Workshops
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.
A pre-workshop session is designed to prepare students for active participation in intellectual discourse in the workshop. The pre-workshop sessions will be held in a hybrid format this year (2025-2026) before each workshop session, and will be scheduled at the beginning of each quarter based on MAPSS QMSA students’ schedules. Please contact Yanyan Sheng (y.sheng@uchicago.edu) for specific information about attending pre-workshop session. Our workshops meet bi-weekly on Fridays in Stuart Hall Room 101 (5835 S Greenwood Ave) from 11:00am until 12:30pm CST unless otherwise noted.
Please Note: The Workshop is held in person at Stuart Hall Room 101 (5835 S Greenwood Ave) for the upcoming academic year.. For those who wish to attend virtually, there is a Zoom backup option that can be accessed by emailing Aasha Francis afrancis1@uchicago.edu or by subscribing to our email list.
If you would like to be added to the workshop email list please email Aasha Francis, Administrative Specialist afrancis1@uchicago.edu
AUTUMN 2025
Date
Speaker
Title
October 10, 2025
Cristobal Young, Associate Professor at Department of Sociology, Cornell University
Multiverse Analysis: Computational Methods for Robust Results
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October 24, 2025
Aaron Schein, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and the College, Data Science Institute
What’s in a Cubit? Using LLMs and Science-Informed Probabilistic Models to Denoise and Decipher the Babylonian Astronomical Diaries
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November 7, 2025
Eric Polley, Associate Professor of Public Health Sciences, University of Chicago
Emulating Clinical Trials using Medical Claims Data
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November 21, 2025
Alex Kale, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, Data Science
Designing for Inference with Visualizations
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December 5, 2025
Lucienne Disch, Postdoctoral Researcher, Stone Center for Research on Wealth Inequality and Mobility
TBD
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WINTER 2026
Date
Speaker
Title
January 30, 2026
Evan Rose, Associate Professor in Economics and the College ; Co-Director, Graduate Placement
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February 13, 2026
Gueyon Kim, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics University of California, Santa Cruz
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February 27, 2026
Jake Bowers, Political Science and Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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March 6, 2026
Xi Song, Professor of Sociology and Demography Department of Sociology | University of Pennsylvania
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SPRING 2026
Date
Speaker
Title
March 27, 2025
Panagiotis Toulis (Panos), Associate Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, and John E. Jeuck Faculty Fellow
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April 10, 2025
Shuangning Li, Assistant Professor of Econometrics and Statistics at Chicago Booth
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April 24, 2026
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May 8, 2026
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May 22, 2026
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