Center for Causal Inference (CCI)
Advancing causal inference methods, fostering collaborative research, and providing essential training to drive innovation across diverse fields.
Fall 2025 Seminars
All seminars are held in a hybrid format on Thursdays. To join the mailing list for seminar updates and to receive the Zoom link, please reach out to
| Date | speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| September 4, 2025 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall | Kwonsang Lee Seoul National University | “Overlap Matters: Quantifying and Addressing Weak Overlap in Causal Inference” |
| September 11, 2025 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall | Abhinandan Dalal University of Pennsylvania | “Partial Identification of Causal Effects for Endogenous Continuous Treatments” |
| September 18, 2025 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall | CCI Distinguished Guest Speaker Andrea Rotnitsky University of Washington | “Towards a Unified Theory for Semiparametric Data Fusion Using Individual-Level Data” *Recording link |
| September 25, 2025 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall | William Beckerman University of Pennsylvania | “Enhancing global null testing in observational studies” |
| October 2, 2025 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall | Alexander Levis University of Pennsylvania | “Intervention effects based on potential benefit” |
| October 16, 2025 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall | Fei Fang Yale University | “Design-Based Weighted Regression Estimators for Average and Conditional Spillover Effects” |
| October 23, 2025 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall | CCI Distinguished Guest Speaker Caleb Miles Columbia University | “Addressing an extreme positivity violation to distinguish the causal effects of surgery and anesthesia via separable effects” *Recording link |
| October 30, 2025 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall | Yichi Zhang Indiana University Bloomington | “Semiparametric Localized Principal Stratification Analysis with Continuous Strata” |
| November 6, 2025 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall | CCI Distinguished Guest Speaker Ted Westling University of Massachusetts Amherst | “Robust and Adaptive Causal Null Hypothesis Tests Under Model Uncertainty” |
| November 13, 2025 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall | Manit Paul University of Pennsylvania | “The blessing of refitting in regression-based conditional independence testing procedures” |
| November 20, 2025 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall *In-person only* | Jack Wolf University of Pennsylvania | “Estimating Optimal Stochastic Just-In-Time Adaptive Interventions” |
| December 4, 2025 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall | CCI Distinguished Guest Speaker Youjin Lee Brown University | TBA |
| December 11, 2025 Time: 1PM-2PM Location: 701 Blockley Hall | Ashkan Ertefaie University of Pennsylvania | TBA |
Past Events
2025 Penn Causal Inference Summer Institute
This 4-day workshop (May 27-30, 2025) covers foundational concepts, theory, and methods for causal inference from observational data and imperfect randomized experiments. Attend in person at the University of Pennsylvania or online, with full or single-day options, and gain skills to critically engage with modern causal inference methods.