CSDE Seminar - Family Planning Indicators in Global Monitoring Frameworks: The UN Population Division's experience with the MDGs and SDGs - Jamaica Corker
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Speaker: Jamaica Corker, Independent Research & Technical Consultant, Abstract & Bio:
Global family planning indicators play a central role in measuring progress toward universal access to sexual and reproductive health care — but deciding what and how to measure at the global level involves distinctive challenges. Global monitoring requires trade-offs between evolving concepts and priorities in family planning (and sexual and reproductive health and rights more broadly) and the need for standardized measures, comparability across countries and over time, available data, and country engagement and acceptance.
The experience of the Population Division of the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (UN DESA), as the custodian agency for family planning indicators under the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), illustrates the complexity of selecting and operationalizing global indicators, as well as the practical considerations that arise in compiling…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_npA6073FQl2hhG3-w1CGmg#/registration. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: Maddie Farris - CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, October 9, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. CSDE Workshop - Intro to R I: Objects & Programming
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Instructors: Jessica Godwin
This workshop is a 75 minute introduction to the various types of objects used in the R language and basics of programming. We will cover vectors, matrices, data.frames, tibbles, and lists, as well as for loops, while loops, and functions. This is a great workshop for those who have never used R before, as well as experienced R users who work predominantly within the tidyverse.
This workshop is the first in a series of 3 workshops, and will be followed by Intro to R II: Working with Data and Intro to R III: Data Visualization.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Zoom Link provide upon SignUp. Accessibility Contact: CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Workshops.
Tuesday, October 13, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. CSDE Computational Demography Working Group-Changes in Google Search Interest for Sexual and Reproductive Health Terms Following Hurricane Harvey in Texas
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Raitt Hall (RAI). Online Meeting Link: https://csde.washington.edu/computational-demography-working-group-talks/. Campus room: 223. Accessibility Contact: csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, October 14, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. Copula-Based Latent Variable Modeling for Asymmetric Dependence | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Latent variable models such as item response theory (IRT) models and structural equation modeling (SEM) are widely used in social science. Traditional latent variable models heavily rely on multivariate Gaussian assumptions to model dependence among multiple latent variables. However, the Gaussian dependence structures are limited to linear, symmetric, and tail-independent relationships. In this talk, I present two studies that address these limitations by incorporating asymmetric copulas to model tail dependence between latent variables in IRT and SEM. The first study introduces a copula-based joint model for speed and accuracy within the IRT framework. This approach improves the estimation accuracy of latent ability by jointly modeling item responses and response times using asymmetric copulas. The second study extends the copula-based approach to SEM with a focus on binary risk outcome prediction. While standard Gaussian models may underestimate joint risk probabilities, this study demonstrates that modeli…
Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, October 14, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
SAV 409.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu. CSDE Workshop - Biomarker Lab Methods I: Immunoassay Principles
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Instructors: Tiffany Pan
Enzyme immunoassays are the primary method used in the CSDE Biodemography Lab for generating biomarker data. This workshop will provide an overview of immunoassay principles and laboratory practices in preparation for hands-on lab work.
Join us online or in person if you are interested in learning about how we can quantify specific biomarkers in a variety of specimen types.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Raitt Hall (RAI). Campus room: 221. Accessibility Contact: CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Workshops.
Thursday, October 15, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. The Center for Social Science Computation and Research (CSSCR) Workshop-Atlas.ti for Qualitative Thematic Analysis
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Online Meeting Link: https://depts.washington.edu/csscr/2026/09/29/csscr-autumn-2026-newsletter/. Campus room: 117. Accessibility Contact: csscr@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Thursday, October 15, 2026, 3:00 PM – 4:20 PM.
For more info visit docs.google.com. CSDE Seminar - "A More Proper Place of Refuge": Rethinking Asylum History through African American Migration to Haiti - Matthew Randolph
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Speaker: Matthew Randolph, Assistant Professor of American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Hans Rosling Center for Population Health (HRC). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ACie5eUgT2isrnrHOv2y-g#/registration. Campus room: 101. Accessibility Contact: Maddie Farris - CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, October 16, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. Join the College of Arts & Sciences Team for the Alaska Airlines Dawg Dash
Calling All Arts & Sciences Dawgs!
