CEGA-EASST Scholars Visit from East Africa
CCPR Seminar Room 4240 Public Affairs Building, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesCEGA-EASST Scholars Visit from East Africa
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Homelessness Workshop
4240 Public Affairs BldgHomelessness Workshop Organizers: Randall Kuhn and Till von Wachter May 21-24, 2018 4240 Public Affairs Building In Los Angeles County, homelessness is a crisis affecting productivity, safety and health, including that of UCLA students and staff. While individual research groups at UCLA are addressing this crisis, UCLA lacks a coordinated response in terms of research […]
Joint Seminar Contemporary Cambodia & Genocide Film Screening and Discussion “Angkar”
Organizers: Patrick Heuveline and Geoff Robinson May 30th, 2018 4240 Public Affairs Building Senior seminar will screen film titled “Angkar”. This is a joint effort between Prof. Patrick Heuveline, Sociology and Prof. Geoff Robinson, History. Discussion to follow film screening.
Partnership UCLA Russian Delegation
4240 Public Affairs BldgOrganizers: Dora Costa, Economics Department June 5-7, 2018 4240 Public Affairs Building Through mutually beneficial partnerships-with our alumni and friends in the professional world, government agencies, and community organizations-the College of Letters & Science has long paved the way for continued leadership, impact and excellence. We have successfully consolidated and strengthened these partnerships, through Partnership […]
California Center for Population Research 20th Anniversary Reception
Fowler MuseumOctober 11, 2018 Fowler Museum, UCLA Speakers: Randall Kuhn, Anne Pebley, Meredith Phillips, Michael Lens, Moshe Buchinsky, Till von Wachter
California Center for Population Research 20th Anniversary Research Symposium
Covel Commons UCLAOctober 12th, 2018 Covel Commons, UCLA The California Center for Population Research (CCPR) at UCLA was founded in 1998, and thus celebrates its 20-year anniversary in 2018. This is a full day conference covering various topics related to population studies. CCPR Alumna from all over the country will present their current work.
Trans-Pacific Labor Seminar
4240 Public Affairs BldgThe Trans-Pacific Labor Seminar is part of a conference series that brings together Japanese and U.S. economics scholars. The idea is to foster trans-pacific exchange and collaboration, and usually half of the participants are from Japan and half are U.S. based. The conference is co-sponsored by the International Institute, the Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies, […]
Introducing the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging (ELSI-Brasil)
CCPR Seminar Room 4240 Public Affairs Building, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesFabíola Bof de Andrade, Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Instituto de Pesquisas René Rachou, Brazil & James Macinko, UCLA This seminar will provide an introduction to the newest study in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS) family, the Brazilian Longitudinal Study of Aging. The speakers will describe the overall study design and the main topics covered, highlight […]
CEGA-EASST Scholars from East Africa
4240 Public Affairs BldgOrganizers: Manisha Shah and Daniel Posner November 26, 2018 4240 Public Affairs Building EASST invites East African researchers to apply for a 4-month fellowship at UC Berkeley to build skills in rigorous social science research and impact evaluation–these are the fellows who won this fellowship. Each scholar will present on the following topics; Apollo Maima: […]
Workshop: Information Session – Census Data & German Data
Bunche 9383Information session on data available at the Census Research Data Center (RDC) at UCLA and how to access it: Data availability of five types of confidential government data available in the RDC Business Data (Economic Census, Annual Survey of Manufactures, Longitudinal Foreign Trade Transactions Database, Commodity Flow Survey, Business Research and Development and Innovation Survey) […]
Lars Vilhuber, Cornell University
4240 Public Affairs Bldg"Replication and Reproducibility in Social Sciences and Statistics: Context, Concerns, and Concrete Measures"
Binational workshop on planning in Mexico and California
4240 Public Affairs BldgOrganizer: Paavo Monkkonen February 8, 2019 4240 Public Affairs Building The Luskin Latin American Cities Initiative ( https://ciudades.luskin.ucla.edu/ ) is hosting a workshop on urban planning this Friday, February 8th from 10:00am to 2:00pm. The main objective of the workshop is to compare the roles of Federal and State entities in local planning efforts both […]
The Second Sexual & Gender Minority Research Workshop
UCLA Faculty CenterOrganizer: Ilan Meyer February 22, 2019 UCLA Faculty Center The target audience for the Workshop is students, post-docs, and early investigators. Participants will learn about the NIH structure and grant processes, meet NIH Program Officers and extramural researchers who have been successful at obtaining NIH funding, and network with others interested in SGM-related health research.
Summer Institute in Computational Social Science
CCPR Seminar Room 4240 Public Affairs Building, Los Angeles, CA, United StatesThe purpose of the Summer Institute is to bring together graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and early career faculty interested in computational social science. The Summer Institute is open to both social scientists (broadly conceived) and data scientists (broadly conceived).
Summer Institute in Computational Social Science Panel Presentation
Luskin Conference Center Laureate RoomSummer Institute in Computational Social Science Panel Presentation
Friday June 21, 2019 2:00pm – 5:00pm
Reception 5:00pm – 6:00pm
Luskin Conference Center Laureate Room
• 2:00pm – 3:15pm Digital Demography
Prof. Dennis Feehan, UC Berkeley and Prof. Ka-Yuet Liu, UCLA
• 3:30pm – 4:45pm Computational Causal Inference
Prof. Judea Pearl, UCLA and Prof. Sam Pimentel, UC Berkeley
Big Data for Big Social Issues
UCLA Neuroscience Research Building Auditorium (NRB 132)Big Data for Big Social Issues Summer Institute in Computational Social Science Panel: 1:00pm - 2:45pm Prof. John Friedman, Brown University: "Income Inequality and Social Mobility: What Can We Learn from Big Data?" 3:00pm-5:00pm Reception 5:00-6:00pm Click here to view a recording of the talk A defining feature of the American Dream is upward income […]
CEGA-EASST Scholars from East Africa
4240 Public Affairs BldgOrganizers: Manisha Shah and Daniel Posner November 14, 2019 4240 Public Affairs Building EASST invites East African researchers to apply for a 4-month fellowship at UC Berkeley to build skills in rigorous social science research and impact evaluation–these are the fellows who won this fellowship. Each scholar will present on the following topics; “Impact of […]
“How Not to Destroy the World with AI” Prof. Stuart Russell
Ackerman Grand Ballroom, UCLA*Event has been canceled Stuart Russell, UC Berkeley March 11, 2020 11am – 1pm UCLA Ackerman Grand Ballroom Stuart Russell received his B.A. in physics from Oxford University in 1982 and his Ph.D. in computer science from Stanford in 1986. He then joined the faculty of UC Berkeley, where he is Professor (and formerly Chair) […]
Census 2020: Everyone Counts
TBDThe event has been canceled Census 2020: Everyone Counts Sponsored by: UCLA Center for the Study of International Migration, the California Center for Population Research, the Luskin Center for History and Policy, and the California Policy Lab Kenneth Prewitt, Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs, Special Advisor to the President, Columbia University & former Director, […]
Summer Institute in Computational Social Science
4240 Public Affairs BldgCCPR June 15 – 26, 2020 4240 Public Affairs Building The purpose of the Summer Institute is to bring together graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and early career faculty interested in computational social science. The Summer Institute is open to both social scientists (broadly conceived) and data scientists (broadly conceived).