Workshop
The Workshop on Quantitative Research Methods in Education, Health, and Social Sciences (QMEHSS) serves as an important venue on the University of Chicago campus for building an intellectual community of colleagues who share methodological interests. Workshop participants meet biweekly to discuss working papers and brainstorm solutions to methodological problems encountered in ongoing research. Participants have included faculty members, researchers, and students from the Social Sciences Division, Health Studies, Statistics, Public Policy, the National Opinion Research Center, the Consortium for Chicago School Research, and colleagues from the University of Illinois in Chicago. In addition, we have invited speakers from other major universities to share with us their latest work.
The Workshop meets every other Friday from 1030 am until 1200 noon in the Social Science Research Building, on the Fourth Floor in Room 401, located at 1126 E. 59th Street. The room location is subject to change, so please check specific announcements to confirm workshop location.
Due to covid restrictions, all workshops for the 2020-2021 academic year will be held virtually via Zoom until further notice.
Workshop Instructor for the pre-workshop session, 2020-2021: Yanyan Sheng yysheng@uchicago.edu
The pre-workshop session is designed to prepare students for active participation in intellectual discourse in the workshop. The pre-workshop sessions will be held bi-weekly on Tuesdays, date and time TBD.
If you would like to be added to the workshop email list please email Aasha Francis, Administrative Specialist afrancis1@uchicago.edu
Fall 2020
Date
Speaker
TBD
Paper
October 23, 2020
David Banks, Ph.D. Statistics Duke University
Adversarial Risk Analysis: Auctions and Beyond
November 6, 2020
Paul Gustafson, Professor and Head Department of Statistics
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C.
November 20, 2020
Xiao-Li Meng, Professor of Statistics, Harvard
“Differential Privacy for 2020 Census”
December 4, 2020
Panel Discussion: “Conceptualizing and Measuring Discrimination“
Hosted by Professor Steven Durlauf, Harris School of Public Policy
Featured Speakers: Mario Small, Professor of Sociology at Harvard University
Emma Pierson, Assistant Professor of computer Science at Cornell Tech
Omar Wasow, Assistant Professor of Politics at Princeton
“Conceptualizing and Measuring Discrimination” Panel
Winter 2021
Date
Speaker
TBD
Paper
January 29, 2021
TBD
TBD
February 12, 2021
Walter Mebane, Professor, Department of Political Science and Department of Statistics
TBD
February 26, 2021
Kate Cagney, Professor in Sociology, Director Population Research Center, NORC
TBD
March 12, 2021
Ismael Mourifie, Assistant Professor at University of Toronto, Economics
Networks and Matching Models
Spring 2021
Date
Speaker
TBD
Paper
April 9, 2021
Donna Coffman, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Biostatistics
Temple University
TBD
May 7, 2021
Panel Discussion: Social Determinants of Health
Hosted by: Robert Gibbons, Ph.D. Professor of Biostatistics
Featuring: Sandro Galea, Professor at Boston University School of Public Health
C. Hendricks Brown, Professor in the Departments of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Preventive Medicine and Medical Social Sciences at the Northwestern University
Panel Discussion: Social Determinants of Health
May 21, 2021
Yanyan Sheng, Senior Lecturer of the Committee on Quantitative Methods in Social, Behavioral, and Health Sciences
TBD
June 4, 2021
TBD
QMSA Thesis Presentations