Join fellow alumni, students, friends, artists, scientists, historians, philosophers, writers and curious minds of the College of Arts & Sciences for the Alaska Airlines Dawg Dash on Sunday, October 18!
Part campus tour, part reunion, and all Dawg pride, you'll partake in a little interdisciplinary running through the heart of the UW, passing favorites like the Liberal Arts Quadrangle, Denny Hall, and the site of the future Chemical Sciences Building.
Bring your Arts & Sciences spirit and we'll bring the one-of-a-kind bandanas (picture below) for everyone who signs up to join the College's team for the 10K run, 5K run/walk, or Husky Pups Run.
A portion of your registration fee helps support the UW Alumni Association’s general scholarship fund. Race registration usually sells out before the event, so don't delay. Sign up to be on the College of Arts & Sciences team for the Alaska Airlines Dawg Dash here.
In addition, visit the College of Arts & Sciences tent for fun,…
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: casevents@uw.edu. Event Types: Special Events.
Sunday, October 18, 2026.
For more info visit runsignup.com. CSDE Workshop - Intro to R II: Working with Data
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Instructors: Jessica Godwin
This workshop is a 75 minute introduction to data manipulation in R. We will cover reading and writing data, summarizing data, creating new variables, and moving between long and wide data formats.
This workshop is the second in a series of 3 workshops, and will be followed by Intro to R III: Data Visualization.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Zoom Link provide upon SignUp. Accessibility Contact: CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Workshops.
Tuesday, October 20, 2026, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. CSDE Computational Demography Working Group-Introduction to the Population Dynamics Lab
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Raitt Hall (RAI). Online Meeting Link: https://csde.washington.edu/computational-demography-working-group-talks/. Campus room: 223. Accessibility Contact: csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. The Center for Social Science Computation and Research (CSSCR) Workshop-Creating Research Posters in PowerPoint
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Online Meeting Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSesAZi9PRPNeAgM2iOKw7gK8XKEa3bUHjFthyOS-FF99KmNCw/viewform. Campus room: 121. Accessibility Contact: csscr@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:20 AM.
For more info visit depts.washington.edu. Beyond Binary Mastery: Identifiability and Estimation of Partial-Mastery Cognitive Diagnostic Models | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Abstract: Cognitive diagnostic models (CDMs) are widely used in educational and psychological assessment to provide fine-grained information about individuals’ mastery of specific skills or attributes. Partial-mastery cognitive diagnostic models (PM-CDMs) extend traditional CDMs by allowing latent attribute mastery to vary continuously rather than being restricted to binary mastery indicators. In PM-CDMs, each individual is characterized by a fixed continuous latent mastery vector, from which item-specific binary attribute profiles are independently generated. This formulation provides a bridge between CDMs and continuous latent variable models. Jun Wu is a postdoctoral fellow in the Computational Psychometrics Group, Czech Academy of Sciences. His research interests are in graphical models and latent variable models.
https://washington.zoom.us/s/99784881142.
Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
SAV 409.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu. CSDE Workshop - The Northwest Federal Statistical Research Data Center (NWFSRDC): Enabling Access to Confidential Microdata from Federal Government Agencies
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Instructors: Sofia Ayala and Carlos Becerra
The Federal Statistical Research Data Center (FSRDC) network comprises Census-managed secure computing labs within top educational and research institutions across the country where qualified researchers conduct approved statistical analysis on non-public data. These data are collected by various government agencies (Census Bureau, NCHS, BEA, BLS, SSA, etc.) and made available to local researchers through agreements with federal statistical agencies.
This workshop will give a general introduction to- the data available in the University of Washington’s Northwest FSRDC, some examples of work done with different kinds of data, and the process of requesting access to this data.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Zoom link provide upon registration. Accessibility Contact: CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, October 21, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. CSDE Seminar - Here We Go Again: Repeated Wildfire Smoke Exposure and Health Risks in the US - Joan Casey
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Speaker: Joan Casey, Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Environmental & Occupational Health Sciences, University of Washington, Abstract & Bio:
Wildfires are increasing in frequency and severity, impacting larger numbers of Americans annually, making previously once-in-a-lifetime exposures routine. What repeated exposure means for chronic disease remains largely unknown. I will present research using nationwide Medicare claims and electronic health records from Kaiser Permanente Southern California to examine repeated wildfire smoke exposure and neurological disease. Joan A. Casey is an Associate Professor of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences and Epidemiology at the University of Washington School of Public Health. She received her doctoral degree from the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Dr. Casey uses large secondary spatial data sources to investigate the health impacts of a range of emerging environmental exposures,…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_if8G7LXEQPidXhRZ8usidA#/. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: Maddie Farris - CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, October 23, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. The Center for Social Science Computation and Research (CSSCR) Workshop-Sequence Analysis in R
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Online Meeting Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSesAZi9PRPNeAgM2iOKw7gK8XKEa3bUHjFthyOS-FF99KmNCw/viewform. Campus room: 121. Accessibility Contact: csscr@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Monday, October 26, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:20 AM.
