Fall 2018
Fall 2018
Wednesday, September 5
Intro & Overview of the graduate training program
Marcy Carlson, UW–Madison CDE
Michal Engelman, UW–Madison Sociology
Jason Fletcher, UW–Madison CDHA
John Mullahy, UW–Madison Population Health
Jenna Nobles, UW–Madison Sociology
Jim Raymo, UW–Madison Sociology
Wednesday, September 12
Workshop PAA Abstracts
Michal Engelman, UW–Madison Sociology
Wednesday, September 19
No Seminar: Yom Kippur
Wednesday, September 26
Writing a Research Paper for Publication
Michal Engelman, UW–Madison Sociology
Jason Fletcher, UW–Madison CDHA
Jenna Nobles, UW–Madison Sociology
Wednesday, October 3
Research-in-Progress
Qian He, UW–Madison Sociology
Monday, October 8
Genetics and Social Sciences: An Overview
Phil Koellinger, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Economics
[Note: Special Date, Monday 2-3:15pm]
Wednesday, October 17
Causal inference with Big Data
Hyunseung Kang, UW–Madison Statistics
Wednesday, October 24
Careers outside Academia
Kiersten Strombotne, American Institutes for Research
Jessa Lewis Valentine, DVP-Praxis LTD
Wednesday, October 31
Epigenetics: A Social Scientist’s Perspective
Colter Mitchell, University of Michigan
Wednesday, November 7
Agent-Based Modeling with NetLogo (I)
Jennifer Stenglein, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Wednesday, November 14
Agent-Based Modeling with NetLogo (II)
Jennifer Stenglein, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
Wednesday, November21
Thanksgiving break
Wednesday, November 28
Structuring Arguments
TBA, UW–Madison Writing Center
Wednesday, December 5
New Rules for Human Subjects Research? What Happened to the Old Ones?
Susan Lederer, UW–Madison Medical History and Bioethics
Wednesday, December 12
Practice Job Talk: Anticipatory Migration and Local Labor Responses to Rural Climate Shocks
Esteban Quiñones, UW–Madison Agricultural & Applied Economics