Monica Alexander and the U of Toronto team are hosting the next meeting of the Formal Demography Working Group on Tuesday, 29 November at 9am ET (Toronto time) [11am Belo Horizonte time, 3pm Vienna/Rostock/Denmark time]. Bernardo Queiroz will give a talk on “Estimating adult mortality in countries with defective data: some alternative approaches”

 

Zoom details:

Zoom link: https://utoronto.zoom.us/j/88513950799

Meeting ID: 885 1395 0799

Passcode: eulerlotka

 

Announcements:

– The Danish Centre for Population Research at the Interdisciplinary Centre on Population Dynamics (CPop) is opening one or more positions of associate professor in demography. Applications close 1 December. See here  for more details.

– Demographic Research has a new special collections on ‘Innovations in measuring adult mortality in countries with deficient civil registration’. If you work in this area, please consider submitting a manuscript. More info can be found here.

– The Lab of Digital and Computational Demography at MPIDR is running a summer incubator on population and social data science. This is a great opportunity for students to work on a collaborative team project over summer! More details here.

 

Links:

– Here is our website.

– Meetings are recorded for those who are unable to join us. Previous recordings can be found here [youtube.com].

– If you are interested in presenting at a future meeting, fill out this form. [docs.google.com] Sorry to those in Australia/NZ/Asia-Pacific and the west coast of US — we know meeting timings have been hard to get to. If you’d like to present (or have suggestions of people to invite) in your time zone, please let us know!!!

 

The Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences Seminar Series will be hosting Prince Allotey, University of Washington Professor of Statistics, who will give a seminar titled, “Modeling Spatially Correlated Survival Data and their Applications.” The seminar will occur on On Wednesday, November 16 at 12:30 pm, and will be offered as a Hybrid session. Below please find the abstract and information about joining in-person or on Zoom.

 

Abstract:

When survival times are spatially referenced, some evidence of clustering of high or low times might be apparent on a visual inspection of the data. The question naturally arises as to whether these observed spatial survival patterns can be explained by incorporating appropriate covariates into the model or whether to obtain reliable inferences for model parameters of interest, it is necessary to explicitly model the unexplained spatial variation. In this talk, we consider different random effects regression models for spatially correlated survival data. In these models, the large-scale variations are characterized by a linear function of explanatory variables and small-scale variations are characterized by spatial processes. We compare these different approaches in the context of a dataset on COVID-19 mortality data.  The main objective is to explain the pattern of COVID-19 mortality using important covariates while accounting for possible (spatially correlated) differences in hazard among the districts.

 

This seminar will be located at 409 Savery Hall

 

To join by Zoom, please use the information below.

 

Join Zoom Meeting

https://washington.zoom.us/j/91889204671 

CSDE Affiliates are invited to sign up to give a brief talk about how their research connects relates to climate change at UW EarthLab’s December 1st event ‘Sparking Climate Connections: UW Lightning Talks on Climate Change’ . Lightning talk video presentations will be accepted on a rolling basis until noon on Thursday, November 17. The registration portal is the go-to place to submit a recorded lightning talk, sign up to view the lightning talks and RSVP to the in-person evening networking reception at the Douglas Forum at the Foster School of Business.

The NIH and the Sexual & Gender Minority Research Office (SMRO) has just published an RFI that seeks input from researchers and community members about research opportunities related to the four domains highlighted below. This input will serve as a valuable element in the development of a workshop and subsequent report, and the community’s time and consideration are highly appreciated.

Urban@UW and CSDE have joined together to host a gathering of faculty and research scientists interested in the Homelessness Research Initiative on November 29,2022 at 3pm.  CSDE Affiliates and HRI Co-Chairs Gregg Colburn and Rachel Fyall, along with Jennifer Davison of Urban@UW, will welcome you to the gathering. Sign up here to register your interest in participating. The Homelessness Research Initiative, a university-wide effort that resides under Urban@UW.

The HRI was established in 2017 with the goal of supporting and promoting research at UW focused on topics related to homelessness.

This HRI gathering should bring the various UW-based scholarly efforts into conversation with each other, in the hopes of sparking new and strengthening existing collaborations, cross-fertilizing our efforts, and ensuring coordination with our community partners.To this end, we are partnering with the Center for the Studies in Demography and Ecology to host an in-person gathering on November 29 from 3:00 – 5:00. The event will be held at the Hans Rosling Center for Population Health (room 101), on the Seattle campus. You may RSVP here  and we ask you to provide a brief description of your relevant research related to homelessness. This form will be used as a resource for all those who are interested in being part of this group. If you have interest in being part of this group of like-minded researchers, but are unable to attend this event, please fill out the form and include your contact information and a brief description of your research. HRI looks forward to seeing many of you at the end of this month.