26, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

• How does bringing a population-based perspective to biological data change what we know about ourselves?

• How best to do this type of research?

• What's going on in the Basement of ISR?

ISR Perspectives presents Jessica Faul & Colter Mitchell as the next speakers in the "Getting to Know ISR" public presentation series.

In recent years a substantial number of population-based and social science studies have begun adding biological data. These data can include genetic and epigenetic measures, telomere length, hormones, brain scans, clinical and inflammation markers, just to name a few. Including biological data expands the reach and potential of social science studies by adding richer health-related content to the survey measures we collect. Researchers using biological data can identify early biomarkers of health conditions and disease, elucidate the consequences of potentially harmful environmental exposures, and discover the mechanisms by which the social context and our life experiences change us on a cellular level. The union of social and biological sciences helps build a stronger case for the importance of social science research.
Refreshments provided!

All Welcome. Presented by the ISR DACCD Perspectives Committee.

If you need accommodations to participate in this event or have any questions, please contact abeattie@umich.edu.


BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Faul received her Ph.D. in Epidemiology from the University of Michigan. She is currently a Research Associate Scientist in the Survey Research Center, a Co-PI of the Health and Retirement Study, and is affiliated with the Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging (MiCDA), the Population Studies Center, and the University of Michigan BioSocial Methods Collaborative. Her research focuses on socioeconomic predictors of health and health disparities across the life course, specifically on dementia and cognitive decline in older age. She is interested in research and methods that integrate genetic and other biomarkers into social science research, especially the interaction between genetics, biomarkers and social environments on measures of health and well-being.

Dr. Mitchell is a Research Assistant Professor in the Survey Research Center, the co-Director of the ISR Biospecimen Lab and the NIA course Genomics for Social Scientists (both with Dr. Faul), Associate Director of the Biosocial Methods Collaborative, and research affiliate of the Population Studies Center and MiCDA. He leads the collection and analysis of the biological data for the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing project. He has a broad background in sociology, demography, statistics, genetics, and molecular biology. His research utilizes population-based studies to examine how social contextual factors such as family instability, poverty, incarceration, childhood trauma, neighborhood characteristics, and parenting interact with and influence genetic, epigenetic, neurodevelopment, and telomere data and how those in turn predict later life health and wellbeing. He also has a line of research on the collection and analyses of biosocial data.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 21 Feb 2019 13:38:06 -0500 2019-02-26T14:00:00-05:00 2019-02-26T15:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Jessica Faul & Colter Mitchell
Allies for Inclusion: The Ability Exhibit (February 27, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61069 61069-15027198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Allies for Inclusion: The Ability Exhibit is a traveling exhibit designed to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities through respect for others, comfort during interactions, and awareness of disability issues. Using a multi-media approach to demonstrate respect, comfort and awareness, the
exhibit offers suggestions for becoming disability allies and educators.

It has been twenty years since the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 and almost forty years since the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Both of these laws protect against discrimination of people with disabilities by requiring equal access to employment, education, goods and services.

Americans have progressed in their attitudes and behaviors toward people with disabilities; however, there remain questions and concerns about appropriate communication, comfort level, and inclusive practices.

When it comes to interacting with individuals with disabilities, people ask:
"What should I do?", "How should I respond?", "Is it okay to say that?", "How can I become an ally?"; Allies for Inclusion: The Ability Exhibit will attempt to answer some of these questions.

Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to experience The Ability Exhibit when it visits the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson St.)

February 27, 9am-4pm
February 28, 8:30am-4pm

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event or have any questions, please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu.

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Exhibition Mon, 11 Feb 2019 14:14:00 -0500 2019-02-27T09:00:00-05:00 2019-02-27T16:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Exhibition Event flyer
Allies for Inclusion: Allies for Inclusion Workshop (February 27, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61071 61071-15027200@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

The Allies for Inclusion is a ninety-minute workshop offered to faculty, staff and students who want to learn more about disability-related issues and are interested in becoming disability allies. Through various interactive activities and presentation, attendees will be able to:
-Demonstrate inclusive language and understand its importance.
-Know the difference between the letter of disability law and the spirit of disability law.
-Understand the concepts of Universal Design, Universal Instructional Design, and Universal Design for Student Development.
-Be able to identify areas of their campuses and communities that are not universally designed or accessible.
-Appreciate and understand the need for ability allies and commit to being an ally for inclusion by advocating for awareness, acceptance and inclusion of people with disabilities.

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event or have any questions, please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu.

About the speaker:
Karen A. Myers, PhD, is Professor and Director of the Higher Education Administration graduate program at Saint Louis University and co-founder and director of the award-winning international disability education project, Allies for Inclusion: The Ability Exhibit, the Ability Ally Initiative workshops, Ability Allies in Action: Pre-Kindergarten-Eighth Curriculum, and The Ability Institute. She has been a college teacher and administrator since 1979 at nine institutions; is an international disability consultant and trainer, author of numerous journal articles, book chapters, and books; and teaches her self-designed graduate courses, “Disability in Higher Education and Society” and “Disability Administration in Higher Education.” She is co-founder of the ACPA College Student Educators International Coalition on Disability, past ACPA Foundation Trustee, and co-author of the ASHE monograph, Allies for Inclusion: Disability and Equity in Higher Education (Jossey-Bass, 2014).

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Feb 2019 14:13:36 -0500 2019-02-27T10:00:00-05:00 2019-02-27T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Event flyer
ISR Hackerspace with SRC faculty Erin Ware (February 27, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60823 60823-14970690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly hackerspace from February 13 to April 3, 2019. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background.

In this hackerspace, Dr. Ware is particularly interested in addressing issues of data manipulation in Linux, efficient documentation and file naming structures, data management (SAS/R), setting up an HPC connection, WinSCP, getting around a server using basic Linux, genomic analysis, and high-dimensional data analysis. Dr. Ware would like to learn about SFTP using Globus, Python, and more advanced batch scripting in Slurm. Dr. Ware hopes you will join her hackerspace this term.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:49:05 -0500 2019-02-27T10:30:00-05:00 2019-02-27T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Allies for Inclusion: The Ability Exhibit (February 28, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61069 61069-15027199@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 28, 2019 8:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Allies for Inclusion: The Ability Exhibit is a traveling exhibit designed to promote the inclusion of people with disabilities through respect for others, comfort during interactions, and awareness of disability issues. Using a multi-media approach to demonstrate respect, comfort and awareness, the
exhibit offers suggestions for becoming disability allies and educators.

It has been twenty years since the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) of 1990 and almost forty years since the Rehabilitation Act of 1973. Both of these laws protect against discrimination of people with disabilities by requiring equal access to employment, education, goods and services.

Americans have progressed in their attitudes and behaviors toward people with disabilities; however, there remain questions and concerns about appropriate communication, comfort level, and inclusive practices.

When it comes to interacting with individuals with disabilities, people ask:
"What should I do?", "How should I respond?", "Is it okay to say that?", "How can I become an ally?"; Allies for Inclusion: The Ability Exhibit will attempt to answer some of these questions.

Students, faculty and staff are encouraged to experience The Ability Exhibit when it visits the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson St.)

February 27, 9am-4pm
February 28, 8:30am-4pm

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event or have any questions, please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu.

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Exhibition Mon, 11 Feb 2019 14:14:00 -0500 2019-02-28T08:30:00-05:00 2019-02-28T16:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Exhibition Event flyer
Conflict and Peace, Research and Development (CPRD) Group (March 1, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60062 60062-14814829@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 1, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Conflict & Peace, Research & Development (CPRD)

TBA

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Meeting Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:18:17 -0500 2019-03-01T13:30:00-05:00 2019-03-01T15:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Conflict & Peace, Research & Development (CPRD) Meeting
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Yuki Shiraito (March 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60822 60822-14970680@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Shiraito is excited to host a weekly Monday evening hackerspace from January 21 until April 22. On April 22 only, hackers will meet at 2 pm.

Dr. Shiraito is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with high performance computing clusters (Flux, Beta, Hadoop, Cavium), and other computational methods. He hopes that participants will actively help each other where able. His goal is to create a productive and inclusive community for hackers to share expertise, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. Dr. Shiraito looks forward to hacking with you.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:24:06 -0400 2019-03-04T16:00:00-05:00 2019-03-04T18:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Christopher Fariss (March 5, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60825 60825-14970699@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 5, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Fariss is excited to host a weekly Tuesday morning hackerspace from February 12 until April 23. Dr. Fariss uses computational methods and the statistical program R to study why governments around the world torture, maim, and kill individuals within their jurisdiction, and the processes monitors use to observe and document these abuses. Other research projects cover a broad array of themes but share a focus on computationally intensive methods, research design, and the analysis of data at a massive scale.

This weekly meeting with Dr. Fariss is for those with an interest in the R statistical programming language. Both beginners and experienced users are invited to attend. Dr. Fariss plans to introduce mostly introductory material during these sessions but will also cover Bayesian modeling in R and STAN.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:47:04 -0500 2019-03-05T10:30:00-05:00 2019-03-05T12:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
ISR Hackerspace with SRC faculty Erin Ware (March 6, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60823 60823-14970691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 6, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly hackerspace from February 13 to April 3, 2019. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background.

In this hackerspace, Dr. Ware is particularly interested in addressing issues of data manipulation in Linux, efficient documentation and file naming structures, data management (SAS/R), setting up an HPC connection, WinSCP, getting around a server using basic Linux, genomic analysis, and high-dimensional data analysis. Dr. Ware would like to learn about SFTP using Globus, Python, and more advanced batch scripting in Slurm. Dr. Ware hopes you will join her hackerspace this term.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:49:05 -0500 2019-03-06T10:30:00-05:00 2019-03-06T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (March 11, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59564 59564-14752323@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 11, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, March 11, 2019
Rm 6050, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Health Contextualized: Inequalities in Physical and Mental Well-Being at the Intersection of Race, Skin, and Place.”

By Taylor W. Hargrove, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Jan 2019 08:59:44 -0500 2019-03-11T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-11T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Yuki Shiraito (March 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60822 60822-14970681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Shiraito is excited to host a weekly Monday evening hackerspace from January 21 until April 22. On April 22 only, hackers will meet at 2 pm.

Dr. Shiraito is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with high performance computing clusters (Flux, Beta, Hadoop, Cavium), and other computational methods. He hopes that participants will actively help each other where able. His goal is to create a productive and inclusive community for hackers to share expertise, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. Dr. Shiraito looks forward to hacking with you.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:24:06 -0400 2019-03-11T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-11T18:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Christopher Fariss (March 12, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60825 60825-14970700@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 12, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Fariss is excited to host a weekly Tuesday morning hackerspace from February 12 until April 23. Dr. Fariss uses computational methods and the statistical program R to study why governments around the world torture, maim, and kill individuals within their jurisdiction, and the processes monitors use to observe and document these abuses. Other research projects cover a broad array of themes but share a focus on computationally intensive methods, research design, and the analysis of data at a massive scale.

This weekly meeting with Dr. Fariss is for those with an interest in the R statistical programming language. Both beginners and experienced users are invited to attend. Dr. Fariss plans to introduce mostly introductory material during these sessions but will also cover Bayesian modeling in R and STAN.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:47:04 -0500 2019-03-12T10:30:00-04:00 2019-03-12T12:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Going International: Survey Research and Data Collection Support (March 13, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61857 61857-15221604@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

An introduction to the services that the ISR International Unit provides to promote the science and quality of international survey research and data collection. Primary activities include:

• identifying and expanding ISR's international collaborative survey research opportunities;

• supporting ISR faculty who are doing international work (as requested) or who would like to engage in international survey research; and

• developing and disseminating best practices for international and cross-cultural survey research.


ISR Perspectives presents Zeina Mneimneh as the next speaker in the "Getting to Know ISR" public presentation series.

Refreshments provided!

All Welcome.

Presented by the ISR DACCD Perspectives Committee.

If you would like to watch the live stream please visit: https://bluejeans.com/779311867. If you would like the recording link after the presentation please email abeattie@umich.edu.

If you need accommodations to participate in this event or have any questions, please contact abeattie@umich.edu.


BIO:
Dr. Mneimneh is an Assistant Research Scientist in the Survey Methodology Program within the Survey Research Center, University of Michigan. She is also an affiliated Assistant Research Professor in the School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. Mneimneh is the director of the World Mental Health Data Collection Coordinating Center that supports the design and implementation of national mental health surveys in more than 35 countries. She is also the chair of the executive committee for the International Comparative Survey Design Initiative, an annual workshop that provides a forum for international researchers involved in research relevant to comparative survey methods. Mneimneh has published more than 35 peer-reviewed publications and book chapters. Her research investigates factors affecting the reporting of sensitive information including interviewer, respondent, and question characteristics, and contextual factors related to the interview setting. Her recent work examines the use of paradata to monitor interviewer behavior and the use of social media data for social science research.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 24 Apr 2019 16:58:08 -0400 2019-03-13T10:00:00-04:00 2019-03-13T11:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Zeina Mneimneh
ISR Hackerspace with SRC faculty Erin Ware (March 13, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60823 60823-14970692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 13, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly hackerspace from February 13 to April 3, 2019. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background.