For more info visit depts.washington.edu. CSDE Workshop - LLMs for Social Science Research: Text Annotation
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Instructors: June Yang
The emergence of generative Large Language Models (LLM) brings new research opportunities for social scientists and demographers. In this tutorial, we will be introducing the following four areas of LLM:
What is a generative LLM? The use of generative LLMs for the social sciences: overview of current research applications; A Python (langchain) tutorial on using a generative LLM, GPT-3.5-turbo, for building customized measurements out of political speech; Advanced topic: Embeddings, Vector Stores, and Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) in Python.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Zoom link provide upon registration. Accessibility Contact: CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Workshops.
Tuesday, October 27, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. CSDE Workshop - Intro to R III: Data Visualization
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Instructors: Jessica Godwin
This workshop is a 75 minute introduction data visualization in R. We will cover all major types of plots in both base R and the tidyverse.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus room: Zoom Link provide upon SignUp. Accessibility Contact: CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Workshops.
Tuesday, October 27, 2026, 1:30 PM – 3:00 PM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. CSDE Computational Demography Working Group-
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Raitt Hall (RAI). Online Meeting Link: https://csde.washington.edu/computational-demography-working-group-talks/. Campus room: 223. Accessibility Contact: csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, October 28, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. The Center for Social Science Computation and Research (CSSCR) Workshop-Introduction to Agentic Coding
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Online Meeting Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSesAZi9PRPNeAgM2iOKw7gK8XKEa3bUHjFthyOS-FF99KmNCw/viewform. Campus room: 121. Accessibility Contact: csscr@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, October 28, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:20 AM.
For more info visit depts.washington.edu. What Do Language Models Know About the Past? Recovering Historical Perspectives Using Large-Scale Language Models | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Abstract: Historical archives preserve some of the written record, yet social scientists are interested in more than just facts. We are also interested in taken for granted cultural assumptions, such as how much prestige was accorded to certain occupations in different historical periods. In this talk I ask whether large language models, trained on vast historical text, can recover these lost "collective mentalities," and whether we can trust that recovery as faithful. Using occupational distribution and prestige as a case, I report on experiments probing LLM token probabilities in two stages. First, I validate whether base model probabilties recover historical U.S. occupational distributions against census data. Second, I probe whether these probabilities recover diffuse occupational prestige hierarchies. Asking models to generate a ranking directly fails and degenerates, but probing their probability distributions over a fixed occupation list yields rankings that match known historical classifications. I a…
Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, October 28, 2026, 12:30 PM.
SAV 409.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu. FemQuant Seminar: Quantification as an Epistemic Practice: Activist Documentation of Anti-Trans Violence in Brazil
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Seminar—Quantification as an Epistemic Practice: Activist Documentation of Anti-Trans Violence in Brazil
Thursday, October 29, 2026 at 10 ET/2pm GMT/3pm CET (Check in your time zone here)
Sign up to receive the Zoom link on the day.Drawing on interviews, participant observation, and archival research, Natália’s dissertation examines how trans-led organizations in Brazil make violence against trans people legible. This particular chapter shows how activists strategically produce quantitative data in ways that challenge positivist assumptions about objectivity and neutrality in knowledge production. She interprets these practices through the sociological frameworks of legibility, data feminism, and standpoint epistemology. Natália Heringer is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of North Texas. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in Brazil, her research asks questions at the intersection of political sociology, epistemology, gender, and violence, with a particular focus on how social movements…
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeM0Kdy80PbR3Q9FBxAXREUVIWXGfkdqss-wM1k-z-2MIH0Uw/viewform. Accessibility Contact: femquant17@gmail.com. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, October 29, 2026, 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM.
