Population Science News

Weekly News – April 1, 2019

EVENTS
Wednesday, April 3, 12-1:15 PM, Diverging destinies? Changing family structures and inequality of opportunity in the United States.  Diederik Boertien, Researcher, Centre for Demographic Studies, University of Barcelona. Demography Seminar Room, 2232 Piedmont Ave. Coffee and cookies served.

To view past brown bag presentations: http://www.vimeo.com/berkeleypopscience
For the Spring 2019 brown bag schedule: https://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/popsci.html

Tuesday, April 2 | 4:00-5:30pm “Cultural Capital, Systemic Exclusion and Bias in the Lives of Black Middle-Class Women: A Conversation.” Dawn Marie Dow, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park; Tina Sacks, Assistant Professor of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley with moderator Amani Allen, Associate Professor of Public Health, UC Berkeley. Toll Room, Alumni House.

Tuesday, April 2, 2019, 2 – 3:30 p.m., Sleepless in Chennai: The Consequences of Improving Sleep among the Urban Poor, with Frank Schilbach, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Evans Hall, room 648

Wednesday, April 3, 2019 6:30-7:45pm Water is Another Word for Life, with Prof Isha Ray. Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall.

Thursday April 4, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm. “The UC and CSU Access to Reproductive Health Services Study” with Jackie Castellanos. Sponsored by the Bixby Center. 440 University Hall

EVENTS
Wednesday, April 3, 12-1:15 PM, Diverging destinies? Changing family structures and inequality of opportunity in the United States.  Diederik Boertien, Researcher, Centre for Demographic Studies, University of Barcelona. Demography Seminar Room, 2232 Piedmont Ave. Coffee and cookies served.

To view past brown bag presentations: http://www.vimeo.com/berkeleypopscience
For the Spring 2019 brown bag schedule: https://events.berkeley.edu/index.php/calendar/sn/popsci.html

Tuesday, April 2 | 4:00-5:30pm “Cultural Capital, Systemic Exclusion and Bias in the Lives of Black Middle-Class Women: A Conversation.” Dawn Marie Dow, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park; Tina Sacks, Assistant Professor of Social Welfare, UC Berkeley with moderator Amani Allen, Associate Professor of Public Health, UC Berkeley. Toll Room, Alumni House.

Tuesday, April 2, 2019, 2 – 3:30 p.m., Sleepless in Chennai: The Consequences of Improving Sleep among the Urban Poor, with Frank Schilbach, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Evans Hall, room 648

Wednesday, April 3, 2019 6:30-7:45pm Water is Another Word for Life, with Prof Isha Ray. Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall.

Thursday April 4, 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm. “The UC and CSU Access to Reproductive Health Services Study” with Jackie Castellanos. Sponsored by the Bixby Center. 440 University Hall

Thursday, April 4, 2019, 12 – 1:30 p.m.,”The Effects of Parental and Sibling Incarceration: Evidence from Ohio” Jeff Weaver, USC. Haas School of Business, room C325.

Thursday, April 4, 2019, 2 – 3:30 p.m.”Motherhood and the Gender Productivity Gap” Yana Gallen, Harris Public Policy, Evans Hall, room 648 

Thursday April 4 | 2-3 p.m. Dads, Daughters and Early Marriage in Migori County, Kenya, with Paula Tavrow, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. 5401 Berkeley Way West

SAVE THE DATE
Registration is now open for the UCSF-UC Berkeley joint meeting on Data Science for Advancing Population Health, David Brower Center. A half-day UCSF-UC Berkeley joint meeting on April 22nd from 8:30am-Noon on Data Science for Advancing Population Health. Our goal for this meeting is to present a vision for population health data science for 2020 and beyond, and to catalyze population health collaborations across UCSF and UCB. We have a window to expand the work we are doing in population health and health equity across the UCs and California and the collaborative meeting between our two institutions (and our partners) would be a great way to jumpstart this effort. Registration will be required for attendance and space is limited. Any questions, contact Lauren Goldstein atlhg@berkeley.edu. Please register here:https://www.eventbrite.com/e/data-science-for-advancing-population-health-tickets-58576622254 

Thursday April 18, 2018, 4:00 – 6:00 pm, Social Science Fest/Matrix Open House. Held at the Social Science Matrix, 820 Barrows Hall. RSVP here: https://goo.gl/forms/HVjBG7Mm7AV1hXOO2
April 30th from Noon-1pm: A brown bag with Christopher Hoffman from IT who is working on improving research data security on campus – he will present a new initiative that is in the works. 5101 Berkeley Way West.

May 30-31: Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries. On May 30 and 31, CEGA and the Experimental Social Science Laboratory (Xlab) will host the 2019 Symposium on Economic Experiments in Developing Countries (SEEDEC) at UC Berkeley. The event will bring together researchers conducting economic lab experiments (or lab-in-the-field experiments) in low- and middle-income countries, and will feature keynote talks by Stefano DellaVigna (UC Berkeley) and Pam Jakiela (University of Maryland and Center for Global Development). RSVP here.

