Past MPC Events

Past Seminar Series Presentations

 

IPUMS Graduate Workshop (, from October 11, 2007 02:30 PM to October 12, 2007 04:30 PM)

 

2007 GIS Summer Workshop: June 28-29 (Minnesota Population Center, from June 28, 2007 08:30 AM to June 29, 2007 05:00 PM)

The GIS Summer Workshop is a 2-day event designed to train social scientists to use the National Historical Geographic Information System, a database that covers 210 years of U.S. census data.

Changing Lives and Changing Times: American Life Courses in Historical Perspective (Social Sciences Building, from October 26, 2007 09:30 AM to October 26, 2007 04:30 PM)

Life Course Center Miniconference 2007

2007 Organization of American Historians (OAH) Annual Meeting

Events associated with the OAH annual meeting, including two offsite sessions and a reception on Thursday, March 29 and a workshop on Sunday, April 1.

Big Brother, Great Data: Finland as a Goldmine for Population Research (MPC Seminar Room, 50 Willey Hall, from May 15, 2008 01:00 PM to May 15, 2008 04:30 PM)

This symposium will showcase Finnish data sources and population research projects in order to promote data opportunities available in Finland and build connections between Finnish and local UMN research communities.

IPUMS workshop at PAA

 

IPUMS Winter Workshop

Picture of IPUMS Winter Workshop participants, January 2007

Symposium Agenda -- Big Brother, Great Data: Finland as a Goldmine for Population Research

 

The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI): Metadata Standards to Support Access, Sharing and Preservation of Data (MPC Seminar Room, 50 Willey Hall, from April 08, 2009 12:00 PM to April 08, 2009 01:00 PM)

Wendy Thomas, Director of Data Access, Minnesota Population Center, Coordinating member of the State Data Center, and DDI Technical Implementation Committee Chair

IPUMS Informational Workshop at 2009 PAA Annual Meeting (Detroit Marriott Renaissance Center, from April 30, 2009 06:30 PM to April 30, 2009 08:30 PM)

The Minnesota Population Center will host a workshop focusing on the IPUMS databases, which together create the world's largest collection of publicly available individual-level census data.