Topics in Digital and Computational Demography
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research (MPIDR)
Rostock, Germany & Online, 2-6 November 2026
- Application deadline: 25 September 2026
The course will be offered in a hybrid format: in-person for students in the IMPRS-PHDS network who are already in Rostock; online (via Zoom) for everyone else.
Coordinator: Carolina Coimbra Vieira
Instructors: Boris Barron, Liliana P. Calderón-Bernal, Irena Chen, Carolina Coimbra Vieira, Jordan Klein, Ebru Sanlitürk, Benjamin-Samuel Schlueter, Mallika Snyder,Tom Theile, Emilio Zagheni.
This year, topics include:
- Digital trace data for migration research
- Addressing bias in digital trace data
- Bayesian approaches with applications for data deficient contexts
- Demographic microsimulation and kinship demography
- Simulation in the social and population sciences
For more information and application instructions: https://www.demogr.mpg.de/go/DCD26