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Academic Year 2022-23
Fridays, 12-1:15pm
Mann 2150
Vida Maralani (Sociology)
CPC Director of Graduate Training Program
Email: vida.maralani@cornell.edu
Seminars take place on Fridays at 12:00pm in person in Mann 2150 in person. Contact Gretchen Rymarchyk (gkr1@cornell.edu) for additional information. We provide lunch!
Course Description:
The Demography Training Series (DTS) Proseminar (PAM 6810) is a professional development and speaker series hosted by the Cornell Population Center. The DTS series is structured to provide students with exposure to the highest-quality research in the field of demography, to strengthen skills in demographic techniques, to broaden knowledge of demographic data, and to facilitate discussions on career development. These are essential aspects to core training in demography and, accordingly, completion of this one-credit course (three times) is requirement to receive the graduate demography minor. Given the importance of these topics and to further develop a culture of demography on campus, all demography students are strongly encouraged to continually enroll and attend the DTS prosem.
Course Requirements:
The requirements of this course are simple: to attend weekly seminars and workshops, and engage with the presenters in a thoughtful manner. Specifically, we expect that you’ll attend all except one of the seminars in the CPC speaker series and attend all of the workshops listed on the schedule below. If you cannot attend one of the workshops, please let us know in advance. In addition to attendance, you are expected to engage with seminar speakers and your peers during presentations and discussions.
If you would like to enroll in the Demography Minor, please contact Gretchen Rymarchyk at gkr1@cornell.edu
Fall 2021 Training Proseminars and CPC Seminars
September 10 | Welcome and PAA Prep | Mann 100
September 17 | CPC Innovations Seminar with Ridhi Kashyap
October 1 | Center for Aging and Policy Studies (CAPS) Seminar with Tyson Brown and Patricia Homan | Virtual
October 8 | Vida Maralani will present A year-by-year view of the job market and how to approach it | Mann 102
October 15 | Ian Lundberg will present What is our estimand? Connecting evidence to theory | Mann 102
October 29 | CPC Innovations Seminar with Amy Hsin
November 5 | CAPS Workshop with keynote by Courtney Boen | Virtual
November 12 | Barum Park (SOC) will present How to write good code: a bag of tips | Mann 102
November 19 | CPC Innovations Seminar with Jeremy Fiel
December 3 | Nichole Szembrot and Florio Arguillas | Mann 102
Spring 2022 Training Proseminars and CPC Innovations Seminars
January 28 | Jamein Cunningham and Max Kapustin will present Generating Ideas for new projects and developing effective work flows
February 11 | Dan Lichter will present Writing a Good Literature Review
February 18 | Siwei Cheng will present Changing Contours: The Polarization of the U.S. Wage Distribution | Innovations in Population Science Seminar (VIRTUAL ONLY)
March 4 | Benjamin Rosche will present Multilevel models: when to use them, how they differ from the OLS regression model, and how to implement them in Stata and R
March 11 | Kate Wiesshaar will present Gender and Racial Discrimination in Hiring Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Evidence from a Field Experiment of Accountants, 2018-2020, Innovations in Population Science Seminar
March 18 | Penny Sanders will lead public presentation sessions and provide feedback
March 25 | Penny Sanders will lead public presentation sessions and provide feedback
April 1 | PAA 2022 Practice Talks (9:00 AM-12:00 PM)
April 6-9 | PAA 2022 Conference
April 15 | Mathew Hauer will present Climate Migration Amplifies Demographic Change and Population Aging, Innovations in Population Science Seminar
April 22 | PAA 2022 Conference debrief
April 29 | Kitt Carpenter will present TBD, Innovations in Population Science Seminar
May 6 | Austin Kocher will give an overview of the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) at Syracuse University
Fall 2020 Training Proseminars
DemSemX, August 21, 3-4pm ET (Not required but recommended)
PAA 2021 Prep and Course Introduction with Doug Miller (PAM), September 4, 12-1:15pm
CISER Resources with William Block, Florio Arguillas, and Lynda Kellam, October 9, 12-1:15pm (Link to join Zoom seminar)
How to get a Draft Paper out the Door and Under Review with Landon Schnabel, November 6, 12-1:15pm (Link to join Zoom seminar)
Decomposition analysis: General Perspective, Advances, and Possible Application to the Study of COVID-19 with Parfait Eloundou-Enyegue , December 4, 12-1:15pm (Link to join Zoom seminar)
Fall 2020 CPC Seminars
All seminars will take place online.