In this hackerspace, Dr. Ware is particularly interested in addressing issues of data manipulation in Linux, efficient documentation and file naming structures, data management (SAS/R), setting up an HPC connection, WinSCP, getting around a server using basic Linux, genomic analysis, and high-dimensional data analysis. Dr. Ware would like to learn about SFTP using Globus, Python, and more advanced batch scripting in Slurm. Dr. Ware hopes you will join her hackerspace this term.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:49:05 -0500 2019-03-13T10:30:00-04:00 2019-03-13T11:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Conflict and Peace, Research and Development (CPRD) Group (March 15, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60063 60063-14814830@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 15, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Conflict & Peace, Research & Development (CPRD)

TBA

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Meeting Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:19:59 -0500 2019-03-15T13:30:00-04:00 2019-03-15T15:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Conflict & Peace, Research & Development (CPRD) Meeting
Population Studies Center Brown Bag Series, 2018-2019 (March 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59184 59184-14694670@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies.

"Selection into Clinical Trials and Implications for External Validity"

Monday, March 18, 2019, 12:00 pm to 1:25 pm
Amanda Kowalski, University of Michigan, Economics
"Selection into Clinical Trials and Implications for External Validity"

Location: 1430 ISR - Thompson

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Feb 2019 11:07:52 -0500 2019-03-18T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T13:25:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Selection into Clinical Trials and Implications for External Validity (March 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61844 61844-15215057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Dr. Amanda Kowalski will discuss her recent research around Selection into Clinical Trials and Implications for External Validity.

Amanda Kowalski, the Gail Wilensky Professor of Applied Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan Department of Economics, is a health economist who specializes in bringing together theoretical models and econometric techniques to answer questions that inform current debates in health policy.

Professor Kowalski’s recent research advances methods to analyze experiments and clinical trials with the goal of designing policies to target insurance expansions and medical treatments to individuals who will benefit from them the most. Applied to the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, these methods show that among the individuals who entered a lottery for Medicaid, the individuals most likely to enroll in Medicaid were the individuals who had previously visited the emergency room the most. These individuals were also the most likely to increase their use of the emergency room upon gaining coverage. Her previous research has explored the impact of previous Medicaid expansions, the Affordable Care Act, the Massachusetts health reform of 2006, and employer-sponsored health insurance plans. She has also used cutting-edge techniques to estimate the value of medical spending on at-risk newborns.

Professor Kowalski has been honored with a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation and the Yale Arthur Greer Memorial Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication or Research. Her research has received the HCUP Outstanding Article of the Year Award, the Garfield Economic Impact Award, the National Institute of Health Care Management Research Award, and the Zellner Thesis Award. The National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the W.E. Upjohn Institute have also supported her research, which has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Health Economics, and the Journal of Public Economics. Her research has also been featured in the popular press, including The New York Times, NPR, and The Wall Street Journal.

Professor Kowalski holds a PhD in economics from MIT and an AB in economics from Harvard. Previously, she was an Associate Professor of Economics at the Yale Department of Economics. Before joining Yale, she held a post-doctoral fellowship in Health and Aging at the NBER. Her interest in health policy has led her to spend two years in Washington, DC, one as a research assistant in health and labor at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and another as the Okun Model Fellow at the Brookings Institution. She spent the 2015-2016 academic year as a Visiting Associate Professor at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and she spent the 2017-2018 academic year as a Visiting Associate Professor at the Princeton Department of Economics and as a Visiting Research Scholar at the Princeton Center for Health and Wellbeing.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 05 Mar 2019 10:23:39 -0500 2019-03-18T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Amanda Kowalski
Selection into Clinical Trials and Implications for External Validity (March 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62199 62199-15311074@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A PSC Brown Bag Seminar with Amanda Kowalski.

Dr. Amanda Kowalski will discuss her research around Selection into Clinical Trials and Implications for External Validity.

Location: 1430 ISR - Thompson

BIO:
Amanda Kowalski, the Gail Wilensky Professor of Applied Economics and Public Policy at the University of Michigan Department of Economics, is a health economist who specializes in bringing together theoretical models and econometric techniques to answer questions that inform current debates in health policy.

Professor Kowalski’s recent research advances methods to analyze experiments and clinical trials with the goal of designing policies to target insurance expansions and medical treatments to individuals who will benefit from them the most. Applied to the Oregon Health Insurance Experiment, these methods show that among the individuals who entered a lottery for Medicaid, the individuals most likely to enroll in Medicaid were the individuals who had previously visited the emergency room the most. These individuals were also the most likely to increase their use of the emergency room upon gaining coverage. Her previous research has explored the impact of previous Medicaid expansions, the Affordable Care Act, the Massachusetts health reform of 2006, and employer-sponsored health insurance plans. She has also used cutting-edge techniques to estimate the value of medical spending on at-risk newborns.

Professor Kowalski has been honored with a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation and the Yale Arthur Greer Memorial Prize for Outstanding Scholarly Publication or Research. Her research has received the HCUP Outstanding Article of the Year Award, the Garfield Economic Impact Award, the National Institute of Health Care Management Research Award, and the Zellner Thesis Award. The National Institutes of Health, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the W.E. Upjohn Institute have also supported her research, which has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, the Journal of Health Economics, and the Journal of Public Economics. Her research has also been featured in the popular press, including The New York Times, NPR, and The Wall Street Journal.

Professor Kowalski holds a PhD in economics from MIT and an AB in economics from Harvard. Previously, she was an Associate Professor of Economics at the Yale Department of Economics. Before joining Yale, she held a post-doctoral fellowship in Health and Aging at the NBER. Her interest in health policy has led her to spend two years in Washington, DC, one as a research assistant in health and labor at the White House Council of Economic Advisers, and another as the Okun Model Fellow at the Brookings Institution. She spent the 2015-2016 academic year as a Visiting Associate Professor at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and she spent the 2017-2018 academic year as a Visiting Associate Professor at the Princeton Department of Economics and as a Visiting Research Scholar at the Princeton Center for Health and Wellbeing.

RELATED:

https://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/people/profile/1443/Amanda_Kowalski

https://www.nber.org/papers/w25049

https://www.nber.org/papers/w22363

https://www.nber.org/papers/w24834

https://www.nber.org/papers/w24647

https://www.psc.isr.umich.edu/event/10854/selection-into-clinical-trials-and-implications-for-external-validity


PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 15 Mar 2019 17:46:43 -0400 2019-03-18T12:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Amanda Kowalski
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Yuki Shiraito (March 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60822 60822-14970682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Shiraito is excited to host a weekly Monday evening hackerspace from January 21 until April 22. On April 22 only, hackers will meet at 2 pm.

Dr. Shiraito is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with high performance computing clusters (Flux, Beta, Hadoop, Cavium), and other computational methods. He hopes that participants will actively help each other where able. His goal is to create a productive and inclusive community for hackers to share expertise, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. Dr. Shiraito looks forward to hacking with you.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:24:06 -0400 2019-03-18T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-18T18:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Christopher Fariss (March 19, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60825 60825-14970701@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Fariss is excited to host a weekly Tuesday morning hackerspace from February 12 until April 23. Dr. Fariss uses computational methods and the statistical program R to study why governments around the world torture, maim, and kill individuals within their jurisdiction, and the processes monitors use to observe and document these abuses. Other research projects cover a broad array of themes but share a focus on computationally intensive methods, research design, and the analysis of data at a massive scale.

This weekly meeting with Dr. Fariss is for those with an interest in the R statistical programming language. Both beginners and experienced users are invited to attend. Dr. Fariss plans to introduce mostly introductory material during these sessions but will also cover Bayesian modeling in R and STAN.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:47:04 -0500 2019-03-19T10:30:00-04:00 2019-03-19T12:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (March 19, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59565 59565-14752325@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA, MCUAAAR, & U-M School of Social Work

Monday, March 19, 2019
Rm 1430, 2:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Reducing Racial Inequities in Health: Using What We Already Know to Take Action.”

Winkelman Lecture

By David Williams, PhD
Professor of Public Health
Professor of African and African American Studies
Harvard University

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:36:02 -0500 2019-03-19T14:30:00-04:00 2019-03-19T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (March 20, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58203 58203-14441913@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Racial liberalism & environmental racism in Flint, Michigan" by Malini Ranganathan, Assistant Professor, School of International Service, American University

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 18 Mar 2019 10:09:05 -0400 2019-03-20T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-20T10:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
ISR Hackerspace with SRC faculty Erin Ware (March 20, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60823 60823-14970693@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly hackerspace from February 13 to April 3, 2019. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background.

In this hackerspace, Dr. Ware is particularly interested in addressing issues of data manipulation in Linux, efficient documentation and file naming structures, data management (SAS/R), setting up an HPC connection, WinSCP, getting around a server using basic Linux, genomic analysis, and high-dimensional data analysis. Dr. Ware would like to learn about SFTP using Globus, Python, and more advanced batch scripting in Slurm. Dr. Ware hopes you will join her hackerspace this term.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:49:05 -0500 2019-03-20T10:30:00-04:00 2019-03-20T11:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Conflict and Peace, Research and Development (CPRD) Group (March 22, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60064 60064-14814831@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 22, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Conflict & Peace, Research & Development (CPRD)

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Meeting Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:21:50 -0500 2019-03-22T13:30:00-04:00 2019-03-22T15:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Conflict & Peace, Research & Development (CPRD) Meeting
Cultural Racism & American Social Structure Speaker Series (March 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58205 58205-14441914@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A winter 2019 interdisciplinary speaker series sponsored by Institute for Social Research Survey Research Center and Rackham Graduate School

All talks are held at the Institute for Social Research (426 Thompson Street) Room 1430 at 9:00-10:30am

"Historical trauma: Racial dispossession & Native populations" by Joseph Gone, Professor, Dept of Global Health & Social Medicine, Harvard University

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 16 Jan 2019 09:40:41 -0500 2019-03-25T09:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T10:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (March 25, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59566 59566-14752326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, March 25, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Physically Vulnerable, but Psychologically Resilient?: Exploring the Psychosocial Determinants of Black Women’s Physical and Mental Health.”

By Christy Erving, PhD
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Vanderbilt University

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:40:32 -0500 2019-03-25T15:30:00-04:00 2019-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Yuki Shiraito (March 25, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60822 60822-14970683@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 25, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Shiraito is excited to host a weekly Monday evening hackerspace from January 21 until April 22. On April 22 only, hackers will meet at 2 pm.

Dr. Shiraito is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with high performance computing clusters (Flux, Beta, Hadoop, Cavium), and other computational methods. He hopes that participants will actively help each other where able. His goal is to create a productive and inclusive community for hackers to share expertise, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. Dr. Shiraito looks forward to hacking with you.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:24:06 -0400 2019-03-25T16:00:00-04:00 2019-03-25T18:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Christopher Fariss (March 26, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60825 60825-14970702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 26, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Fariss is excited to host a weekly Tuesday morning hackerspace from February 12 until April 23. Dr. Fariss uses computational methods and the statistical program R to study why governments around the world torture, maim, and kill individuals within their jurisdiction, and the processes monitors use to observe and document these abuses. Other research projects cover a broad array of themes but share a focus on computationally intensive methods, research design, and the analysis of data at a massive scale.

This weekly meeting with Dr. Fariss is for those with an interest in the R statistical programming language. Both beginners and experienced users are invited to attend. Dr. Fariss plans to introduce mostly introductory material during these sessions but will also cover Bayesian modeling in R and STAN.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:47:04 -0500 2019-03-26T10:30:00-04:00 2019-03-26T12:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
ISR Hackerspace with SRC faculty Erin Ware (March 27, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60823 60823-14970694@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 27, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly hackerspace from February 13 to April 3, 2019. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background.

In this hackerspace, Dr. Ware is particularly interested in addressing issues of data manipulation in Linux, efficient documentation and file naming structures, data management (SAS/R), setting up an HPC connection, WinSCP, getting around a server using basic Linux, genomic analysis, and high-dimensional data analysis. Dr. Ware would like to learn about SFTP using Globus, Python, and more advanced batch scripting in Slurm. Dr. Ware hopes you will join her hackerspace this term.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:49:05 -0500 2019-03-27T10:30:00-04:00 2019-03-27T11:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Using an Online Sample to Learn about an Offline Population (April 1, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/62487 62487-15372954@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A PSC Brown Bag Seminar: Big Data in Population Science - Mini-Series.

Online data sources offer tremendous promise to demography and other social sciences, but researchers worry that the group of people who are represented in online datasets can be different from the general population. We show that by sampling and anonymously interviewing people who are online, researchers can learn about both people who are online and people who are offline. Our approach is based on the insight that people everywhere are connected through in-person social networks, such as kin, friendship, and contact networks. We illustrate how this insight can be used to derive an estimator for tracking the *digital divide* in access to the internet, an increasingly important dimension of population inequality in the modern world. We conducted a large-scale empirical test of our approach, using an online sample to estimate internet adoption in five countries (n≈15,000). Our test embedded a randomized experiment whose results can help design future studies. Our approach could be adapted to many other settings, offering one way to overcome some of the major challenges facing demographers in the information age.
Related Material:
Personal website
BIO:

Professor Feehan's research interests lie at the intersection of networks, demography, and quantitative methodology. He is an Assistant Professor of Demography at the University of California, Berkeley. In the summer of 2015, he finished his Ph.D. at Princeton’s Office of Population Research, and spent the fall of 2015 as a Research Scientist at Facebook.

PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 22 Mar 2019 13:29:09 -0400 2019-04-01T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-01T13:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Dennis Feehan
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (April 1, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59567 59567-14752327@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, April 1, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Racial Stratification and Health: Patterns, Upstream Drivers and Mechanisms.”

By Tyson Brown, PhD
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Duke University

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:43:58 -0500 2019-04-01T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Yuki Shiraito (April 1, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60822 60822-14970684@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 1, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Shiraito is excited to host a weekly Monday evening hackerspace from January 21 until April 22. On April 22 only, hackers will meet at 2 pm.

