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<a href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/africa-gender-innovation-lab/brief/improving-social-networks-for-ugandan-farmers#">World Bank Policy brief</a> on using local social networks in agricultural training.
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<a href="http://iri.columbia.edu/news/video-what-tools-do-honduran-farmers-want-for-climate-risk/">Field video</a><strong></strong> from International Research Institute, Columbia University on Micro Insurance in Honduras.
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<a href="http://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/increasing-prosperity-poorest-using-social-networks-guest-post-kathryn-vasilaky">My guest blog post</a> for the World Bank on social networks and economic prosperity.
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A <a href="http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2015/04/14/overuse-of-water-by-indian-farmers-threatens-supply/">Columbia University post</a> at State of the Planet on my work in Haryana India.
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A <a href="http://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/csae-2015-impact-evaluation-round">World Bank post</a> listing influential RCTs in economic development at Oxford's CSAE conference.
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<h1>workshops</h1>

July 13, 2016
<a href="http://www.meetup.com/NYC-PyLadies/events/231477419/">Data Science in Python @ Metis, Part 2</a>
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April 5th, 2016
<a href="http://www.meetup.com/NYC-PyLadies/events/229493910/">Data Science in Python @ Metis</a>
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January 28th, 2016
<a href="http://www.meetup.com/NYC-PyLadies/events/227647566/">Flask and Git @ StackOverflow</a>
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February 21st, 2015
<a href="http://www.meetup.com/nycpython/events/219610398/?a=uc1_te&_af_eid=219610398&_af=event">Networkx at Python Meetup</a>
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September 23, 2014
<a href="http://www.meetup.com/NYC-PyLadies/events/206492062/">Pystan</a>
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May 13, 2014
<a href="http://www.meetup.com/NYC-PyLadies/events/180858362/">Webscraping in Python</a>
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April 28, 2014
<a href="http://www.meetup.com/NYC-PyLadies/events/171179472/">Python for Beginngers: Part II</a>
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March 27, 2014
<a href="http://www.meetup.com/NYC-PyLadies/events/164157682/">Python for Beginners: Part I</a>
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<h1>seminars</h1>

Seminar Speaker, An Iterative Approach to the Tikhanov Inverse Problem with a Stopping Rule, New York University, Applied Statistics, PRIISM Seminar, scheduled 12/7/16
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Seminar Speaker, Learning Digitally: Evaluating the Impact of Farmer Training via Mediated Videos, Paris School of Economics, Paris, France, 4/15/16.

