Past Events

2024

Student Seminar: Aaron Ludkowski

11:00–11:30 am Jones 304

Friday, October 25, 2024, at 11:00 AM, in Jones 304, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Aaron Ludkowski, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Knapsacks and Basketball: A Cost-Driven Analysis of NCAA Men’s Tournament Teams”

Oct 25

Statistics Colloquium: Andrea Montanari

11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303

Monday, October 21, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Ave.
Statistics Colloquium
Andrea Montanari, Department of Statistics and Department of Mathematics, Stanford University
“High Dimensional Phenomena in Regression:  From Prediction to Sampling via Denoising Diffusions”

Oct 21

Statistics Colloquium: Nilanjan Chatterjee

11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303

Monday, October 14, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Ave.
Pre-Seminar refreshments will be served at 11:00 AM in Jones 303

Nilanjan Chatterjee, Biostatistics and Genetic Epidemiology, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
“Heterogeneous Transfer Learning and Applications to Genomics”

Oct 14
Daniel Sanz-Alonso

Statistics Special Colloquium: Daniel Sanz-Alonso

4:00–5:00 pm John Crerar Library 390

Thursday, October 10, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in John Crerar Library 390, 5730 S. Ellis Avenue
Statistics Special Colloquium
Daniel Sanz-Alonso, Department of Statistics, Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Ensemble Kalman Methods and Structured Operator Estimation”

Oct 10
Bianca Dumitrascu

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”

Oct 3

Statistics Special Colloquium: Claire Donnat

11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303

Monday, September 30, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Statistics Special Colloquium
Claire Donnat, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“TBA”

Sep 30
Jingshu Wang, Asst. Prof.

Statistics Special Colloquium: Jingshu Wang

11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303

Monday, September 23, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Statistics Special Colloquium
Jingshu Wang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“TBA”

Sep 23

Student Seminars: Yi Wang

12:00–2:00 pm Jones 304

Wednesday, August 14, 2024, at 12:00 PM, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Defense Presentation
Yi Wang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Multiscale methods for semidefinite programming”

Aug 14

Student Seminar: Soumyabrata Kundu

10:00–11:00 am Zoom Meeting

Monday, July 29, 2024, at 10:00 AM, via Zoom Meeting
Dissertation Proposal Presentation 
Soumyabrata Kundu, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Steerable Architectures for Vision”

Jul 29

Student Seminar: Daniel Gorman

11:00 am–12:00 pm Jones 304

Thursday, July 25, 2024, at 11:00 AM, in Jones 304, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation Presentation
Daniel Gorman, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“An Application of Modeling Variation in Intensive Longitudinal Data of Behavioral and Mental Health Responses from an Undergraduate Student Population”

Jul 25