Dr. Shiraito is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with high performance computing clusters (Flux, Beta, Hadoop, Cavium), and other computational methods. He hopes that participants will actively help each other where able. His goal is to create a productive and inclusive community for hackers to share expertise, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. Dr. Shiraito looks forward to hacking with you.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:24:06 -0400 2019-04-01T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-01T18:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Christopher Fariss (April 2, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60825 60825-14970703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 2, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Fariss is excited to host a weekly Tuesday morning hackerspace from February 12 until April 23. Dr. Fariss uses computational methods and the statistical program R to study why governments around the world torture, maim, and kill individuals within their jurisdiction, and the processes monitors use to observe and document these abuses. Other research projects cover a broad array of themes but share a focus on computationally intensive methods, research design, and the analysis of data at a massive scale.

This weekly meeting with Dr. Fariss is for those with an interest in the R statistical programming language. Both beginners and experienced users are invited to attend. Dr. Fariss plans to introduce mostly introductory material during these sessions but will also cover Bayesian modeling in R and STAN.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:47:04 -0500 2019-04-02T10:30:00-04:00 2019-04-02T12:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
ISR Hackerspace with SRC faculty Erin Ware (April 3, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60823 60823-14970695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 3, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly hackerspace from February 13 to April 3, 2019. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background.

In this hackerspace, Dr. Ware is particularly interested in addressing issues of data manipulation in Linux, efficient documentation and file naming structures, data management (SAS/R), setting up an HPC connection, WinSCP, getting around a server using basic Linux, genomic analysis, and high-dimensional data analysis. Dr. Ware would like to learn about SFTP using Globus, Python, and more advanced batch scripting in Slurm. Dr. Ware hopes you will join her hackerspace this term.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:49:05 -0500 2019-04-03T10:30:00-04:00 2019-04-03T11:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
ISR Expo (April 4, 2019 11:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61492 61492-15117148@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 4, 2019 11:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

You are invited to the Institute for Social Research EXPO:

Enjoy a variety of ​fun food​!​ (while supplies last)

Xplore the rich portfolio of ISR social science research projects​!​

Peruse a variety of training programs for students, postdocs and faculty​!​

Observe the many opportunities for involvement​ and ​engage​!​

Come learn more about the many exciting projects and programs housed within ISR.
Our featured programs and projects include:

Michigan Program in Survey Methodology AND Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques | Michigan Retirement Research Center | Detroit Metro Area Communities Study (DMACS) | IRIS | M-CARES (Michigan Contraceptive Access, Research, and Evaluation Study) | PSC Training Programs | LIFE-M (Longitudinal, Intergenerational Family Electronic Micro-Database | U-M HomeLab | Poverty Solutions | Panel Study of Income Dynamics | Chitwan Valley Family Study (CVFS)/ Program in Society, Population and Environment (SPE) | DACCD & Perspectives | ICPSR | ICPSR Summer Program | Summer Research Opportunity Program (SROP) | Program for Research on Black Americans (PRBA) and the Michigan Center for Urban African American Aging Research (MCUAAAR) ​| Health and Retirement Study | American National Election Studies | Racism Lab | Staples Staff Development Fund

Please contact abeattie@umich.edu with any questions​ or if you need any accommodations to attend this event.​

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Fair / Festival Wed, 06 Mar 2019 13:17:12 -0500 2019-04-04T11:30:00-04:00 2019-04-04T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Fair / Festival flyer
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (April 8, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59568 59568-14752328@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, April 8, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Psychosocial Stress, Health Behaviors and Disparities in Cardiovascular Health between African Americans and Afro Caribbeans.”

By Mosi Ifatunji, PhD
Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology
Faculty Affiliate, Institute for African American Research
Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:48:49 -0500 2019-04-08T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Yuki Shiraito (April 8, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60822 60822-14970685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 8, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Shiraito is excited to host a weekly Monday evening hackerspace from January 21 until April 22. On April 22 only, hackers will meet at 2 pm.

Dr. Shiraito is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with high performance computing clusters (Flux, Beta, Hadoop, Cavium), and other computational methods. He hopes that participants will actively help each other where able. His goal is to create a productive and inclusive community for hackers to share expertise, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. Dr. Shiraito looks forward to hacking with you.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:24:06 -0400 2019-04-08T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-08T18:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Christopher Fariss (April 9, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60825 60825-14970704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 9, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Fariss is excited to host a weekly Tuesday morning hackerspace from February 12 until April 23. Dr. Fariss uses computational methods and the statistical program R to study why governments around the world torture, maim, and kill individuals within their jurisdiction, and the processes monitors use to observe and document these abuses. Other research projects cover a broad array of themes but share a focus on computationally intensive methods, research design, and the analysis of data at a massive scale.

This weekly meeting with Dr. Fariss is for those with an interest in the R statistical programming language. Both beginners and experienced users are invited to attend. Dr. Fariss plans to introduce mostly introductory material during these sessions but will also cover Bayesian modeling in R and STAN.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:47:04 -0500 2019-04-09T10:30:00-04:00 2019-04-09T12:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
The 2019 Miller Converse Lecture (April 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61971 61971-15250103@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Presenter: Diana Mutz (University of Pennsylvania)

Abstract: Drawing on evidence from her book in progress, Mutz presents survey and experimental evidence on the psychological underpinnings of attitudes toward international trade. Picking up where economic explanations have failed, she argues that people extend what they know about human interaction to understand international relationships. In this respect, globalization runs headlong against the grain of much of basic human psychology, asking us to trust distant, impersonal and often dissimilar others.

A livestream and recording of this event will be available.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Mar 2019 15:44:41 -0500 2019-04-11T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-11T17:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Miller Converse Lecture
The Miller Converse Lecture (April 11, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58580 58580-14511767@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 11, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Political Science

TBA

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 13 Dec 2018 16:43:18 -0500 2019-04-11T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-11T17:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Political Science Lecture / Discussion
TempoRealities (April 12, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/58680 58680-14542716@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Science, Technology & Society

It is time for science and technology studies (STS). The meaning of the past and threats to the future are hotly contested. Scientists simultaneously proclaim epochal ruptures and extrapolate present trends into the next millennium. New technologies promise to help us “be present” even as they stretch our attentions to the breaking point. The nature of time is of central importance to modern intellectual, cultural, and political life, and STS is well-positioned to address how divergent temporalities structure our public and private lives, environmental imaginaries, and embodied experiences. Recent work on the sciences of prediction and forecasting, the vital politics of science fiction, and the Anthropocene suggest some of the many ways scholars of STS can and should intervene in broader debates that trouble the present moment.

Panels: Experiencing Time, Embodying Time; Apocalyse Now?; Scholarship NOW; Is Ancient Science Studies an Anachronism?

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 20 Mar 2019 11:24:33 -0400 2019-04-12T09:00:00-04:00 2019-04-12T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Science, Technology & Society Conference / Symposium
Conflict and Peace, Research and Development (CPRD) Group (April 12, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60065 60065-14814832@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 12, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Conflict & Peace, Research & Development (CPRD)

TBA

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Meeting Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:22:21 -0500 2019-04-12T13:30:00-04:00 2019-04-12T15:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Conflict & Peace, Research & Development (CPRD) Meeting
Studying migration processes using Facebook data (April 15, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63035 63035-15536930@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Big Data in Population Science - Mini-Series (2 of 4)

Professor Zagheni will discuss his work around Big Data in Population Science.

Emilio Zagheni (PhD in Demography, UC Berkeley 2010; MA in Statistics, UC Berkeley 2008) is Director of the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research in Rostock, Germany and Affiliate Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington, Seattle, where he is also a Data Science Fellow of the eScience Institute. Zagheni is a demographer who uses mathematical, statistical and computationally-intensive approaches to study the causes and consequences of population dynamics. Motivated by the ambition to improve people's lives through the scientific study of our societies, he is consolidating a portfolio that leverages interdisciplinary approaches to monitor demographic change, to explain population processes, and to predict future demographic outcomes. He is best known for his pioneering work on using Web and social media data for studying migration processes. In 2016, he received the Trailblazer Award from the European Association for Population Studies for his pivotal role in developing the field of Digital and Computational Demography. Emilio Zagheni has published in top journals in Demography (e.g.Demography, Population and Development Review, Population Research and Policy Review) and Statistics (e.g., Journal of the American Statistical Association, Biostatistics) as well as in computer science conference proceedings (e.g. WebSci, WWW, WSDM, ICWSM). He co-chairs the IUSSP Panel for Digital Demography.

Michigan Population Studies Center (PSC) Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 10 Apr 2019 15:55:37 -0400 2019-04-15T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-15T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Emilio Zagheni
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (April 15, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59570 59570-14752329@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, April 15, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Racism, Racial Identity, and Psychological Health: Developmental Mechanisms During the Transition to Adulthood.”

By Enrique Neblett, PhD
Associate Professor, Clinical Psychology-Child/Family Track, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:53:14 -0500 2019-04-15T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-15T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Yuki Shiraito (April 15, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60822 60822-14970686@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 15, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Shiraito is excited to host a weekly Monday evening hackerspace from January 21 until April 22. On April 22 only, hackers will meet at 2 pm.

Dr. Shiraito is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with high performance computing clusters (Flux, Beta, Hadoop, Cavium), and other computational methods. He hopes that participants will actively help each other where able. His goal is to create a productive and inclusive community for hackers to share expertise, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. Dr. Shiraito looks forward to hacking with you.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:24:06 -0400 2019-04-15T16:00:00-04:00 2019-04-15T18:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Christopher Fariss (April 16, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60825 60825-14970705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 16, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Fariss is excited to host a weekly Tuesday morning hackerspace from February 12 until April 23. Dr. Fariss uses computational methods and the statistical program R to study why governments around the world torture, maim, and kill individuals within their jurisdiction, and the processes monitors use to observe and document these abuses. Other research projects cover a broad array of themes but share a focus on computationally intensive methods, research design, and the analysis of data at a massive scale.

This weekly meeting with Dr. Fariss is for those with an interest in the R statistical programming language. Both beginners and experienced users are invited to attend. Dr. Fariss plans to introduce mostly introductory material during these sessions but will also cover Bayesian modeling in R and STAN.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:47:04 -0500 2019-04-16T10:30:00-04:00 2019-04-16T12:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Conflict and Peace, Research and Development (CPRD) Group (April 19, 2019 1:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60066 60066-14814833@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 19, 2019 1:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Conflict & Peace, Research & Development (CPRD)

TBA

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Meeting Fri, 18 Jan 2019 16:22:59 -0500 2019-04-19T13:30:00-04:00 2019-04-19T15:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Conflict & Peace, Research & Development (CPRD) Meeting
Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS): STEM Careers and the Changing Skill Requirements of Work (April 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/58703 58703-14544807@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS)

Details to come.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 22 Apr 2019 13:04:10 -0400 2019-04-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T13:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Causal Inference in Education Research Seminar (CIERS) Workshop / Seminar Economics
STEM Careers and the Changing Skill Requirements of Work (April 22, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63166 63166-15581084@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Big Data in Population Science - Mini-Series (3 of 4)

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) jobs are a key contributor to eco- nomic growth and national competitiveness. Yet STEM workers are perceived to be in short supply. This paper shows that the "STEM shortage" phenomenon is explained by technological change, which introduces new job skills and makes old ones obsolete. We find that the initially high economic return to applied STEM degrees declines by more than 50 percent in the first decade of working life. This coincides with a rapid exit of college graduates from STEM occupations. Using detailed job vacancy data, we show that STEM jobs changed especially quickly over the last decade, leading to flatter age-earnings profiles as the skills of older cohorts became obsolete. Our findings highlight the importance of technology-specific skills in explaining life-cycle returns to education, and show that STEM jobs are the leading edge of technology diffusion in the labor market.

BIO:
David Deming is a Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School and the Harvard Graduate School of Education, the Director of the Harvard Inequality and Social Policy Program, and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research focuses broadly on the economics of skill development, education and labor markets. He is currently serving as a coeditor at the AEJ: Applied, and is a Principal Investigator (along with Raj Chetty and John Friedman) at the CLIMB Initiative, an organization that seeks to study and improve the role of higher education in social mobility. He recently won the David N. Kershaw Prize, which is awarded biannually to scholars who have made distinguished contributions to the field of public policy and management under the age of 40.

Michigan Population Studies Center (PSC) Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 19 Apr 2019 14:18:07 -0400 2019-04-22T12:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion David Deming
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Yuki Shiraito (April 22, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/60822 60822-14970687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Shiraito is excited to host a weekly Monday evening hackerspace from January 21 until April 22. On April 22 only, hackers will meet at 2 pm.

Dr. Shiraito is available to assist with a variety of topics that include Bayesian statistics, parallel computing in R, OpenMP and Rcpp, web scraping using Python, working with high performance computing clusters (Flux, Beta, Hadoop, Cavium), and other computational methods. He hopes that participants will actively help each other where able. His goal is to create a productive and inclusive community for hackers to share expertise, assist each other in data-intensive projects, and enjoy peer-programming opportunities. Dr. Shiraito looks forward to hacking with you.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 05 Apr 2019 12:24:06 -0400 2019-04-22T14:00:00-04:00 2019-04-22T16:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Race, Health, and Wealth Disparities (April 22, 2019 3:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/59572 59572-14752331@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 22, 2019 3:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

RCGD's Winter 2019 Speaker Series, sponsored by PRBA & MCUAAAR

Monday, April 22, 2019
Rm 1430, 3:30-5:00pm, ISR, 426 Thompson St, Ann Arbor, MI

“Racial Discrimination and Cortisol: One Pathway to Health Disparities among Black Americans.”

