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, […]

Abstract submissions for the 30th International Population Conference (IPC2025), which will be held in Brisbane, Australia from July 13-18, 2025, are now open. The IUSSP’s International Population Conference is the world’s largest international scientific conference on population issues and research, and takes place once every 4 years.  Eight years will have passed since the world […]

Please note that suggestions for sessions (topics) are now open for PAA 2025; make them by completing this form. Deadline is May 15. EVENTS Matrix Events Held in-person at 820 Social Sciences Building on the UC Berkeley campus. Events are free and open to the public. All times listed are for the Pacific Time Zone […]

Our last Brownbag Seminar of the 2023-2024 academic year will be this Wednesday, May 1st, 12pm, with Andreas Backhaus, Postdoctoral Researcher in Ageing, Mortality, and Population Dynamics, Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Germany. Andreas will present his research on “The Fertility of Refugees in Germany.” 310 Social Sciences Building. Zoom Meeting ID: 985 2901 0198. Password: DEMOG_BB The NIH […]

Our Demography community has much to acknowledge and celebrate from last week’s Population Association of America’s meeting in Columbus!  We are very proud of and congratulate Josh Goldstein for winning the Mindel C. Sheps Award at PAA 2024, given biennially for outstanding contributions to mathematical demography or demographic methodology. The award to Josh recognizes his outstanding research record and central […]