Center for Demography of Health and Aging

Center for Demography and Ecology Demography Training Seminars (Dem Sem)
Fall of 2011

This weekly seminar is hosted by the Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE) on Tuesday, 12:30 to 1:45 P.M. in Room 8417 of Sewell Social Sciences Building at UW-Madison. Information about Dem Sem topics and speakers is available at this site, http://ssc.wisc.edu/cde/demsem/home.htm.

Department of Population Health Sciences Monday Seminars
Fall of 2011

Speakers and topics can be downloaded at this link. To view the seminars approximately one week after the presentation, please see the Innovations in Medical Education Video Library at: http://videos.med.wisc.edu/event.php?eventid=5

Location: Room 1309 Health Sciences Learning Center at UW-Madison
Date: 9/12, 9/19, 9/26, 10/3, 10/10, 10/17, 10/24, 10/31, 11/7, 11/14, 11/21, 11/28, 12/5, and 12/12
Time: noon - 1 P.M.

Interdisciplinary Sexuality Seminar (ISS)
Fall of 2011

ISS seminars are held at UW-Madison and in the Medical College of Wisconsin. For topics and speakers, please see this schedule.

Location: Room 8411 of Sewell Social Science Building at UW-Madison
Date: 9/9, 9/23, 10/14 and 11/11
Time: 3 - 5 P.M.

Location: Center for Aids Intervention Research (CAIR) in the Medical College of Wisconsin, 2071 North Summit Avenue.
Date: 10/28, and 12/2
Time: 3 - 5 P.M.

UW Health Disparities Interest Group (HDIG) Meetings
Fall of 2011

UW Health Disparities Interest Group (HDIG) provides a forum for investigators, graduate students, post-doctoral fellows, research staff, and community members to network, collaborate, and disseminate their work on health disparities research and practice (including disparities in health determinants, health outcomes, and health and social services). HDIG meetings are scheduled on every second Friday of the month during the academic year. Agenda range from discussion of seminal or recent research articles to seminars on in-progress or completed research, reviews of grant proposals, and feedback on research articles in preparation.

Location: Room 3330 Health Sciences Learning Center at UW-Madison
Date: 9/9, 10/14, 11/11 and 12/9
Time: 9 - 10 A.M.

Center for Demography and Ecology Demography Training Seminars (Dem Sem)
Spring of 2011

This weekly seminar is hosted by the Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE) on Tuesday, 12:20 to 1:45 P.M. in Room 4308 of Sewell Social Sciences Building at UW-Madison. Information about Dem Sem topics and speakers is available at this site, http://ssc.wisc.edu/cde/demsem/home.htm.

Department of Population Health Sciences Monday Seminars
Spring of 2011

Location: Room 1309 Health Sciences Learning Center at UW-Madison
Date: 1/24, 1/31, 2/7, 2/14, 2/21, 2/28, 3/7, 3/14, 3/21, 3/28, 4/4, 4/11, 4/18, 4/25 and 5/2
Time: noon - 1 P.M.

Interdisciplinary Sexuality Seminar (ISS)
Spring of 2011

ISS seminars are held at UW-Madison and in the Medical College of Wisconsin. For topics and speakers, please see this schedule.

Location: Room 8411 of Sewell Social Science Building at UW-Madison
Date: 1/21. 3/25, and 4/8
Time: 3 - 5 P.M.

Location: Center for Aids Intervention Research (CAIR) in the Medical College of Wisconsin, 2071 North Summit Avenue.
Date: 3/11, and 4/22
Time: 3 - 5 P.M.

Workshop in Spatial Analysis: Motivations and Applications
Winter of 2011

In recent years spatial analysis has become increasingly important in population research. This two-part workshop covers the population research areas that spatial analysis can apply to and tools suitable for spatial analysis. This workshop is sponsored by the Center for Demography and Ecology and the Applied Population Laboratory. Power Point presentations from this workshop are available at these links:

http://www.apl.wisc.edu/downloads/SpatialWorkshop_Agenda.doc
http://www.apl.wisc.edu/downloads/SpatialAnalysisWorkshop_Day1.pdf
http://www.apl.wisc.edu/downloads/SpatialAnalysisWorkshop_Day2.pdf

