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Visiting Day for Admitted Grad Students--Invitation only.

VISITING DAY SCHEDULE MARCH 6, 2026  Events are in Savery Hall, Room 245 unless otherwise noted. These are invitation only events, not open to all students or the public.   9:00 am  Coffee & Top Pot Donuts    9:30 am Welcome from Sociology Department Chair Kyle Crowder  (Zoom)    9:45 am Information about the Graduate Program, Professor Sarah Quinn    10:30 am  Dr. Kyle Crowder Writing Workshop (Sav 409)    11:45 am  Lunch with graduate students Jessica Warren, Desiree Salais, and Eddie Hock     12:30 pm  CSDE Lightning Talks (Raitt Hall Room 221)    2:00 pm  One-on-one meetings (see faculty room numbers listed on day of)    3:00 pm  Research at UW Sociology    4:00 pm   Afternoon beverages and light food (Sav 409)    5:00 pm   Happy Hour off campus at College Inn. Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: SAV 245 and 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: Information Sessions. Special Events. Event sponsors: UW Department of Sociology. Target Audience: Invited students and faculty. Friday, March 6, 2026.

Simpson Center Event - Partition and Solidarity: Anticolonial Struggles in the Colonial Present Conference

Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology About the Conference Over the past five centuries, empires have used partition and division to justify and advance colonialism. We can see that ongoing history of colonial rule and racial violence exploding around the world today—from Palestine to Minnesota and beyond. Join us at this one-day symposium where scholars and activists will gather to engage in conversations about anticolonial struggles of the past and the present. How might we forge diasporic imaginaries and solidarity movements to contest the colonial world order toward collective liberation? The symposium will include a keynote address by Adam Hanieh of the University of Exeter (UK), who has been selected to deliver a Walker-Ames public lecture. He is a leading scholar of Middle East politics and political economy who is framing and exploring the most urgent issue of our current moment. His talk on petroleum and capitalism, including the migrant workers behind the industry, will stress the inextricable links between global capitalism, colonial… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Student Union Building (HUB). Accessibility Contact: hbcls@uw.edu. Event Types: Conferences. Friday, March 6, 2026, 9:30 AM – 5:30 PM. For more info visit labor.washington.edu.

CSDE Winter 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. Event sponsors: Population Health Initiative . Friday, March 6, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.

CSDE Computational Demography Working Group-Elizabeth Nova, PhD Student, Sociology, University of Washington

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, March 11, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM. For more info visit csde.washington.edu.

Big and Small Data for Understanding the Demographics and Health of People Experiencing Homelessness in King County | UW CSSS SEMINAR

Center for Statistics and Social Sciences Abstract: In 2024, an estimated 770,000 people experienced homelessness on any given night in America. Without intervention, that number is projected to exceed one million within the next decade. Of those, 270,000 were living rough, with nearly 150,000 unsheltered individuals residing in Oregon, Washington, and California alone. In King County, WA (Seattle Metro), an estimated 9,000 people were living without shelter on any given night. Traditionally, unsheltered Point-in-Time (PIT) counts rely on volunteers conducting a single-night, in-person headcount of individuals experiencing homelessness. This resource-intensive method is widely recognized as an undercount and fails to capture essential qualitative data about the experiences and needs of people living unsheltered. Since 2022, the King County Regional Homelessness Authority (KCRHA) and the University of Washington have partnered to conduct unsheltered PIT counts using Respondent Driven Sampling (RDS), a network-based peer referral recruitment method.… Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM. SAV 409. For more info visit csss.uw.edu.

CSSS Seminar - Big and Small Data for Understanding the Demographics and Health of People Experiencing Homelessness in King County - Zack Almquist

Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology Zack W. Almquist is an Associate Professor of Sociology, an Adjunct Associate Professor of Statistics, and a Senior Data Science Fellow at the eScience Institute at the University of Washington. His research develops and applies innovative statistical, survey, and social network methodologies to address critical social issues, including housing and homelessness, population health, and environmental governance, with a particular focus on improving data collection for marginalized and hard-to-reach populations. Prior to joining UW, he held faculty positions at the University of Minnesota and worked as a Research Scientist at Facebook. Prof. Almquist has received numerous honors, including the NSF CAREER Award, the ARO Young Investigator Award, and two major awards from the American Sociological Association. He serves as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Mathematical Sociology and in elected chair of the Section on Mathematical Sociology for the American Sociological Association and Chair of the Caucus on Homele… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/s/91612004486. Campus room: 409. Accessibility Contact: csss@uw.edu. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Wednesday, March 11, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM.