By Eleanor K. Seaton, PhD
Associate Professor
Associate Professor, Center for Child and Family Success
Associate Professor, Social and Family Dynamics, T. Denny Sanford School of (SSFD)
Arizona State University

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Jan 2019 10:58:31 -0500 2019-04-22T15:30:00-04:00 2019-04-22T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
ISR Hackerspace with CPS faculty Christopher Fariss (April 23, 2019 10:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/60825 60825-14970706@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 23, 2019 10:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Fariss is excited to host a weekly Tuesday morning hackerspace from February 12 until April 23. Dr. Fariss uses computational methods and the statistical program R to study why governments around the world torture, maim, and kill individuals within their jurisdiction, and the processes monitors use to observe and document these abuses. Other research projects cover a broad array of themes but share a focus on computationally intensive methods, research design, and the analysis of data at a massive scale.

This weekly meeting with Dr. Fariss is for those with an interest in the R statistical programming language. Both beginners and experienced users are invited to attend. Dr. Fariss plans to introduce mostly introductory material during these sessions but will also cover Bayesian modeling in R and STAN.

The goal is to foster a diverse and inclusive hacking environment in which attendees can benefit from each other’s expertise. To participate, hackers need to bring their own laptops and, ideally, have a chunk of code they are planning to work on unless they plan to assist and join others in their coding endeavors.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 14 Feb 2019 09:47:04 -0500 2019-04-23T10:30:00-04:00 2019-04-23T12:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Hackerspace at ISR
Health and Retirement: Expectations, Cognition and Behavior (May 17, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63464 63464-15710593@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, May 17, 2019 8:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Friday May 17, 2019
Institute for Social Research, 426 Thompson Street, Room 1430

8:30-8:50 Continental breakfast
8:50-9:00 Welcome: David Lam, Director, Institute for Social Research

9:00-10:15 A. Linked Household-Firm Data (Joint with Comparative Analysis of Enterprise Data Conference)
Chair: Maggie Levenstein
1. John M. Abowd, Joelle Abramowitz, Margaret C. Levenstein, Kristin McCue, Dhiren Patki, Trivellore Raghunathan, Ann M. Rodgers, Matthew D. Shapiro, and Nada Wasi.
“Optimal Probabilistic Record Linkage: Best Practice for Linking Employers in Survey and Administrative Data”
2. Henry Hyatt, Kristin Sandusky, and Seth Murray
“Business Ownership Dynamics and Labor Market Fluidity”
3. Wolfgang Keller and Hâle Utar
“Globalization, Gender and the Family”

10:15-10:45 Break

10:45-12:00 B. Demography of Health, Aging and Intergenerational Support
Chair: Robert Hauser
1. Janice Compton and Robert Pollak
“The Life Expectancy of Older Couples and Surviving Spouses”
2. Joe Hotz, Bob Schoeni, Judy Seltzer, Emily Wiemers and HwaJung Choi
“Disparities in Mortality & Morbidity and Its Consequences for Intergenerational Transfers in the U.S.”
3. Elizabeth Frankenberg and Duncan Thomas
“Stress, Health and Cognitive Impairment: Preliminary results from Aceh, Indonesia”

12:00-1:15 Lunch

1:15-2:30 C. Expectations
Chair: Joanne Hsu
1. Pamela Giustinelli, Charles Manski, and Francesca Molinari
“Precise or Imprecise Probabilities?: Evidence from Survey Response”
2. Michael Hurd, Susann Rohwedder, Peter Hudomiet
“The Causal Effects of Economic Incentives, Health and Job Characteristics on Retirement: Estimates Based on Subjective Conditional Probabilities”
3. Pamela Giustinelli and Matthew Shapiro
“SeaTE: Subjective ex ante Treatment Effect of Health on Retirement”

2:30-3:00 Break

3:00-4:15 D. Panel on Contributions of the Health and Retirement Study
Chair: John Haaga
1. Internationalization of the HRS
a. Jim Smith
b. Axel Börsch-Supan
2. The HRS and the Internet - Arie Kapteyn
3. Innovations in Survey Research - David Weir

4:15-4:30 Closing remarks -- Bob Willis

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Conference / Symposium Fri, 03 May 2019 12:50:20 -0400 2019-05-17T08:30:00-04:00 2019-05-17T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Conference / Symposium
#UMTweetCon2019 (May 23, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61765 61765-15179575@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, May 23, 2019 8:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

#UMTweetCon2019 will connect U-M scholars across a diverse set of disciplines in an interdisciplinary exchange about common challenges and lessons learned. We further seek to facilitate new connections to help U-M scholars create opportunities for future joint research, collaborative grant writing, training and other activities. Conference attendance will be open to anyone interested in learning about the wide array of Twitter data applications in current research at the University.

The conference is sponsored by the Social Science and Social Media Collaborative, the Michigan Institute for Data Science, the #Parenting Rackham Interdisciplinary Group, and coordinated by the Center for Political Studies and the Institute for Social Research.

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 14 May 2019 12:05:49 -0400 2019-05-23T08:30:00-04:00 2019-05-23T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Conference / Symposium TweetCon2019
Network Analysis: Overview and Applications To Population Science (June 4, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63726 63726-15833061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 4, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Please join instructors Ceren Budak and Daniel Romero (both from U of M School of Information and formerly Microsoft Research) for a half-day workshop geared toward population researchers and data scientists of all experience levels. The workshop features 2 hours of lecture (covering fundamental principles and theory of network analysis) followed by 2 hours of lab (simulation-based information diffusion within networks and optimal seed node selection), while exploring the connections between network analysis and social research.

Topics include:
- Basic concepts of networks and network data
- Measuring network properties such as centrality and node/edge importance
- Various models of information diffusion and cascade effects
- Network-based classification methods (including Random Walk and K-nearest neighbors)
- Network simulation using Python
- Impact of seed node selection on network properties.


Ceren Budak interests lie in the area of computational social science. She is particularly interested in the use of large scale data sets and computational techniques to study problems with policy, social and political implications.

Daniel Romero's main research interest is the empirical and theoretical analysis of Social and Information Networks. He is particularly interested in understanding the mechanisms involved in network evolution, information diffusion, and user interactions on the Web.

https://pdhp.isr.umich.edu/workshops/

The Population Dynamics and Health Program (PDHP) provides resources and services that support innovative approaches to data collection and analysis and the development of early-career population scientists, as well as research on significant and emergent issues in population dynamics and health.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 16 May 2019 14:27:52 -0400 2019-06-04T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-04T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Network Analysis poster image
Basic Concepts and Theoretical Background (one-day workshop) (June 17, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62720 62720-15434148@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 17, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This course will provide participants with an overview of the primary concepts underlying RSD. This will include discussion of the uncertainty in survey design, the role of paradata, or data describing the data collection process, in informing decisions, and potential RSD interventions. These interventions include timing and sequence of modes, techniques for efficiently deploying incentives, and combining two-phase sampling with other design changes. Interventions appropriate for face-to-face, telephone, web, mail and mixed-mode surveys will be discussed. Using the Total Survey Error (TSE) framework, the main concepts behind these designs will be explained with a focus on how these principles are designed to simultaneously control survey errors and survey costs. Examples of RSD in both large and small studies will be provided as motivation. Small group exercises will help participants to think through some of the common questions that need to be answered when employing RSD

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:20:58 -0400 2019-06-17T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-17T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Survey Methodology for Health Science Researchers/Linking Adaptive Interventions and RSD (one-day workshop) (June 17, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62718 62718-15434143@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 17, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Topics covered: Randomized Controlled Trials (RCTs) are an important tool for tests of internal validity of causal claims in both health and social sciences. In practice, however, inattention to crucial details of data collection methodology can compromise the internal validity test. One crucial example is recruitment and retention of participants – though randomized to treatment, unequal reluctance to participate or unequal attrition from the RCT jeopardize the internal validity of comparisons within the RCT design. Another crucial example is the interaction of treatment and measurement – if the measures themselves change in response to the RCT treatment, then observed treatment and control differences may reflect these measurement differences rather than treatment differences. In both cases, specific tools from survey methodology can be used to maximize the internal validity test in the RCT design. This course will focus on the survey methodology topics most important for maintaining the internal validity of RCT studies and feature specific examples of applications to RCTs. One set of tools will focus on maximizing participation and minimizing attrition of participants. Core survey methodology tools for encouraging participation in both pre-treatment measurement and the treatment itself as well as tools for minimizing the loss of participants to follow-up measures will be featured. These tools include incentives, tailoring refusal conversion, switching modes, and tracking strategies. Links to RSD will also be made. A second set of tools will focus on measurement construction to reduce chances of interaction with treatment. These tools include mode options, questionnaire design issues, and special instruments (such as life history calendars) to minimize reporting error. Each portion of the course will feature examples applying each specific tool to RCT studies.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:12:20 -0400 2019-06-17T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-17T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
20 Ways to Test Your Survey Questions (June 17, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61430 61430-15099343@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, June 17, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Testing your survey questionnaire is absolutely essential for ensuring a high quality survey. There has been a proliferation of question testing methods (both new methods and variations of existing methods). This course covers 20 different question testing techniques and combines information from the survey methodological literature with practical advice and hands on practice. The course covers methods for testing quantitative interview-based, web and mail questionnaires looking both at standard methods as well as new and unusual techniques. Overall the course covers: standard field test, interviewer rating form and variations, behaviour coding (classical, sequence-based and shortened), expert review, systematic form appraisal (including two online programmes), respondent debriefing (including vignettes and web probing), cognitive interviewing (short introduction), focus groups, split ballot tests, usability testing, studying item nonresponse and response distribution patterns, reliability and validity, record check studies, paradata, an introduction to analysis based methods (latent class, multi-trait-multi-method procedure and item response theory), eye tracking, computational linguistics, and crowd sourcing).

Introduction to Applied Questionnaire Design is a course that complements well with this class.

Prerequisite: There is no prerequisite, but some knowledge of questionnaire design is of value.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:49:00 -0500 2019-06-17T13:00:00-04:00 2019-06-17T16:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction
Basic Concepts and Theoretical Background (one-day workshop) (June 18, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62723 62723-15434151@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This course will provide participants with an overview of the primary concepts underlying RSD. This will include discussion of the uncertainty in survey design, the role of paradata, or data describing the data collection process, in informing decisions, and potential RSD interventions. These interventions include timing and sequence of modes, techniques for efficiently deploying incentives, and combining two-phase sampling with other design changes. Interventions appropriate for face-to-face, telephone, web, mail and mixed-mode surveys will be discussed. Using the Total Survey Error (TSE) framework, the main concepts behind these designs will be explained with a focus on how these principles are designed to simultaneously control survey errors and survey costs. Examples of RSD in both large and small studies will be provided as motivation. Small group exercises will help participants to think through some of the common questions that need to be answered when employing RSD

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:52:34 -0400 2019-06-18T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-18T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Case Studies in Responsive Design Research (one-day workshop) (June 18, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62721 62721-15434149@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This course will explore several well-developed examples of RSD. Dr. West will serve as a moderator of the course, and also introduce a case study from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG). The instructors will then provide independent examples of the implementation of RSD in different international surveys. All case studies will be supplemented with discussions of issues regarding the development and implementation of RSD. Case studies will include the NSFG, the Relationship Dynamics and Social Life (RDSL) survey, the University of Michigan Campus Climate (UMCC) Survey, and the Netherlands Survey of Consumer Satisfaction, among others. This variety of case studies will reflect a diversity of survey conditions. The NSFG (West) is a cross-sectional survey that is run on a continuous basis with in-person interviewing. The RDSL (Axinn) is a panel survey that employed a mixed-mode approach to collecting weekly journal data from a panel of young women. The UMCC survey is a web survey of students at UM that employed multiple modes of contact across the phases of the design. The Netherlands Survey of Consumer Satisfaction (Schouten) is a mixed-mode survey combining web and mail survey data collection with telephone interviewing. The focus of the course will be on practical tools for implementing RSD in a variety of conditions, including small-scale surveys.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:52:09 -0400 2019-06-18T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-18T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
The Punishment Continuum: How Court Actors Sentence and Enforce Monetary Sanctions (June 18, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63727 63727-15833062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

At this ISR Reads Event, hosted by The Institute for Social Research and the School of Public Health Epidemiology, Professor Alexes Harris will discuss her book “Pound of Flesh: Monetary Sanction as a Punishment for the Poor” (2016 Russell Sage).

The work examines the system of monetary sanctions (fines and fees), how decision-makers interpret the state law, apply the law to people before the court, and monitor their payments. Dr. Harris will also talk about her current five-year study examining the system of monetary sanctions across eight states and discuss policy implications.

Alexes Harris is the Presidential Term Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Washington.

A livestream of the event will be available: https://bluejeans.com/718378010

If you require an accommodation to participate in this event or have any questions, please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 28 May 2019 14:35:26 -0400 2019-06-18T10:00:00-04:00 2019-06-18T12:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Event flyer
20 Ways to Test Your Survey Questions (June 18, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61430 61430-15099344@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, June 18, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Testing your survey questionnaire is absolutely essential for ensuring a high quality survey. There has been a proliferation of question testing methods (both new methods and variations of existing methods). This course covers 20 different question testing techniques and combines information from the survey methodological literature with practical advice and hands on practice. The course covers methods for testing quantitative interview-based, web and mail questionnaires looking both at standard methods as well as new and unusual techniques. Overall the course covers: standard field test, interviewer rating form and variations, behaviour coding (classical, sequence-based and shortened), expert review, systematic form appraisal (including two online programmes), respondent debriefing (including vignettes and web probing), cognitive interviewing (short introduction), focus groups, split ballot tests, usability testing, studying item nonresponse and response distribution patterns, reliability and validity, record check studies, paradata, an introduction to analysis based methods (latent class, multi-trait-multi-method procedure and item response theory), eye tracking, computational linguistics, and crowd sourcing).

