Computational Social Science Workshop Calendar

Fall 2018

Thursday's, 11:00am-12:20pm, Kent 120

October 4th - Mixer with CSS Faculty

October 11th - Marc Berman

Faculty Director for the Masters in Computational Social Science Program; Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Chicago

The Fractal Brain and Cognitive Effort

October 18th - Zizi Papacharissi

Professor and Department Head of Communication, Professor of Political Science, University of Illinois at Chicago

Affective Publics: News Storytelling, Sentiment and Technology

November 8th - Charlie Catlett

Director of Urban Center for Computation and Data, Senior Computer Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, Senior Fellow at the Computation Institute of the University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory

Understanding Cities through Measurement and Embedded Intelligence

November 29th - Lillian Lee

Professor, Department of Computer Science and Department of Information Science, Cornell University

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Winter 2019

Thursday's, 11:00am-12:20pm, Kent 120

January 10th - Ed Awh

Professor, Department of Psychology, The Institute for Mind and Biology, and the Grossman Institute for Neuroscience, Quantitative Biology and Human Behavior, University of Chicago

January 17th - Nicolas Masse

Postdoctoral Scholar and Staff Scientist, Department of Neurobiology, University of Chicago

January 24th - Adam Bonica

Associate Professor of Political Science, Stanford University

February 14th - Monica Rosenberg

Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Psychology, Yale University

February 21st - Tor Wager

Professor of Psychology and Neuroscience, Director of the Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience Laboratory, University of Colorado Boulder

February 28th - Steven Durlauf

Steans Professor of Educational Policy at the Harris School of Public Policy Studies, The University of Chicago

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Spring 2019

Thursday's, 11:00am-12:20pm, Kent 120

April 4th - Amos Golan

Co-sponsored by the Quantitative Methods Committee

Professor of Economics, Director of the the Info-Metrics Institute, American University

April 11th - Abdullah Almaatouq

Ph.D. Student and Research Assistant, Computational Science & Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

April 18th - MACSS Student Conference

An Opportunity for Second Year MACSS Students to Present Their Thesis Research

2nd Year Lightning Talks

NOTE: Special Time and Location: Thursday, 5-8pm - Kent 120

April 25th- Andrey Rzhetsky

Professor, Department of Medicine; Professor, Department of Human Genetics; Senior Fellow, Computation Institute; Senior Fellow, Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology, University of Chicago

May 2nd - Kaitlin Torphy, Ken Frank, Hamid Karimi

Interdisciplinary Team of the Teachers in Social Media Project, Michigan State University

May 16th - Tom Griffiths

Professor of Psychology and Cognitive Science, Princeton University

May 23rd - Stephanie Palmer

Assistant Professor, Department of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago

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Past Speakers

Winter 2018

Thursday's, 11:00am-12:20pm, Kent 120

January 11th - Ali Hortaçsu

The Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Professor in Economics and the College, University of Chicago

Trade, Merchants, and the Lost Cities of the Bronze Age

January 18th - Anna Mueller

Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Human Development and the College, University of Chicago

Why Networks Matter to Suicide: Examining the Cultural Underpinnings of Suicide Diffusion in Adolescence

January 25th - James Evans

Director, Knowledge Lab; Professor, Sociology, University of Chicago; Senior Fellow, Computation Institute; Faculty Director, Masters Program in Computational Social Sciences, University of Chicago

The Wisdom of Polarized Crowds

February 1st - Richard Evans

Senior Lecturer in Computational Social Science; Director, Open Source Macroeconomics Laboratory; Fellow, Becker Friedman Institute, University of Chicago

Open Source Modeling for Policy Analysis and Research

February 15th - Leslie Kay

Professor, Department of Psychology and The College, University of Chicago

How the Questions We Ask Affect the Answers We Get: A Lesson from Asking Rats How They Smell

February 22nd - Laura Nelson

Assistant Professor of Sociology, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Northeastern University

Cycles of Conflict, A Century of Continuity: Using Computational Methods to Measure Why Some Ideas Succeed and Others Fail

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Spring 2018

Thursday's, 11:00am-12:20pm, Kent 120

March 29th - MACSS Student Conference

An Opportunity for Second Year MACSS Students to Present Their Thesis Research

2nd Year Lightning Talks

NOTE: Special Time and Location: Thursday, 5-7pm - Social Science Research Building 122

April 5th - Chris Bail

Douglas and Ellen Lowey Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Policy, Duke University

Talk Title TBD

April 12th - Ben Golub

Assistant Professor, Department of Economics, Harvard University

Talk Title TBD

April 26th - Paolo Parigi

Lead Trust Scientist, Airbnb

Talk Title TBD

May 4th - Glen Weyl

Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research New England, Visiting Senior Research Scholar, Yale University

Talk Title TBD

NOTE: Special Time and Location: Friday - TBD

May 10th - Kathleen Cagney

Associate Professor, Sociology; Health Studies Director, Population Research Center, NORC; Executive Committee Member, Masters in Computational Social Science Program, University of Chicago

Talk Title TBD

May 17th - Andres Gomez

Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for International Development, Harvard University

Talk Title TBD

May 24th - Bogdan State

Data Scientist, Facebook

Talk Title TBD

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