OFF CAMPUS EVENTS
Tuesday, 10:30 AM – 12 noon. April 23, 2019, “Social network analysis and engagement in care among HIV-infected youth in East Africa” with Lillian Brown, MD, PhD. UCSF Mission Hall, Room 3700 550 16th Street

FUNDING
Data for the American Dream Initiative – Request for Proposals. The Data for the American Dream (D4AD) initiative will support efforts to provide access to education and career data through private/public partnerships and ensure that this information is conveyed to, and used by, the people who need it most. The ultimate goal of the D4AD initiative is to provide better career prospects in a changing economy for low-income, underemployed, and unemployed Americans. The Data for the American Dream (D4AD) initiative and is seeking proposals for pilot projects consisting of collaborations between public and private organizations to connect critical workforce and education data and to make that information available to the populations who most need them. The initiative expects provide funding for up to three projects with grants between $750,000 and $1.5 million. Full information on the Data for the American Dream Initiative can be found here. If you are interested in learning more about the project and how to submit a proposal, please find the D4AD Request for Proposalshere

CALLS FOR PAPERS
Population Research and Policy Review is now accepting research briefs. These shorter, more data-centric articles complement the longer and more conceptually organized research articles published in the journal. Other major demography and population science journals, as well as interdisciplinary journals that feature demographic research, provide opportunities for this type of publication. We are very excited to offer this option for submissions to PRPR. This new publication type presents scholars working within and across different social science disciplines a new outlet for publishing demographic research that is innovative and policy relevant but does lend itself to a full-length article. More information is at this link.

International Workshop on Subnational Life Tables. The School of Demography at the Australian National University and the Human Mortality Database team invites submissions for an International Workshop on Subnational Life Tables, to be held Oct 15-17, 2019 at ANU. The workshop will focus on mortality at the subnational level, with particular interest in studies using country-specific databases related to the Human Mortality Database (HMD). The HMD is the leading source of mortality and population data at the national level and contains detailed data for over 40 populations. Deadline extended to April 15. For more information, visit:http://demography.cass.anu.edu.au/events/international-workshop-subnational-life-tables

Divorce Conference (Florence, 10/17-10/19/2019) FloPS – Florence Population Studies (Deadline: 4/30/2019)

Migrant-led Diversification and Differential Inclusion in Arrival Cities across Asia (Singapore, 8/20-8/21/2019) National University of Singapore (Deadline: 4/30/2019)

Intensive Course: Living Conditions and Demographic Change in Pre-Industrial Societies (Lund, 9/2-9/12/2019) Center for Economic Demography and Department of Economic History, Lund University (Deadline: 5/1/2019)

14th Supercentenarian Seminar (Paris, 11/28-11/29/2019) Institut National d’études Démographiques (INED) (Deadline: 5/15/2019)

Thematic Issue on “Changes in the sexual behavior of young people”  Genus, Journal of Population Sciences (Deadline: 9/30/2019)

WORKSHOPS.
Workshop: Demographic Research with Web and Social Media Data International Conference on Web and Social Media 2019 (ICWSM)Munich (Germany), June 11 2019. demogr.mpg.de/go/icwsm_2019_mpidr_workshop. The spread of the internet and online communities provide unprecedented opportunities for studying global population dynamics such as fertility, mortality, migration, and health. Internet users do not only leave ‘digital traces’ of their existence – the online world also influences their behaviour. Computational social scientists have long employed innovative methodologies and data sources to study social phenomena. Demographers have recently moved into the ‘digital realm’, but collaboration between demographers and computationally-oriented scientists remains limited. This workshop aims to foster dialogue and knowledge exchange between these two communities by focusing on the applications and implications of web and social media data for demographic research.  Extended abstracts (2-4 pages) or a full papers can be sent until April 1 to icwsm2019@demogr.mpg.de. Click here for Submission details and here for Important dates.

FEBS Workshop “Ageing and Regeneration” which will be held from Sept. 9 – 12, 2019 in Innsbruck, Austria in the course of the 350th anniversary of the University of Innsbruck. I am organizing this workshop together with Ilse Kranner, Frank Edenhofer, Werner Zwerschke and Björn Schumacher. I would be happy to see you in Innsbruck on this occasion! The registration for the AGE-REG Workshop will be open until May 1st, 2019. For further information please see the following link: https://ageingandregeneration2019.febsevents.org/

ON THE WEB
Urban Population. If you have nothing better to do with your time, or if you want to show students a visualization of population growth, have a look at a youtube video on the rankings of the top ten cities by population from 1500-2018. https://youtu.be/pMs5xapBewM. It’s 3 minutes long.