Introduction to Applied Questionnaire Design is a course that complements well with this class.

Prerequisite: There is no prerequisite, but some knowledge of questionnaire design is of value.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:49:00 -0500 2019-06-18T13:00:00-04:00 2019-06-18T16:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction
A Management Model for Responsive Survey Design (one-day workshop) (June 19, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61425 61425-15099338@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

For more information on this program, please visit the RSD Program web site: https://rsdprogram.si.isr.umich.edu/

Not for academic credit workshop (*Remote participation option available)

RSD has financial support available to those who qualify

Responsive survey design (RSD) refers to a method for designing surveys that has been demonstrated to increase the quality and efficiency of survey data collection. RSD uses evidence from early phases of data collection to make design decisions for later phases. Beginning in the 2018 Summer Institute, we will offer a series of eleven one-day short courses in RSD techniques.

*Remote participation option: It is not necessary to be physically in Ann Arbor to participate in these workshops. Students who cannot be in Ann Arbor can enroll and join sessions via BlueJeans (https://www.bluejeans.com/). Once enrollment is confirmed via email, indicate if course attendance will be in person, in Ann Arbor or via BlueJeans. Survey Methodology for Randomized Controlled Trails does not have the remote participation option.

This course will cover issues associated with implementation of RSD to manage field work. Instructors will provide concrete instruction on active monitoring of key indicators across a variety of environments – small-scale surveys, large-scale surveys, and web, telephone, face-to-face and mixed-mode surveys. Methods for implementing RSD interventions in a diversity of production environments will be discussed. RSD will be presented within the framework of the principles of project management, with a particular focus on risk management. A checklist of steps for implementing RSD will be discussed in detail. This course will draw upon a semester-long graduate course in survey management, which includes sections on RSD.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 14:57:20 -0500 2019-06-19T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-19T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
A Management Model for Responsive Survey Design (one-day workshop) (June 19, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62761 62761-15460079@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

This course will cover issues associated with implementation of RSD to manage field work. Instructors will provide concrete instruction on active monitoring of key indicators across a variety of environments – small-scale surveys, large-scale surveys, and web, telephone, face-to-face and mixed-mode surveys. Methods for implementing RSD interventions in a diversity of production environments will be discussed. RSD will be presented within the framework of the principles of project management, with a particular focus on risk management. A checklist of steps for implementing RSD will be discussed in detail. This course will draw upon a semester-long graduate course in survey management, which includes sections on RSD.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:55:39 -0400 2019-06-19T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-19T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Alternative Indicators Designed to Maximize Data Quality (one-day workshop) (June 19, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62759 62759-15460077@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Topics covered: The response rate has been shown to be a poor indicator for data quality with respect to nonresponse bias. Several alternatives have been proposed – the fraction of missing information (FMI), R-Indicators, subgroup response rates, etc. This course will explore the use of these indicators as guides for data collection when working within an RSD framework. We also explore optimization techniques that may be useful when designing a survey to maximize these alternative indicators. The consequences of optimizing a survey to other indicators will be explored. We will also consider how the response rate fits into this approach. We will end with a brief discussion of methods for post data collection evaluation of data quality.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:55:08 -0400 2019-06-19T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-19T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Responsive Survey Design for Web Surveys (one-day workshop) (June 19, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62722 62722-15434150@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Topics covered: Web surveys can be an inexpensive method for collecting data. This is especially true for designs that repeat measurement over several time periods. However, these relatively low-cost data collections may result in reduced data quality if the problem of nonresponse is ignored. This course will examine methods for using RSD to effectively deploy scarce resources in order to minimize the risk of nonresponse bias. Recent experience with the University of Michigan Campus Climate Survey and the National Survey of College Graduates is used to illustrate this point. These surveys are defined by phased designs and multiple modes of contact. This approach produced relatively high response rates and used alternative contact methods in later phases to recruit sample members from subgroups that were less likely to respond in earlier phases. In the case of the UM-CCS all of this was accomplished on a very small budget and with a small management team. Lessons from these experiences can be directly applied in many similar settings.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 29 Mar 2019 16:34:10 -0400 2019-06-19T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-19T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Using SMART Design in Responsive Survey Design (one-day workshop) (June 19, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62762 62762-15460080@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Topics covered: The effective treatment and management of a wide variety of health disorders often requires individualized, sequential decision making whereby treatment is adapted over time based on the changing disease state or specific circumstances of the patient. Adaptive interventions (also known as dynamic treatment regimens) operationalize this type of individualized treatment decision making using a sequence of decision rules that specify whether, how, for whom, or when to alter the intensity, type, or delivery of pharmacological, behavioral, and/or psychosocial treatments. There has been a huge surge of scientific interest in constructing adaptive interventions via the sequential multiple assignment randomized trial (SMART) design. SMART is a type of multi-stage randomized trial design, developed specifically for the purpose of collecting high-quality data for building optimal adaptive interventions. SMARTs are still new to the great majority of behavioral and social science investigators. In this course, we will introduce adaptive interventions, SMART (including simple design principle, cutting-edge analytic methods (e.g., Q-Learning) for SMART data, and discuss how these ideas can guide responsive and adaptive survey designs.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:56:05 -0400 2019-06-19T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-19T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Using SMART Design in Responsive Survey Design (one-day workshop) (June 19, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61426 61426-15099339@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

For more information on this program, please visit the RSD Program web site: https://rsdprogram.si.isr.umich.edu/

Not for academic credit workshop (*Remote participation option available)

RSD has financial support available to those who qualify

Responsive survey design (RSD) refers to a method for designing surveys that has been demonstrated to increase the quality and efficiency of survey data collection. RSD uses evidence from early phases of data collection to make design decisions for later phases. Beginning in the 2018 Summer Institute, we will offer a series of eleven one-day short courses in RSD techniques.

*Remote participation option: It is not necessary to be physically in Ann Arbor to participate in these workshops. Students who cannot be in Ann Arbor can enroll and join sessions via BlueJeans (https://www.bluejeans.com/). Once enrollment is confirmed via email, indicate if course attendance will be in person, in Ann Arbor or via BlueJeans. Survey Methodology for Randomized Controlled Trails does not have the remote participation option.


Topics covered: The effective treatment and management of a wide variety of health disorders often requires individualized, sequential decision making whereby treatment is adapted over time based on the changing disease state or specific circumstances of the patient. Adaptive interventions (also known as dynamic treatment regimens) operationalize this type of individualized treatment decision making using a sequence of decision rules that specify whether, how, for whom, or when to alter the intensity, type, or delivery of pharmacological, behavioral, and/or psychosocial treatments. There has been a huge surge of scientific interest in constructing adaptive interventions via the sequential multiple assignment randomized trial (SMART) design. SMART is a type of multi-stage randomized trial design, developed specifically for the purpose of collecting high-quality data for building optimal adaptive interventions. SMARTs are still new to the great majority of behavioral and social science investigators. In this course, we will introduce adaptive interventions, SMART (including simple design principle, cutting-edge analytic methods (e.g., Q-Learning) for SMART data, and discuss how these ideas can guide responsive and adaptive survey designs.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:02:59 -0500 2019-06-19T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-19T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
20 Ways to Test Your Survey Questions (June 19, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61430 61430-15099345@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, June 19, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Testing your survey questionnaire is absolutely essential for ensuring a high quality survey. There has been a proliferation of question testing methods (both new methods and variations of existing methods). This course covers 20 different question testing techniques and combines information from the survey methodological literature with practical advice and hands on practice. The course covers methods for testing quantitative interview-based, web and mail questionnaires looking both at standard methods as well as new and unusual techniques. Overall the course covers: standard field test, interviewer rating form and variations, behaviour coding (classical, sequence-based and shortened), expert review, systematic form appraisal (including two online programmes), respondent debriefing (including vignettes and web probing), cognitive interviewing (short introduction), focus groups, split ballot tests, usability testing, studying item nonresponse and response distribution patterns, reliability and validity, record check studies, paradata, an introduction to analysis based methods (latent class, multi-trait-multi-method procedure and item response theory), eye tracking, computational linguistics, and crowd sourcing).

Introduction to Applied Questionnaire Design is a course that complements well with this class.

Prerequisite: There is no prerequisite, but some knowledge of questionnaire design is of value.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:49:00 -0500 2019-06-19T13:00:00-04:00 2019-06-19T16:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction
Data Visualization for Active Monitoring (one-day workshop) (June 20, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62754 62754-15460050@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 20, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Topics covered: This course will cover basic concepts for the design and use of “dashboards” for monitoring survey data collection. We will begin with a detailed discussion of how to design dashboards from an RSD perspective. This will include concrete discussions of how relevant data may be collected and summarized across a variety of production environments. We will also discuss how these dashboards can be used to implement RSD interventions on an ongoing basis. We will demonstrate these points using examples from actual dashboards. We will briefly explore methods for modeling incoming paradata in order to detect outliers. On the second day, we will consider practical issues associated with the development of dashboards, including software alternatives. Finally, we will demonstrate how to update dashboards using data reflecting the results of ongoing fieldwork. Students will be provided with template spreadsheet dashboards as discussed earlier.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:54:28 -0400 2019-06-20T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-20T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Implementation of Responsive Survey Design in Federal Statistical Systems (one-day workshop) (June 20, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62765 62765-15460098@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 20, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Topics covered: This course will provide an overview of challenges and successes experienced in the development of adaptive survey design at the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Agricultural Statistics Service, including illustrations from the National Survey of College Graduates, the National Health Interview Survey and the Survey of Income and Program Participation. The presentation will include a brief history of the evolution of adaptive design capabilities at these agencies. We also discuss the development of a protocol for adaptive survey design that guides implementation and transparent documentation. The case studies covered will show applications of AD in surveys with different designs (cross-section vs. longitudinal, single vs. multi-mode) and different cost/quality objectives. We discuss successes and failures in these applications and factors that will shape future uses of adaptive design.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:57:40 -0400 2019-06-20T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-20T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Implementation of Responsive Survey Design in Federal Statistical Systems (one-day workshop) (June 20, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61429 61429-15099342@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 20, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

For more information on this program, please visit the RSD Program web site: https://rsdprogram.si.isr.umich.edu/

Not for academic credit workshop (*Remote participation option available)

RSD has financial support available to those who qualify

Responsive survey design (RSD) refers to a method for designing surveys that has been demonstrated to increase the quality and efficiency of survey data collection. RSD uses evidence from early phases of data collection to make design decisions for later phases. Beginning in the 2018 Summer Institute, we will offer a series of eleven one-day short courses in RSD techniques.

*Remote participation option: It is not necessary to be physically in Ann Arbor to participate in these workshops. Students who cannot be in Ann Arbor can enroll and join sessions via BlueJeans (https://www.bluejeans.com/). Once enrollment is confirmed via email, indicate if course attendance will be in person, in Ann Arbor or via BlueJeans. Survey Methodology for Randomized Controlled Trails does not have the remote participation option.


Topics covered: This course will provide an overview of challenges and successes experienced in the development of adaptive survey design at the U.S. Census Bureau and the National Agricultural Statistics Service, including illustrations from the National Survey of College Graduates, the National Health Interview Survey and the Survey of Income and Program Participation. The presentation will include a brief history of the evolution of adaptive design capabilities at these agencies. We also discuss the development of a protocol for adaptive survey design that guides implementation and transparent documentation. The case studies covered will show applications of AD in surveys with different designs (cross-section vs. longitudinal, single vs. multi-mode) and different cost/quality objectives. We discuss successes and failures in these applications and factors that will shape future uses of adaptive design.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:16:30 -0500 2019-06-20T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-20T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
20 Ways to Test Your Survey Questions (June 20, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61430 61430-15099346@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 20, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Testing your survey questionnaire is absolutely essential for ensuring a high quality survey. There has been a proliferation of question testing methods (both new methods and variations of existing methods). This course covers 20 different question testing techniques and combines information from the survey methodological literature with practical advice and hands on practice. The course covers methods for testing quantitative interview-based, web and mail questionnaires looking both at standard methods as well as new and unusual techniques. Overall the course covers: standard field test, interviewer rating form and variations, behaviour coding (classical, sequence-based and shortened), expert review, systematic form appraisal (including two online programmes), respondent debriefing (including vignettes and web probing), cognitive interviewing (short introduction), focus groups, split ballot tests, usability testing, studying item nonresponse and response distribution patterns, reliability and validity, record check studies, paradata, an introduction to analysis based methods (latent class, multi-trait-multi-method procedure and item response theory), eye tracking, computational linguistics, and crowd sourcing).

Introduction to Applied Questionnaire Design is a course that complements well with this class.

Prerequisite: There is no prerequisite, but some knowledge of questionnaire design is of value.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:49:00 -0500 2019-06-20T13:00:00-04:00 2019-06-20T16:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction
Implementing, Managing, and Analyzing Interventions in a Responsive Survey Design Framework (one-day workshop) (June 21, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/61428 61428-15099341@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 21, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

For more information on this program, please visit the RSD Program web site: https://rsdprogram.si.isr.umich.edu/

Not for academic credit workshop (*Remote participation option available)

RSD has financial support available to those who qualify

Responsive survey design (RSD) refers to a method for designing surveys that has been demonstrated to increase the quality and efficiency of survey data collection. RSD uses evidence from early phases of data collection to make design decisions for later phases. Beginning in the 2018 Summer Institute, we will offer a series of eleven one-day short courses in RSD techniques.

