Beim studies American politics in general and judicial politics in particular, with a focus on interactions between the U.S. Supreme Court and the Courts of Appeals.

Kentaro Fukumoto PhD, Political Science Dept., Washington Univ., St Louis, does research on political methodology, legislative studies, electoral studies, and Japanese politics.

Michael Link, Ph.D., SVP Measurement Science Institute, Nielsen Company; and President, American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR)

Allen Riddell, Neukom Fellow, will explore how probabilistic models of text can be used to address questions about the relationship between the circuit courts & the Supreme Court.

Jenna Wiens of the University of Michigan will speak on "Leveraging Data Across Time and Space to Build Predictive Models for Healthcare-Associated Infections."

Eitan Hersh, Assistant Prof. of Political Science, Yale Univ. His teaching/research focus on US elections; he studies campaign strategy, voting behavior & election administration.

Title: Coupled models of diseases and economic growth. Speaker: Calistus N. Ngonghala (Harvard Medical School). For more info, visit: https://math.dartmouth.edu/~acms/

The MSS Program is for students who want to combine interests in a social science field with courses that emphasize technical skills--with emphasis on data analysis & computation.

Todor Parushev--"Market Competition in the Liner Shipping Industry—Evolution, Stability and Concentration in South America"

Alexis Savini--"Accreditation of Forensic Labs: Qualities of Accredited and Non-Accredited Labs and Implications for Wrongful Conviction"