The CSSS seminar series

The CSSS seminar series is centered around intellectual exchange and interaction, and the audience is encouraged to ask questions during presentations. The goal is a seminar that looks less like a lecture and more like a spirited discussion of issues raised in a relatively brief presentation of a statistical issue or a research project.

All seminars will be held at 12:30 on Wednesdays in Savery 409 unless otherwise noted, and we will aim to conclude by 1:30. Coffee and treats will be provided after the seminar; attendees are also welcome to bring their lunch.

For information or questions about the CSSS Seminars, please contact our CSSS Seminar Director, Brian Flaherty.


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Spring 2012

Seminars held in SAV 409 from 12:30pm - 1:20pm,
followed by discussion and refreshments

Wednesday, April 4, 2012
Ben Marwick, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington
"Cultural Phylogenetics of Religion using Thai Bronze Buddha Statues"
Savery 409, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.

Wednesday, April 11, 2012
Pedro Domingos, Associate Professor, Department of Science and Engineering, University of Washington
"Modeling and Optimizing Word of Mouth with Markov Logic"
Savery 409, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.

Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Macartan Humphreys, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Columbia University; Director, Center for the Study of Development Strategies
"Nature's false confessions: a proposal for comprehensive registration to discourage data fishing in political science"
Savery 409, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Tamas Rudas, Professor of Statistics, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest; Affiliate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Washington
"Marginal models of social mobility"
Savery 409, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.

Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Tyler H. McCormick, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Department of Sociology, Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences, University of Washington
"Big data meets medical care: Patient-level predictive models for large-scale medical data"
Savery 409, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.

Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Joel Kaufman, MD, Professor, Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington
"Studying the link between ambient air pollution and cardiovascular diseases"
Savery 409, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.

Wednesday, May 16, 2012
Michael Sobel, Professor, Departments of Statistics and Sociology, Columbia University
"Does Marriage Boost Men's Wages?: Identification of Treatment Effects in Fixed Effects Regression Models for Panel Data"
Savery 409, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012
Stephen Fienberg, Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Sciences, Carnegie Mellon University
"Is the Privacy of Network Data an Oxymoron?"
Savery 409, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.

Wednesday, May 30, 2012
"CSSS course overview"
Savery 409, 12:30 P.M. - 1:20 P.M.