Thursday, May 16
Short Courses: CSSS affiliate faculty offer introductions to topics complementary to current CSSS course offerings.
Introduction to Missing Data Methods for Observational Data
9:00 am — 12:00 pm, Husky Union Building room 340
Instructor: Katie Wilson (Biostatistics, University of Washington)
Sensitivity Analysis for Causal Inference in the Social Sciences
9:30 am — 12:00 pm, Husky Union Building room 214
Instructor: Carlos Cinelli (Statistics, University of Washington)
Text as Data
10:00 am — 12:30 pm, Husky Union Building room 332
Instructor: Benjamin Mako Hill (Communication, University of Washington)
Thursday afternoon events: Open to all participants including current students, faculty, and alumni.
Alumni Panel
2:00 pm — 4:00 pm, Parrington Hall room 360
John Ahlquist, Professor of Political Economy, School of Global Policy and Strategy, UC San Diego
Political Science PhD Track, 2008
Siobhán Mattison, Associate Professor, Evolutionary Anthropology, University of New Mexico & Director, Human Family and Evolutionary Demography Laboratory
Anthropology PhD Track, 2010
Gail Potter, Mathematical Statistician, NIAID Biostatistics Research Branch & Deputy Section Chief, Clinical Trials Research Section
Statistics PhD Track, 2010
Adam Glynn, Professor of Political Science, Quantitative Theory and Methods, and Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University
Statistics PhD, 2006
Carolina Johnson, Senior Data Scientist, King County’s Department of Community and Human Services
Political Science PhD Track, 2013
Moderated by Christopher Adolph, Professor of Political Science & CSSS Core Faculty, University of Washington
Welcome Reception and Poster Session
4:30 pm — 6:30 pm, Parrington Hall room 320
Friday, May 17
All events are located at the Intellectual House
Check-in and coffee
9:00 am — 9:30 am
Opening Remarks
9:30 am — 9:45 am
Tricia Serio, Provost and Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs
Morning Scientific Session - Advances in Social Network Analysis
9:45 am — 11:30 am
Chair: Tyler McCormick (Statistics, Sociology, & CSSS Core Faculty, University of Washington)
Weihua An (Sociology & Quantitative Theory and Methods, Emory University)
"Social Networks and Health: Measurement, Contagion, and Interventions"
Siobhán Mattison (Anthropology, University of New Mexico)
"Mosuo social networks do not support universalist theories of gendered social relationships"
Weijing Tang (Statistics & Data Science, Carnegie Mellon University)
"Population-Level Balance in Signed Networks"
Yuan Hsiao, Discussant (Communication, University of Washington)
Seminar - Measuring and understanding the dynamics of populations of scholars
12:30 pm — 1:30 pm, jointly hosted with CSDE
Emilio Zagheni (Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany)
Moderated by Sara Curran (Director, Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology)
Afternoon Scientific Session - Bias, Fairness, and Inequality in an Algorithmic Age
1:45 pm — 3:25 pm
Chair: Sasha Johfre (Sociology & CSSS Core Faculty, University of Washington)
James Chu (Sociology, Columbia University)
"Algorithmic Reinterpretations: College Rankings and Socioeconomic Self-Sorting"
Razieh Nabi (Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University)
"Advancing Algorithmic Fairness: A Statistical Learning Approach with Fairness Constraints"
Peter Hoff (Statistical Science, Duke University)
"Fair inference in multilevel data analysis"
Kosuke Imai, Discussant (Government, Statistics, Harvard University)
Closing Remarks
3:25 pm — 3:30 pm
Elena Erosheva, Director, Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences
Anniversary Reception and Dinner*
5:00 pm — 7:00 pm
Keynote address by John Ahlquist, (School of Global Policy and Strategy, University of California San Diego)
*This event is by invitation only.
Attendance is free, but advance registration is required.
