2024
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”
CAM Colloquium: Yulong Lu
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Thursday, April 18, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Yulong Lu, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
“Diffusion Models: Theory and Applications (in PDEs)”
2024 Spring Distinguished Speakers Series: Irina Rish
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.
Irina Rish, Université de Montréal
“Scaling to AGI”
Student Seminar: Xinmeng (Simone) Zhang
2:00–2:30 pm Jones 111
Wednesday, April 17, 2024, at 2:00 PM, Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Xinmeng (Simone) Zhang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Intraclass Correlation Coefficient Confidence Interval Derivation and Application in Longitudinal Data Analysis”
CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Melissa Adrian
12:30–1:30 pm Searle 240A
Tuesday, April 16, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Searle 240A, 5735 S. Ellis Avenue
CAM & Stats Student Seminar
Melissa Adrian, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Estimation, prediction, and uncertainty quantification using sparse data in weather applications”
Statistics Colloquium: Krishnakumar Balasubramanian
11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303
Monday April 15, 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
Krishnakumar Balasubramanian, Department of Statistics, University of California- Davis
“Gaussian Approximations for Stabilizing Statistics”
CAM Colloquium: Nick Trefethen
3:30–4:30 pm Jones 303
Note time change!
FRIDAY, April 12, 2024, at 3:30 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Nick Trefethen, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
“The AAA Algorithm for Rational Approximation”
Student Seminar: Wanrong Zhu
10:00 am–12:00 pm Jones 304
Thursday, April 11, 2024, 10:00 AM, Jones 304, 5747 S. University Ave
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Wanrong Zhu, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
“Statistical Inference in Online Learning: Covariance Matrix Estimation and Confidence Interval Construction”
CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Bill Katsianos
12:30–1:30 pm Searle 240A
Tuesday, April 9, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Searle 240A, 5735 S. Ellis Avenue
CAM & Stats Student Seminar
Bill Katsianos, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Association Analysis of Phenotypes Jointly Influenced by a Pair of Organisms”
Statistics Colloquium: Haiyan Huang
11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303
Monday, April 8, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Statistics Colloquium
Haiyan Huang, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
“Integrative Deep Multi-Learning for Biclustering and Predicting Cancer Drug Responses: Leveraging Omics and Drug Molecular Data”