The Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Bologna is a partner site for the Princeton Summer School in Computational Social Science (SICSS). The Department will host a virtual 2-week program between 21 June and July 2, 2021. https://sicss.io/2021/bologna/ and is currently accepting applications: https://sicss.io/2021/bologna/apply until 12 March 2021.
The purpose of the Summer Institute is to bring together graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and beginning faculty interested in computational social science. The Summer Institute is for both social scientists (broadly conceived) and data scientists (broadly conceived). The instructional program will involve lectures, group problem sets, and participant-led research projects. In the second week, there will also be outside speakers who conduct computational social science research in a variety of settings, such as academia, industry, and government. Topics covered include text as data, website scraping, digital field experiments, machine learning, and ethics. There will be ample opportunities for students to discuss their ideas and research with the organizers, other participants, and visiting speakers. Because we are committed to open and reproducible research, all materials created by faculty and students for the Summer Institute will be released open source.
Participation is restricted to Ph.D. students, postdoctoral researchers, and untenured faculty within 7 years of their Ph.D.
