Please register for the course program via the online registration tool before 17 February 2026. You can request the respective link from Annette Förster (annette.foerster[at]uni-mannheim.de).
Interuniversity Graduate School of Psychometrics and Sociometrics (IOPS)
We are excited to cooperate with the Interuniversity Graduate School of Psychometrics and Sociometrics (IOPS). IOPS is an institute for the advanced dissertation training in psychometrics and sociometrics; it also coordinates the high-quality research in this area.
Participating universities are:
- Leiden University
- University of Amsterdam (UvA)
- University of Groningen
- Twente University
- Tilburg University
- Utrecht University
- KU Leuven
Participating research institutes:
- CITO (National Institute of Educational Measurement)
- CBS (Statistics Netherlands)
IOPS opens up courses for SMiP members to participate in and SMiP does so for IOPS members.
The following courses from the SMiP qualification program are open for IOPS members:
Open-source Large Language Models for Research in the Social Sciences [tentative title]
| Instructor: | Dirk Wulff |
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| Dates: | 26 March (10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. ) and 27 March 2026 (9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.) |
| Location: | Mannheim; Room 108 CIP Pool (1st day), 211 (2nd day); both rooms are located in building B6, 30–32 |
Basic Concepts of Stochastic Processes (PDF, 195 kB)
| Instructor: | Rolf Ulrich |
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| Dates: | 01 April (12:00 p.m. – 6:00 p.m.) and 02 April (9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.) |
| Location: | Tübingen; Room 4328 |
Simulation-Based Inference for Cognitive Modeling (PDF, 22 kB)
| Instructors: | Paul-Christian Bürkner & Stefan Radev |
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| Dates: | 09 April (10:00 a.m. – 6:00 pm. ) and 10 April 2026 (9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.) |
| Location: | Mannheim, B6, 30–32; Room 108 CIP Pool |
Please refer to the complete SMiP program for continuous updates.