BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5350-df99e61a7c02164dade351b309379dcd@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260606T132836Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201204T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201204T133000 SUMMARY:Political Science Colloquium - Lightning Alt-Academic Talks DESCRIPTION:\nMatthew Denny (Facebook) and Natalie Jackson (PRRI)\n\nMat thew Denny is a research scientist at Facebook\, and an adjunct professo r at the McCourt School of Public Policy at\n\nGeorgetown University. Th e substantive focus of his work centers on the study of Congress\, state and local bureaucracy\, and organizational dynamics\, through the use o f computational social science methods. In service of this research agen da\, he focuses on developing and implementing machine learning algorith ms for analyzing social processes. He has a particular interest in devel oping new statistical models for text\, networks\, and text-valued netwo rks. He has also worked as a data scientist at Skopos Labs\, and cofound ed Cerenetics\, Inc. From 2013&ndash\;2015\, he was a statistical method s consultant for the Institute for Social Science Research at UMass Amhe rst.\n\nNatalie Jackson has held senior and management positions in medi a\, academia\, and nonprofit organizations. Most recently\, she was the managing director of polling at JUST Capital\, where she has built and m anaged a survey research team\, as well as contributed to the overall mi ssion and strategy of the nonprofit organization. Natalie received her d octorate in political science from the University of Oklahoma and was a postdoctoral associate at the Duke University Initiative on Survey Metho dology. Her work has appeared in the peer-reviewed journals Electoral St udies and Social Science Quarterly\, as well as in several edited volume s.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/political_scienc e_colloquium-_lightning_alt-academic_talks/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Matthew Denny ( Facebook) and Natalie Jackson (PRRI)

Matthew Denny is a research s cientist at Facebook, and an adjunct professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at
Georgetown University. The substantive focus of hi s work centers on the study of Congress, state and local bureaucracy, an d organizational dynamics, through the use of computational social scien ce methods. In service of this research agenda, he focuses on developing and implementing machine learning algorithms for analyzing social proce sses. He has a particular interest in developing new statistical models for text, networks, and text-valued networks. He has also worked as a da ta scientist at Skopos Labs, and cofounded Cerenetics, Inc. From 2013&nd ash;2015, he was a statistical methods consultant for the Institute for Social Science Research at UMass Amherst.

Natalie Jackson has held senior and management positions in media, academia, and nonprofit organ izations. Most recently, she was the managing director of polling at JUS T Capital, where she has built and managed a survey research team, as we ll as contributed to the overall mission and strategy of the nonprofit o rganization. Natalie received her doctorate in political science from th e University of Oklahoma and was a postdoctoral associate at the Duke Un iversity Initiative on Survey Methodology. Her work has appeared in the peer-reviewed journals Electoral Studies and Social Science Qu arterly, as well as in several edited volumes.

For more detail s: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/politic al_science_colloquium-_lightning_alt-academic_talks/

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