Call for presentations:
We are inviting additional presentations for the two-day virtual workshop, in addition to the invited speakers already on the Agenda. Speakers will have 15 minutes to present on related topics.
Please provide a title for your presentation, a 100-150 word abstract, and a list of authors with links to their bio-sketchs:
Title:___ / Abstract:___ / Author(s):___ /
Please reach out to mglenn@niss.org if you are interested in submitting an abstract.
Registration Fees:
- Affiliates with a company email address, free and added to the Zoom speaker list.
- Speakers, no charge by sending them a speaker invitation
- General public $35.00
Register on Eventbrite Here!
Overview:
Join us for the 2nd IOF Workshop on Gun Violence: A Statistical Approach, where experts, researchers, policymakers, and activists converge to discuss the multifaceted issue of gun violence through a statistical lens. This workshop serves as a platform for sharing cutting-edge research, data-driven insights, and actionable strategies aimed at addressing one of society's most pressing challenges.Through a series of presentations, panel discussions, and interactive sessions, participants will delve into various aspects of gun violence, including its prevalence, trends, underlying causes, and impacts on communities. By leveraging statistical methodologies and analytical approaches, attendees will gain a deeper understanding of the complex dynamics surrounding gun violence and explore evidence-based solutions to mitigate its devastating effects.
Motivation:
Experienced researchers in gun violence and criminology were invited to attend the Inaugural Statistics Serving Society (S3) Forum held on June 26 and 27, 2019 to discuss the trends and issues related to the violence of gun use. The workshop program suggested that there are many problems but not sufficient numbers of involved statisticians. The principal purpose of the Forum was to expose the opportunities and needs for statistical efforts and to engage a substantial number of statisticians to work across disciplinary lines to help in understanding and mitigating the effects of gun violence. The forum was broken into five topic areas: Emerging Data Sources, Gun Violence Trends, Policing Gun Violence, Assessing Gun Violence Risks and Evaluating Initiatives, and Police Shootings.
Gun violence is a vexing problem in the U.S. which necessarily justifies this scrutiny. In honor of Ingram Olkin (1924-2016), a principal founder of NISS and an internationally prominent statistician whose work stressed the importance of statistical thinking in studying major societal problems, NISS is proud to be the sponsor of the Ingram Olkin S3 Forums. These Forums are aimed at engaging scientists and stakeholders in addressing the compelling issues facing contemporary society and exploring the roles that statisticians and data scientists can bring to address these issues.
Resource Links:
Part 1 Forum - June, 2019 - News : "Statisticians Focus on Data Related to Gun Violence at Inaugural Ingram Olkin Forum" (Program)
White Paper: "A Call for Statisticians to Engage in Gun Violence Research" (Ridgeway, Greg, Rosenberger, James and Xue, Lingzhou - October, 2020)
Publication: Greg Ridgeway, James L. Rosenberger & Lingzhou Xue (2021) "Statisticians Engage in Gun Violence Research", Statistics and Public Policy, 8:1, 73-79, DOI: 10.1080/2330443X.2021.1978354
IOF Committee liaison, Lingzhou Xue
Agenda
Day 1: Friday, May 10, 2024 1–4:30 pm ET
1:00 - 1:05 pm - Opening Remarks
1:05 pm - Session 1: Emerging and Evolving Data Sources for Studying Gun Violence
Susan Parker (Northeastern) “Non-fatal Firearm Injury Surveillance in the U.S.: An Update”
Charles Loeffler (UPenn) “Using recovered ammunition to study constraints in the supply chain for gun violence”
Theodore Lentz (Wisconsin Milwaukee) “Exploring Diverse Social Structures of U.S. Firearm Violence”
Chair/Discussant: Wayne Osgood (Penn State)
2:05 pm - 5 Minutes Break
2:10 pm - Session 2: Patterns in Police Use of Force
Lucas Mentch (Pitt) “Racial disparities in fatal police shootings”
Marie Oullet (GSU) “Bent Badges and Bullets: Unpacking Gun Violence Through Networks”
Justin Nix (Nebraska) “Open-source data quality on police shootings”
Chair/Discussant: Claire Kelling (Carleton College)
3:15 pm - 5 Minutes Break
3:20 pm - Session 3: Causal Modeling of Gun Violence Policies
Avi Feller (Berkeley) / Eli Ben-Michel (CMU) “Statistical methods to estimate the impact of gun policy on gun violence”
Liz Stuart & Bijan Niknam (JHU) “Design choices that involve small undefined geographic areas”
Dan Lawrence/Eric Piza (CNA/SIUE/UMD) “Assessing the Impact of Gunshot Detection Technology: Methodologies, analytical approaches, and insights"
Chair/Discussant: Rosanna Smart (RAND)
Day 2: Friday, May 17, 2024 1–4 pm ET
1:00 pm - Session 4: Point Process Modeling of U.S. Gun Violence
George Mohler (BC) “Changes in the reproduction number of mass shootings in the United States following the COVID-19 pandemic”
Andrew Holbrook (UCLA) “Computing hawkes processes for gun violence research.”
Yao Xie (Georgia Tech) “Gun violence incidence modeling through non-stationary spatial-temporal self-exciting point processes”
Chair/Discussant: Lingzhou Xue (Penn State)
2:10 pm - 5 Minutes Break
2:15pm - Session 5: Zoom Breakout Room Discussions
30 Minutes Discussion, 30 minutes Reports
Breakout Room Topics (tentitive):
- Emerging and Evolving Data Sources for Studying Gun Violence
- Patterns in Police Use of Force
- Causal Modeling of Gun Violence Policies
- Point Process Modeling of U.S. Gun Violence
After the breakout discussions, groups will report highlights.
Session 6: Miscellaneous Gun Violence papers
(Details coming soon!)
Chair/Discussant: Claire Kelling (Carleton)
Organizing Committee
Charles Loeffler, University of Pennsylvania
Jim Rosenberger, Penn State University
Lingzhou Xue, Penn State University
About the Ingram Olkin Forum: Statistics Serving Society (S3) Series
Ingram Olkin Forums (IOF) are a series of forums to honor the memory of Professor Ingram Olkin presented by the NISS IOF committee Statistics Serving Society (S3).
Each forum focuses on a current societal issue that might benefit from new or renewed attention from the statistical community. The S3 Forums aim to bring the latest innovations in statistical methodology and data science into new research and public policy collaborations, working to accelerate the development of innovative approaches that impact societal problems. As the Forum will be the first time a particular group of experts will be gathered together to consider an issue, new energy and synergy is expected to produce a flurry of new ideas and approaches.
Visit the IOF page for more information: https://www.niss.org/ingram-olkin-forums
Event Type
- NISS Hosted