The SSGAC hosts and participates in conferences, workshops, and courses from affiliated researchers.
No upcoming events are scheduled. Announcements appear here, and we also list them on the news page.
Recaps, agendas and recorded talks from the two annual conferences.
The 2nd Annual Conference on Polygenic Prediction and its Application in Social Science. University of Southern California, 30 November – 1 December 2018.
Polygenic Prediction and its Application in Social Science. Rutgers University, 13–14 April 2017.
Summer schools, conferences, courses and the four early SSGAC workshops, most recent first.
18–22 July 2022
Amsterdam
Business Data Science
An introduction to key concepts, methods and computer tools in statistical genetics for the social and medical sciences: heritability estimation, genetic association studies, polygenic prediction, and identification strategies for causal effects. Taught by Ronald de Vlaming and Aysu Okbay, with computer tutorials by Hermon Kweon.
8–20 August 2021
Sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation, co-sponsored with the JPB Foundation
A two-week institute introducing graduate students and beginning faculty to the methods of social-science genomics: twin and family studies, the biology of genetics and epigenetics, genetic-association study design, gene–environment interactions, polygenic scores, and ethical issues in the field.
9–21 June 2019
Santa Barbara, California
Sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation. Held at the Pepper Tree Inn
Application deadline was 11 February 2019.
22–26 July 2019
Amsterdam
Tinbergen Institute
Lecturers: Philipp Koellinger and Ronald de Vlaming. Guest lecturers: Aysu Okbay, Abdel Abdellaoui and Fleur Meddens. Application deadline was 22 June 2019.
30 November – 1 December 2018
University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Sponsored by the University of Chicago’s Human Capital and Economic Opportunity network
Organised by Dan Benjamin, David Cesarini, Ciji Davis and Titus Galama. The conference brought together social scientists and geneticists to hear about new genetic discoveries, advances in polygenic prediction, and uses of genetic data in social science research. Peter Visscher gave the keynote address.
23–27 July 2018
Amsterdam
Tinbergen Institute
Lecturers: Philipp Koellinger and Niels Rietveld. Application deadline was 19 June 2018.
5–19 August 2017
Amsterdam
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam Summer School
An introduction to the UNIX command line, managing large datasets with text-processing utilities, shell scripting, and Git. Lecturers: Aysu Okbay and Richard Karlsson Linnér.
17–21 July 2017
Amsterdam
Tinbergen Institute
A structured overview of key concepts and state-of-the-art methods in genoeconomics. Lecturers: Philipp Koellinger and Niels Rietveld.
26–30 June 2017
Nuffield College, Oxford
National Centre for Research Methods
Morning lectures by scholars in sociogenomics including Dalton Conley, Ben Domingue, Melinda Mills, David Steinsaltz, Meena Kumari and Cecilia Lindgren, with afternoon computer-lab training by Oxford-based researchers.
11–23 June 2017
Santa Barbara, California
Sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation. Held at the Pepper Tree Inn
13–14 April 2017
New Brunswick, New Jersey
Sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation. Held at the Rutgers University Inn and Conference Center
19 June – 1 July 2016
New Brunswick, New Jersey
Sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation
11–15 July 2016
Amsterdam
Tinbergen Institute
Lecturers: Philipp Koellinger and Niels Rietveld.
April 2015
Amsterdam
Tinbergen Institute
Lecturers: Daniel Benjamin, David Cesarini, Tōnu Esko, Philipp Koellinger (coordinator) and Niels Rietveld.
15 June 2013
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Organised in conjunction with the CHARGE meeting, hosted at the Mainport Hotel
19 May 2012
Reykjavik, Iceland
Organised in conjunction with the bi-annual CHARGE meeting, hosted at the Hilton Nordica. Sponsored by the NIH (OBSSR) and the NSF
29 October 2011
Los Angeles, California
Organised in conjunction with the CHARGE meeting, at the Crowne Plaza Redondo Beach and Marina Hotel. Sponsored by the NIH (OBSSR) and the NSF
12 February 2011
Boston, Massachusetts
Sponsored by the NSF and organised in conjunction with the CHARGE consortium
The founding workshop, at which the need for and feasibility of setting up a consortium for GWAS in the social sciences was discussed.