
Finally, we tried to reach potentially interested participants through social media, email lists, and emails to faculty that we thought might know interested participants.
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We also advertised through professional societies and asked our funders to help spread the word. We emailed former participants and former speakers. As in previous years, we advertised our event to a large, diverse group Our major outreach effort began in January- once almost all of the partner locations had been finalized. We continue to think that the best way to have a great Summer Institute is to have great participants. We’ve divided this post into 7 main sections: 1) outreach and application process 2) pre-arrival and onboarding 3) pre-recording of lectures 4) first week 5) second week (group projects) 6) second week (SICSS Festival) 7) post-departure. SICSS-Duke organized by Chris Bail and Matthew Salganik As you will see, different sites did things differently, and think that this kind of customization was an important part of how we were successful. This post includes post-mortem reports from all of our locations in order to facilitate comparisons. If you are interested in hosting a partner location of SICSS 2021 at your university, company, NGO, or governmental organization, please read our information for potential partner locations. We hope that this document will be useful to other people organizing similar Summer Institutes, as well as people who are organizing partner locations for the 2021 Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science. The purpose of this blog post is to describe a) what we did, b) what we think worked well, and c) what we will do differently next time. In addition to the locations that happened virtually, we have 13 locations postponed because of COVID: SICSS-Beijing, SICSS-Chicago, SICSS-Copenhagen, SICSS-HSE University, SICSS-Helsinki, SICSS-Howard-Mathematica, SICSS-Konstanz, SICSS-Milano, SICSS-NYU, SICSS-Oxford, SICSS-Paris, SICSS-Princeton-CITP, and SICSS-Tokyo. Brand (SICSS-UCLA 19), Pablo Geraldo Bastías (SICSS-UCLA 19), and Bernard Koch (SICSS-UCLA 19) SICSS-UCLA organized by Alina Arseniev-Koehler (SICSS-University of Washington 18, SICSS-UCLA 19), Jennie E.SICSS-Stellenbosch organized by Aldu Cornelissen (SICSS Cape Town 18), Douglas Parry (SICSS Cape Town 19), and Richard Barnett (SICSS Cape Town 18).SICSS-Rutgers organized by Katherine McCabe (SICSS-Princeton 19), Hana Shepherd, and Kira Sanbonmatsu.


SICSS-Maastricht organized by Monika Leszczyńska (SICSS-Princeton 19) and Catalina Goanta.SICSS-Istanbul organized by Akın Ünver (SICSS-Kadir Has University 19) and Matti Nelimarkka (SICSS-Kadir Has University 19, SICSS-Helsinki 18, SICSS-Princeton 17).SICSS-Bay Area organized by Jae Yeon Kim (SICSS-Princeton 19), Jaren Haber (SICSS-Princeton 19), and Nick Camp (SICSS-Princeton 19).In addition to SICSS-Duke, which was organized by Chris Bail and Matthew Salganik, there were 7 partner locations run by SICSS alumni. This summer all of our Institutes were virtual because of COVID-19, but we will still refer to them by their planned physical location.

The Summer Institutes are for both social scientists (broadly conceived) and data scientists (broadly conceived). The purpose of the Summer Institutes is to bring together graduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and beginning faculty interested in computational social science. We’ve just completed the 2020 Summer Institutes in Computational Social Science.
