Computational Social Science Workshop

The Computational Social Science Workshop is an interdisciplinary seminar series featuring speakers of broad appeal in the social sciences who use computational techniques to analyze big data for research into human behavior.  This workshop is cosponsored by the Institution for Social and Policy Studies,  the Yale Department of Sociology, and the Yale School of Management (SOM) with support from the Initiative for Leadership and Organization at SOM.

The workshop typically meets on selected Mondays from 12:00-1:15 p.m. at Evans Hall, 165 Whitney Avenue.  Please see the schedule below for room numbers.

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Faculty Organizers: Balazs Kovacs, Professor of Management, Yale School of Management; and Daniel Karell, Assistant Professor, Department of Sociology

Staff Coordinator and Contact: Kristine Reilly

Schedule 2024-2025

date speaker & title
SEP 26
(Thurs)
Matthew Salganik, Department of Sociology, Princeton University
“The Unpredictability of Life Outcomes”
Evans Hall, Room 4230, Attwood Classroom
Co-sponsored with CERSI (Center for Empirical Research on Stratification and Inequality)
NOV 11 Pete Aceves, Management & Organization, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School
“Middle-Status Myopia”
Evans Hall, Room 2210, Allison Classroom
DEC 2 Helena Miton, Organizational Behavior, Stanford Graduate School of Business
“A Constraints-Based View of Human Cultural Evolution”
Evans Hall, Room 2210, Allison Classroom
FEB 24 Michelle Torres, Department of Political Science, UCLA
Evans Hall, Room TBA
MAR 31

Christopher Bail, Department of Sociology, Duke University
Evans Hall, Room TBA

APR 28 Filiz Garip, Department of Sociology, Princeton University
Evans Hall, Room TBA

Past Seminar Series