Date & Time	Event
Friday, October 3, 3:30	Micro Theory Seminar Volker Nocke (Oxford) “Dynamic Merger Review”
Tuesday, October 7, 4:00	Department of Statistics Colloquium Catherine Matias (CNRS Laboratoire Statistique & Genome, Evry, France) “Identifiability of Latent Class Models with Many Observed Variables”
Thursday, October 9, 4:00	Department of Statistics Colloquium Christian Houdre (Georgia Institute of Technology) “Random Words, Longest Increasing Subsequences and Random Matrices”
Friday, October 10, 9:00am	Krishnaiah and Khatri Lectures Workshop Elizabeth Thompson (University of Washington & Humans in an Evolutionary Context), Alan Walker (Penn State) “Inference of Genome Sharing Among Related Individuals: Integrating Modern SNP Data on Pedigrees and Populations”
Tuesday, October 14, 12:00	PRI Brown Bag Series: 2008-2009 Nilam Ram and Denis Jennifer Hook (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Penn State) Gender Inequality in the Welfare State: Sex Segregation in Housework, 1965-2003

QuaSSI Workshop, “Introduction to IRT.” to be offered by Julianna Pacheco (Political Science and QuaSSI; Penn State) on October 3.

QuaSSI Workshop, “Introduction to R.” to be offered by Claudia Nau (Sociology, Population Research Institute and QuaSSI; Penn State) on September 15.

QuaSSI Workshop, “Introduction to LaTeX.” to be offered by Anna Pechenkina (Political Science and QuaSSI; Penn State) on September 5.

QuaSSI Symposium, Quantitative Political History on May 20.

QuaSSI Conference, New Faces in Political Methodology on May 3.

QuaSSI Seminar, “Circular Modeling of Human Behavior: Directional statistics and cosine curve modeling applied to interpersonal functioning.” to be offered by Aidan Wright (Psychology and QuaSSI; Penn State) on April 9.

QuaSSI Seminar, “GIS software and spatial statistics tools: Do they measure up? Comparing Ripley's K-function analysis in ArcMap, CrimeState, and SpatStat (R)” to be offered by Gregory Luna (Anthropology and QuaSSI; Penn State) on March 19.

Call for applications, QuaSSI Graduate Assistantships. Applications due March 19.

QuaSSI Seminar, “An Introduction to Causal Inference Using Propensity Score Matching” to be offered by Satvika Chalasani (Sociology, Demography, and QuaSSI; Penn State) on January 28.

QuaSSI Seminar, “Bayesian Inference for Causal Effects from 2×2 and 2×2xK Tables in the Presence of Unmeasured Confounding” to be offered by Kevin Quinn (Department of Government, Harvard) on January 18.

QuaSSI Seminar, “The Puzzling Nature of Success in Cultural Markets” to be offered by Matthew Salganik (Department of Sociology, Princeton) on October 15.

QuaSSI Seminar, “When Lightning Strikes Twice: A New Model for Repeated Events” to be offered by Suzanna De Boef (Department of Political Science, Penn State) on September 26.

QuaSSI Workshop, “Introduction to Functional MRI for Social Scientists” to be offered by Melissa Robinson (Department of Neuroscience and QuaSSI, Penn State) on September 10.

24th Annual Summer Meeting, Society for Political Methodlogy, July 18-21

QuaSSI Pre-Doctoral Fellows, 2007-08: Satvika Chalasani, Gregory Luna, Melissa Robinson, and Aidan Wright

Call for applications, QuaSSI Graduate Assistantships. Applications due April 30.

Special QuaSSI Event on “Causal Models and Statistical Data” to be offered by Clark Glymour and Richard Scheines (Department of Philosophy, Carnegie Mellon University) on March 23.

QuaSSI Seminar on “Exponential Random Graph Models for Social Networks” to be offered by David Hunter (Statistics) on February 21.

QuaSSI Seminar on “Quantile Regression” to be offered by Sung Jae Jun (Economics) on December 11.

The QuaSSI Seminar on “Learning in Fantasy Sports League Data” by Brian Smith (Information Sciences and Education), originally scheduled for December 4 has been cancelled and will be rescheduled for the Spring 2007 semester.

QuaSSI Seminar on “Statistical Methods for Data Privacy, Confidentiality and Disclosure Limitation” to be offered by Sesa Slavkovic (Statistics) on November 27.

QuaSSI Workshop on “Data-Mining the Web with Perl” to be offered by QuaSSI Director Burt Monroe on November 17.

QuaSSI Seminar on “Analysis of Complex Time-Space Processes” to be offered by Donna Peuquet (Geography) on November 13.

QuaSSI Workshop on “The New Political Methodology” to be offered by Chris Achen (Princeton) on November 2.

QuaSSI Seminar on “Common Trend Models” (Jee-Kwang Park) to be held on October 30.

QuaSSI Seminar on “Statistical Power Analysis” (Kevin Murphy) to be held on October 23.

QuaSSI Seminar on “Latent Class Analysis” (Stephanie Lanza) to be held on October 16.

New QuaSSI website launched.

Burt Monroe named QuaSSI Director.

SSSP is now QuaSSI!