Our next brown bag seminar is this Wednesday, October 30th, 12pm, with Antonino Polizzi, who will present his research on, “The Demography of the Mortality–Fertility Nexus: Early Death and ‘Missing Births’ in the United States.” Antonino is a PhD student in Sociology at Nuffield College and the Leverhulme Centre for Demographic Science at the University […]

Be sure to join our next Brownbag Seminar on October 23rd, 12pm, for a talk by John Casterline, Robert T. Lazarus Professor in Population Studies at Ohio State University: “Fertility Decline in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Fresh Assessment of Mechanisms.” The event will take place in Room 310 in the Social Sciences Building and […]

Our next Brownbag Seminar on October 16th, 12pm, will be a special panel discussion on “Population Issues and the 2024 Election,” with UC Berkeley’s Hilary Hoynes, Ron Lee, and Jenna Nobles.  We’ll host this important and lively conversation in our seminar room, 310 Social Sciences Building. The panel session will also be available via Zoom.  […]

Our next Brownbag Seminar of the semester is this Wednesday, October 9th, with Peter Catron, Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Washington, who will present his research: “Contextual Boundaries: Skin Tone Stratification and Skill Transferability Among Mexicans in the Age of Mass Migration.” This is an in-person talk, 12pm, 310 Social Sciences.  Event […]

Dear Population Science Community, Congratulations to our very own Ayesha Mahmud, Assistant Professor in the Department of Demography, for her NIH R35 “Maximizing Investigators’ Research Award,” for her project “Novel Data and Approaches for Dynamic Modeling of Human Behavior and Infectious Disease Ecology.” The R35 MIRA funding mechanism will provide Ayesha with general support for […]

Be sure to join us for our next Brownbag Seminar of the semester, on Wednesday, October 2nd, for a presentation with Xi Song, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. Xi will be presenting her research titled, “From Job Descriptions to Occupations: Using Neural Language Models to Code Job Data for Population Research.” See the […]

Dear Population Science Community, Join us for this week’s Brown Bag Seminar on Wednesday, September 18th, with Patrick Ball, Director of Research at the Human Rights Data Analysis Resource Group. Patrick’s research talk is entitled, “Digital Echoes: Using Mortality Analysis to Document, Memorialize, and Prosecute War Crimes, Crimes Against Humanity, and Genocide.” See the full event details here. See our events calendar for […]

Dear Population Science Community, Join us for this week’s Brown Bag Seminar on Wednesday, September 11th, with Chadi Saad-Roy, Miller Research Fellow at the Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science at UC Berkeley. Chadi will present his research on “Using Simple Models to Untangle Infectious Disease Dynamics Across Scales:  From Immuno-epidemiology to Behavioral-epidemiological Dynamics.” Event details are here. See our events calendar for […]

Dear Population Science Community, Welcome back to UC Berkeley and to the Berkeley Population Center! We hope this summer has been rejuvenating.   We are thrilled to first announce and welcome Demography’s new faculty member, Jenna Nobles! Jenna brings new strengths to the department in the demography of early-life, family, migration, mortality, and inequality as well as leadership […]

The BPC and CEDA share several announcements.  1. Congratulations to our very own Robert Chung, of UC Berkeley Demography, for winning the 2024 Pedagogy Award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Methodology!! Robert Chung is a mathematical and statistical demographer whose research and teaching focus on formal demographic models and methods, analyzing imperfect data, […]