*Remote participation option: It is not necessary to be physically in Ann Arbor to participate in these workshops. Students who cannot be in Ann Arbor can enroll and join sessions via BlueJeans (https://www.bluejeans.com/). Once enrollment is confirmed via email, indicate if course attendance will be in person, in Ann Arbor or via BlueJeans. Survey Methodology for Randomized Controlled Trails does not have the remote participation option.

Topics covered: This course will discuss a variety of potential RSD interventions. Many of these have been implemented experimentally, and the course will include evaluations of those experiments. The importance of experimental evaluations in early phases of RSD will be discussed. Methods for implementing interventions will also be discussed, including implementation of experiments aimed at evaluating new interventions. Strategies for implementing these interventions with both interviewer-mediated and self-administered (e.g., web and mail) surveys will be discussed. Methods for the evaluation of the results of the interventions (experimental and otherwise) will be considered. These evaluations will include measures of both costs and errors.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:11:31 -0500 2019-06-21T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-21T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
Implementing, Managing, and Analyzing Interventions in a Responsive Survey Design Framework (one-day workshop) (June 21, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/62763 62763-15460093@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 21, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Topics covered: This course will discuss a variety of potential RSD interventions. Many of these have been implemented experimentally, and the course will include evaluations of those experiments. The importance of experimental evaluations in early phases of RSD will be discussed. Methods for implementing interventions will also be discussed, including implementation of experiments aimed at evaluating new interventions. Strategies for implementing these interventions with both interviewer-mediated and self-administered (e.g., web and mail) surveys will be discussed. Methods for the evaluation of the results of the interventions (experimental and otherwise) will be considered. These evaluations will include measures of both costs and errors.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 01 Apr 2019 14:56:28 -0400 2019-06-21T09:00:00-04:00 2019-06-21T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Workshop / Seminar
20 Ways to Test Your Survey Questions (June 21, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61430 61430-15099347@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 21, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques

Testing your survey questionnaire is absolutely essential for ensuring a high quality survey. There has been a proliferation of question testing methods (both new methods and variations of existing methods). This course covers 20 different question testing techniques and combines information from the survey methodological literature with practical advice and hands on practice. The course covers methods for testing quantitative interview-based, web and mail questionnaires looking both at standard methods as well as new and unusual techniques. Overall the course covers: standard field test, interviewer rating form and variations, behaviour coding (classical, sequence-based and shortened), expert review, systematic form appraisal (including two online programmes), respondent debriefing (including vignettes and web probing), cognitive interviewing (short introduction), focus groups, split ballot tests, usability testing, studying item nonresponse and response distribution patterns, reliability and validity, record check studies, paradata, an introduction to analysis based methods (latent class, multi-trait-multi-method procedure and item response theory), eye tracking, computational linguistics, and crowd sourcing).

Introduction to Applied Questionnaire Design is a course that complements well with this class.

Prerequisite: There is no prerequisite, but some knowledge of questionnaire design is of value.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 19 Feb 2019 15:49:00 -0500 2019-06-21T13:00:00-04:00 2019-06-21T16:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Summer Institute in Survey Research Techniques Class / Instruction
International Conference on Population, Poverty, and Inequality June 27-29 (June 27, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63510 63510-15767672@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, June 27, 2019 8:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This conference is organized by the Scientific Panel on Population, Poverty, and Inequality of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) https://iussp.org/en/panel/population-poverty-and-inequality, in collaboration with the Population Studies Center in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. The conference will feature researchers from a wide range of countries presenting research analyzing the interaction of population with poverty and inequality in low-income and middle-income countries. Schedule will be available on the conference web site when finalized: https://iussp.org/en/iussp-population-poverty-and-inequality-research-conference

All are welcome. No registration required.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 03 Jun 2019 14:24:43 -0400 2019-06-27T08:30:00-04:00 2019-06-27T18:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Conference / Symposium
International Conference on Population, Poverty, and Inequality June 27-29 (June 28, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63510 63510-15767673@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, June 28, 2019 8:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This conference is organized by the Scientific Panel on Population, Poverty, and Inequality of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) https://iussp.org/en/panel/population-poverty-and-inequality, in collaboration with the Population Studies Center in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. The conference will feature researchers from a wide range of countries presenting research analyzing the interaction of population with poverty and inequality in low-income and middle-income countries. Schedule will be available on the conference web site when finalized: https://iussp.org/en/iussp-population-poverty-and-inequality-research-conference

All are welcome. No registration required.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 03 Jun 2019 14:24:43 -0400 2019-06-28T08:30:00-04:00 2019-06-28T18:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Conference / Symposium
International Conference on Population, Poverty, and Inequality June 27-29 (June 29, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/63510 63510-15767674@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, June 29, 2019 8:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

This conference is organized by the Scientific Panel on Population, Poverty, and Inequality of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) https://iussp.org/en/panel/population-poverty-and-inequality, in collaboration with the Population Studies Center in the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. The conference will feature researchers from a wide range of countries presenting research analyzing the interaction of population with poverty and inequality in low-income and middle-income countries. Schedule will be available on the conference web site when finalized: https://iussp.org/en/iussp-population-poverty-and-inequality-research-conference

All are welcome. No registration required.

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 03 Jun 2019 14:24:43 -0400 2019-06-29T08:30:00-04:00 2019-06-29T15:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Conference / Symposium
AN INTRODUCTION TO ENTITY RESOLUTION (July 10, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64048 64048-16107205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

An Introduction to Entity Resolution, a half-day workshop geared toward statisticians, data scientists, population researchers, and computational social scientists of all experience levels. This hands-on workshop will cover both the theory and practice of probabilistic entity resolution, while demonstrating state of the art techniques using R software and Apache Spark.

Topics include:

• Overview and introduction to entity resolution

• Entity resolution fundamentals (record linkage, de-duplication, blocking, and computational gains)

• Entity resolution evaluation metrics (including precision, reduction ratio, and robustness to tuning parameters)

• Bayesian entity resolution models (including both parametric and nonparametric Bayesian mixture models)

• Hands-on demonstration of state of the art R packages (using blink) and computational gains (using Apache Spark)


BIO:

Dr. Rebecca C. Steorts is Assistant Professor of the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University and affiliated faculty in Computer Science, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, the information initiative at Duke (iiD), and the Social Science Research Institute. She also holds a Schedule A appointment at the U.S. Census Bureau.

Steorts main research focus is on entity resolution (record linkage or de-duplication), where the goal is to remove duplicated information from large, noisy databases in the absence of unique identifiers.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 19 Jun 2019 13:23:00 -0400 2019-07-10T09:00:00-04:00 2019-07-10T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar poster image
Linear Regression With Linked Data (August 22, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64802 64802-16444959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, August 22, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

The PDHP workshop series resumes August 22nd with Part 2 of our ongoing Record Linkage series: Linear Regression With Linked Data. This half-day workshop, conducted by Emanuel Ben-David (of the US Census Bureau’s Center for Statistical Research and Methodology) and Martin Slawski (of George Mason University), is geared toward population researchers, computational social scientists, statisticians, and data scientists of all experience levels.

Topics include:

• Overview of record linkage and entity resolution
• Impact of linkage error on regression analyses of linked data files
• Linkage error adjustment and correction methods (including regression techniques and optimal matching)
• Hands-on training and practice of these techniques using R software

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 31 Jul 2019 18:04:10 -0400 2019-08-22T09:00:00-04:00 2019-08-22T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar poster for Linear Regression With Linked Data
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (September 10, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849185@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 10, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-09-10T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-10T11:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Conflict & Peace, Research & Development (CPRD) (September 13, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67005 67005-16794270@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 13, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Political Science

essentially, cprd is interested in political conflict and violence broadly conceived. this includes war, civil war, genocide, state repression/human rights violation, revolution/counter-revolution, terrorism/counter-terrorism, protest/protest policing and everyday resistance/domination. additionally, we are also interested in peace - again broadly conceived to include peace talks/negotiation, humanitarian intervention and naming/shaming. the orientation of the group is open to geographic locale, method and theory. we thus involve individuals from world/ir, comparative, american, theory and public policy. we have had on occasion individuals join us from sociology, social work and law.

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Meeting Thu, 12 Sep 2019 10:55:33 -0400 2019-09-13T16:00:00-04:00 2019-09-13T17:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Political Science Meeting
PSC Brownbag: Postdoc Introductions (September 16, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66766 66766-16776777@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 16, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Keeping with tradition, we will welcome our new Postdoctoral Fellows: Dr. Arianna Gard, Dr. Heejung Jang, Dr. Sarah Patterson. Each will give a brief description of their professional paths, present a summary of their doctoral work, overview of postdoctoral project and additional research interests, etc.

Please bring your lunch.

Monday, 9/16/2019, 12:00pm

Location: 6050 ISR Thompson St

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Sep 2019 10:01:57 -0400 2019-09-16T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-16T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (September 17, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849186@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 17, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-09-17T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-17T11:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Symposium Celebrating the Career and Contributions of Robert L. Kahn (1918-2019) (September 20, 2019 8:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66635 66635-16768007@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 20, 2019 8:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

We hope you will be able to join us for a symposium on September 20, 2019 celebrating the career and contributions of Robert L. Kahn (March 28, 1918-January 6, 2019), sponsored by the Institute for Social Research and ISR’s Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan. The event will highlight the many contributions Bob made over his distinguished career, and provide time for attendees to share their memories of him. You are invited to this day-long symposium on Friday, September 20, 2019 followed by a reception.

Dr. Robert L. Kahn relished the exchange of ideas. He enjoyed designing studies which targeted practical problems, and most of all analyzing and considering how best to apply the findings. He was a strong supporter of young people, junior scientists, women and minority scholars. He was committed to social justice and backed some of the toughest early decisions in the field.

Please join us in celebrating his career and contributions to the field of social science.

Please RSVP for this event: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeswFsYb-GZZ3_NrbDRD9TxaGLKOVkFs8AZrJS7t-sRtRTraQ/viewform

Event page: https://spark.adobe.com/page/LWaPYgyyKMWaR/

Speakers:
James House (University of Michigan, SRC, ISR)
Barbara Gutek (University of Arizona, Eller College of Management)
Gretchen Spreitzer (University of Michigan, Ross School of Business)
Robert Sutton (Stanford University)
Toni Antonucci (University of Michigan, SRC, ISR)
Jack Rowe (Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health)
Jerry Bachman (University of Michigan, SRC, ISR)
Trevillore Raghunathan (University of Michigan, SRC, ISR)
Steve Heeringa (University of Michigan, SRC, ISR)
Robert Groves (Provost, Georgetown University)

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Conference / Symposium Tue, 10 Sep 2019 13:14:47 -0400 2019-09-20T08:30:00-04:00 2019-09-20T17:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Conference / Symposium Robert Kahn at ISR
Design-Based Analysis of Survey Data (September 24, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66470 66470-16736454@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Please join instructor Brady T. West of the University Of Michigan's Program in Survey Methodology, as he conducts a half-day workshop titled "Design-Based Analysis of Survey Data". This workshop is designed for survey data analysts of all skill levels, and will present theoretically appropriate methods of analyzing survey data collected from complex sample designs. Dr. West will also present the implications of incorrect analyses based on his research findings from a meta-analysis of analytic error, while also providing examples of proper design-based data analysis techniques using SAS and Stata. As always, this workshop is free and open to the public.

Topics include:

• Overview of theoretically appropriate design-based analysis of survey data collected from complex samples

• Case studies in analytic error (including findings from a meta-analysis of recent scientific publications), and the implications of using incorrect analysis methods

• Appropriate use of survey weights and design-based methods of variance estimation for population inference related to descriptive parameters and regression models

• Examples of proper design-based data analysis techniques using SAS and Stata (attendees are also welcome to ask about similar methods in other software packages)

BIO:

Dr. West's current research interests include the implications of measurement error in auxiliary variables and survey paradata for survey estimation, survey nonresponse, interviewer variance, and multilevel regression models for clustered and longitudinal data. He is the lead author of the book Linear Mixed Models: A Practical Guide Using Statistical Software and co-author of the book Applied Survey Data Analysis.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 05 Sep 2019 17:09:44 -0400 2019-09-24T09:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar poster for Design-Based Analysis of Survey Data
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (September 24, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849187@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, September 24, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-09-24T10:00:00-04:00 2019-09-24T11:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Michigan Program in Survey Methodology and the Joint Program in Survey Methodology Seminar Series (September 25, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66679 66679-16770194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 25, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Improving Data Quality for Web Surveys in Real Time through Predictive Modeling Using Paradata

Paradata are a rich source of data that are collected through little additional effort by researchers. However, paradata are often underutilized. This study suggests a novel approach to use paradata to alter the survey itself in real time in order to improve data quality.

Through a predictive model, paradata about the responses will be utilized to alter the presentation of the survey questions themselves. First, if respondents straight-line through a grid section of the survey, following grids could be changed to single item questions in order to discourage straight-lining. Second, if respondents display multiple indicators of poor data quality, key questions could be moved forward in the survey to present earlier. This second option reduces survey length, lowers cognitive burden for respondents that are taking short cuts, and prevents drop-offs. Both of these techniques could help to improve data quality.