CSDE Seminar - Infrastructures of Resettlement: How Bureaucratic Legacies Shaped Racial Disparities in Post-Cold War Refugee Selection - Jake Watson

Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology Speaker: Jake Watson, Sociology, University of California San Diego Abstract: This paper draws on migration infrastructure perspectives to theorize how states select refugees. After the Cold War, the United States shifted its refugee admissions program from a focus on anticommunism toward more humanitarian criteria, marked by greater need-based selection and distributional equity – including explicit efforts to increase African admissions. Yet the 1990s saw the US resettle roughly 300,000 Europeans and just 40,000 Africans despite comparably large displacement crises in Yugoslavia and the Horn of Africa. Why? While scholars explain such disparities through explicit racial preferences or geopolitical interests, I show that inherited processing infrastructure shaped which humanitarian claims could be acted upon at scale. Decades of racist migration control and Cold War foreign policy had built networks of embassies, processing centers, and NGOs that could be rapidly deployed for Yugoslav displacement. African… Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Parrington Hall (PAR). Online Meeting Link: https://washington.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_mqjs5IEXRDCKhsKTyOYkMw#/registration. Campus room: 360. Accessibility Contact: Maddie Farris - CSDE Program Coordinator (csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu). Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Event sponsors: Population Health Initiative. Friday, March 13, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM. For more info visit washington.zoom.us.

NIH OBSSR Director's Webinar: How Responsible Use of Mobile Device Data Can Advance Our Understanding of Fertility

Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology OverviewFor millions of Americans, the pathway to parenthood includes conception failure and miscarriage. These experiences are difficult to capture in administrative or clinical data—and therefore, difficult to study in populations. Indeed, much of what we know about variation in conception and miscarriage is shaped by how we have studied them. New forms of mobile device data provide a rare window into early pregnancy in large populations. In this talk, Dr. Nobles argues that pregnancy success is sensitive to social, economic, and environmental exposures, and that our understanding of these relationships can be significantly advanced through responsible use of mobile device data. Understanding the upstream drivers of pregnancy success has implications for how we interpret, support, and reduce infertility and miscarriage. Jenna Nobles, Ph.D./University of California, Berkeley, BiographyJenna Nobles is a Professor and Chair of Demography at the University of California, Berkeley. She studies the effects of… Event interval: Single day event. Accessibility Contact: ahurst@scgcorp.com. Event Types: Lectures/Seminars. Wednesday, March 25, 2026, 11:00 AM – 12:00 PM. For more info visit obssr.od.nih.gov.

CSDE Computational Demography Working Group-Kentaro Hoffman, University of Washington

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, April 1, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM. 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, April 8, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM. For more info visit csde.washington.edu.

From Marginalization to Resilience: Understanding the Effects of Stress and Identifying Culturally Responsive Interventions | UW CSSS SEMINAR

Center for Statistics and Social Sciences Seminar abstract coming soon!   Priscilla Lui is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Washington (UW) and a licensed clinical psychologist (WA, PY61473662). She received her B.S. in biology and psychology from the UW, and M.A. in general psychology from the California State University in Los Angeles. She received her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology and a Graduate Certificate in Psychological Statistics at the APA– and PCSAS-accredited program at Purdue University. She completed the APA-accredited predoctoral clinical psychology internship at the Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine. Prior to returning to UW as a faculty member, she was an Assistant Professor (2016-2022) and Associate Professor (2022) at the Southern Methodist University. https://washington.zoom.us/s/91612004486. Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Wednesday, April 8, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM. SAV 409. For more info visit csss.uw.edu.

SocSEM Speaker: Scott Allard

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. Special Events. Event sponsors: The Earl & Edna Stice Memorial Lectureship in Social Science. Target Audience: Sociology Faculty and Graduate Students. Thursday, April 9, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM.

CSDE Computational Demography Working Group-Andrew Messamore, University of Washington, Dept. of Sociology

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, April 15, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM. For more info visit csde.washington.edu.

