Thursday, October 24 at 12 p.m. American University, Kerwin Hall, Room 301 School of Public Affairs Department of Public Administration and Policy Research Seminar SeriesDan Smith Bio:
I study state and local government budgeting and financial management. My research focuses on the effects of state fiscal institutions, especially balanced budget requirements, and the implications of how states …more

Knock Down the House
Malsi Doyle and Michael Forman Theater (McKinley Building) American University School of Communication 4400 Massachusetts Ave NW - Washington, DC 20016
Reservations (recommended): https://KnockDownTheHouseAU.eventbrite.com
This event is first come, first seated. Reservations are encouraged. First 65 attendees to check-in will receive a complimentary "Knock Down …more

Tuesday, November 5, 11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. lunch, 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. program American University, School of Public Affairs, Kerwin Hall, Room 301 4400 Massachusetts, Ave NW Washington, DC 20016What is the Role of Business in a Civil Society – Lunch & Learn
Reservations (recommended): https://american.swoogo.com/CivilSociety
This event is first come, first seated. …more

Friday, November 8 at 1 p.m.
Kerwin Hall, Room 301
Talk: "Bayesian Regression for Group Testing Data"
With Joshua Tebbs, Professor of Statistics, University of South Carolina
Group testing involves pooling individual specimens (e.g., blood, urine, swabs, etc.) and testing the pools for the presence of a disease. When individual covariate information is available (e.g., age, gender, number of …more

Thursday, November 24 at 12 p.m. American University, Kerwin Hall, Room 301 School of Public Affairs Department of Public Administration and Policy Research Seminar SeriesDr. Sean Nicholson-Crotty joined O'Neill in 2013 and specializes in public management and federalism. He currently serves as director of the Ph.D. in Public Affairs and Joint Ph.D. in Public Policy Programs. His primary areas of …more

Thursday, November 21 at 12 p.m. American University, Kerwin Hall, Room 301 School of Public Affairs Department of Public Administration and Policy Research Seminar SeriesSusan Dynarski is a professor of public policy, education and economics at the University of Michigan, where she holds appointments at the Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy, School of Education, Department of Economics and …more

Tuesday, December 3 at 5:30 p.m.
American University, Kerwin Hall, Room 301
Political Theory Colloquium Series
Henry Higuera, professor emeritus, St. John’s College, Annapolis on “Philosophy, Poetry, and Politics in Don Quixote.”
More Info: https://www.american.edu/spa/pti/lecture-series.cfm

January 2 - January 11, 2020
Institute for Data Science and Big Data
This Institute covers the essential basis for doing data science as practiced in the 21st century. Data scientists are expected to know how to obtain relevant data for a specific problem, clean and explore data, create models using data, state inferences, make reliable predictions, and communicate findings to multiple, possibly …more