2013-14: CMSS: Opening Workshop: August 18-22, 2013

Location

Radisson Hotel RTP (August 18-21) and SAMSI (August 22)

Description

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 and Supporting Media

Sunday, August 18, 2013
Radisson RTP, Room H

Time Description Speaker Slides Videos
8:00-8:45 Registration and Continental Breakfast
8:45-9:00 Introduction and Welcome Richard L. Smith, Director of SAMSI  
Tutorial Lecture 1
9:00-10:00 Statistical Demography: Probabilistic Population Reconstruction and Projection Adrian Raftery, University of Washington  
10:00-10:30 Break
Tutorial Lecture 2
10:30-11:30 Proceeds of the Partnership: Statistics and Social Science Krista Gile, University of Massachusetts, Amhert    
Tutorial Lecture 3
11:30-12:30 Data and Computation in Political Science: The State of the Discipline and Emerging Trends Simon Jackman, Stanford University    
12:30-2:00 Lunch
Tutorial Lecture 4
2:00-3:00 The Analysis of Census and Survey Data: History, Current Approaches, and Research Topics Roderick Little, University of Michigan  
3:00-3:30 Break
Tutorial Lecture 5
3:30-4:30 Agent-based Modeling Approaches for Simulating Infectious Diseases Sara Del Valle, LANL    
4:30-5:00 Discussion and wrap-up

Monday, August 19, 2013
Radisson RTP, Room H

Time Description Speaker Slides Videos
8:00-8:45 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 Design and Analysis of Experiments in the Presence of Network Interference Edo Airoldi, Harvard  
9:45-10:30 Exponential-Family Random Network Models for Social Networks Mark Handcock, UCLA  
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:45 Networking Network Scholars: Generating Best Practices for Archiving Network Data Tom Carsey, University of Chapel Hill  
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 Record Linkage as a Statistical Procedure: Some History, Formal Frameworks, Applications, and Challenges Stephen Fienberg, Carnegie Mellon University  
2:45-3:30 Bayesian Methods for Huge Multiway Tables David Dunson, Duke University  
3:30-4:00 Break
4:00-4:45 Model-Assisted Survey Regression Estimation with the Lasso Jay Breidt, Colorado State University  
4:45-5:30 Discussants:
Frauke Kreuter, University of Maryland
Tom Louis, Johns Hopkins University
 
 
5:30-7:30 Poster Session and Reception

Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Radisson RTP, Room H

Time Description Speaker Slides Videos
8:00-9:00 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 Computational Ethnography and Agent-based Modeling Georgiy Bobashev, RTI International  
9:45-10:30 A Simulation of Nonresponse and Imputation Ben Klemens, US Census Bureau  
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:45 Networks and Agents: The Value of a Multi-Level Approach to Agent-Based Dynamic- Network Modeling Kathleen Carley, Carnegie Mellon University  
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 Weighting Methods in Surveys Roderick Little, University of Michigan
2:45-3:30 The Use of Weights in Analysis of Survey Data Mary Thompson, University of Waterloo
3:30-4:00 Break
4:00-4:45 Survey Weights for the Analysis of Complex Survey Data Keith Rust, Westat
4:45-5:30 Discussant:
Joseph Sedransk, Case Western Reserve University
 

Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Radisson RTP, Room H

Time Description Speaker Slides Videos
8:00-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-12:30 Research Session 5: Causal Inference Organizer: Tian Zheng, Columbia University
9:00-9:45 Causal Inference for fMRI Time Series Data with Systematic Errors of Measurement in a Balanced On/Off Study of Social Evaluative Threat Michael Sobel, Columbia University  
9:45-10:30 Causal Estimation of Peer Effects Using Instrumental Variables James O’Malley, Dartmouth  
10:30-11:00 Break
11:00-11:45 Causal Inference for Interference and Social Networks: Challenges and Tools Elizabeth “Betsy” Ogburn, Johns Hopkins University  
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

Time Description Speaker Slides Videos
9:00-12:00 Working Group Meetings
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00 Continuation of Working Group Meetings