Reciprocal Relationships, Reverse Causality, and Temporal Ordering: Testing Theories with Cross-lagged Panel Models | UW CSSS SEMINAR

Center for Statistics and Social Sciences Abstract:  Reciprocal causal relationships are a common feature of criminological theories. For example, stable employment may reduce offending while offending may lead to job loss, and perceived disorder may increase fear of crime while fear of crime may increase sensitivity to signs of disorder. When multiple observations over time are available, cross-lagged panel models are commonly used to estimate these reciprocal effects. Yet this is often done without careful attention to how they map on to the theoretical process they are meant to capture or whether key assumptions of the models are satisfied. This may result in estimates that are not substantively meaningful or are biased or even reversed in sign. Reciprocal relationships also pose challenges for causal assumptions based on graphical tools; theories that posit reciprocal causation often rely on underlying macro–micro mechanisms not explicitly represented in empirical models. We provide guidance on how to align theory, model specification, and choic… Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Wednesday, April 15, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM. SAV 409. For more info visit csss.uw.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, April 22, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM. For more info visit csde.washington.edu.

How Militarization Impacts the Climate Crisis: A Global Perspective | UW CSSS SEMINAR

Center for Statistics and Social Sciences Abstract:  In this talk I will provide a broad overview of my collaborative research concerning the ways in which militarization, as a form of coercive power, contributes to anthropogenic carbon emissions for nations throughout the world. First, I will summarize research on the short-run and long-run effects of militarization on national carbon emissions. Second, I will describe research that focuses on how militarization shapes the effect of economic growth on nations’ carbon emissions. Third, I will summarize research on militarization facilitating and supporting transnational capital in Global North nations outsourcing their carbon pollution to Global South nations. This body of empirical work serves as the foundation for a book in progress.   Andrew Jorgenson is a Professor of Sociology and Founding Director of the Climate & Society Lab at the University of British Columbia, and a Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Theoretical Economics at Vilnius University. As an environmental sociologist… Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Wednesday, April 22, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM. SAV 409. For more info visit csss.uw.edu.

CSDE Computational Demography Working Group-PAA Practice Talks

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, April 29, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM. For more info visit csde.washington.edu.

Marginalized Regression for Bounded Outcomes with Floor and Ceiling Effects | UW CSSS SEMINAR

Center for Statistics and Social Sciences Abstract:  Outcomes studied in social science and health research frequently take the form of fractions or percentages with a defined lower and upper limit, such as the percentage of medication doses taken, the rate of condom-protected sex, and the number of substance use-related problems endorsed in a screening questionnaire. Such data commonly exhibit floor and ceiling effects due to many participants that never engage in the outcome (e.g. never take prescribed medication) or are consistently at the upper limit (e.g. take all prescribed doses). Prevailing statistical approaches used to analyze such data do not fully account for clusters of responses at the lower and upper limits, which risk invalid conclusions about the effectiveness of interventions and theoretical models. We introduce an accessible extension to zero-inflated regression, the marginalized zero- and N-inflated binomial (MZNIB) model, that can analyze fractions and percentage data on the entire range between zero and 100% with greater… Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Wednesday, April 29, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM. SAV 409. For more info visit csss.uw.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, May 6, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM. For more info visit csde.washington.edu.

Using Multilevel Modeling to Investigate Agitation in Long-Term Care: Evidence from Older Chinese Residents | UW CSSS SEMINAR

Center for Statistics and Social Sciences Abstract:  Agitation is one of the most common and distressing behavioral symptoms among older adults living in long-term care facilities, particularly among residents with cognitive impairment. Despite its clinical importance, limited research has examined how individual and facility-level factors jointly contribute to agitation among older Chinese residents in institutional settings. In this seminar, Dr. Wang will introduce the application of multilevel modeling to investigate agitation in long-term care facilities serving older Chinese adults. The presentation will discuss conceptual considerations in studying behavioral symptoms across nested care environments, methodological decisions in multilevel analysis, and challenges encountered when working with facility-based data. The study underscores the need for person-centered strategies that consider residents’ psychosocial needs, family engagement, and organizational support within long-term care settings.   Kaipeng Wang joined the University of… Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Wednesday, May 6, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM. SAV 409. For more info visit csss.uw.edu.

CSDE Computational Demography Working Group-Jing Xu & Yehong Deng

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, May 13, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM. For more info visit csde.washington.edu.

Graduate Student Symposium

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: Special Events. Lectures/Seminars. Event sponsors: The Earl & Edna Stice Memorial Lectureship in Social Science. Target Audience: Sociology Faculty and Graduate Students. Thursday, May 14, 2026, 12:00 PM – 1:30 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-talks/. Campus room: 223. Accessibility Contact: csde-prgm-coord@uw.edu. Event Types: Workshops. Wednesday, May 20, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM. For more info visit csde.washington.edu.

