[Lingtyp] Spring School on Quantitative Methods May 2016 MPI Science of Human History, Germany

[Hedvig Skirgård]

Hello everyone

I failed at attaching the flyer. Here it is.

Hedvig
Den 22 jan 2016 10:31 skrev "Hedvig Skirgård" <hedvig.skirgard at gmail.com>:

> Hello everyone,
>
> Here is some information that could be interesting to you or your students.
>
> /Hedvig
>
>
>
> Dear colleagues,
>
> Research in cultural and linguistic evolution is growing rapidly. New
> scholars need to quickly grasp a range of computational and quantitative
> methods from across different disciplines, to learn to organise and present
> data, and to critically evaluate the right approaches for their research.
> Recognising a need for interdisciplinary training from within the field,
> the *Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History will be
> holding its first Spring School on Quantitative Methods from May 13th-18th
> 2016. *
>
> This five-day residential intensive course will be open to postgraduate
> and postdoctoral researchers in anthropology, linguistics, psychology,
> history, and other relevant disciplines. Attendees will be tutored by
> researchers who are expert users of a range of relevant methods and skills,
> including:
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>    - Databases and software pipelines
>    - Phylogenetic inference and phylogenetic comparative methods
>    - Simulation techniques
>    - A range of statistics relevant for linguistic and cultural data
>    - Visualisation
>    - Asking good research questions
>
> Attendees will benefit from a highly interactive mixture of theoretical
> and conceptual material, practical hands-on exercises, and the chance to
> workshop their own research project and data with a varied group of
> experts.
>
> Only *14 places are available* as the Spring School is residential at the
> MPI-SHH in Jena, Germany, and *all on-site accommodation and economy
> travel will be fully-funded*. Places are therefore competitive by
> application and we particularly encourage applications from qualified
> students at institutions in low- and middle-income countries. Attendees
> will benefit from both the skills of tutors and their wide range of
> collaborative ties across the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
> The Spring School will also feature guest plenary lectures, tailored
> micro-sessions, and numerous opportunities to socialise and network with
> fellow attendees, tutors, and researchers at the MPI-SHH.
>
> Please circulate this notice and attached flyer to your networks and to
> any PhD students, postdoctoral or early-career researchers you think might
> benefit. Further information will be available on the MPI-SHH website in
> early February: https://www.shh.mpg.de/qmss16. Applications are due March
> 1st. Finally, informal enquiries to the Spring School Directors should be
> sent via Kerstin Schück-Tittmann (schueck at shh.mpg.de).
>
> Very best wishes,
>
> Fiona Jordan
> Russell Gray
> Directors
>
>
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