2024
Student Seminar: Yuepeng Yang
4:00–5:00 pm Wieboldt 130
Wednesday, May 15, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Wieboldt 130, 1050 E 59th Street
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Yuepeng Yang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Ranking from Sparse Comparison Data”
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
“Scale up and Speed up Classic Optimization on Modern Computing Architectures”
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
“Top-K Ranking with a Monotone Adversary”
CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Daniel Xiang
12:30–1:30 pm Searle 240A
Tuesday, May 14, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Searle 240A, 5735 S. Ellis Avenue
CAM & Stats Student Seminar
Daniel Xiang, Assistant Instructional Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
“Interpretation of local false discovery rates under the zero assumption”
Student Seminar: Joonsuk Kang
10:00–11:00 am Jones 111
Tuesday, May 14, 2024, at 10:00 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Joonsuk Kang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Learning Meaningful Representations of Data with Empirical Bayes Methods”
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
“Interpreting and Steering Large Generative Models”
Statistics Colloquium: Jason Xu
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
Jason Xu, Department of Statistical Science, Duke University
“Distance-to-set penalties and priors for estimation under constraints”
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
Michael I. Weinstein, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University
“Pseudo-magnetism and Landau Levels”
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”