The Quantitative Methods Workshop is hosted by the Department of Political Science. It meets weekly on Wednesdays from 12:30pm to 1:50pm in Pick 407. The graduate student coordinator for the 2025-26 academic year is Maggie Wang. The faculty sponsor is Molly Offer-Westort.

The workshop hosts in-person research presentations researchers from around campus, and, usually over Zoom, from external researchers. The schedule for the 2025-26 academic year is below. We hope you will join us!

To join the mailing list, click here. For remote access to the workshop, please contact us here.

Fall Quarter 2025

October 1: Austin Jang, Yale University
October 8: Zikai Li, University of Chicago
October 22: Alexander Coppock, Northwestern University
November 12: Jing Li, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
December 3: Hane Lee, University of Chicago

Winter Quarter 2026

January 7: Molly Offer-Westort, University of Chicago
January 21: Xuechunzi Bai, University of Chicago
February 4: Junsol Kim, University of Chicago
February 18: YC Leong, University of Chicago
March 4: Gustavo Diaz, Northwestern University

Spring Quarter 2026

March 25: Ye Wang, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
April 8: TBA
April 22: TBA
May 6: TBA
May 20: TBA