Ariela Schachter (October 2, 12-1:15pm, link to attend online talk, link to meet with Ariela Schachter) will present, Ancestry, Color, or Culture? How Whites Racially Classify Others in the U.S., Innovations series, hosted by CPC and co-sponsored by CCSS, CSI
Stéphane Helleringer (October 23, 12-1:15pm) will present, Preventing the Spread of SARS-CoV-2 in Malawi: Initial Results from a Panel Study, Innovations series, hosted by CPC and co-sponsored by CCSS, CSI
Elizabeth Wrigley-Field (November 20, 12-1:15pm) will present, The Black Deaths America Treats as Normal, Innovations series, hosted by CPC and co-sponsored by CCSS, CSI
Daniel Schneider (December 9, 1:15-2:30pm), Hosted by PAM and co-sponsored by CPC
Jennifer Ailshire (December 11, 12-1:15pm) will present, Social and Physical Environmental Influences on Cognitive Function and Dementia, CAPS Seminar, Hosted by CPC and co-sponsored by SYR and SUNY Albany
Spring 2021 Training Proseminars
Feb 12 | Doug Miller on Event Study Models
March 5 | Vida Maralani on Writing an Effective Teaching Statement
March 19 | Seth Sanders on Finite Mixing Models, Part 1
April 9 | Seth Sanders on Finite Mixing Models, Part 2 (Methods and Demographic Application)
April 16 | Joe Salvo (Chief Demographer, Population Division, NYC Dept. of City Planning) on Applied Demography
April 30 | PAA 2021 Practice Talks | 12-3:00pm (Optional)
May 21| Seth Sanders on Finite Mixing Models, Part 3 (Methods and Demographic Application)
Spring 2020
Causal Analyses of Health Behaviors with John Cawley, January 24, 12-1:15pm, Warren B73
Building Productive Professional Mentoring Relationships with Vida Maralani, February 14, 12-1:15pm, Mann 102
Designing and Delivering an Effective Presentation with Peter Rich, February 28, 12-1:15pm, Mann 102
CANCELED–PAA Practice Talks, April 10, 9am-1:30pm, Mann 102 (Not required)
From Conference Paper to Journal Submission with Matt Hall, May 1, 12-1:15pm, Online
Fall 2019
PAA 2020 Prep and Course Introduction with Vida Maralani (SOC) and Doug Miller (PAM), August 30, 12-1:15pm, Mann 102
Welcome Back Reception, September 5, 3:30-5pm, CHE Commons
Navigating the Postdoc Job Market with Patrick Ishizuka (Washington University in St. Louis) and Sarah James (CPC Frank H. T. Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow) – September 13, 12-1:15pm, Mann 102
Panel on Differential Privacy in the 2020 US Census with John Abowd, Andy Beveridge, Abraham Flaxman, Shannon Monnat – moderated by Matt Hall. September 20, 12:00-1:30pm, Mann 102
Tips & Techniques for Web-scraping with Nicolas Bottan, October 25, 12-1:15pm, Mann 102
Upstate Population Workshop (at Syracuse), November 1, 10am-4pm, 312 Lyman Hall (Not required)
Mixed Method and Qualitative Research in Demography with Maureen Waller and Emily Parker, November 15, 12-1:15pm, Mann 102
Introduction to Bayesian Estimation Methods in Demography with Doug Miller, December 6, 12-1:15 pm, Mann 102
Spring 2019
Mark Fossett (TAMU) and Amber Crowell (Fresno State) — New Methods for Segregation Analysis: A Hands-On Workshop, February 6, 10-11:30, Mann 102
Douglas Miller (PAM) — Basics of propensity score & matching*, February 8, 12-1:15pm, Mann 102
Cristobal Young (SOC) — Big data topics*, February 15, 12-1:15pm, Mann 102
PAA Practice Talks — March 29, 9:30am-2pm, Warren 401
PAA 2019 — April 10-13, Austin, TX
Lars Vilhuber (Economics)— Project replication*, April 26, 12-1:15pm, MVR G422
Fall 2018
Kelly Musick (PAM) — Welcome Back and PAA 2019 Prep*
Friday, August 24, 12-1:15pm, Mann 102
Douglas Miller (PAM) — Generating paper ideas*, September 28, 12-1:15pm, Warren B73
Upstate Population Workshop (at Cornell) — October 19, 12-4:30pm, A.D. White House
Kim Weeden (SOC) — Writing and responding to reviewer reports, October 26, 12-1:15pm, Mann 102
CISER — Research with Restricted Access Data and Results Reproduction and Poster Presentation Prep*, November 2, 12-1:15pm, Mann 102
Rhodes Annual Meeting and Conference — November 8-9, Statler, Deep Wounds: Social Determinants of Health Inequalities – co-sponsored by CPC and CSI
Paula Fomby (Michigan) — Introduction to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID)*, December 7, 10-11:30am, Warren B73
Kelly Musick (PAM) — Welcome Back and PAA 2018 Prep
Friday, September 1, 12-1:15pm, MVR 142
Michael Lovenheim (PAM) and Laura Tach (PAM) — How I Do Demography
Friday, October 6, 12-1:15pm, MVR 153
CAPS Encore Upstate Population Conference (at Syracuse)
Friday, October 20, 10-3:30pm
Patrick Ishizuka (CPC Rhodes Postdoctoral Fellow) — External Funding for Graduate Students
Friday, December 8, 12-1:15pm, MVR 142
Peter Rich (PAM) — Intro to Spatial Demography and Analytics
Friday, February 2, 12-1:15pm, MVR G87
Nicolas Ziebarth (PAM) — Developing a Workflow: Being Productive without Losing your Mind
Friday, March 23, 12-1:15pm, MVR 142
2018 PAA Practice Talks, Wednesday, April 18, 10-2PM, W.I. Meyers Seminar Room, 401 Warren Hall
PAA 2018, April 27, 2018
Vida Maralani (SOC) — Using Population Projections in Your Research
Friday, May 11, 12-1:15pm, MVR G87