WEBINAR
Why Machines Matter for Survey and Social Science Researchers: Exploring How Machine Learning Methods Can Be Applied to the Design, Collection and Analysis of Social Science Data, April 17th, 12-1 pm central time. Presented by Antje Kirchner, Ph.D., RTI International and Trent D. Buskirk, Ph.D., Bowling Green State University. ADMISSION: $10 for students, $40 for non-student MAPOR members, $50 for non-members. CLICK HERE TO REGISTER (http://www.mapor.org/webinars/webinar-registration/). The exponential growth of computing power and cheap data storage have nourished artificial intelligence applications and machine learning methods to advance research in medicine, marketing, and many other fields. Despite the rising popularity, the potential of machine learning in survey and social science research has not yet been fully realized. This webinar provides an overview of how data science methods have been and can be applied to the social sciences from the perspective of the survey research process including: questionnaire design and evaluation; sampling; tailored survey designs and data collection; weighting adjustment and analysis. We illustrate how these methods can be used to augment, support, reimagine, improve and in some places replace the current methodologies. While machine learning is not likely to replace all human aspects of the survey research process, these methods offer new ways to approach traditional problems and have the potential to provide more efficiency, reduce errors, improve measurement and more cost-effective processing. We also discuss how errors in the machine learning process can impact errors we traditionally manage within the survey research process. Recordings of the webinar will be available for those who cannot attend the event live. If interested, please register and you will receive a link to the recording after the event.

AWARDS             
INSNA Freeman Award is given to a distinguished scholar in the field of social networks for significant contributions to the scientific study of social structure. The award is designed to be given to a young scholar, someone in the earlier stages of their research career — someone under 40 years old or someone who has received their PhD within the past 10 years. Consideration is also given to persons who have come to education later in life or who have interrupted their career for any reason (family, health, etc.). A complete description of the award and list of past recipients can be found at https://www.insna.org/freeman-award. Nominations (including self-nominations) are now being accepted. A nominating letter should briefly summarize the nominee’s contributions to the field of social networks. Nominees will be contacted and asked to provide a brief summary of their work and a copy of their CV. The recipient will be announced in June at Sunbelt XXXIV in Montreal, and will deliver the Freeman Lecture at Sunbelt XXXV in Paris (June 1-7). The 2019 Freeman Award Committee is Kayla de la Haye (chair), Delia Baldassarri, and David Lazer. We thank the committee for their service to INSNA. Nominations and supporting materials should be sent to the chair at delahaye@usc.edu. All materials must be received by 30 April 2019.

INSNA Best Student Paper Award is given annually to a graduate student in recognition of research on social network analysis. The award is supported by royalties donated by the authors of the chapters in Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis edited by P.J. Carrington, J. Scott, and S. Wasserman, published by Cambridge University Press in 2005. INSNA wishes to thank the contributors for their generosity. The award is for research by a graduate student and is administered by INSNA, the International Network for Social Network Analysis. For the 2019 competition, students should submit a paper (pdf file written in English) to the committee before 15 April 2019. The winner of the award will be announced at the 2019 Sunbelt conference. To be eligible, the student must be a member of INSNA and the first (or sole) author on the paper at the time of submission. The paper may be published or unpublished and must have been completed within two years of the submission deadline. A letter of support from a supervisor, mentor or other faculty member should be submitted as well. The support letter should be aimed at helping the committee understand the significance of the paper. The monetary prize for the best student paper is $2,500. This year’s committee is: Pavel Krivitsky (chair), Kerstin Sailer, and Betina Hollstein. We thank the committee for their service to INSNA. Please send all application materials to INSNA Vice President, Laura Koehly, laura.koehly@gmail.com. Make sure to put INSNA Student Paper Award in the subject line to ensure your submission is not missed. 

D-LAB
NIH Grants: Tuesday April 2, 2-1 PM by Leora Lawton: click here to register. D-Lab regularly offers workshops and training in courses, one-on-one consulting for faculty, grad students and undergraduates, and working groups of focuses topics. One-on-one consulting also available. For more information and registration, visit http://dlab.berkeley.edu. You can now add D-Lab workshops to your bcalendar directly from D-Lab workshop description. They will have pre-semester intensives, so be sure to check out the calendar.

RELATED LISTS
JOBS
All jobs and postdoctoral fellowships
 are posted as we receive them on the Demography Department Jobs Listserv, http://lists.demog.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/jobs. This list advertises positions of all sorts relevant for social and behavioral scientists with advanced degrees.

MIGRATION MAILING LIST
Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative
 (BIMI.berkeley.edu) is a research center for the study of immigrants and immigration. BIMI has a mailing list (immigration_group@lists.berkeley.edu), which is where a good deal of immigration and migration announcements are posted, and not all of that material is posted on the PopSciences Weekly News.

SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH MAILING LIST 
Tue$day Top Tip$ for SPH Research
 is a listserv with research funding opportunities and other information pertinent to public health researchers who are not necessarily population researchers. To subscribe, write to Dr. Lauren Goldstein, lhg@berkeley.edu

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