For more info visit docs.google.com. CSDE Seminar - The Dividend and the Denominator: Why Demography Matters in Public Policy - Apoorva Jadhav
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Speaker: Apoorva Jadhav, Demographic Futures Lead at the William H. Gates Sr. Institute for Population and Reproductive Health, Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health, Abstract & Bio:
Getting population data to actually move policy requires more than good methods. It simultaneously requires creativity, an understanding of how bureaucracies and multilaterals function, strong interpersonal skills, and technical precision. Drawing on my last decade in public policy, including eight years at USAID, and subsequent work across think tanks, philanthropy, and multilateral advisory bodies, I illustrate this combination in practice through twelve examples, organized around four things this work actually demands: counting what gets measured, narrating what gets believed, strategizing what gets built, and brokering what gets resolved. Dr. Apoorva Jadhav is a demographer and policy strategist with twenty years of experience translating demographic evidence into the investments, programs, and policy…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wQdYDOdPS52ghT4BjWzCOg#/registration. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: Maddie Farris - CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, October 30, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. The Center for Social Science Computation and Research (CSSCR) Workshop- Geospatial Analysis in Python
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Online Meeting Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSesAZi9PRPNeAgM2iOKw7gK8XKEa3bUHjFthyOS-FF99KmNCw/viewform. Campus room: 117. Accessibility Contact: csscr@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Monday, November 2, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:20 AM.
For more info visit depts.washington.edu. CSDE Computational Demography Working Group-Ishan Kahveci
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Raitt Hall (RAI). Online Meeting Link: https://csde.washington.edu/computational-demography-working-group-talks/. Campus room: 223. Accessibility Contact: csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. The Center for Social Science Computation and Research (CSSCR) Workshop- Data Wrangling in R
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Online Meeting Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSesAZi9PRPNeAgM2iOKw7gK8XKEa3bUHjFthyOS-FF99KmNCw/viewform. Campus room: 121. Accessibility Contact: csscr@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 10:30 AM – 11:50 AM.
For more info visit depts.washington.edu. Facilitating Heterogeneous Effect Estimation via Statistically Efficient Categorical Modifiers | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Abstract: Categorical covariates such as race, sex, or group are ubiquitous in regression analysis. While main-only (or ANCOVA) linear models are predominant, linear models that include categorical-continuous or categorical-categorical interactions are increasingly important and allow heterogeneous, group-specific effects. However, with standard approaches, the addition of categorical interactions fundamentally alters the estimates and interpretations of the main effects, often inflates their standard errors, and introduces significant concerns about group (e.g. racial) biases. In this talk, I will advocate an alternative parametrization and estimation scheme using abundance-based constraints (ABCs). First, ABCs induce a model parametrization that is both interpretable and equitable. Second, I will show that with ABCs, the addition of categorical interactions 1) leaves main effect estimates unchanged and 2) enhances their statistical power, under reasonable conditions. This surprising result suggests that a…
Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, November 4, 2026, 12:30 PM.
SAV 409.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu. CSDE Seminar - Leveraging Metabolomics and Proteomics to Advance Our Understanding of the Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) Diet: Objective Biomarkers and Potential Mediators - Hyunju Kim
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Speaker: Hyunju Kim, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology, University of Washington, Abstract & Bio:
The Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension (DASH) diet, which reduced blood pressure and cholesterol in randomized, controlled feeding studies, is recommended by the Dietary Guidelines for Americans. However, assessing adherence to the DASH diet is challenging because self-reported diet is prone to measurement error and other systematic biases. Further, although short-term randomized feeding studies found that the DASH diet improves blood pressure and cholesterol, evidence on causal effects of the DASH diet on long-term health outcomes (e.g. incident coronary heart disease) is difficult to obtain. In this presentation, I discuss projects that used metabolomics and proteomics, technologies that allow simultaneous measurement of thousands of small molecules (metabolites) and proteins in biofluids, to discover objective biomarkers of the DASH diet. I also use plasma proteomics to support causal inference about…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZC3JPMQxQ7mbOXcQYU0hvw#/registration. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: Maddie Farris - CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, November 6, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. FemQuant Seminar: Panel—A Conversation with Queerdem* Europe
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Panel—A Conversation with Queerdem* Europe
Tuesday, November 10, 2026 at 9am ET/2pm GMT/3pm CET (Check in your time zone here)
Sign up to receive the Zoom link on the day.This will be a moderated conversation with the organizers of Queerdem* Europe to learn more about their recent founding and goals of the collective. After a brief introduction, the rest of the session will be turned to audience questions and conversation. Queerdem* Europe is a community of academics working on LGBTQ* topics within demography and related disciplines. Our goal is to create a central point of reference for people working on or who would like to start working on topics related to gender and sexual diversity within European demography and to foster this community of researchers.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd1uxu0fRQHcPip4q4tKlwjqsWaGJce1NDJAy4GCl56Eq3HLA/viewform. Accessibility Contact: femquant17@gmail.com. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, November 10, 2026, 6:00 AM – 7:00 AM.