Instructors: Professor Katherine Curtis, Bill Buckingham and Dave Long
Date: January 12 and 13
Time: 1 P.M. to 4 P.M.
Location: Room 354 Agriculture Hall at the University of Wisconsin-Madison

R Workshops
Winter of 2011

R is an open-source statistical package commonly used by statisticians developing new statistical methods. While it is more difficult to learn and use than Stata, SAS or SPSS, some cutting-edge techniques have only been implemented in R. Two whole day (9 A.M. to 5 P.M.) workshops are scheduled on January 10 and 11 in 2011. Workshops will be held in L196 Education Building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Monday January 10, 2011: A Marathon Introduction to R
Instructor: Doug Hemken.
This workshop will cover R basics like language fundamentals, data objects, graphics, descriptive statistics and simple linear models.

Tuesday January 11, 2011: Mixed Models in R using lme4
Instructor: Douglas Bates.
This second workshop will emphasize linear mixed models and generalized mixed models. Basic familiarity with R and fixed effects modeling in R will be assumed.

Department of Population Health Sciences Monday Seminars
Fall of 2010

Location: Room 1309 Health Sciences Learning Center at UW-Madison
Date: 9/13, 9/20, 9/27, 10/4, 10/11, 10/18, 10/25, 11/1, 11/8, 11/15, 11/22, 11/29, 12/6 and 12/13
Time: noon - 1 P.M.

Interdisciplinary Sexuality Seminar (ISS)
Fall of 2010

Location: Room 8411 of Sewell Social Science Building at UW-Madison
Time: 3 - 5 P.M.

Friday, September 10
"Celebrities 'out of face:' Rituals of identity challenge and repair in the electronic age" presented by John DeLamater, Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sociology

Friday, October 8
"Queers in the Line of Fire: Coming Out, Identity Management and Intergroup Dialogue" presented by Jason Orne, Graduate Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sociology

Friday, November 12
"Gay/Lesbian Rights and Issue Framing: Identity, Sexuality, or Love?" presented by Sabra Katz-Wise, Doctoral Candidate and William Cox, Graduate Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Psychology

Friday, December 3
"The Experiences of Sex Educators: Training and Institutional Differences" presented by Nicolette Pawloski, Graduate Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison

ISS has two seminars scheduled for Milwaukee. They are held at the Center for Aids Intervention Research (CAIR) in the Medical College of Wisconsin, located at 2071 North Summit Avenue.

Friday, September 24 3 PM Milwaukee
"The Influence of Gain vs Loss Framing on Intentions to Vaccinate Daughters Against HPV: The Moderating Role of Perceived Sexual Experience of the Child" presented by Julia Lechuga, Assistant Professor, Medical College of Wisconsin Center for Aids Intervention Research

Friday, October 28 3 PM Milwaukee
"Hombres Sanos (Healthy Men): Evaluation of a Social Marketing Intervention to Reduce HIV Risk among Heterosexually-identified Latino Men who Have Sex with Men" presented by Ana Martinez-Donate, Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Population Health Sciences

WLS Pilot Grant Workshop
Summer of 2010

The Wisconsin Longitudinal Study is hosting a training workshop on August 5th and 6th. It will be held in Room 8417 William H. Sewell Social Science Building at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The presentations are open to anyone who wants to learn more about the project or current research. For presentations at this workshop, please visit this link: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/docs/WLS2010Agenda_brief.pdf.

Biomarkers, Genetics, and Social Science Workshop
Summer of 2010

The Center for Demography and Ecology (CDE), the Center for Demography of Health and Aging (CDHA) and the Robert Wood Johnson (RWJ) Health and Society Scholars Program are sponsoring a one day workshop on "Biomarkers, Genetics, and Social Science." Jason Fletcher from Yale University and Elliot Friedman from University of Wisconsin-Madison will be the presenters. They will cover the basics concepts and terminology in these two rapidly emerging areas of increasing importance to population studies research. This workshop is open to students, faculty, and affiliated researchers of CDE, CDHA, and RWJ. A reading list is available at this link: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/docs/GeneticsBiomarkersReadingList.pdf.

To download the Microsoft PowerPoint presentations from this workshop, click on these two links: http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/docs/GeneticsFletcher.ppt and http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/cdha/docs/BiomarkersFriedman.pptx.

Location: 8417 Sewell Social Sciences Building
Date: July 7, 2010
Time: 9 A.M. - 4:30 P.M.

