2013-14: CMSS: Opening Workshop: August 18-22, 2013
Workshop Information
LOCATION: Radisson Hotel RTP (August 18-21) AND SAMSI (August 22)
The SAMSI program on Computational Methods in Social Sciences is built around three major themes: Social Networks; Agent-Based Modeling; and Statistical Methodology for Censuses and Surveys. The purpose of the Opening Workshop was threefold: (a) to provide a series of tutorial lectures aiming to introduce the major research themes in the field to graduate students and other newcomers to the topic; (b) a series of focused research sessions highlighting current developments, (c) the formation and initial meetings of Working Groups which will meet weekly through the year of the program.
Sunday, August 18, featured five tutorial lectures by leading participants in the field. Topics covered the three main areas of the program and the related mathematical and statistical methodology.
From Monday, August 19, through lunch on Wednesday, August 21, there were five research sessions, each consisting of two or three talks followed by discussion.
Wednesday afternoon, August 21, was devoted to the formation and initial meetings of working groups.
Thursday, August 22, was devoted to initial meetings of the working groups at SAMSI.
Schedule
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Radisson RTP, Room H
| 8:00-8:45 a.m. | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:45-9:00 | Introduction and Welcome - Richard L. Smith, Director of SAMSI |
| Tutorial Lecture 1 | |
| 9:00-10:00 | Adrian Raftery, University of Washington Statistical Demography: Probabilistic Population Reconstruction and Projection |
| 10:00-10:30 | Break |
| Tutorial Lecture 2 | |
| 10:30-11:30 | Krista Gile, University of Massachusetts, Amhert Proceeds of the Partnership: Statistics and Social Science |
| Tutorial Lecture 3 | |
| 11:30-12:30 | Simon Jackman, Stanford University Data and Computation in Political Science: The State of the Discipline and Emerging Trends |
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch |
| Tutorial Lecture 4 | |
| 2:00-3:00 | Roderick Little, University of Michigan The Analysis of Census and Survey Data: History, Current Approaches, and Research Topics |
| 3:00-3:30 | Break |
| Tutorial Lecture 5 | |
| 3:30-4:30 | Sara Del Valle, LANL Agent-based Modeling Approaches for Simulating Infectious Diseases |
| 4:30-5:00 | Discussion and wrap-up |
Monday, August 19, 2013
Radisson RTP, Room H
| 8:00-8:45 a.m. | Registration and Continental Breakfast |
| 8:45-9:00 | Introduction and Welcome |
| 9:00-12:30 | Research Session 1: Networks Organizer: Krista Gile, University of Massachusetts at Amherst |
| 9:00-9:45 | Edo Airoldi, Harvard Design and Analysis of Experiments in the Presence of Network Interference |
| 9:45-10:30 | Mark Handcock, UCLA Exponential-Family Random Network Models for Social Networks |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break |
| 11:00-11:45 | Tom Carsey, University of Chapel Hill Networking Network Scholars: Generating Best Practices for Archiving Network Data |
| 11:45-12:30 | Discussants: David Banks, Duke; Justin Gross, UNC; Peter Mucha, UNC |
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00-5:30 | Research Session 2: Modern Computational Methods for the Analysis of Survey and Census Data Organizer: Jerry Reiter, Duke University |
| 2:00-2:45 | Stephen Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University Record Linkage as a Statistical Procedure: Some History, Formal Frameworks, Applications, and Challenges |
| 2:45-3:30 | David Dunson, Duke University Bayesian Methods for Huge Multiway Tables |
| 3:30-4:00 | Break |
| 4:00-4:45 | Jay Breidt, Colorado State University Model-Assisted Survey Regression Estimation with the Lasso |
| 4:45-5:30 | Discussants: Frauke Kreuter, University of Maryland Tom Louis, Johns Hopkins University |
| 5:30-7:30 | Poster Session and Reception All participants in the workshop are encouraged to present a poster. SAMSI will provide poster presentation boards and tape. The board dimensions are 4 ft. wide by 3 ft. high. They are tri-fold with each side being 1 ft. wide and the center 2 ft. wide. Please make sure your poster fits the board. The boards can accommodate up to 16 pages of paper measuring 8.5 inches by 11 inches. |
Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Radisson RTP, Room H
| 8:00-9:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00-12:30 | Research Session 3: Agent-Based Models Organizers: David Banks, Duke University; Sara Del Valle, LANL |
| 9:00-9:45 | Georgiy Bobashev, RTI International Computational Ethnography and Agent-based Modeling |
| 9:45-10:30 | Ben Klemens, US Census Bureau A Simulation of Nonresponse and Imputation |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break |
| 11:00-11:45 | Kathleen Carley, Carnegie Mellon University Networks and Agents: The Value of a Multi-Level Approach to Agent-Based Dynamic- Network Modeling |
| 11:45-12:30 | Discussant: Kristian Lum, Virginia Institute of Technology |
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00-5:30 | Research Session 4: Weighting Organizer: Joseph Sedransk, Case Western Reserve University |
| 2:00-2:45 | Roderick Little, University of Michigan Weighting Methods in Surveys |
| 2:45-3:30 | Mary Thompson, University of Waterloo The Use of Weights in Analysis of Survey Data |
| 3:30-4:00 | Break |
| 4:00-4:45 | Keith Rust, Westat Survey Weights for the Analysis of Complex Survey Data |
| 4:45-5:30 | Discussant: Joseph Sedransk, Case Western Reserve University |
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Radisson RTP, Room H
| 8:00-9:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00-12:30 | Research Session 5: Causal Inference Organizer: Tian Zheng, Columbia University |
| 9:00-9:45 | Michael Sobel, Columbia University Causal Inference for fMRI Time Series Data with Systematic Errors of Measurement in a Balanced On/Off Study of Social Evaluative Threat |
| 9:45-10:30 | James O'Malley, Dartmouth Causal Estimation of Peer Effects Using Instrumental Variables |
| 10:30-11:00 | Break |
| 11:00-11:45 | Elizabeth "Betsy" Ogburn, Johns Hopkins University Causal Inference for Interference and Social Networks: Challenges and Tools |
| 11:45-12:30 | Discussant: Fan Li, Duke University |
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch |
| 2:00-5:00 | Working Group Formation and Initial Meetings |
Thursday, August 22, 2013
at SAMSI
| 9:00-12:00 | Working Group Meetings |
| 12:00-1:00 | Lunch |
| 1:00 | Continuation of Working Group Meetings |