The 2024 Summer Institute in Computational Social Science at Chicago (SICSS-Chicago) will be held in-person from August 4-8, 2024 at Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. The goal of the program is to bring together grad students, postdocs, and early career faculty from a range of disciplines to learn more about the exciting field of computational social science. The curriculum will cover a broad array of topics including Ethics and Text, Multi-modal Analysis, Generative AI in the New Age, Scalable Experiments, and Complexity & Networks. Participants will also have the opportunity to engage in hands-on experience through collaborative datathon projects.
We are delighted to announce our esteemed lineup of speakers (alphabetical order): Damon Centola (University of Pennsylvania), Solène Delecourt (UC Berkeley), Matt Groh (Northwestern University), Manling Li (Northwestern University), Sameer Srivastava (UC Berkeley), Brian Uzzi (Northwestern University), Rob Voigt (Northwestern University), and Dashun Wang (Northwestern University). We are also excited that more speakers will be revealed soon.
We warmly invite all interested graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and early career faculty to apply. Application details can be found at: https://sicss.io/2024/chicago/apply, with a submission deadline of May 1, 2024 at 11:59pm CT. For further details about SICSS-Chicago, please visit our website: https://sicss.io/2024/chicago/.
We'd like to thank sponsors who are generously supporting SICSS-Chicago: the Kellogg School of Management and The Center for Science of Science & Innovation (CSSI), and School of Communication at Northwestern University for organizing support.
SICSS-Chicago is committed to embracing diversity in all its forms and strongly encourages applications from underrepresented groups. For any inquiries, please contact us at chicago.sicss@gmail.com.
Best,
SICSS-Chicago Organizing Team (Binglu Wang, Ji Hae Choi, and Yingdan Lu)
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Binglu Wang (she/her/hers)
PhD Candidate | Department of Management & Organizations
Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University
2211 Campus Drive | Evanston, IL 60208
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