Introduction to R Programming
Spring of 2010

CDE's Statistical Core will be offering an Introduction to R Programming workshop. Marc Ratkovic, a graduate student in political science and statistics, will teach the class. R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is available for a wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS. SSCC has R installed on both our Winstat servers and Linux servers (including Condor). Visit R's website (http://www.r-project.org/) for more information. This workshop will be tailored to applications in demographical research, but should be useful to anyone interested in R.

Location: 3218 Sewell Social Sciences Building
Date: 2/26, 3/5, 3/12, 3/19
Time: 1:00 - 2:30 P.M.

Demography of Inequality and Family Demography Monday Workshops
Spring of 2010

The distribution of resources and rewards is closely linked with demographic structures and processes. Fertility, family and household behavior may create and foster inequalities in economic resources, both within and across generations. Similarly inequality in social and economic resources may affect individual and family behavior. Socioeconomic inequality is intrinsically linked with health inequalities, access to schooling, and success in later life. The central interests of our workshops are factors affecting the distribution of income and wealth. Research on educational attainment, employment, and consumption fit in this forum for exchanging ideas. Katherine Curtis, Ananth Seshadri/Karl Scholz, Tim Smeeding, Jim Raymo/Marcy Carlson and Alberto Palloni/Christine Schwartz will present their projects.

Location: Room 7324 William H. Sewell Social Science Building at UW-Madison
Date: 2/15, 3/1, 3/8, 3/15, 3/22, 4/5, 4/19 and 5/3
Time: 1- 2:15 P.M.
Organizers: Karl Scholz and Maria Cancian

Interdisciplinary Sexuality Seminar (ISS)
Spring of 2010

Location: Room 8411 of Sewell Social Science Building at UW-Madison
Time: 3 - 5 P.M.

Friday, January 22
"Embracing Pleasure in Behavior Modification" presented by Myrtle Wilhite, MD, Co-Founder of " A Woman's Touch"

Friday, February 19
"Using Electronic Data Collection Methods in Sexuality Research" presented by Devon J. Hensel, Assistant Professor, Indiana University, School of Medicine

Friday, March 19
"Interactional Practices in Speed Dating" presented by Jason Turowetz and Matt Hollander, Graduate Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sociology

Friday, April 23
"Definitions and Perceptions of Sexual Aggression Among Women in Prison" presented by Amanda Ward, Graduate Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sociology

Department of Population Health Sciences Monday Seminars
Spring of 2010

Location: Room 1309 Health Sciences Learning Center at UW-Madison
Date: 1/25, 2/1, 2/8, 2/15, 2/22, 3/1, 3/8, 3/15, 3/22, 4/5, 4/12, 4/19, 4/26 and 5/3
Time: noon - 1 P.M.

Demography of Inequality Workshop
Fall of 2009

The distribution of resources and rewards is closely linked with demographic structures and processes. Fertility, family and household behavior may create and foster inequalities in economic resources, both within and across generations. Similarly inequality in social and economic resources may affect individual and family behavior. Socioeconomic inequality is intrinsically linked with health inequalities, access to schooling, and success in later life. The central interests of our workshops are factors affecting the distribution of income and wealth. Research on educational attainment, employment, and consumption fit in this forum for exchanging ideas. Christine Swartz, Jenna Nobles, Ted Gerber and Jane Cooley presented their projects on Demography of Inequality this semester.

Location: Room 7324 William H. Sewell Social Science Building at UW-Madison
Date: 2/15, 3/22, 4/5, 4/19 and 5/3
Time: noon - 1:15 P.M.
Organizers: Karl Scholz and Maria Cancian

Interdisciplinary Sexuality Seminar (ISS)
Fall 2009

Location: 224 Ingraham at UW-Madison
Time: 3 - 5 P.M.

Friday, October 19
"Sexuality Over the Life Course" presented by Laura Carpenter, Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University, Sociology

Friday, October 30
"Fluidity or Contextuality? Changing Sexual Identity Labels in Young Queer People" presented by Jason Orne, Graduate Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Sociology

Friday, December 4
"Sexual Blooming or Sexual Decline: Understanding the Sexual Potential of Menopausal Women: 1940-1980" presented by Judith Houck,Associate Professor University of Wisconsin-Madison, History of Science, Medicine and Technology

Mapping Your Spatially Referenced Data with ArcGIS
Spring of 2009

This hands-on training provides a brief introduction to ArcGIS software. The focus of this course is on teaching beginner users how to bring tabular data into a GIS environment and begin mapping it for descriptive and or analytic purposes. The instructor will also offer an overview of more advanced ArcGIS functions related to data production, manipulation, and integration.