Though programming a survey to adapt in real time may involve a large effort in the beginning, once employed it could be used across projects for little additional cost. Improving data quality should be a goal of everyone in the survey research community. As web surveys continue to increase in frequency of implementation, the focus on data quality of this mode should be a priority.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Sep 2019 13:22:32 -0400 2019-09-25T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-25T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Seminar flyer
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (October 1, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 1, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-10-01T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-01T11:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Writing a Competitive Research Grant Proposal (October 2, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/66542 66542-16744994@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: OVPR Office of Research Development

This workshop discusses writing grant proposals for various sponsors, including federal agencies (e.g., NIH, NSF) and foundation funders.
Topics include:
-Resources at U-M to help you find funding opportunities and develop proposals
-Self-assessment
-Analyzing sponsors
-How the review process works
-How to write various proposals sections
-General writing tips

Email Jill Jividen at jjgoff@umich.edu with questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Sep 2019 08:52:54 -0400 2019-10-02T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T12:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research OVPR Office of Research Development Workshop / Seminar
Michigan Program in Survey Methodology and the Joint Program in Survey Methodology Seminar Series (October 2, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66680 66680-16770195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Switching away from web surveys: what can we learn from JavaScript "OnBlur" functions about response behavior?

The increase in web surveys allows researchers to collect a variety of paradata alongside traditional survey responses. Some paradata, such as response times, enjoy a long tradition in survey research, but others, such as window/tab switching, are only rarely used in survey research. In this talk, I focus on the usefulness and usability of JavaScript "OnBlur" functions informing about how often and for how long respondents switch away from web surveys. For this purpose, I present the results of two empirical studies: the first study explores the impact of on-device multitasking, such as switching away to check social media notifications, on response behavior. The second study, in contrast, focuses on the consequences of looking up answers online for measuring political knowledge. The talk ends with a discussion of further fields of application for JavaScript "OnBlur" functions in survey research.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Sep 2019 13:29:55 -0400 2019-10-02T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Seminar flyer
ISR CoderSpace with Jule Krüger (October 3, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67432 67432-16849217@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 3, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Krüger is the ISR program manager for big data and data science, based within the Center for Political Studies. She has more than 10 years of experience in processing, analyzing and interpreting data for social science research. An expert on data generating processes, triangulating multiple databases, and expanding methodology for researching difficult to observe populations, Dr. Krüger has proficient knowledge in computer programming, statistical analysis and scientific methodology. Using a combination of R, Python, Markdown, Make, bash, LaTeX and version control, she is experienced in automating research workflows for scalable, auditable and reproducible analysis. In this CoderSpace, the primary focus is on the Python programming language, but coders working in other languages are equally welcome to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:46:34 -0500 2019-10-03T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Collaborative workshop with Michigan State University (October 4, 2019 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67750 67750-16926589@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 4, 2019 2:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Political Scientists of Color (PSOC)

This half-day event will feature scholars from the University of Michigan and Michigan State University interested in Race and Ethnic Politics, including some of our very own job market candidates!

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Meeting Fri, 27 Sep 2019 16:56:13 -0400 2019-10-04T14:00:00-04:00 2019-10-04T16:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Political Scientists of Color (PSOC) Meeting
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (October 8, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-10-08T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-08T11:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Writing a Competitive Research Grant Proposal (October 8, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66545 66545-16744999@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 8, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: OVPR Office of Research Development

This workshop discusses writing grant proposals for various sponsors, including federal agencies (e.g., NIH, NSF) and foundation funders.
Topics include:
-Resources at U-M to help you find funding opportunities and develop proposals
-Self-assessment
-Analyzing sponsors
-How the review process works
-How to write various proposals sections
-General writing tips

Email Jill Jividen at jjgoff@umich.edu with questions.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 09 Sep 2019 08:55:34 -0400 2019-10-08T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-08T16:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research OVPR Office of Research Development Workshop / Seminar
ISR CoderSpace with Erin Ware (October 9, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67429 67429-16849203@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 9, 2019 9:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly CoderSpace again! She is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background. This fall semester, she is also teaching SIADS502: math methods for data science for the online master’s of data science degree program through the School of Information.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:37 -0400 2019-10-09T09:30:00-04:00 2019-10-09T10:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Jule Krüger (October 10, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67432 67432-16849218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 10, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Krüger is the ISR program manager for big data and data science, based within the Center for Political Studies. She has more than 10 years of experience in processing, analyzing and interpreting data for social science research. An expert on data generating processes, triangulating multiple databases, and expanding methodology for researching difficult to observe populations, Dr. Krüger has proficient knowledge in computer programming, statistical analysis and scientific methodology. Using a combination of R, Python, Markdown, Make, bash, LaTeX and version control, she is experienced in automating research workflows for scalable, auditable and reproducible analysis. In this CoderSpace, the primary focus is on the Python programming language, but coders working in other languages are equally welcome to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:46:34 -0500 2019-10-10T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-10T16:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (October 15, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849190@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 15, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-10-15T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-15T11:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Erin Ware (October 16, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67429 67429-16849204@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 9:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly CoderSpace again! She is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background. This fall semester, she is also teaching SIADS502: math methods for data science for the online master’s of data science degree program through the School of Information.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:37 -0400 2019-10-16T09:30:00-04:00 2019-10-16T10:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Our Voices from the Past Carry Us into the Future: Anishnaabek/Odawa History, Culture, and Repatriation (October 17, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67454 67454-16857933@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Eric Hemenway will discuss Odawa geography, history, and his work with repatriation of human remains and sacred objects. He will highlight a few cases of repatriation that he personally worked on with the University of Michigan.

Eric Hemenway is an Anishnaabe/Odawa from Cross Village, Michigan. He is the Director of Repatriation, Archives and Records for the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indian, a federally recognized tribe in northern Michigan. Eric works to collect and preserve historical information for LTBB Odawa. That information is used to support the LTBB government and create educational materials on Odawa history, such as: exhibits, signage, publications, presentations, curriculums and media. Eric has worked on numerous repatriations of native, human remains under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). He is a former member of the NAGPRA Review Committee and currently sits on boards for the Michigan Historical Commission, Michigan Historical Society, Michigan Humanities Council and Little Traverse Conservancy.

This event is free and open to the public.

Presented by the Institute for Social Research (ISR).

This event will not have a video feed or recording.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 11 Oct 2019 15:56:00 -0400 2019-10-17T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-17T12:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Eric Hemenway Talk
ISR CoderSpace with Jule Krüger (October 17, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67432 67432-16849219@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Krüger is the ISR program manager for big data and data science, based within the Center for Political Studies. She has more than 10 years of experience in processing, analyzing and interpreting data for social science research. An expert on data generating processes, triangulating multiple databases, and expanding methodology for researching difficult to observe populations, Dr. Krüger has proficient knowledge in computer programming, statistical analysis and scientific methodology. Using a combination of R, Python, Markdown, Make, bash, LaTeX and version control, she is experienced in automating research workflows for scalable, auditable and reproducible analysis. In this CoderSpace, the primary focus is on the Python programming language, but coders working in other languages are equally welcome to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:46:34 -0500 2019-10-17T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-17T16:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Hanes Walton Jr. Lecture (October 17, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61388 61388-15097061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Department of Political Science

Guest Speaker Dianne Pinderhughes (Notre Dame Presidential Faculty Fellow and Professor, Department of Africana Studies and the Department of Political Science, University of Notre Dame)

Reception follows the lecture in the ISR Atrium

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 19 Feb 2019 10:10:17 -0500 2019-10-17T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-17T17:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Department of Political Science Lecture / Discussion
Hanes Walton Jr. Lecture (October 17, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/61398 61398-15097072@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 17, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Racial Dynamics in the American Context: A Second Century of Civil Rights and Protest?

This lecture will explore the factors shaping electoral and policy developments in the wake of late 20th century civil rights reform, and the growing political incorporation of African Americans into electoral politics.  Drawing from a set of collected papers compiled for publication as Black Politics After the Civil Rights Revolution, social and political scientists recognized the gradual increase in African American political participation, the increasing numbers of elected officials of color, and perhaps most remarkably, the election in 2008 and 2012 of Barack Obama to the Presidency.  The unexpected election of Donald Trump in 2016, posed a direct challenge to that framing of reaching the mountaintop and the evolution of successful racial reform. The lecture considers the possible alternative explanations for the Obama and Trump Presidencies in sequence, and whether these changes in early 21st century politics reflect those in previous eras. 

The Hanes Walton Jr. Lecture is sponsored by the Center for Political Studies, Institute for Social Research and occurs in the autumn of odd-numbered years, in honor of Hanes Walton, Jr.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 18 Sep 2019 11:02:00 -0400 2019-10-17T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-17T17:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Pinderhughes
Landscapes of Racial Dispossession and Control: Tracing the development of early career research on racial health inequities (October 21, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68117 68117-17011958@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 21, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Racial inequities in health have been documented and described in the public health literature for decades, yet these inequities have remained or even increased. In order to move forward, we must understand the role of cultural and structural racism upon which these inequities are built. Cultural racism shapes our society's structure and ultimately shapes the answers to the questions: "Whose life counts? Who is worthy of a healthy life?" In this presentation, Dr. Hicken will discuss the interwoven nature of both career trajectory, as a former PSC predoctoral trainee, and the development of her science on cultural and structural racism and health inequities. Specifically, she will outline her theory on racism and health and describe her collaborative data project designed to empirically examine this theory.

BIO:
Dr. Margaret Hicken is on faculty at the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan where she serves as director of the UM RacismLab, an interdisciplinary research collected designed to facilitate the career progression of scholar who study cultural and structural racism. She is also director of the Landscapes of Racism Dispossession and Control data project, supported with funding from NIDDK, NIMHD, and NIA, to examine the ways in which historical and contemporary forms of racial control have resulted in contemporary health inequities.

PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 10 Oct 2019 13:05:11 -0400 2019-10-21T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-21T13:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Margaret Hicken
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (October 22, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849191@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 22, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-10-22T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-22T11:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Erin Ware (October 23, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67429 67429-16849205@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 9:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly CoderSpace again! She is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background. This fall semester, she is also teaching SIADS502: math methods for data science for the online master’s of data science degree program through the School of Information.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:37 -0400 2019-10-23T09:30:00-04:00 2019-10-23T10:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Michigan Program in Survey Methodology and the Joint Program in Survey Methodology Seminar Series (October 23, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68015 68015-16983970@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 23, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Institute for Social Research - Room 1070

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 04 Oct 2019 10:57:45 -0400 2019-10-23T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-23T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Trent Buskirk
ISR CoderSpace with Jule Krüger (October 24, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67432 67432-16849220@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Krüger is the ISR program manager for big data and data science, based within the Center for Political Studies. She has more than 10 years of experience in processing, analyzing and interpreting data for social science research. An expert on data generating processes, triangulating multiple databases, and expanding methodology for researching difficult to observe populations, Dr. Krüger has proficient knowledge in computer programming, statistical analysis and scientific methodology. Using a combination of R, Python, Markdown, Make, bash, LaTeX and version control, she is experienced in automating research workflows for scalable, auditable and reproducible analysis. In this CoderSpace, the primary focus is on the Python programming language, but coders working in other languages are equally welcome to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:46:34 -0500 2019-10-24T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-24T16:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Machine Learning in Survey Research (October 25, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68286 68286-17039621@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, October 25, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Please join instructor Adam Eck (assistant professor of computer science, Oberlin College), as he conducts a half-day workshop titled “Machine Learning in Survey Research”. This workshop is designed for population/survey researchers and analysts of all skill levels, and will present an introduction to machine learning concepts and their applications to survey research (such as sample frame creation, respondent modelling, and open-ended response coding).

Topics Include:
• Introduction to machine learning and its applications to survey research
• Decision trees and random forests
• Deep learning and other neural network-based techniques
• ML techniques to model respondent behaviors, assist with coding of open-ended responses, and more
• Demonstration using R and Python

Presented by the Population Dynamics and Health Program (PDHP).

BIO:
Adam Eck is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at Oberlin College. His primary research and teaching interests include: intelligent agents and multiagent systems, machine learning, data science, and computer-aided education.

More specifically, Adam enjoys learning about and developing solutions within decision making under uncertainty (how should agents gather information and behave to maximize rewards in complex, dynamic environments), reinforcement learning (how can agents learn how their worlds' operate in order to guide their decisions), and sequential supervised learning using recurrent neural networks (how can we predict future outcomes based on sequences of past observations).

REGISTRATION:
https://pdhp.isr.umich.edu/workshops/

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 11 Oct 2019 12:01:52 -0400 2019-10-25T09:00:00-04:00 2019-10-25T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Machine Learning in Survey Research poster
TBD PSC Brown Bag (October 28, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68120 68120-17011959@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Monday, 10/28/2019, 12:00pm
Location: ISR-Thompson 1430

Professor Logan will speak on recent work in economic history, economic demography and applied microeconomics. He was a Postdoctoral Fellow at PSC 2009-11.

His research in economic history concerns the development of living standards measures that can be used to directly asses the question of how the human condition has changed over time. He is currently extending his historical research agenda to include topics such as childhood health, mortality, morbidity, and racial disparities in health.

PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 12:46:06 -0400 2019-10-28T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Trevon Logan
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (October 29, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849192@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-10-29T10:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T11:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Erin Ware (October 30, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67429 67429-16849206@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 9:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly CoderSpace again! She is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background. This fall semester, she is also teaching SIADS502: math methods for data science for the online master’s of data science degree program through the School of Information.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:37 -0400 2019-10-30T09:30:00-04:00 2019-10-30T10:30:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Michigan Program in Survey Methodology and the Joint Program in Survey Methodology Seminar Series (October 30, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68016 68016-16983972@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 30, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science

Institute for Social Research
Room 1070

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 04 Oct 2019 11:08:22 -0400 2019-10-30T12:00:00-04:00 2019-10-30T13:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Michigan Program in Survey and Data Science Workshop / Seminar Youjin Lee
ISR CoderSpace with Jule Krüger (October 31, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67432 67432-16849221@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 31, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Krüger is the ISR program manager for big data and data science, based within the Center for Political Studies. She has more than 10 years of experience in processing, analyzing and interpreting data for social science research. An expert on data generating processes, triangulating multiple databases, and expanding methodology for researching difficult to observe populations, Dr. Krüger has proficient knowledge in computer programming, statistical analysis and scientific methodology. Using a combination of R, Python, Markdown, Make, bash, LaTeX and version control, she is experienced in automating research workflows for scalable, auditable and reproducible analysis. In this CoderSpace, the primary focus is on the Python programming language, but coders working in other languages are equally welcome to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:46:34 -0500 2019-10-31T14:30:00-04:00 2019-10-31T16:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (November 5, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849193@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-11-05T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-05T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Erin Ware (November 6, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67429 67429-16849207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 9:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly CoderSpace again! She is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background. This fall semester, she is also teaching SIADS502: math methods for data science for the online master’s of data science degree program through the School of Information.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:37 -0400 2019-11-06T09:30:00-05:00 2019-11-06T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Jule Krüger (November 7, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67432 67432-16849222@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Krüger is the ISR program manager for big data and data science, based within the Center for Political Studies. She has more than 10 years of experience in processing, analyzing and interpreting data for social science research. An expert on data generating processes, triangulating multiple databases, and expanding methodology for researching difficult to observe populations, Dr. Krüger has proficient knowledge in computer programming, statistical analysis and scientific methodology. Using a combination of R, Python, Markdown, Make, bash, LaTeX and version control, she is experienced in automating research workflows for scalable, auditable and reproducible analysis. In this CoderSpace, the primary focus is on the Python programming language, but coders working in other languages are equally welcome to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:46:34 -0500 2019-11-07T14:30:00-05:00 2019-11-07T16:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
A Practical Guide To Survey Weighting (November 12, 2019 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/68953 68953-17197057@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 9:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Please join us for the conclusion of the 2019 PDHP workshop series, as Richard Valliant (University of Michigan & University of Maryland Joint Program in Survey Methodology) presents "A Practical Guide To Survey Weighting". This workshop will present a comprehensive guide to the design and creation of survey weights, including sampling weights, nonresponse adjustment, and calibration, as well as approaches for weighting non-probability samples.

Additional topics include:

• Stochastic missingness & nonresponse adjustment.
• Calibration techniques including poststratification, raking, and GREG
• Demonstration and hands-on practice using R and Stata.


BIO:
Richard Valliant is a Research Professor at the University of Michigan and the Joint Program for Survey Methodology at the University of Maryland. He has over 35 years of experience in survey sampling, estimation theory, and statistical computing. He was formerly an Associate Director at Westat and a mathematical statistician with the Bureau of Labor Statistics. He has a range of applied experience in survey estimation and sample design on a variety of establishment and household surveys. He is also a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and has been an editor of Survey Methodology, the Journal of Official Statistics, and both sections of the Journal of the American Statistical Association (Theory & Methods and Applications and Case Studies)

Presented by the Population Dynamics and Health Program (PDHP) at the Michigan Populations Studies Center.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:03:45 -0400 2019-11-12T09:00:00-05:00 2019-11-12T13:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Poster
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (November 12, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849194@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-11-12T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-12T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
Issue Attention in Contemporary American Politics: 2016-2020 (November 13, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69106 69106-17244696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Recent studies of political communication have focused on how and what people learn from information flows in society, whether from news, conversations, web sites, or social media. Researchers from the Center for Political Studies have studied the kinds of information that flow in election campaigns and in response to pressing political issues and what people are paying attention to. The presentations will highlight recent findings.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 04 Nov 2019 15:11:59 -0500 2019-11-13T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-13T13:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar Issue Attention in Contemporary American Politics: 2016-2020
Longer lives, Later Births: Implications for Generational Overlap in Denmark (November 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69183 69183-17261059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A Population Studies Center Brown Bag Seminar.

Fertility and mortality trends are the most fundamental determinants of human populations, and Western industrialized countries have witnessed notable changes in these patterns in recent decades: fertility rates have declined, and life expectancy has continued to increase. While demographers and other social scientists have explored the broad implications of population aging, less well understood are the individual-level consequences of conjoint changing fertility and mortality patterns. In particular, there is limited information about the extent to which life courses overlap today versus in prior decades and the implications of such. In this paper, we provide new evidence about generational overlap between grandparents and grandchildren using population register data from Denmark. We describe changing patterns of grandparents being alive-and life expectancy-at grandchildren's birth. Then, we evaluate differences in these patterns by socioeconomic status. These findings have implications for the transmission of inequality, as well as resource demands on governments.



BIO:
Marcia (Marcy) J. Carlson is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Center for Demography and Ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her primary research interests center on the links between family contexts and the wellbeing of children and parents. Her recent work is focused on changing patterns of parenthood and family complexity, including differences by socioeconomic status. She has published in a range of demography, family and general social science journals.


PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Nov 2019 14:56:21 -0500 2019-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T13:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Marcy Carlson
TBD PSC Brown Bag (November 18, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68121 68121-17011960@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Monday, 11/18/2019, 12:00 pm
Location: ISR-Thompson 1430

Professor Carlson will discuss her recent research.

Dr. Carlson's primary research interests center on the associations between family contexts and the wellbeing of parents and children. Her recent work is focused on growing family diversity and complexity, particularly with respect to fertility patterns and fatherhood, as well as how family change is linked with inequality in both the U.S. and cross-national contexts.

PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 07 Oct 2019 12:44:41 -0400 2019-11-18T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T13:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Marcy Carlson
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (November 19, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849195@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-11-19T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-19T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
2019 Political Scientists of Color Distinguished Speaker Event (November 19, 2019 12:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68660 68660-17130527@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 12:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Political Scientists of Color (PSOC)

The purpose of Political Scientists of Color (PSOC) is to provide a network of political scientists interested in creating and maintaining a supportive academic and professional environment in the Department of Political Science regardless of race or ethnic background. PSOC seeks to foster a sense of community among political science graduate students of color at the University of Michigan and to advocate their concerns and interests on campus and in the community at-large. As such, this organization sponsors several department-wide professional development meetings and events that will help enable students to pursue a successful career in the field of political science. PSOC also advocates for the recruitment and retention of graduate students and faculty of color in the department. Additionally, our organization is active in hosting distinguised guest speakers, with the goal of increasing the awareness of the university community to the many contributions of scholars of color to the discipline.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 21 Oct 2019 13:56:50 -0400 2019-11-19T12:30:00-05:00 2019-11-19T14:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Political Scientists of Color (PSOC) Lecture / Discussion
ISR CoderSpace with Erin Ware (November 20, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67429 67429-16849209@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 20, 2019 9:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly CoderSpace again! She is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background. This fall semester, she is also teaching SIADS502: math methods for data science for the online master’s of data science degree program through the School of Information.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:37 -0400 2019-11-20T09:30:00-05:00 2019-11-20T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Jule Krüger (November 21, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67432 67432-16849224@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 21, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Krüger is the ISR program manager for big data and data science, based within the Center for Political Studies. She has more than 10 years of experience in processing, analyzing and interpreting data for social science research. An expert on data generating processes, triangulating multiple databases, and expanding methodology for researching difficult to observe populations, Dr. Krüger has proficient knowledge in computer programming, statistical analysis and scientific methodology. Using a combination of R, Python, Markdown, Make, bash, LaTeX and version control, she is experienced in automating research workflows for scalable, auditable and reproducible analysis. In this CoderSpace, the primary focus is on the Python programming language, but coders working in other languages are equally welcome to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:46:34 -0500 2019-11-21T14:30:00-05:00 2019-11-21T16:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (November 26, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849196@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 26, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-11-26T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-26T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Erin Ware (November 27, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67429 67429-16849210@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 27, 2019 9:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly CoderSpace again! She is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background. This fall semester, she is also teaching SIADS502: math methods for data science for the online master’s of data science degree program through the School of Information.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:37 -0400 2019-11-27T09:30:00-05:00 2019-11-27T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
School district segregation and the racial inertia of parental choices since 1970 (December 2, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69186 69186-17261061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, December 2, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

A Population Studies Center Brown Bag Seminar.

Since the 1970s, residential segregation between school districts has accounted for two thirds of all school segregation in the U.S., but it is unclear how much families prioritize racial characteristics of school districts when they choose where to live. I analyze the relative importance neighborhood and school district characteristics on residential selection for households from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics between 1970 and 2015 using a discrete choice analysis. A post-estimation counterfactual simulation reveals the partial effects of micro sorting behaviors on macro segregation. I find that racial avoidance has played an increasingly prominent, but always secondary, role in segregation between districts since 1970, with economic and housing characteristics adding little explanatory power. More than half of district segregation is explained by tendencies to stay or move to nearby neighborhoods without crossing district lines. District recirculation reinforces the inertia of historic racial exclusion at a large, socially meaningful spatial scale.

BIO:
Peter Rich is a sociologist at Cornell University studying the intersection of structural inequality, individual choice, and public policy in the United States. His work primarily examines how micro sorting processes affect policies intending to expand opportunity to under-served populations. Peter's recent projects analyze spatial inequality between school districts, the effect of charter school expansion on racial segregation, trends in parental residential sorting during and after the era of school desegregation, and the contextual origins of racial gaps in educational outcomes.

PSC Brown Bag seminars highlight recent research in population studies and serve as a focal point for building our research community.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 06 Nov 2019 15:19:26 -0500 2019-12-02T12:00:00-05:00 2019-12-02T13:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion Peter Rich
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (December 3, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849197@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-12-03T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-03T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Erin Ware (December 4, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67429 67429-16849211@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 4, 2019 9:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly CoderSpace again! She is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background. This fall semester, she is also teaching SIADS502: math methods for data science for the online master’s of data science degree program through the School of Information.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:37 -0400 2019-12-04T09:30:00-05:00 2019-12-04T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Jule Krüger (December 5, 2019 2:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/67432 67432-16849226@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 2:30pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Krüger is the ISR program manager for big data and data science, based within the Center for Political Studies. She has more than 10 years of experience in processing, analyzing and interpreting data for social science research. An expert on data generating processes, triangulating multiple databases, and expanding methodology for researching difficult to observe populations, Dr. Krüger has proficient knowledge in computer programming, statistical analysis and scientific methodology. Using a combination of R, Python, Markdown, Make, bash, LaTeX and version control, she is experienced in automating research workflows for scalable, auditable and reproducible analysis. In this CoderSpace, the primary focus is on the Python programming language, but coders working in other languages are equally welcome to attend.

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Dec 2019 11:46:34 -0500 2019-12-05T14:30:00-05:00 2019-12-05T16:00:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Paul Schulz (December 10, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67427 67427-16849198@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 10, 2019 10:00am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Paul Schulz is a senior consulting statistician and data scientist for ISR's Population Dynamics and Health Program. He specializes in statistical methods and computing, including hypothesis testing, data analysis and modelling, sampling (including weight creation and adjustment), and power calculation), as well as the use of secure computing enclaves (SRCVDI, Likert cluster, and Flux/Great Lakes). Paul writes code in Stata and SAS for general purpose desktop computing, and R and Python for selected applications, such as data visualization and web scraping/automation, among other uses.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:55 -0400 2019-12-10T10:00:00-05:00 2019-12-10T11:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
ISR CoderSpace with Erin Ware (December 18, 2019 9:30am) https://events.umich.edu/event/67429 67429-16849213@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 18, 2019 9:30am
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research

Dr. Ware is a self-taught HPC user and excited to host a weekly CoderSpace again! She is an Assistant Professor of Research in the Population, Neurodevelopment, and Genetics group at ISR. Her training has been in genetic epidemiology, public health, and statistics using SAS (local), R (server), Linux (on FLUX, MBNI, and other personal servers), batch scripting (SGE, PBS, Slurm). Dr. Ware has taught SAS (data management and statistical modeling) and introductory statistics using R. She is experienced in teaching high performance computing to individuals with limited programming background. This fall semester, she is also teaching SIADS502: math methods for data science for the online master’s of data science degree program through the School of Information.

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:06:37 -0400 2019-12-18T09:30:00-05:00 2019-12-18T10:30:00-05:00 Institute For Social Research Center for Political Studies - Institute for Social Research Workshop / Seminar CoderSpaces at ISR
University Library Resources Open House (January 16, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70416 70416-17594469@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Explore information services, research tools, and resources offered by the University of Michigan library.

There will be 2 presentations and a variety of other resources available.

PRESENTATIONS:

12:00 - 12:45: Measuring Research Impact
Presenters: Becky Welzenbach, Research Impact Librarian
Judy Smith, Informationist
Tyler Nix, Informationist

1:00 - 1:45: Data Visualization
Presenter: Justin Joque, Visualization Librarian

Resource booths include:

Deep Blue/RDM: Rachel Woodbrook, Data Curation Librarian and Martha Stuit, Repository Assistant
Mapping and GIS: Caroline Kayko, Map & Geospatial Data Librarian
Systematic Reviews: Whitney Townsend, Informationist
NIH Compliance and Open Access: Merle Rosenzweig, Informationist
ISR Information Resources: Yan Fun, Information Resources Manager


Lunch is provided during the presentations for attendees and library participants who RSVP to the presentations.

RSVP is required for this event: https://forms.gle/iC41v4ygK9UNmcTaA

If you require accommodations to attend this event or have any questions please contact Anna Massey at abeattie@umich.edu.

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