Seminars
The CSSS Seminar features local and visiting scholars presenting current research at the intersection of statistics and the social sciences.
To attend a seminar virtually, please join here.
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Graduate students pursuing a CSSS track may receive credit by enrolling in CSSS 590.
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Future Seminars
| Title | Speaker | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Beyond Binary Mastery: Identifiability and Estimation of Partial-Mastery Cognitive Diagnostic Models | Jun Wu, Postdoctoral Fellow, Computational Psychometrics Group, Czech Academy of Sciences. | |
| What Do Language Models Know About the Past? Recovering Historical Perspectives Using Large-Scale Language Models | Laura K. Nelson, Associate Professor of Sociology and Director of the Centre for Computational and Digital Social Science, Humanities, and Creative Arts (CODI Centre), University of British Columbia | |
| Facilitating Heterogeneous Effect Estimation via Statistically Efficient Categorical Modifiers | Dan Kowal, Associate Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Cornell University | |
| The Childless Society? Adult–Child Contact in an Era of Demographic Aging | Audrey Dorélien, Associate Professor, Sociology, UW | |
| Agentic AI for Social Science Research | Ben Marwick, Professor, Anthropology, UW | |
| Correcting Inferences in AI-Assisted Content Analysis | Nathan TeBlunthuis, Assistant Professor, Information School, University of Texas at Austin |
