Description
The Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences will hold its 4th Annual Meeting at the University of California, Berkeley on December 10-11, 2015. The goal of the meeting is to bring together leaders from academia, scholarly publishing, and policy to strengthen the standards of openness and integrity across social science disciplines.
The 2015 BITSS Annual Meeting is co-sponsored by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and the Laura and John Arnold Foundation.
Date and Time
Dec 10, 2015 — Dec 11, 2015
Location
The Magnes, 2121 Allston Way Berkeley, CA
Agenda
Thursday Morning (December 10)
9:30AM - 10:00AM
Setup and Workshop Registration
10:00AM – 12:00PM
Student Training Workshop:
Thursday Afternoon (December 10)
01:00PM - 01:30PM
Setup and Workshop Registration
01:30PM – 02:00PM
Introduction and Reflections on Progress Achieved
Edward Miguel, CEGA/BITSS Faculty Director, UC Berkeley
02:00PM - 02:30PM
Sturdiness of Regression Estimates
Ed Leamer, UCLA
02:30PM - 03:30PM
COFFEE BREAK
03:30PM – 04:30PM
Leamer-Rosenthal Prizes for Open Social Science Recipients
04:30PM – 05:00PM
Q&A Panel
05:00PM – 06:00PM
Reception
Friday Morning (December 11)
08:30AM - 9:00AM
Setup and Registration
9:00AM – 09:40AM - Research Seminar:
Institutional Re-Engineering of Ethical Discourse in STEM, with applications to authorship and data management
Kevin Esterling, UC Riverside
09:40AM – 10:20AM