Student Seminar: Hao Zhu
8:50–9:20 am Jones 111
Monday, April 29, 2024, at 8:50 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Hao Zhu, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Time Series and Machine Learning Approaches for Forecasting Inflation in the USA”
Student Seminar: Shu-Hsiang Wang
9:30–10:00 am Jones 111
Monday, April 29, 2024, at 9:30 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Shu-Hsiang Wang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Sample Size Determination Methods for Non-Randomized Studies with Historical Data”
Student Seminar: Qizhong Zhang
10:00–10:30 am Jones 111
Monday, April 29, 2024, at 10:00 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Qizhong Zhang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“DDSTPP: Denoising Diffusion Spatial Temporal Point Process”
Student Seminar: Xinyu Wang
10:30–11:00 am Jones 111
Monday, April 29, 2024, at 10:30 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Xinyu Wang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Exploring the mechanism of self-attention”
Student Seminars: Yiyuan (Chloe) Zhang
11:00–11:30 am Jones 111
Monday, April 29, 2024, at 11:00 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Yiyuan (Chloe) Zhang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“High-Dimensional Time Series: VAR Model Efficacy Across Lag Structures”
Bahadur Memorial Lectures: Emmanuel Candès (day 1)
11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303
Monday, April 29, 2024, at 11:30 AM, Jones Laboratory, Room 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
BAHADUR MEMORIAL LECTURES
Pre-Seminar Refreshments will be served at 11:00 AM in Jones 303
“Statistical Inference in the Age of AI”
Student Seminar: Xingyu Piao
2:00–2:30 pm Jones 111
Monday, April 29, 2024, at 2:00 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Xingyu Piao, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Impact of a country’s GDP on the number of students studying in the U.S. from that country”
Student Seminar: Huanyu Zhang
2:30–3:00 pm Jones 111
Monday, April 29, 2024, at 2:30 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Huanyu Zhang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Statler: State-Maintaining Language Models for Embodied Reasoning”
Student Seminar: Sheng-Hau Peng
12:00–12:30 pm Jones 111
Tuesday, April 30, at 12:00 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Sheng-Hau Peng, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Optimizing Sentiment Analysis through Hyperparameter Tuning: An Alternative Way to Revisit SESTM Algorithm”
Student Seminar: Yibei Cai
12:30–1:00 pm Jones 111
Tuesday, April 30, at 12:30 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Yibei Cai, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Examination on the effectiveness of Time Series Momentum”
CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Phillip Lo
12:30–1:30 pm
Tuesday, April 30, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Searle 240A, 5735 S. Ellis Avenue
CAM & Stats Student Seminar
Phillip Lo, Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics
“The Sample Complexity of Noisy Curve Recovery”
Student Seminar: Ruiqin Li
1:00–1:30 pm Jones 111
Tuesday, April 30, 2024, at 1:00 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Ruiqin Li, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Variance Estimation for the Calibration Estimator”
Student Seminar: Yuqi Niu
1:30–2:00 pm Jones 111
Tuesday, April 30, 2024, at 1:00 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Yuqi Niu, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“The Application of a Hybrid Garch-type Model with Quantile Regression Neural Network on the Estimation of Value-at-Risk of Corporate Stocks”
Student Seminar: Haoyuan Mao
2:00–2:30 pm Jones 111
Tuesday, April 30, 2024, at 2:00 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Haoyuan Mao, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Apply Generalized Gamma Distribution in Two part MELS model”
Student Seminar: Theodora Ko
3:00–3:30 pm Jones 111
Tuesday, April 30, 2024, at 3:00 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Theodora Ko, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Minimizing Empty Truck Miles Driven via Decision-Theoretic Online Learning and Link Prediction on a Temporal Transportation Graph”
Student Seminar: Yifang Zhang
10:30–11:00 am Jones 111
Wednesday, May 1, 2024, at 10:30 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Yifang Zhang, Department of Statistic, The University of Chicago
“Volatility Forecasting and VaR Performance: Insights from Emerging Markets”
Student Seminar: Zhanpeng Song
11:00–11:30 am Jones 111
Monday, May 1, 2024, at 11:00 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Zhanpeng Song, Department of Statistic, The University of Chicago
“TBA”
Student Seminar: Chad Schmerling
1:30–2:00 pm Searle 236
Monday, May 1, 2024, at 1:30 PM, in Searle 236, 5735 S Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Chad Schmerling, Department of Statistic, The University of Chicago
“TBA”
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
“TBA”
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”
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: 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”
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: 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”
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”
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”
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”
CAM Colloquium: Michael I. Weinstein
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Thursday, May 9, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
CAM Colloquium
Michael I. Weinstein, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University
“TBA”
Statistics Colloquium: Brian Reich
11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303
Monday, May 13, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Statistics Colloquium
Brian Reich, Department of Statistics, North Carolina State University
“TBA”
Student Seminar: Zihao Wang
3:00–4:00 pm Jones 304
Monday, May 13, 2024, at 3:00 PM, in Jones 304, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Zihao Wang, Department of Statistic, The University of Chicago
“TBA”
CAM Colloquium: Cong Ma
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Tuesday, May 14, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
CAM Colloquium
Cong Ma, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
“TBA”
Student Seminar: Jinwen Yang
3:00–4:30 pm Harper Memorial 145
Wednesday, May 15, 2024, at 3:00 PM, in Harper Memorial 145, 1116 E. 59th Street
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Jinwen Yang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“TBA”
CAM Colloquium: Laure Zanna
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Thursday, May 16, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
CAM Colloquium
Laure Zanna, Courant Institute, New York University
“TBA”
Student Seminar: Lin Gui
2:30–4:00 pm Jones 111
Tuesday, May 21, 2024, at 2:30 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Lin Gui, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“TBA”
CAM Colloquium: Haizhao Yang
4:00–5:30 pm Jones 303
Thursday, May 23, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
CAM Colloquium
Haizhao Yang, Departments of Mathematics and Computer science (Affiliated), The University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland
“Finite Expression Method: A Symbolic Approach for Scientific Machine Learning”
CAM & Department of Mathematics Special Joint Colloquium: Bernd Sturmfels
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Thursday, May 30, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
CAM & Department of Mathematics Special Joint Colloquium
Bernd Sturmfels, Max Planck Institute for Mathematics in the Sciences
“Algebraic Varieties in Quantum Chemistry”
Student Seminar: Yu Gui
10:30–11:00 am Jones 304
Monday, June 3, 2024, at 2:30 PM, in Jones 304, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Yu Gui, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“TBA”
CAM Special Colloquium: Sebastian Reich
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Monday, July 1, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Special Colloquium
Sebastian Reich, Institute of Mathematics, University of Potsdam
“Filtered data based estimators for stochastic processes driven by coloured noise”
CAM Colloquium: Bianca M. Dumitrascu
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Thursday, October 3, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
CAM Colloquium
Bianca M. Dumitrascu, Herbert and Florence Institute for Cancer Dynamics, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University
“TBA”
CAM Colloquium: Daniel Sanz-Alonso
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Thursday, October 10, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
CAM Colloquium
Daniel Sanz-Alonso, Department of Statistics, Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago”
“TBA”