PAG: Group Meetings

Updated 05/Aug/2025

While we focus on answering questions related to enrollment, we know an implied mission is assisting in the development of those who want to do similar work. To this end, we hold group meetings where we discuss

• Relevant research articles
• Application of function-specific applications
• Examples of new (to us) coding methods
• Our research success and setbacks

We invite and welcome those outside of our group to join our meetings. Please contact Emilio for meeting information.

Group Meeting Schedule

Group Meeting are every couple of weeks where the current and past members come together to share updates about current and past work. Our Group Meeting schedule and agenda is loose. Each meeting starts with a quick “stand-up” where everyone briefly talks about…

• what they are working on
• one thing causing grief
• one victory

The meetings are informal discussions on current projects and help overcoming coding and research obstacles.

Everyone is welcome to attend! Please contact Emilio for day, time and location (usually a local coffee shop). Sometimes we meet on Zoom; email Emilio for the link.

Book Club

Book club is structured professional development. The goal is to gain knowledge and insight to current projects through the perspective of someone else.

Spring/2023: We read and discussed Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy by Cathy O’Neil (Bookshop | Amazon | Apple Books) to better understand how the data, analysis, and models we create impacts others.