Sequence Analysis Association

Webinar Series of the Sequence Analysis Association

The SAA is very glad to invite you to its webinar series, which proposes an online platform for people interested in the development of sequence analysis and related methods in the social sciences. The webinar offers presentations on newly published articles and is co-organized by Tim F. Liao and Matthias Studer.

Each webinar lasts for 60–75 minutes and brings together two 20-minute presentations on a similar topic followed by 5–10 minute discussions each. At the end, 15 minutes are reserved for a general discussion on the theme.

The webinar is organized online on an approximately monthly basis on Thursdays at 4 PM CET (Central European Time).

When speakers agree, webinars are recorded and the recordings remain available to SAA members during one  month after the webinar. There is no archive of the recordings.

Work-in-progress webinars are not recorded.

Call for papers

2024 Spring Program

 
There will be about one session each month:
 
January, Thursday, 25, 4 pm CET
Subject: Workshop on Multidomain/Multichannel Sequence Analysis.
Description: The workshop features two work-in-progress applications of sequence analysis. We discuss open questions after each presentation, with a focus on multidomain/multichannel analysis.
Speakers:
Mustafa Firat, Work-family trajectories across Europe: differences between social groups and welfare regimes.
Peter Sun, Life course patterns of productive engagement among rural and urban older adults.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
 
March, Thursday, 14, 4 pm CET
Subject: Workshop on Clustering and complexity measures.
Description: The workshop features two
work-in-progress applications of sequence analysis. We discuss open
questions after each presentation, with a focus on clustering and complexity measures.
Speakers:
Laura Altweck, The Influence of Life Courses in Young Adulthood on Subjective Well-being: A Cross-European Perspective.
Stefanie Halm, Linking Life Courses: Analyzing the Effects of Partnership, Reproduction, and Housing on Mental and Physical Subjective Health.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
 
April, Thursday, 25, 4 pm CET
Subject: Workshop on SA research design.
Description: The workshop features two
work-in-progress applications of sequence analysis. We discuss open
questions after each presentation.
Speakers:
Dimitris Pavlopoulos & Mauricio Garnier-Villarreal, Mixture Hidden Markov Models (MHMM): a Modelling Alternative.
Kun Lee, Social Stratification of Retirement Trajectories in Germany after Welfare Reforms.
Martin Gädecke, From Planning to Parenthood: an Exploration of Fertility Intentions and Realisation in Life Course using Sequence Analysis.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
 
May, Thursday, 16, 4 pm CET
Subject: Missing data in sequences.
Description: The workshop focuses on imputation of missing data in sequences.
Speakers:
Kevin Emery, seqimpute: An R Library for Visualizing and Imputing Missing Data in Sequences.
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
 
 

2024 Autumn Program

 
There will be about one session each month:
 
September, Thursday, 19, 4 pm CET
Title: Analyzing Categorical Sequences with the R package ctsfeatures
Speakers:
Ángel López Oriona and José A. Vilar Fernández,
doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jocs.2024.102233
Zoom link: https://unige.zoom.us/j/96355670430
 
 
 

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