Times & Days: 9:30 AM – 11:00 AM, Friday
Room: McElhinney Building 315 (CVL)

Week 1 (January 27): Planning Meeting

Week 2 (February 3):

Title: Cubic Interpolation (gap filling) and Filtering (outlier removal) for Time Series Data Sets

Presenter: Terry Mayes (Research Associate, Hobby School of Public Affairs, University of Houston)

Week 3 (February 10):

Title: Superbloom in California’s Death Valley and Electoral Outcomes: A Natural Experiment Approach

Presenter: Indrajit Sinha Ray (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Houston)

Week 4 (February 17):

Title: Describing Global Value Change Using the World Values Survey

Presenter: Damian Ruck (Ph.D. student, Department of Engineering Mathematics, Bristol University and Visiting Scholar, Hobby School of Public Affairs, University of Houston)

Week 5 (February 24): The 2017 Texas Methods Meeting – No Meeting

Week 6 (March 3):

Title: Accountability and Corruption: The Long-Term Effect of Independent Monitoring on Levels of Municipal Corruption

Presenter: Leonardo Antenangeli (Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Houston)

Week 7 (March 10): No Meeting

Week 8 (March 17): Spring Break – No Meeting

Week 9 (March 24): No Meeting

Week 10 (March 31):

Title: The Media Smells like Sulfur!!! Analyzing Chavez’s Verbal Attacks against the Media in Venezuela

Presenter: Jonathan Solis (Ph.D. candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Houston) and Iñaki Sagarzazu (Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Texas Tech University)

Week 11 (April 7): MPSA – No Meeting

Week 12 (April 14):

Title: Trustees or Delegates? Representation and Responsiveness in the U.S. House of Representatives

Presenter: Philip Waggoner (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Political Science, University of Houston)

Week 13 (April 21):

Title: Randomization Tests with Observational Data

Presenter: Dr. Kelly Rader (Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Yale University)

Week 14 (April 28):

Title: The Heterogeneous Evolution of Obesity and Diabetes Epidemics across the US in the Last 25 years

Presenter: Dr. R. Alexander Bentley (Professor, Department of Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Houston)