CSDE Seminar: A Demographer’s View of Education and Dementia: Patterns, Predictability, and Persistence
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Speaker: Hyungmin Cha, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Washington
Abstract: Education is one of the strongest predictors of dementia, but its influence extends well beyond whether individuals develop the condition. In this talk, I synthesize three projects that examine how education shapes the functional form, timing, and cumulative duration of dementia experiences. Using nationally representative longitudinal data from the U.S. Health and Retirement Study, I show that (1) dementia risk declines linearly with additional years of schooling, with a notable threshold reduction at high school completion; (2) education postpones dementia onset and reduces variability in its timing, such that college-educated adults experience both later and more predictable onset; and (3) higher life-course socioeconomic status extends dementia-free life expectancy and compresses the years lived with dementia. Together, these studies position education as a fundamental cause of dementia disparities, shaping not…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_niBJ_KdpT2a3JP5sVf5v_A#/registration. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: Maddie Farris - CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, November 21, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. JSDE Seminar: Resem Makan (Case Western Reserve University)
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: 410. Accessibility Contact: econdept@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Monday, December 1, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
For more info visit econ.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/. Campus room: 223. Accessibility Contact: csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. Survey Sampling in Difficult Contexts | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Abstract: This talk will focus on applying principles of survey sampling, such as sampling frames, stratification, and clustering, to developing and unstable contexts. This work is particularly challenging given a frequent lack of pre-existing data and ethical challenges relating to both enumerators and respondents. The presentation will draw on the speaker's experience fielding face-to-face surveys in Colombia and South Sudan as well as current work designing future face-to-face surveys in Iraq and Ukraine. Gabriella Levy is a political scientist who studies the ways that individuals and societies react to and come to terms with political violence in countries in or emerging from civil conflict or other forms of large-scale instability. She focuses on Latin America, particularly Colombia, and primarily uses survey methodologies. .
Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, December 3, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
SAV 409.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu. CSDE Biodemography Working Group Meeting
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Raitt Hall (RAI). Campus room: 223. Accessibility Contact: csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Thursday, December 4, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
CSDE Fall 2025 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 5, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. Anthropology, Astrophysics, and AI – Building human-centric deep learning models through interdisciplinary collaboration
Speakers: Alexandra G. Hammerberg (Co-Founder & CEO, Hominin Labs) & Patricia A. Kramer (Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Washington)
Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs), transformer-based AI models leveraging the patterns in human communication, exploded into the collective awareness recently and have dominated the discourse surrounding deep learning models. The foundation for these models was built upon collaborations among fields like computer science, mathematics, neuroscience, and linguistics. LLMs would not exist without this interdisciplinary exchange of knowledge. Movement, like language, is a pillar of the human experience and, similarly, demands an interdisciplinary approach to modeling. We combine disparate methodologies from traditional human biomechanics, computer science, genomics, and astrophysics to develop environment-contextualized deep learning models of unconstrained human movement in the real world – Large Movement Models (LMMs). We evaluate our LMM using individua…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Denny Hall (DEN). Campus room: 313. Accessibility Contact: letood@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Tuesday, December 9, 2025, 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM.
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/. Campus room: 223. Accessibility Contact: csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Wednesday, December 10, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. Alexander Volfovsky - Upcoming Seminar | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Seminar abstract coming soon! Alexander Volfovsky is an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistical Science and the Co-Director of the Polarization Lab and the Almost Matching Exactly Lab at Duke. He joined the department after finishing a NSF Mathematical Sciences Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Statistics Department at Harvard University. Prior to that he completed his PhD in statistics at the University of Washington in Seattle and a joint Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics and Master’s degree in Statistics from the University of Chicago. His research concentrates on developing theory and methodological tools for computational social science applications, with particular interests in high dimensional data, causal inference and network analysis. With collaborators at Duke he has developed novel tools for community detection, for extracting causal signals from high dimensional observational data and for new approaches to implementing and analyzing network experiments. …
Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, January 14, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
SAV 409.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu. Laura Dwyer-Lindgren - Upcoming Seminar | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Seminar abstract coming soon! Laura Dwyer-Lindgren is an Assistant Professor of Health Metrics Sciences at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington. At IHME, she leads the US Health Disparities Team which aims to estimate disease burden and disparities in disease burden by location, race and ethnicity, and socioeconomic status in the United States. She also is a member of the Local Burden of Disease research team, where her focus is mapping the HIV epidemic globally. Dr. Dwyer-Lindgren received an MPH in Health Metrics and Evaluation from the University of Washington and a PhD in Public Health from Erasmus University, Rotterdam.
https://washington.zoom.us/s/91612004486.
Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, January 21, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
SAV 409.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu. Jevin West - Upcoming Seminar | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Seminar abstract coming soon! Jevin West is the co-founder of the new Center for an Informed Public at UW aimed at resisting strategic misinformation, promoting an informed society and strengthening democratic discourse. His research and teaching focus on the impact of data and technology on science and society, with a focus on slowing the spread of misinformation. He is the co-author of the new book, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World, which helps non-experts question numbers, data, and statistics without an advanced degree in data science.
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https://washington.zoom.us/s/91612004486.
Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, January 28, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
SAV 409.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu. Martin Saveski - Upcoming Seminar | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Seminar abstract coming soon! Martin Saveski is an Assistant Professor in the Information School at the University of Washington. Before joining UW, he was a Postdoc at Stanford University, mentored by Johan Ugander. He received my Ph.D. from MIT in 2020 under the supervision of Deb Roy. Prior to coming to MIT, he spent one year in Paris and one year in Barcelona doing a M.Sc. in Data mining and Knowledge Management. He got his B.Sc. from Staffordshire University with First Class honors in Computer Science. Throughout his graduate studies, he spent several summers doing internships in industry, including Yahoo! Labs, Amazon, LinkedIn, and Facebook.
https://washington.zoom.us/s/91612004486.
Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, February 4, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
SAV 409.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu. CSDE Biodemography Working Group Meeting
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Raitt Hall (RAI). Campus room: 223. Accessibility Contact: csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops.
Thursday, February 5, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Paul Wesson - Upcoming Seminar | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Seminar abstract coming soon! Paul Wesson is an epidemiologist focused on quantifying the health burdens of (and disparities related to) hard-to-reach and socially marginalized populations, particularly as they relate to infectious diseases. His research expertise includes developing and using data-driven methods for sampling hard-to-reach and “hidden” populations, population size estimation methods, and using advanced epidemiologic and statistical techniques to study the social determinants of health. He is particularly interested in the social determinants of infectious disease risk. He sees his research as existing at the nexus of infectious disease, data science, and social epidemiology; as such, he incorporates theories and principles from social epidemiology to inform and guide his study designs and analyses (e.g. intersectionality, minority stress theory).
https://washington.zoom.us/s/91612004486.
Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, February 11, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
SAV 409.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu. Debrielle Jacques - Upcoming Seminar | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Seminar abstract coming soon! Debrielle Jacques is an Assistant Professor of Child Clinical Psychology at the University of Washington. Research-wise, she is broadly interested in a) the developmental effects of parent psychopathology and b) childhood risk, resilience, developmental psychopathology, and general child development in adverse family environments. Specifically, she is interested in studying how and why addiction (especially among mothers) impacts parenting - including parent social cognition, parenting attributions, parenting behavior, and parent-child interactions - and consequently, child development, including the development of psychological problems. In studying children of mothers with substance use disorders, she is also interested in better understanding the underlying function of the strategies children use to navigate these family environments, including a) how children calibrate and adjust these strategies to environmental changes over time (e.g. increasing levels of domestic…
Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, February 18, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
SAV 409.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu.