1:00–5:00 pm Rosenwald 011
Friday, May 22, 2026, from 1:00-5:00 PM, in Rosenwald 011, 58th St.
Mini-Seminars for Second-Year PhDs
Moderator: David Chen and Woohyun Choi
- 1:00 pm: Chandramauli Chakraborty: "Generative collapse does not imply discriminative collapse"
- 1:15 pm: Soutim Das: "Uncertainty Quantification for Sparse Canonical Correlation Analysis"
- 1:30 pm: Laura DeFalco: "Modeling Inhibitory Structure in Nonnegative Matrix Factorization"
- 1:45 pm: Joonhyuk Jung: "Le Cam, Birgé, Huber, and Strassen"
- 2:00 pm: Akash Kannan: "Anchor Divergence for Semantic Geometry in Contrastive Learning"
- 2:15 pm: Pui Kuen Leung: “Approximating the Permanent of a Random Matrix with Polynomially Small Mean”
- 2:30 pm: Xiaoli Li: "Tail Probabilities for SGD Iterates with Heavy-tailed Gradient Noises"
- 2:45 pm: Chenjia Lin: "Density ratio estimation for assessing generative models"
- 3:00 pm: Kaining Shi: "When Are Trade-Off Functions Testable from Finite Samples?"
- 3:15 pm: Xianwen Song: "Robust Estimation on Synchronization"
- 3:30 pm: Yinjie Wang: "Intersection between LLM and Statistics"
- 3:45 pm: Qichuan Yin: "Overcoming the Incentive Collapse Paradox"
- 4:00 pm: Stephen Yin: "Understanding Semi-discrete Gromov-Wasserstein Distances"
- 4:15 pm: Ziyi Zhou: "F-Modeling and Tweedie’s Formula: Revisiting the Brown–Greenshtein Approach"
- 4:30 pm: Jeirui Zhu: "Density Compound p-values"
- 4:45-5:00 pm: Questions
Event Type
May
22