The Quantitative Social Science Initiative (QuaSSI)
 Welcome to the homepage of Penn State's Quantitative Social Science
Initiative (QuaSSI). QuaSSI seeks to promote the development of an interdisciplinary community of Penn State faculty, students, and other researchers interested in the improvement and application of quantitative techniques and tools in social science research and training. All QuaSSI events are open to any interested members of the Penn State community.
October '08 Events around Campus
|
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
|
|