Prior Workshops 2019 - 2020

Fall 2020

Date

Speaker

Title

Paper
October 9, 2020
Guillaume Pouliot, Assistant Professor Harris School of Public Policy
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.
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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 

Spring 2020

Date

Postponed

Speaker

David Banks, Professor of the Practice of Statistics, Duke University

Paper

Postponed
Guillaume Pouliot, Assistant Professor Harris School of Public Policy

Title

Paper

Postponed
Kathleen Cagney, Director Population Research Center, NORC at University of Chicago

Title

Paper

Postponed
Christian Hansen, Booth Professor of Econometrics and Statistics, University of Chicago

Title

Paper

Postponed
Yanyan Sheng, Senior Lecturer, Quantitative Methods Committee, University of Chicago

Title

Paper

Winter 2020

Date

Speaker

Title

Paper

January 10, 2020
Charles Manski, Professor of Economics, Northwestern University
January 24, 2020
Adam Glynn, Associate Professor of Political Science, Emory University
February 7, 2020
Konrad Menzel, Associate Professor in the Department of Economics, New York University
February 21, 2020
Christopher Berry, Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
Theory and Credibility

Fall 2019

Date

Speaker

Title

Paper
October 11, 2019
Ross “Rafe” Stolzenberg, Professor of Sociology, University of Chicago

“Preferential Credentials: Institutional Limits and Academic Effects of Preferential Treatment in College Admissions”

October 25, 2019
Bryon Aragam, Assistant Professor of Econometrics and Statistics and Robert H. Topel Faculty Scholar
“Identifiability of Non-parametric mixture models, Clustering, and Semi-supervised Learning”