Almost Magic: The Promise and Pitfalls of AI-Assisted Coding | UW CSSS SEMINAR

Center for Statistics and Social Sciences Abstract:  Artificial intelligence tools are democratizing programming, making computational research accessible to researchers who have little or no formal programming background. This seminar offers a practical introduction to programming with AI assistance, beginning with a brief history of how AI—and AI coding tools in particular—came to be. We then discuss practical considerations for programming with AI: how to work effectively with AI assistants, how to frame problems clearly, and how to evaluate the code they produce. The foregoing skills are essential in addressing “technical debt” in AI-assisted programming, where generated code does not generalize easily to new features. The talk should provide insights into what AI-assisted programming can and cannot do, and a foundation for using AI tools responsibly.   Joseph L. Hellerstein received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of California at Los Angeles. He has thirty years of experience in research and software engineering at the IBM TJ… Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Wednesday, May 20, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM. SAV 409. For more info visit csss.uw.edu.

SocSEM Speaker: Magda Boutros

Event interval: Single day event. Campus location: Savery Hall (SAV). Campus room: 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. Event sponsors: The Earl & Edna Stice Memorial Lectureship in Social Science. Target Audience: Sociology Faculty and Graduate Students. Thursday, May 21, 2026, 12:30 PM – 2:00 PM.

Memorial 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: Spring. Event Types: Academics. Monday, May 25, 2026. For more info visit www.washington.edu.

CSDE Computational Demography Working Group-Jiahui Xu

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, May 27, 2026, 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM. For more info visit csde.washington.edu.

From Estimands to Robust Inference of Treatment Effects in Master Protocol Trials | UW CSSS SEMINAR

Center for Statistics and Social Sciences Abstract: A platform trial is an innovative clinical trial design that uses a master protocol to evaluate multiple treatments, where patients are often assigned to different subsets of treatment arms based on individual characteristics, enrollment timing, and treatment availability. While offering increased flexibility, this constrained and non-uniform treatment assignment poses inferential challenges, with two fundamental ones being the precise definition of treatment effects and robust, efficient inference on these effects. Such challenges arise primarily because some commonly used analysis approaches may target estimands defined on populations inadvertently depending on randomization ratios or trial operation format, thereby undermining interpretability. This article, for the first time, presents a formal framework for constructing a clinically meaningful estimand with precise specification of the population of interest. Specifically, the proposed entire concurrently eligible (ECE) population not only pre… Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM. SAV 409. For more info visit csss.uw.edu.

One Model, Many Methods: NIMBLE for Hierarchical Statistical Modeling in Social and Other Sciences | UW CSSS SEMINAR

Center for Statistics and Social Sciences Abstract: People often need to customize statistical models for particular problems and then consider a variety of methods for estimation and inference. Customizations may include adding components across space, time, repeated sampling, networks, non-parametric relationships or distributions, or multiple data sources, among others. Methods may include MCMC with potentially many kinds of samplers, empirical Bayes or marginal maximum likelihood, Laplace approximation and its extension to adaptive Gauss-Hermite quadrature, integrated nested Laplace approximation and related methods, sequential Monte Carlo, and others. Some methods represent hybrids, such as Particle MCMC combining particle filtering and MCMC. I will give an overview of the NIMBLE framework (R package nimble) for such problems. NIMBLE combines a language for writing models (an extension of the BUGS/JAGS language) and an algorithm programming system from R, in which all built-in algorithms are written and users can write new algorithms. Models an… Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Wednesday, May 27, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM. SAV 409. For more info visit csss.uw.edu.

Addressing Measurement Error Bias in Grouped Continuous Data for Causal Inferences | UW CSSS SEMINAR

Center for Statistics and Social Sciences Abstract:  Applied researchers often analyze ordered categories that discretize continuous quantities (income, time frequencies, biomarkers, exposures). Treating such indices as continuous or imputing bin midpoints are convenient but misleading strategies to estimate marginal effects in regression analyses. This paper characterizes a form of measurement error that arises in those strategies by design, from the sampling mechanism, which induces biased and inconsistent estimations that are model-dependent and a priori unpredictable. I provide a solution to this problem, a calibration method - regularized interval regression - that treats responses as intervals of a latent distribution, and predicts calibrated proxies robust to measurement error biases in downstream linear regressions. Monte Carlo evidence shows that, relative to midpoint imputation and “ordinal-as-continuous,” the calibrated proxy yields unbiased linear estimates, especially in the presence of right-censoring/top-coding. An example based on su… Event Types: Academics. Lectures/Seminars. Wednesday, June 3, 2026, 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM. SAV 409. For more info visit csss.uw.edu.