This looks like a great opportunity for you all to learn some cutting edge techniques. I will not be in town during that week, but I encourage you all to sign up for this and attend these sessions.

Best Regards, Ishtiaque

Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed Assistant Professor Department of Computer Science University of Toronto, ON, CA web: https://www.ishtiaque.net/

---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Angela Demke Brown gradchair@cs.toronto.edu Date: Mon, Mar 18, 2019 at 2:29 PM Subject: FW: University of Toronto Social Science Methods Week - please circulate To: dcsall@cs.toronto.edu

*From:* Arts & Science - Graduate [mailto:graduate.artsci@utoronto.ca] *Sent:* March 18, 2019 12:16 PM *To:* Arts & Science - Graduate graduate.artsci@utoronto.ca *Subject:* University of Toronto Social Science Methods Week - please circulate

Dear Graduate Coordinators and Administrators,

The Department of Sociology is hosting an interdisciplinary week of methods workshops for scholars in the social sciences (broadly defined). Please circulate the below announcement to your faculty and graduate students.

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*UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO SOCIAL SCIENCE METHODS WEEK*

Faculty and graduate students are cordially invited to attend the 2nd annual University of Toronto Social Science Methods Week (SSMW), held April 29-May 3, 2019.

SSMW consists of a series of workshops on methodologies with high potential to improve and advance research in the social sciences. Workshops are taught by expert methodologists drawn from departments across the social sciences at the University of Toronto. SSMW is an interdisciplinary forum where researchers can upgrade their methodological toolkit and build cross-disciplinary ties to like-minded scholars.

The following workshops are being offered:

- Introduction to Python - Introduction to Web Scraping and APIs with Python - R Basics: Analyzing and Plotting Data - Measuring Theoretical Constructions with Unobserved Variables: An Introduction to Structural Equation Modeling - Models of Social Change: Methods and Principles of Age-Period-Cohort Analysis - Integrated Network Science: Social Network Analysis in R - Multilevel Modeling: An Introduction - Registered Reports in Behavioral Science: A How-to Guide and Description of Benefits for Scientific Progress - Qualitative Social Science: A Fun Overview - Hearing Silence in Qualitative Interviews

Workshops are free, but registration is required.

Full details and a link to the registration form can be found on the event website: click here http://sociology.utoronto.ca/events-2-2/university-of-toronto-social-science-methods-week/university-of-toronto-social-science-methods-week-2019/ or copy and paste the URL into your web browser ( http://sociology.utoronto.ca/events-2-2/university-of-toronto-social-science... )