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Seminar Speaker, "<a href="https://editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conference/download.cgi?db_name=CSAE2016&paper_id=436">Towards a Deeper Understanding of Female Competitiveness and the Gender Gap: Evidence from Patrilocal and Matrilocal Cultures</a>," CSAE Conference 2016: Economic Development in Africa, St Catherine's College, Oxford University 3/20/16
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<a href="http://www.meetup.com/Action-Design-NYC/events/226355787/">Tech, Development Economics, and Experiment Design</a> at <a href="http://reboot.org/">Reboot</a>.org, November 11th, New York, New York.
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<a href="http://nyc2015.pydata.org/">Pydata</a>, <a href="http://nyc2015.pydata.org/schedule/presentation/117/"> An iterative approach to inverse problems using Python's NumPy</a>, November 11th, New York, New York.
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<a href="https://sites.google.com/a/brown.edu/neudc-2015/home">Northest Universities Development Consortium</a>,<a href="http://editorialexpress.com/conference/NEUDC2015/program/NEUDC2015.html"> Learning Digitally: Evaluating the Impact of Farmer Training via Mediated Videos</a>, November 8, Providence, Rhode Island.
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<a href="http://utdallas.edu/~jdf130030/esaindex.html">North-American Economic Science Association</a>, Motherhood, Sisterhood and Adolescence: Is Competitiveness Socialized? October 24, Dallas, Texas.
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Inverting matrices using an iterative approach to the <a href="https://pygotham.org/2015/talks/207/an-iterative-approach-to">Tikhonov Regularization Problem</a> at<a href="https://pygotham.org"> Pygotham</a> on August 15-16 with <a href="http://www.meetup.com/NYC-PyLadies/events/224648949/">Pyladies session</a>.
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Visitor at <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/labs/newengland/">Microsoft Research New England </a>August 17-21st.
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Speaker, "Networks and Sustainable Development," <a href="http://pintofscience.us/event/earth-ecology-and-environmental-engineering/">Pint of Science</a>, New York NY 5/18/15
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Seminar Speaker, "As Good as the Networks They Keep? Mechanisms of Information Exchange in Social Networks in Rural Uganda," Microsoft Research New York, NY 2015 4/6/15
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Seminar Speaker, "As Good as the Networks They Keep? Mechanisms of Information Exchange in Social Networks in Rural Uganda," Paris Environmental and Economics Seminar, Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne 11/6/14
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Seminar Speaker, "Informal Networks within Index Insurance: Randomizing Social Distance in Group Insurance," Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), The French National Institute for Agricultural Research UMR LAMETA, Montpellier, France 12/19/14
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Seminar Speaker, "As Good as the Networks They Keep? Mechanisms of Information Exchange in Social Networks in Rural Uganda," CSAE Conference 2015: Economic Development in Africa, St Catherine's College, Oxford University 3/24/15
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Seminar Speaker, "Mothers, Daugthers and Sisters, Is Competitiveness Socialized?" at <a href="http://blogg.nhh.no/thechoicelab/?p=6117"><NAME>'s Behavioral Economics Workshop, </a>at <a href="http://blogg.nhh.no/thechoicelab/?p=8008">The Choice Lab</a> at NHH, Bergen, Norway, October 2014.
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Chair of Networks Session, and Presenter, "Informal Networks within Index Insurance: Randomizing Social Distance in Group Insurance," at SEEDEC <a href="http://blogg.nhh.no/thechoicelab/?p=8008">Choice Lab</a>, Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway, December 2015. (program: <a href="https://seedec2014.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/seedec-2014-program1.pdf">https://seedec2014.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/seedec-2014-program1.pdf</a>)
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"Informal Networks within Index Insurance: Randomizing Social Distance in Group Insurance," at the Northeast Universities Development Consortium, Boston University, November 2015. (link:<a href="http://sites.bu.edu/neudc/files/2014/10/paper_412.pdf">http://sites.bu.edu/neudc/files/2014/10/paper_412.pdf</a>)
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Mediator and Organizer of Postdoctoral Data Science Panel at Columbia University, with <NAME>, Columbia Medical Center, September 17, 2014.
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<a href="http://www.worldbank.org/en/programs/africa-gender-innovation-lab/brief/improving-social-networks-for-ugandan-farmers#">World Bank Policy brief</a> on using local social networks in agricultural training.
<br></br>
<a href="http://iri.columbia.edu/news/video-what-tools-do-honduran-farmers-want-for-climate-risk/">Field video</a><strong></strong> from International Research Institute, Columbia University on Micro Insurance in Honduras.
<br></br>
<a href="http://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/increasing-prosperity-poorest-using-social-networks-guest-post-kathryn-vasilaky">My guest blog post</a> for the World Bank on social networks and economic prosperity.
<br></br>
A <a href="http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2015/04/14/overuse-of-water-by-indian-farmers-threatens-supply/">Columbia University post</a> at State of the Planet on my work in Haryana India.
<br></br>
A <a href="http://blogs.worldbank.org/impactevaluations/csae-2015-impact-evaluation-round">World Bank post</a> listing influential RCTs in economic development at Oxford's CSAE conference.
<br></br>
<h1>workshops</h1>

July 13, 2016
<a href="http://www.meetup.com/NYC-PyLadies/events/231477419/">Data Science in Python @ Metis, Part 2</a>
<br></br>
April 5th, 2016
<a href="http://www.meetup.com/NYC-PyLadies/events/229493910/">Data Science in Python @ Metis</a>
<br></br>
January 28th, 2016
<a href="http://www.meetup.com/NYC-PyLadies/events/227647566/">Flask and Git @ StackOverflow</a>
<br></br>
February 21st, 2015
<a href="http://www.meetup.com/nycpython/events/219610398/?a=uc1_te&_af_eid=219610398&_af=event">Networkx at Python Meetup</a>
<br></br>
September 23, 2014
<a href="http://www.meetup.com/NYC-PyLadies/events/206492062/">Pystan</a>
<br></br>
May 13, 2014
<a href="http://www.meetup.com/NYC-PyLadies/events/180858362/">Webscraping in Python</a>
<br></br>
April 28, 2014
<a href="http://www.meetup.com/NYC-PyLadies/events/171179472/">Python for Beginngers: Part II</a>
<br></br>
March 27, 2014
<a href="http://www.meetup.com/NYC-PyLadies/events/164157682/">Python for Beginners: Part I</a>
<br></br>

<h1>seminars</h1>

Seminar Speaker, "An Iterative Approach to the Tikhanov Inverse Problem with a Stopping Rule," New York University, Applied Statistics, PRIISM Seminar, scheduled 12/7/16
<br></br>
Seminar Speaker, "Learning Digitally: Evaluating the Impact of Farmer Training via Mediated Videos," Paris School of Economics, Paris, France, 4/15/16.

