Events Around Town

Friday, May 24th, all day

The 2nd Annual Tom Ten Have Symposium on Statistics in Psychiatry will be held on May 24, 2013,  hosted by the Biostatistics Division of the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at New York University School of Medicine.   All who are interested in biostatistics are encouraged to participate in this event – registration is free and it will be held in the Child Study Center’s new home in One Park Avenue. 

 Program details and registration can be found at:
http://www.aboutourkids.org/content/second_annual_thomas_ten_have_symposium_statistics_in_psychiatry_0

Any additional questions about this event can be directed to Dr. Eva Petkova, Director, Division of Biostatistics  eva.petkova@nyumc.org

Friday, March 1st, 11am

"Modeling Student Learning, Moment-by-Moment"
Ryan S.J.d. Baker
Julius and Rosa Sachs Distinguished Lecturer
Columbia University Teachers College

WHEN: Friday, March 1st, 11am
WHERE: CREATE Lab, 196 Mercer St., 8th Floor

ABSTRACT
In recent years, intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) have become an increasingly common part of American mathematics and science education. One feature that has supported this development is the
student models within intelligent tutors, which have become increasingly accurate at detecting whether a student knows a skill at a given time. From a science of learning perspective, it can be equally important to know when and within which contexts learning occurs.

In this talk, I present a machine-learned model that assesses the probability that a student learned a skill at a specific learning opportunity. This model can be used to analyze which skills are learned through insight and "eureka" moments, and which skills are learned more gradually. I also discuss how the pattern of learning over time can be used to predict not just which students learn, and when they learn, but how robust a student's learning will be.

BIO is given here http://www.columbia.edu/~rsb2162/

Friday, October 12, 2012
CAOSS 2012:  Workshop on Computational and Online Social Science
The Kellogg Center
Columbia University
420 West 118th Street, 15th Floor

Wednesday, January 25, 2012: 12:30-2:00pm

Presentation: Matthew Salganik, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Princeton University
“Wiki surveys: Open and quantifiable social data collection"

Friday, December 2nd, 2011: 1pm-3pm
Workshop: Practical Missing Data Imputation
Organized by Andrew Gelman (Columbia University) and Jennifer Hill (New York University)

Friday, December 2nd, 2011: 12pm-2pm
HIV Intervention Science Training Program for Underrepresented New Investigators
Donna Coffman, PhD The Methodology Center, Pennsylvania State University
Assessing Causal Mediation of  the RRR Intervention on Sexual Risk Behavior Among  Recently Released Female Prisoner

Friday, November 18th, 2011
HIV Intervention Science Training Program for Underrepresented New Investigators
Linda Collins PhD, Director, Methodology Center
The Multiphase Optimization Strategy (MOST) for Engineering Better Behavioral Interventions

March-May 2011
American Statistical Association, NYC Metro Area Chapter Events

Ongoing Meetups
New York R Statistical Programming Meetup