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Pre-Research Seminar

Want to learn more about research? Not sure how to just knock on a professor’s door and start? The goal of this seminar is to give you a transition opportunity towards working on some undergraduate research. The goal is at the end of the semester, you will reach out to a professor to talk about a potential research opportunity that you came up with.

If you are already doing research with a professor, this seminar isn’t for you. Go do your research :)

Timeline

Week Number Agenda Tasks
Week 1 Introductions and expectations  
Week 2 How to read a research paper Testing Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs: National Quality-of-Life across Time
The importance of stupidity in scientiific research
Week 3 How to critique a paper Global Demonstration of Local Liebig’s Law Behavior for Tree‐Ring Reconstructions of Climate
Wiley’s step by step guide to reviewing a manuscript
Week 4 Project 1 presentation Channeling Fisher: Randomization Tests and the Statistical Insignificance of Seemingly Significant Experimental Results
Week 5 How to run a simulation? General linear-time inference for Gaussian Processes on one dimension
Week 6 How to formalize a problem and collect data? Exploring characteristics of online news comments and commenters with machine learning approaches
Week 7 The importance of a simple but reasonable solution Randomization in the tropics revisited: a theme and eleven variations
Week 8 Identifying research opportunities Localized semi-nonnegative matrix factorization of widefield calcium imaging data
Week 9 Project 2 presentation Machine learning for Survival Analysis: A Survey
Week 10 Discuss Project 3 ideas Stability
Week 11 Evaluation in academic papers Holes in Bayesian Staistics (unpublished)
Week 12 Qualitative vs quantitative research Global Evidence on Economic Preferences
Week 13 Presentation on initial research progress Does antitrust have a role to play in regulating big data?

Pre-requisites