Courses

Current Courses

Program 2024

Topics in Digital and Computational Demography
Course Number:  187
04.11.2024 – 08.11.2024
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research:  hybrid format
Course Coordinator:  Aliakbar Akbaritabar
Application Deadline: 24.09.2024

Past Courses

Program 2023

Topics in Digital and Computational Demography
Course Number:  187
04.12.2023 – 08.12.2023
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research:  hybrid format
Course Coordinator:  Aliakbar Akbaritabar
Application Deadline: 22.10.2023

Matrix Approaches to Modelling Kinship: Theory and Applications
Course Number:  128
03.05.2023 – 12.05.2023
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock
Course Coordinator:  Diego Alburez-Gutierrez
Application Deadline: 17.03.2023

Program 2022

Topics in Digital and Computational Demography
Course Number:  187
14.11.2022 – 18.11.2022
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research:  hybrid format
Course Coordinator:  Emilio Zagheni
Application Deadline: 31.10.2022

Advanced Methods for Causal Inference
Course Number:  185
11.07.2022 – 15.07.2022
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research:  online course
Instructors:  Peter Eibich and Angelo Lorenti
Application Deadline: 17.06.2022

Advances in Mortality Forecasting
Course Number:  117
17.01.2022 – 21.01.2022
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research:  online course
Instructors:  Carlo Giovanni Camarda and Ugofilippo Basellini
Application Deadline: 18.12.2021

Program 2021

Topics in Digital and Computational Demography
Course Number:  187
08.11.2021 – 12.11.2021
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research:  online course
Course Coordinator:  Emilio Zagheni
Application Deadline: 10.10.2021

Advances in Mortality Forecasting
Course Number:  117
28.06.2021 – 02.07.2021
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research: Online Course
Instructors: Carlo Giovanni Camarda and Ugofilippo Basellini
Application Deadline: 26.05.2021

Data Visualization – the Art/Skill Cocktail
Course Number:  181
14.06.2021 – 18.06.2021
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research: Online Course
Instructor: Ilya Kashnitsky
Application Deadline: 08.05.2021

Program 2020

Topics in Digital and Computational Demography
Course Number:  187
09.11.2020 – 13.11.2020
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research:  online course
Course Coordinator:  Emilio Zagheni
Application Deadline: 09.10.2020

Data visualization – the art/skill cocktail
Course Number:  181
13.07.2020 – 17.07.2020
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock:  online course
Instructor: Ilya Kashnitsky
Application Deadline: 15.05.2020

Smoothing Demographic Data: Flexible Models in Population Studies
Course Number:  107
25.05.2020 – 29.05.2020
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock:  online course
Instructor:  Carlo Giovanni Camarda
Application Deadline: 15.03.2020

Microsimulation using Socsim
Course Number: 116
09.03.2020 – 13.03.2020
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock
Instructors: Carl Mason and Tom Theile
Application Deadline: 20.01.2020

Multistate Models: Analysis from event histories and panel data
Course Number: 104
02.03.2020 – 06.03.2020
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock
Instructors: Jutta Gampe
Application Deadline: 20.01.2020

Program 2019

Agent-Based Computational Modeling in Population Studies
Course Number:  112
24.06.2019 – 28.06.2019
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock
Instructors: André Grow, Jason Hilton

Program 2018

Matrix Approaches to Health Demography
Course Number: 134
05.11.2018 – 16.11.2018
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock
Instructor: Hal Caswell

Multistate Models
Course Number: 104
22.10.2018 – 25.10.2018
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock
Instructors: Jutta Gampe, Hein Putter and Ardo van den Hout

Demographic Methods in Public Health Research – International Autumn School
Course Number:  183
24.09.2018 – 05.10.2018
Pushkin, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Course organizer: Vladimir M. Shkolnikov

Causal Inference With Graphical Models
Course Number: 185
25.06.2018 – 29.06.2018
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock
Instructor: Ilya Shpitser

Life Table and Decomposition Analysis for Population Health Research (using R)
Course Number: 182
11.06.2018 – 20.06.2018
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock
Instructors: Alyson van Raalte, Marília Nepomuceno

