2024
CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Jimmy Lederman
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 303
Tuesday, May 7, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Searle 240A, 5735 South Ellis Avenue
Jimmy Lederman, Computational and Applied Mathematics, The University of Chicago
“Modeling Underdispersion in Matrix Factorization with Poisson Maxima”
Statistics Colloquium: Andrew Gelman
11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303
Monday, May 6, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Pre-Seminar refreshments will be served at 11:00 AM in Jones 303
Statistics Colloquium
Andrew Gelman, Departments of Statistics and Political Science, Columbia University
“It’s About Time”
Probability and Statistical Physics Seminar: Sourav Chatterjee
2:30–3:30 pm Ryerson 276
Friday, May 3, 2024, at 2:30 PM, in Ryerson 276, 1100 E. 58th Street
Probability and Statistical Physics Seminar
“Chaos in lattice spin glasses”
Billingsley Lectures on Probability: Sourav Chatterjee
4:30–5:30 pm Math/Stat 112
Thursday, May 2, 2023, at 4:30 PM, Math/Stat 112, 5727 South University Avenue
Billingsley Lectures on Probability
Reception immediately following the lecture at 5:30 pm, in the Reading Room, Math/Stat 101, 5727 South University Avenue
Sourav Chatterjee, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
“A definition of spectral gap for nonreversible Markov chains”
Student Seminar: Diemeng Hu
3:30–4:00 pm Jones 111
Thursday, May 2, 2024, at 3:30 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Diemeng Hu, Department of Statistic, The University of Chicago
“Application of Mixed Effects Location Scale Models in Analyzing Environmental Impacts on Sedentary Behavior”
Spring 2024 Distinguished Speaker Series: Brandon Stewart
12:30–1:30 pm JCL 390
Spring 2024 Distinguished Speaker Series
Joint series by the Data Science Institute, Departments of Statistics and Computer Science, and the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics
Thursday, April 18, 2024, at 12:30 PM, JCL 390
Social lunch before seminar provided at 12:30 pm.
Brandon Stewart, Princeton University
“Inference Right with LLM Annotations in the Social Sciences”
Student Seminar: Alexander Austine Vattakkattu
11:30 am–12:00 pm Jones 111
Monday, May 2, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Alexander Vattakkattu, Department of Statistic, The University of Chicago
“Apply Generalized Gamma Distribution in Two part MELS model”
Bahadur Memorial Lectures: Emmanuel Candès (day 2)
3:30–4:30 pm Jones 303
Wednesday, May 1, 2024, at 3:30 PM
Jones Laboratory, Room 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Pre-Seminar Refreshments will be served at 3:00 PM in Jones 303
Emmanuel Candès, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
“Model-free selective inference and applications to drug discovery”
Student Seminar: Yichen Ji
2:30–3:00 pm Searle 236
Monday, May 1, 2024, at 2:30 PM, in Searle 236, 5735 S Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Yichen Ji, Department of Statistic, The University of Chicago
“Realized Volatility Forecasting with Machine Learning”
Student Seminar: Xiaoran Cheng
2:00–2:30 pm Searle 236
Thursday, May 1, 2024, at 2:00 PM, in Searle 236, 5735 S Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Xiaoran Cheng, Department of Statistic, The University of Chicago
“Large Language Models and Textual Analysis for Stock Return Prediction”