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This research project explores the relationship between race and voting behavior in Brazil. Despite comprising a majority of the Brazilian population, Brazilians of African descent are rarely elected. Some scholars contend that the racial gap between the electorate and those elected in Brazil is explained by differences in campaign resources while others indicate that voters discriminate against nonwhite political candidates. This project investigates the connection between candidate race and electoral success by focusing on voter behavior.
Project/Outcomes to date: We conducted 50 semi-structured interviews with elected national, state and local level politicians as well as more than 50 semi-structured interviews with nonelected candidates. We have also conducted more than 150 semi-structured interviews with Brazilian voters. Finally, we analyzed public opinion polls on vote-choice and vote intention.
We report here preliminary findings as they relate to the relationship between candidate race and electoral success. In interviews, politicians and political elites commonly express the view that candidate race affects vote choice. Their comments suggest that white, as well as nonwhite voters, have a preference for whiteness that leads them to reject nonwhite candidates. Most voters, however, do not claim that candidate race affects how they vote. Among the subset of voters that admit to casting their ballot on the basis of race, most indicate that they voted for nonwhite candidates. Due to growing racial tensions and the rising influence of Brazil’s black movement, racial voting may become more prevalent in the future.
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JILA graduate student Aaron Young wins the 2024 Deborah Jin Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Atomic, Molecular, or Optical Physics by the American Physical Society (APS)
Aaron Young, a recently graduated Ph.D. student in the lab of JILA Fellow, NIST Physicist, and University of Colorado Boulder Physics Professor Adam Kaufman, has been awarded the prestigious 2024 Deborah Jin Award for Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Research in Atomic, Molecular, or Optical Physics by the American Physical Society (APS) for his work done at JILA. The award was announced in Fort Worth, Texas, at the 2024 55th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics (DAMOP).
The Deborah Jin Award recognizes doctoral thesis research of outstanding quality and achievement in atomic, molecular, or optical physics and encourages effective written and oral presentation of research results. The annual award was established in 1992 and was renamed in 2016 to honor the late Deborah Jin, a JILA Fellow. Finalists are invited to present their research at the annual DAMOP meeting. The award's endowment, bolstered by a supplemental campaign in 2016, also aims to enhance the diversity of student attendees at the annual DAMOP Meeting.
This prestigious award was given for Young's research on developing a new experimental setup to control and read out systems of many alkaline-earth atoms. By combining the techniques of optical tweezers, precision spectroscopy, and quantum gas microscopy, Young's work provided unprecedented control over many-body quantum systems. This innovative approach has significant implications for quantum simulation and metrology.
Now, Young is continuing this research as a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. Building on his work at JILA, he explores new frontiers in quantum information science, aiming to further understand and manipulate quantum systems for practical applications.
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Julia thome dissertation defense – june 21.
Posted by duthip1 on Friday, June 7, 2024 in News .
PhD candidate Julia Thome will defend her dissertation on Friday, June 21, at 10 a.m. Central Time. The defense will be held in the department’s large conference room on the 11th floor (suite 1100, room 11105), at 2525 West End Avenue. Her advisor is Bryan Shepherd . All are invited and encouraged to attend.
This dissertation details the methodology and application of analytical methods using observational data to assess the impact of health policies. We first focus on the difference-in-differences (DID) method and its extensions, particularly in the context of staggered treatment adoption over multiple years. We describe these concepts within the context of Medicaid expansion and retention in care among people living with HIV (PWH) in the United States. We highlight the identification and estimation of the average treatment effect among the treated, emphasizing the necessary assumptions for valid estimation. We then introduce an extension of the DID method capable of estimating average, quantile, probability, and Mann-Whitney treatment effects among the treated under a single approach and a universal parallel trends assumption. Our approach uses a semi-parametric cumulative probability model (CPM) to handle complicated, often difficult-to-model outcome distributions. We demonstrate our approach with a simulation study and an application to Medicaid expansion and CD4 cell count at enrollment into care among PWH in the United States. We then shift away from DID and focus on a real-world application to assess the impact of COVID-19-related stay-at-home orders on the reporting of child maltreatment and whether this impact was modified by socioeconomic characteristics. We find that the numbers and rates of reporting after versus before the stay-at-home orders vary by county-level poverty, unemployment, median annual household income, health insurance coverage, and education. These results offer insights for policymakers on how pandemic-related policies may have varied effects across different socioeconomic groups.
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We are delighted to share that Dr. Xiang PAN (PhD IE 2022) has won the prestigious 2024 ACM SIGEnergy Doctoral Dissertation Award for his PhD thesis titled: “Deep Neural Networks for Optimal Power Flow in Electric Power Systems: Design, Analysis, and Experiments”.
During his PhD studies at CUHK, Xiang was supervised by former IE Professor Minghua Chen and Professor Changhong Zhao. His research focuses on machine learning and its applications in energy systems and multimedia signal processing, such as Neural Image Compression. Currently, he is a researcher at Tencent Media Lab.
The annual SIGEnergy Doctoral Dissertation Award recognizes an outstanding PhD thesis in the field of energy systems and informatics. For more details, please check: https://energy.acm.org/doctoral-dissertation-award-2024-winner/
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PhD candidate Julia Thome will defend her dissertation on Friday, June 21, at 10 a.m. Central Time. The defense will be held in the department's large conference room on the 11th floor (suite 1100, room 11105), at 2525 West End Avenue. Her advisor is Bryan Shepherd. All are invited and encouraged to attend. Assessing the...
We are delighted to share that Dr. Xiang PAN (PhD IE 2022) has won the prestigious 2024 ACM SIGEnergy Doctoral Dissertation Award for his PhD thesis titled: "Deep Neural Networks for Optimal Power Flow in Electric Power Systems: Design, Analysis, and Experiments". During his PhD studies at CUHK, Xiang was supervised by former IE Professor… ---
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