<br></br>
Seminar Speaker, "<a href="https://editorialexpress.com/cgi-bin/conference/download.cgi?db_name=CSAE2016&paper_id=436">Towards a Deeper Understanding of Female Competitiveness and the Gender Gap: Evidence from Patrilocal and Matrilocal Cultures</a>," CSAE Conference 2016: Economic Development in Africa, St Catherine's College, Oxford University 3/20/16
<br></br>
<a href="http://www.meetup.com/Action-Design-NYC/events/226355787/">Tech, Development Economics, and Experiment Design</a> at <a href="http://reboot.org/">Reboot</a>.org, November 11th, New York, New York.
<br></br>
<a href="http://nyc2015.pydata.org/">Pydata</a>, <a href="http://nyc2015.pydata.org/schedule/presentation/117/"> An iterative approach to inverse problems using Python's NumPy</a>, November 11th, New York, New York.
<br></br>
<a href="https://sites.google.com/a/brown.edu/neudc-2015/home">Northest Universities Development Consortium</a>,<a href="http://editorialexpress.com/conference/NEUDC2015/program/NEUDC2015.html"> Learning Digitally: Evaluating the Impact of Farmer Training via Mediated Videos</a>, November 8, Providence, Rhode Island.
<br></br>
<a href="http://utdallas.edu/~jdf130030/esaindex.html">North-American Economic Science Association</a>, Motherhood, Sisterhood and Adolescence: Is Competitiveness Socialized? October 24, Dallas, Texas.
<br></br>
Inverting matrices using an iterative approach to the <a href="https://pygotham.org/2015/talks/207/an-iterative-approach-to">Tikhonov Regularization Problem</a> at<a href="https://pygotham.org"> Pygotham</a> on August 15-16 with <a href="http://www.meetup.com/NYC-PyLadies/events/224648949/">Pyladies session</a>.
<br></br>
Visitor at <a href="http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/labs/newengland/">Microsoft Research New England </a>August 17-21st.
<br></br>
Speaker, "Networks and Sustainable Development," <a href="http://pintofscience.us/event/earth-ecology-and-environmental-engineering/">Pint of Science</a>, New York NY 5/18/15
<br></br>
Seminar Speaker, "As Good as the Networks They Keep? Mechanisms of Information Exchange in Social Networks in Rural Uganda," Microsoft Research New York, NY 2015 4/6/15
<br></br>
Seminar Speaker, "As Good as the Networks They Keep? Mechanisms of Information Exchange in Social Networks in Rural Uganda," Paris Environmental and Economics Seminar, Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne 11/6/14
<br></br>
Seminar Speaker, "Informal Networks within Index Insurance: Randomizing Social Distance in Group Insurance," Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), The French National Institute for Agricultural Research UMR LAMETA, Montpellier, France 12/19/14
<br></br>
Seminar Speaker, "As Good as the Networks They Keep? Mechanisms of Information Exchange in Social Networks in Rural Uganda," CSAE Conference 2015: Economic Development in Africa, St Catherine's College, Oxford University 3/24/15
<br></br>
Seminar Speaker, "Mothers, Daugthers and Sisters, Is Competitiveness Socialized?" at <a href="http://blogg.nhh.no/thechoicelab/?p=6117">Uri Gneezy's Behavioral Economics Workshop, </a>at <a href="http://blogg.nhh.no/thechoicelab/?p=8008">The Choice Lab</a> at NHH, Bergen, Norway, October 2014.
<br></br>
Chair of Networks Session, and Presenter, "Informal Networks within Index Insurance: Randomizing Social Distance in Group Insurance," at SEEDEC <a href="http://blogg.nhh.no/thechoicelab/?p=8008">Choice Lab</a>, Norwegian School of Economics, Bergen, Norway, December 2015. (program: <a href="https://seedec2014.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/seedec-2014-program1.pdf">https://seedec2014.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/seedec-2014-program1.pdf</a>)
<br></br>
"Informal Networks within Index Insurance: Randomizing Social Distance in Group Insurance," at the Northeast Universities Development Consortium, Boston University, November 2015. (link:<a href="http://sites.bu.edu/neudc/files/2014/10/paper_412.pdf">http://sites.bu.edu/neudc/files/2014/10/paper_412.pdf</a>)
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Mediator and Organizer of Postdoctoral Data Science Panel at Columbia University, with <NAME>, Columbia Medical Center, September 17, 2014.
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