For more info visit docs.google.com. CSDE Seminar - The Future of “Trust & Safety”: Examining the Shift to AI in Online Safety Efforts - Rachel E. Moran
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Speaker: Rachel E. Moran, Senior Research Scientist at the Center for an Informed Public & Affiliate Assistant Professor at the Information School, University of Washington, Abstract & Bio:
Despite their importance, Trust and Safety (T&S) teams experienced significant downsizing between 2022 and 2025, including mass layoffs at major technology companies. Our prior research documented this contraction and identified a parallel expansion in the development and deployment of AI-enabled T&S tools designed to detect, manage, and reduce the spread of harmful and illegal content online. This project examines the shift toward AI through in-depth interviews with T&S professionals who build and use AI systems for online safety. We document the range of AI-enabled tools currently in use and assess professional attitudes toward their effectiveness. We also analyze expert perspectives on AI’s potential to address persistent industry challenges, including cost pressures, politicization of human-led moderation, and the…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_zGKBA0BcSs-g_r6gZsYn8Q#/. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: Maddie Farris - CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, November 13, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. CSDE Computational Demography Working Group-Global Health in Context: Linking Census Data to Health Surveys using IPUMS DHS and IHGIS
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Raitt Hall (RAI). Online Meeting Link: https://csde.washington.edu/computational-demography-working-group-talks/. Campus room: 223. Accessibility Contact: csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. The Childless Society? Adult–Child Contact in an Era of Demographic Aging | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Audrey Dorélien is an associate professor in the Sociology Department at the University of Washington. Her recent work has focused on social contacts and infectious disease transmission. More recently, she has expanded this line of research to provide new insights into intergenerational interactions.
https://washington.zoom.us/s/99784881142.
Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
SAV 409.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu. The Center for Social Science Computation and Research (CSSCR) Workshop- Human Gates for AI Agents in Research
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Online Meeting Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSesAZi9PRPNeAgM2iOKw7gK8XKEa3bUHjFthyOS-FF99KmNCw/viewform. Campus room: 121. Accessibility Contact: csscr@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:50 PM.
For more info visit depts.washington.edu. CSDE Seminar - The Effects of Receiving Rental Assistance on Early Adulthood Outcomes - Raheem Chaudhry
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Speaker: Raheem Chaudhry, Assistant Professor at the Evans School of Public Policy & Governance, University of Washington, Abstract & Bio: , Raheem is an Assistant Professor at the Evans School. His research focuses on how public policy and political institutions can expand access to opportunity for all individuals, particularly those from disadvantaged or historically marginalized communities. He received his PhD from the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley and his Masters in Public Affairs from the University of Texas, Austin. Prior to getting his PhD, he conducted research on a range of issues affecting low-income families at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN__ocMsPduRW6tKtamvb2q7g#/registration. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: Maddie Farris - CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, November 20, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. CSDE Computational Demography Working Group
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Raitt Hall (RAI). Online Meeting Link: https://csde.washington.edu/computational-demography-working-group-talks/. Campus room: 223. Accessibility Contact: csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, December 2, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. Agentic AI for Social Science Research | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Abstract: Large language models are transitioning from static text processors to autonomous, tool-using agents that can plan, execute, and iterate across the research lifecycle. In contrast to a chatbot, agentic AI reads and edits files in your project, runs your code on your computer, fixes errors, and carries out long-running multi-step plans. I review current approaches to using agentic AI to augment routine parts of the social science research process that happen on a computer. I will demonstrate how to use open source software and free or low cost models (avoiding vendor lock in). I will review tools, skills, and model context protocols (MCP) useful for social science research. This approach will be most useful for researchers already using R or Python with small to medium sized data in Quarto or Jupyter notebooks. This is a human-at-the-helm approach (rather than an end-to-end automated paper-writing system) where you are steering the agent and you are responsible for all decisions. I review emerging e…
Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, December 2, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
SAV 409.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu. CSDE Seminar - Navigating the Double-Edge of Statistics: Indigenous Health, Patient Activism, and Collective Care in Chile - Paula Saravia
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Speaker: Paula Saravia, Assistant Teaching Professor of Sociocultural Anthropology, University of Washington.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_226bF2lLR0yghII_WVyCTA#/registration. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: Maddie Farris - CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, December 4, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit washington.zoom.us. FemQuant Seminar: TBD with Dr. Byron Villacis
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Seminar—TBD with Dr. Byron Villacis
Tuesday, December 8, 2026 at 11:30am EST/4:30pm GMT/5:30pm CET (Check in your time zone here)
Sign up to receive the Zoom link on the day.Description forthcoming. Dr. Byron Villacis received a B.A. in Economics from University of San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), a M.Sc. in Economics from the Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO) and a Ph.D. in Sociology and Demography from the University of California-Berkeley in 2023. Before joining the University of Oregon he was an Assistant Professor at Bowdoin College and before his Ph.D. he was the head of the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses of Ecuador. His research focuses on 1) exploring how societies shape and are shaped by quantifications, 2) studying the role of experts and how power relations shape expertise in the fields of corruption, dollarization, statistics, and gender, and 3) understanding how modern notions of anti-corruption are associated with austerity, inequality, and the compression of…
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/e/1FAIpQLSeO35zGUVI85ifVJkRcZlWGFUVzErIsUyPbSr1P22YvPNQX6w/viewform?usp=publish-editor. Accessibility Contact: femquant17@gmail.com. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, December 8, 2026, 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM.
For more info visit docs.google.com. CSDE Computational Demography Working Group-Recovering Administrative Archives: Vision-Language Models for Entity Recognition and Structured Extraction in Early 20th-Century Records
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Raitt Hall (RAI). Online Meeting Link: https://csde.washington.edu/computational-demography-working-group-talks/. Campus room: 223. Accessibility Contact: csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, December 9, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. Correcting Inferences in AI-Assisted Content Analysis | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Content analysis methods measures social categories and constructs in unstructured data. In social science, human annotators interpret and categorize communication data such as behaviors, messages, or images to build or test theories. Machine learning classifiers, increasingly in the form of language models, can help automate this process. The trouble is that machines and humans may interpret the data in different ways. Divergence between machine and human classifiers creates problems for inference, but methods that use human and machine classifications together can reduce bias and variance. Practical trade-offs between methods will be discussed with an emphasis on suitability for causal inference estimators.
https://washington.zoom.us/s/99784881142.
Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, December 9, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
SAV 409.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu. CSDE Fall 2026 Lightning Talks & Poster Session
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Raitt Hall (RAI). Campus room: 221. Accessibility Contact: Maddie Farris - CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, December 11, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
FemQuant Seminar: TBD with Dr. Christopher A. Julian
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Seminar—TBD with Dr. Christopher A. Julian
Thursday, January 7, 2027 at 10am EST/3pm GMT/4pm CET (Check in your time zone here)
Sign up to receive the Zoom link on the day.Description forthcoming. Dr. Christopher A. Julian is a Postdoctoral Scholar at Vanderbilt University’s LGBTQ+ Policy Lab. Chris is a family demographer and sociologist whose research examines changes in sexual and gender identities and their intersection with shifting family patterns and population aging in the United States. Their work documents LGBTQ+ family experiences, evaluates survey methods used to measure them, and explores how diverse family forms shape health and well-being across the life course.
Event interval: Single day event. Online Meeting Link: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdwcND1G6xpnim7i9tbky_W63J4gwcp2wRROkbsSnNJecrqfw/viewform. Accessibility Contact: femquant17@gmail.com. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Thursday, January 7, 2027, 7:00 AM – 8:00 AM.
For more info visit docs.google.com.