Location: Room 3218 William H. Sewell Social Science Building at UW-Madison
Date: 3/31, 4/2
Time: 2:00 P.M.- 3:30 P.M.
Instructor: Dave Long

Demography - Social Science - Statistics Workshop
Spring of 2009

This series of four statistical workshops will focus on recent advancements in spatial data analysis and the potential applications to demography. We will discuss some perspective on the types of problems encountered in demography for which spatial statistical methods can be helpful. Spatial dependence and spatial heterogeneity will be covered. The background of some of the underlying statistical ideas will be presented.

Location: Agriculture Hall 354 at UW-Madison
Date: 4/2, 4/9, 5/7
Time: 12:20 P. M.- 1:50 P.M.

Location: Agriculture Hall 301 at UW-Madison
Date: 4/23
Time: 12:20 P. M.- 1:50 P.M.

Women's Health and Retirement Security: How Far We Have Come and Where We Need to Go
Fall of 2008

This preconference workshop was held at the Gerontological Society of America Annual Meeting, in National Harbor, Maryland on November 21 at 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm. This conference focuses on the health and economic well-being of older women, with particular emphasis on race and socioeconomic differences.

GeoDa Workshops
Fall of 2008

The Applied Population Lab is offering three workshops on using GeoDa. GeoDa is software designed to provide a graphical interface to methods of descriptive spatial data analysis, such as spatial autocorrelation statistics, as well as basic spatial regression functionality. For more information about GeoDa, visit this site: https://www.geoda.uiuc.edu/.

Location: Room 3218 William H. Sewell Social Science Building at UW-Madison
Date: 10/3, 10/10, and 10/17
Time: 9:30 A.M.- 11:30 A.M.
Topics: Spatial Weights and Spatial Autocorrelation in Geoda, Exploratory Spatial Data Analysis in Geoda, and Spatial Regression Analysis in Geoda and R
Instructors: Bill Buckingham and Dave Long

Introduction to R Programming
Spring of 2008

William Whipple Neely from the UW Statistics Department gave a series of workshops on R Programming. This is a part of CDE's Statistical Core program. R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is available for a wide variety of UNIX platforms, Windows and MacOS. Visit R's web site, http://www.r-project.org/ for more information. This workshop was tailored to applications in demographical research.

Location: Room 2470 William H. Sewell Social Science Building at UW-Madison
Date: 2/15, 2/22, 2/29, 3/7
Time: 10:30 A. M.- Noon

Personality Measurement in Large Longitudinal Surveys Workshop
Fall of 2007

This workshop is sponsored by the Center on Demography and Economics of Aging (University of Chicago), Michigan Center on the Demography of Aging (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor) and the Center for Demography of Health and Aging (University of Wisconsin-Madison). Personality measurements used in various longitudinal studies were discussed at this workshop on November 5-6.

Statistical Methodology Workshop Series III
Spring of 2007

This third series was devoted to causal inference from data with non-random assignment. In particular, there was discussion of the so-called propensity scoring matching and its advantages and shortcomings...(Read more)

The main theme of the second series was sampling of hidden or hard-to-find populations...(Read more)

The first statistical methodology series was devoted to the issue of multiple imputation...(Read more)

CDHA co-sponsored an International conference on the Future of Cognitive Aging Research held at the Pennsylvania State University...(Read more)

Statistical Disclosure Control for Data Confidentiality
November 10-12, 2004

Three specialists from Statistics Netherlands, Anco Johannes Hundepool, Eric Schulte Nordholt, and Peter Paul de Wolf, conducted the training workshop, which provided participants with an understanding of the theoretical mathematical aspects of statistical disclosure control and the application of these methods using the ARGUS software... (Read more)

Training Workshop: Nesstar Software Suite
June 4-5, 2003

The training workshop was hosted by CDHA in partnership with the University of Wisconsin Survey Center (UWSC) and the National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH)... (Read more)