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This twelfth appointment of the Dondena Seminar Series 2023 will feature a presentation by Peter Baldwin, Professor of History at UCLA, and Global Distinguished Professor at NYU; on his academic paper titled "Building a New (Digital) Library of Alexandria".

You may follow the seminar online via ZOOM Meetings at the following link: https://unibocconi-it.zoom.us/j/91377942340

Eleonora Bertoni is a Project Manager – Computational Social Scientist at the European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC), where she works for the Centre of Advanced Studies (CAS). She manages the activities of the CAS group on Computational Social Science for Policy which aims at building capacity in accessing and analyzing non-traditional data to address specific policy questions.

This eleventh appointments of the Dondena Seminar Series 2023 will feature a presentation by Melissa Rogers, co-director of the Inequality and Policy Research Center, and associate professor of international studies in the Division of Politics & Economics at Claremont Graduate University; on her academic paper titled "Vote your Region or your Income? Decomposing Variance in Redistributive Voting".

You may follow the seminar online via ZOOM Meetings at the following link: https://unibocconi-it.zoom.us/j/96982630710

Civica Research Seminar Series: Pedro Ramaciotti Morales, Sciences Po

CIVICA Research brings together researchers from eight leading European universities in the social sciences to contribute knowledge and solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. The project aims to strengthen the research & innovation pillar of CIVICA, the European University alliance. CIVICA Research is co-funded by the EU’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program

The seminar will be held in presence, in room 3-B3-sr01 - Roentgen Building

This tenth appointment of the Dondena Seminar Series 2023 will feature a presentation by Alícia Adsera,  Senior Research Scholar and Lecturer in Economics at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and director of graduate studies at the Office of Population Research (Princeton University); on her academic paper titled “The Value of Democracy”.

You may follow the seminar online via ZOOM Meetings at the following link: https://unibocconi-it.zoom.us/j/93598941532

The prize is in memory of a young Italian biostatistician, Maria Chiara Magri. Maria Chiara held a PhD in public health, specialising in biostatistics and clinical epidemiology, and she worked as a researcher at the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) and the Italian National Cancer Institute.

Unfortunately, Maria Chiara suffered from a genetic syndrome and sadly passed away last year at the age of 34. Family, friends and colleagues wanted to honour her memory by instituting this prize and awarding two young researchers with similar interests as Maria Chiara.

Laura is the proud recipient of one of the prizes after she submitted her paper on ‘Approximate Bayesian Computation (ABC) for the natural history of breast cancer, with application to data from a Milan cohort study’, which was part of her PhD thesis and has been recently accepted for publication in Statistics in Medicine.

This ninth appointments of the Dondena Seminar Series 2023 will feature a presentation by Matthew A. Kraft, Associate Professor of Economics at Brown University and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research; on his academic paper titled "Taking Teacher Evaluation to Scale: The Effect of State Reforms on Achievement and Attainment". 

You may follow the seminar online via ZOOM Meetings at the following link: https://unibocconi-it.zoom.us/j/91275653871 

This seminar will feature a presentation by professor David Lazer, distinguished professor of political science and computer and information science at Northeastern University and director of the Lazer Lab, on his academic paper titled "The Emergent Structure of the Online Information Ecosystem".

The seminar will take place in hybrid mode on the 21st of April, you may follow the seminar online via ZOOM Meetings at the following link: https://unibocconi-it.zoom.us/j/99259451269

This eighth appointments of the Dondena Seminar Series 2023 will feature a presentation by Adriana Leticia Arroyo-Abad, Associate Professor of Economics at City University of New York - Queens College; on her academic paper titled "The Migration Roots of Development: Colonization, Human Capital, and Institutions in the Americas"

You may follow the seminar online via ZOOM Meetings at the following link: https://unibocconi-it.zoom.us/j/94551484433

This seventh appointment of the Dondena Seminar Series 2023 will feature a presentation by Francesco Cinnirella, Professor of Economics at the University of Bergamo, Italy; on his academic paper titled "Economic growth and productivity: Italy and the role of knowledge"

You may follow the seminar online via ZOOM Meetings at the following link: https://unibocconi-it.zoom.us/j/91204322914