A quick summary of last year’s mini-conference on causal inference (held at Columbia) is here, and here‘s the schedule for last year’s meeting.
Below is the schedule for this year’s mid-Atlantic causal modeling conference, organized by Prof. Dylan Small at the University of Pennsylvania. I think Jennifer will be speaking on our work studying the NYC public schools, although I don’t see that in the title.
Date and Location: Tuesday, June 27th, 9:30am – 5:15 pm. University of Pennsylvania, Jon M. Huntsman Hall (3730 Walnut St.), Room 345.
Purpose: This one-day conference is intended to provide a forum for researchers in the Mid-Atlantic region interested in causal modeling to exchange ideas.
Schedule:
9:30-10:05 Marshall Joffe, University of Pennsylvania
“Controlling the Future: Revised Assumptions and Methods for Causal Inference with Repeated Measures Outcomes”
10:05-10:40 Jennifer Hill, Columbia University
“Bayesian Nonparametric Modeling for Causal Inference”
10:40-11:00 Break
11:00-12:00 Keynote talk: Mark van der Laan, University of California, Berkeley,
“Causal Effect Models for Realistic Individualized Treatment Rules”
12:00-2:00 Lunch (boxed lunches provided) and poster session
2:00-2:35 Sue Marcus, Mount Sinai School of Medicine
“Rater Bias in a Blinded Randomized Placebo-Controlled Psychiatry Trial”
2:35-3:10 Zhiqiang Tan, John Hopkins University
“Nonparametric Likelihood and Further Developments of Inverse Weighting
and G-estimation for Marginal and Nested Structural Models”
3:10-3:45 Steve Cole, John Hopkins University
“A Marginal Structural Left-Censored Mean Model for the Effect of Highly
Active Antiretroviral Therapy on Changes in HIV-1 RNA Viral Load”
3:45-4:05 Break
4:05-4:40 Jason Roy, University of Rochester
“Causal Models for Randomized Trials with Two Active Treatments and Non-Compliance”
4:40-5:15 Dan Scharfstein, John Hopkins University
Poster Session: A poster session open to all interested participants will be held following lunch. Posters are not to exceed 4’x8’ and push pins will be provided. Please e-mail Dylan Small, [email protected] , with the title of your poster and for questions.
Registration: Please mail the registration form to Kristen Goodwin, Department of Biostatisics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania School, Blockley Hall, 6th Floor, 423 Guardian Dr., Philadelphia, PA 19104-6021 or e-mail the form to Kristen Goodwin, [email protected] . Registration is $20 for non-students. Registration for students is free, but it is important that we receive the registration form so that an appropriate number of boxed lunches can be ordered.
Directions: Hunstman Hall is about a 15-minute walk from the 30th Street Station. A map and driving directions are provided on the next two pages.
Questions: For questions about the conference, contact Dylan Small, [email protected] .