CSDE Workshop - Intro to R II: Working With Data
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
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.
The workshop will be remote and a Zoom link for online attendance will be provided upon registration.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Accessibility Contact: CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Workshops.
Thursday, November 6, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM.
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, November 6, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM.
Sociology Faculty Meeting
Department of Sociology November Faculty Meeting Agenda
I. Announcements / Updates Welcome , Review and approve October minutes , Chair updates , Administrative updates , Undergraduate Program update , Graduate Program update, II. New Business University Resources , Department Policies, III. Old Business Department Policies , Personnel IV. Executive Session.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/91663439807. Campus room: SAV 409. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: (206) 543-6450/V, (206) 543-6452/TTY, (206) 685-7264 (FAX), or dso@u.washington.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Target Audience: Sociology Faculty.
Thursday, November 6, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
CSDE Seminar: Growing up in the UK: Child Development in a Complex System - Chia Liu
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Speaker: Chia Liu, Associate Lecturer of Geography and Sustainable Development, University of St Andrews.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_W41BWLM6RbiWlb9V3T76EQ#/registration. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: Maddie Farris - CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, November 7, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. Veterans Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2025. Quarter: Autumn. Event Types: Academics.
Tuesday, November 11, 2025.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. CSDE Computational Demography Working Group-Lauren Woyczynski & Jessica Godwin
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, November 12, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. Generative Climate Modeling: Emulation and Dimension Reduction | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Estimating the full distribution of climate variables is essential for statistical climate modeling. However, existing approaches struggle with high-dimensional climate fields: classical distributional regression, such as quantile regression, cannot handle multivariate response variables, while modern generative models such as diffusion models are computationally demanding in high dimensions. We introduce engression, a simple yet powerful method for distributional learning. As an unsupervised extension, we present Distributional Principal Autoencoders, a dimension reduction approach that preserves the original data distribution in its reconstructions and captures meaningful structures in its embeddings, such as the seasonal cycle for precipitations. Building on these techniques, we develop a generative framework, EnScale, for statistical downscaling, i.e. emulation of regional climate models. EnScale jointly emulates multiple variables—temperature, precipitation, solar radiation, and wind—maintaining spatial…
Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
SAV 409.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu. CSDE Workshop - Intro to R III: Data Visualization
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
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
The workshop will be remote and a Zoom link for online attendance will be provided upon registration.
Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Workshops.
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. SocSEM Speaker: Shani Evans
Title: From Homeplace to White Space: Black Experiences with Neighborhood Change
Abstract:
For most of the twentieth century, Albina was the only majority Black area in Portland, Oregon. Between 1990 and 2010, Albina gentrified and became majority white. Shani Adia Evans asks how longtime Black Portland residents experienced and responded to the loss of Portland’s historically Black place. Evans finds that Black Portland residents regularly felt racialized exclusion in neighborhoods that no longer felt like home. Strikingly, residents with very different social class statuses – including landlords and those struggling to pay rent – shared very similar experiences as Albina transitioned to a predominantly white space. Evans introduces white watching to describe the surveillance faced by Black Portland residents in public places and white spacemaking to describe the process of remaking Black neighborhoods into places where longtime residents no longer felt welcome. Unlike gentrification research, which…
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 409. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: (206) 543-6450/V, (206) 543-6452/TTY, (206) 685-7264 (FAX), or dso@u.washington.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Sociology Faculty and Graduate Students.
Thursday, November 13, 2025, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
CSDE Seminar: Deep Mapping Grief and Loss in the Context of Migration - José Alavez
Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology
Speaker: José Alavez, Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Washington.
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_ZLjbB0QjSGCsNGHnvOnvcg#/registration. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: Maddie Farris - CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Lectures/Seminars.
Friday, November 14, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. JSDE Seminar: Arun Chandrasekhar (Stanford)
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, November 17, 2025, 11:00 AM – 12:30 PM.
For more info visit econ.washington.edu. CSDE Computational Demography Working Group-Sruly Rosenblat, Ilan Strauss
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, November 19, 2025, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM.
For more info visit csde.washington.edu. The Global Burden of Disease Study: A 34-year journey to make the invisible visible | UW CSSS SEMINAR
Center for Statistics and Social Sciences
Abstract: The Global Burden of Disease (GBD) Study is a systematic and collaborative effort to provide comprehensive and comparable health estimates worldwide. The GBD’s ability to provide a complete picture of health, even in data-scarce environments, has been instrumental in shifting global health priorities. In this talk, Rob will discuss the ongoing challenges and innovations, including the increasing use of electronic health record data in the GBD, the development of methods to handle sparse and conflicting data, as well as the expanding collaborations with local and national policy makers that aim to turn GBD evidence into action. Rob will also highlight future directions in relation to his work at GBD, such as an increasing focus on socially excluded groups. Rob Aldridge is a Professor in the Department of Health Metrics Sciences at University of Washington and leads the Clinical Informatics team at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME), where he contributes to the Global…
Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars.
Wednesday, November 19, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.
SAV 409.
For more info visit csss.uw.edu. 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. Thanksgiving Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2025. Quarter: Autumn. Event Types: Academics.
Thursday, November 27, 2025.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. Native American Heritage Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2025. Quarter: Autumn. Event Types: Academics.
Friday, November 28, 2025.
For more info visit www.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.
Sociology Faculty Meeting
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/91663439807. Campus room: SAV 409. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: (206) 543-6450/V, (206) 543-6452/TTY, (206) 685-7264 (FAX), or dso@u.washington.edu. Event Types: Meetings. Target Audience: Sociology Faculty.
Thursday, December 4, 2025, 12:30 PM – 1:30 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. 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. Christmas Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics.
Thursday, December 25, 2025.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. New Year's Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics.
Thursday, January 1, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.edu. SocSEM Speaker: Courtney Boen
Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/j/97653316579. Campus room: SAV 409. Accessibility Contact: To request disability accommodation, contact the Disability Services Office at least ten days in advance at: (206) 543-6450/V, (206) 543-6452/TTY, (206) 685-7264 (FAX), or dso@u.washington.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Target Audience: Sociology Faculty and Graduate Students.
Thursday, January 15, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.
Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Holidays
No classes. Most University offices and buildings are closed. Check with specific offices to confirm.
Event interval: Single day event. Year: 2026. Quarter: Winter. Event Types: Academics.
Monday, January 19, 2026.
For more info visit www.washington.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.