2020 | Spatial@UChicago | The University of Chicago

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2020 Presentations

WINTER 2020
January 14		Qinyun Lin Postdoctoral Scholar, CSDS, UChicago Quantifying strength of evidence in inferences: case replacement, spillover, and heterogeneity
January 21		Robert Manduca PhD student in Sociology at Harvard University, CSDS Visitor Income Inequality and Economic Exclusion
January 28		Pedro Amaral Associate Professor, Department of Economics (Cedeplar/FACE), Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Spatial distribution of health services in Brazil
February 4		Nick Feamster Neubauer Professor, Department of Computer Science and Director, Center for Data and Computing, UChicago Towards High Fidelity Maps of Broadband Internet Access Networks
February 11		Chris Graziul Data Scientist at UChicago, and Ziwen Chen KnowledgeLab and MACCS student, UChicago Spatial analysis of social processes "in the dark": Practical issues with causal analysis in an uncertain world
February 18		Thomas Coleman, Senior Lecturer and Executive Director of the Center for Economic Policy at UChicago Harris School of Public Policy John Snow and Cholera: Revisiting Difference-in-Differences and Randomized Trials in Medical Research
February 25		Robert Roth Associate Professor, UW-Madison GIS Professional Programs Designing Better Interactive Maps: Theory, Process, and Case Studies
March 3		Jamie Saxon Postdoctoral Scholar, CSDS and Harris Empirical Measures of Park Use in American Cities, and the Demographic Biases of Spatial Models
March 10		No Study Group
March 17		No Study Group (exam week)
March 24		No Study Group (spring break)
March 31		No Study Group (1st week of class)

AUTUMN 2020
All autumn study group meetings will be remote due to COVID-19. Email spatial@uchicago.edu for zoom access details. Tuesdays, 9-11am CT
Oct. 13		Thomas Coleman, Senior Lecturer and Executive Director of the Center for Economic Policy at UChicago Harris School of Public Policy John Snow and Cholera: Revisiting Difference-in-Differences and Randomized Trials in Medical Research -- Part 2
Oct. 20		Niall Atkinson, Associate Professor of Art History Carmen Caswell, Digital Humanities Research Liaison, Humanities Computing Who I am is Where I am: Plotting Spatial Demographics in Renaissance Florence
Oct. 27		Alec Brownlow Associate Professor of Geography, DePaul University America’s Hidden Rape Crisis
Nov. 3		No Study Group (Election Day)
Nov. 10		Ken Frank MSU Foundation Professor of Sociometrics Specification, Estimation, and Dynamic Implications of Network Influence
Nov. 17		Austin Wright Assistant professor of Public Policy, University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy Rebel Capacity and Combat Tactics
Nov. 24		No Study Group (Thanksgiving Week)
Dec. 1		Milena Almagro, Assistant Professor, Chicago Booth School of Business (2021) Location Sorting and Endogenous Amenities: Evidence from Amsterdam
April 6		CSDS study group resumes in spring 2021