Student Seminar: Chenfeng Li
10:00–10:30 am Jones 111
Friday, April 19, 2024, at 10:00 am, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Chenfeng Li, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Examining the Interplay Between Politicians’ Facial Expressions in Media Images and News Corporation Bias”
Statistics Colloquium: Harry Crane
11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303
Monday, April 22, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Statistics Colloquium
Harry Crane, Department of Statistics, Rutgers
“Inference for Dynamic Networks and Trees”
Student Seminar: Ruixin Dai
2:30–3:00 pm Jones 111
Tuesday, April 23, 2024, at 2:30 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Ruixin Dai, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“FDR Control in ep-BH Procedure with Dependent P-values and E-values”
Student Seminar: Zijian Zhao
4:00–4:30 pm Jones 111
Tuesday, April 23, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Zijian Zhao, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Knowledge Editing through Contrastive Fine-tuning”
Student Seminar: Melissa Adrian
3:30–5:30 pm Jones 111
Thursday, April 25, 2024, at 3:30 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Melissa Adrian, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Estimation, prediction, and uncertainty quantification using sparse data in weather applications”
CAM Colloquium: Jonathan Hauenstein
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Thursday, April 25, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Jonathan Hauenstein, Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics, University of Notre Dame
“TBA”
Student Seminar: Xingyu Qu
4:00–4:30 pm Jones 304
Thursday, April 25, 2024, at 3:30 PM, in Jones 304, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Xingyu Qu, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Exploring Win Determinants in the English Premier League: Insights from Poisson Mixed-Effects Modeling and Skellam Process”
Student Seminar: Austin Koort
10:30–11:00 am Jones 303
Friday, April 26, 2024, at 10:30 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Austin Koort, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Evaluating the Effect of Round Type on Collegiate Policy Debate Outcomes”
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: Xinqu 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
“TBA”
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
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 11:00 AM, 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: Yuhan Liu
10:00 am–12:00 pm Jones 111
Tuesday, April 30, 2024, at 10:00 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Yuhan Liu, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“TBA”
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
“TBA”
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: 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: 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: 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”
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”
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”
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”
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”
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
“TBA”