Spatial Demography
Concepts, Cartographic and Statistical Analysis Techniques, and Big Geodata
22.01.2018 – 01.02.2018
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany
Instructor: Sebastian Klüsener

Program 2017

Visualizing Data
Course Number: 181
19.06.2017 – 23.06.2017
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock
Instructor: Jonas Schoeley

Smoothing Demographic Data: Flexible Models in Population Studies
Course Number: 107
12.06.2017 – 16.06.2017
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock
Instructor: Carlo Giovanni Camarda

Multistate Models
Course Number: 104
22.05.2017 – 26.05.2017
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock
Instructors: Jutta Gampe, Hein Putter and Ardo van den Hout

Matrix Approaches to Health Demography
Course Number: 134
13.03.2017 – 24.03.2017
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock
Instructor: Hal Caswell

Winter Program 2016-2017

IUSSP International Seminar on Causal Mediation Analysis in Health and Work
Course Number: 180
26.09.2016 – 29.09.2016
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock
Instructors: Tyler VanderWeele and others

Winter Program 2015-2016

Demographic Applications of Bayesian Models
Course Number: 115
27.06.2016 – 06.07.2016
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research
Instructor: Carl Schmertmann

Statistical Analysis in the Lexis Diagram: Age-Period-Cohort Models
Course Number: 108
02.05.2016 – 06.05.2016
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock
Instructor: Bendix Carstensen

Comparative Approaches in Ecology and Evolution
Course Number: 186
25.04.2016 – 29.04.2016
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock
Instructors: Rob Salguero-Gómez and others

Applied Panel Data Analysis
Course Number: 103
07.03.2016 – 10.03.2016
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock
Instructor: Josef Brüderl

Matrix Approaches to Health Demography
Course Number: 134
13.01.2016 – 20.01.2016
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock
Instructors: Hal Caswell and Neil Mehta

A stochastic process approach to agent-based modeling and simulation
Course Number: 112
19.10.2015 – 30.10.2015
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock
Instructors: Anna Klabunde, Frans Willekens and others

Winter Program 2014-2015

Integral Projection Models: Construction, Analysis and Interpretation
Course Number 184
26.01.2015 – 31.01.2015
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock
Instructors: R. Salguero-Gómez and others

Spatial Demography
Course Number 156
05.01.2015 – 16.01.2015
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock
Instructor: S. Klüsener

Probabilistic Population Projections: Theory and Practice
Course Number 115
24.11.2014 – 28.11.2014
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock
Instructors: H. Sevcikova and A. Raftery

Agent-based Modeling and Simulation (ABM-ABS)
Course Number 112
20.10.2014 – 30.10.2014
This course is jointly organized by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, the Vienna Institute of Demography and the University of Southampton.
Instructors: A. Klabunde, F. Willekens and others

Winter Program 2013-2014

Measures and Models of Demography
Course Number 310
06.11.2013 – 19.01.2014
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock
Instructor: P. Wagner

Agent-based Modeling and Simulation (ABM-ABS)
Course Number 312
04.11.2013 – 31.01.2014
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock
Instructor: F. Willekens

Spatial Demography
Course Number: 356
05.11.2013 – 31.01.2014
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock
Instructor: S. Klüsener

Demography of Aging across the Tree of Life
Course Number: 288
06.11.2013 – 20.12.2014
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock
Instructors: R. Schaible and A. Scheuerlein

IDEM Course Numbering System

The first digit of a course number describes the length of the course: 1 designates courses that are one or two weeks long, 2 designates courses that are more than two weeks long but less than a semester long, and 3 designates courses that run for an entire semester.

The next two digits describe the general topic of the course, as follows:

00-09: event-history analysis and other statistical methods; research design
10-19: formal demography and modeling, simulation, and forecasting methods
20-29: fertility and family dynamics
30-39: mortality, morbidity, longevity, population aging
40-49: economic demography and population/economic/environment interactions
50-59: migration and spatial demography
60-69: topics related to particular countries or regions
70-79: historical demography; history of demographic thinking
80-89: other topics
90-99: student research seminars and the like