Past Events

2023

Maroon Phoenix

Student Seminar: Yu-Wei Chen

10:30–11:00 am Jones 304

Wednesday, October 11, 2023, at 10:30 AM, in Jones 304, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Yu-Wei Chen, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“User-Based Batch Sampling for Bayesian Personalized Ranking with Matrix Factorization (BPR-MF)”

Oct 11
Maryellen L. Giger

AI+Science Initiative Speaker Series: Maryellen L. Giger

4:30–6:00 pm William Eckhardt Research Center, Room 401

Maryellen L. Giger, A.N. Pritzker Distinguished Service Professor of Radiology, Committee on Medical Physics, at the University of Chicago
“AI in Medical Imaging and the Role of MIDRC”

Oct 10
Jiaheng Chen, CAM

CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Jiaheng Chen

12:30–1:30 pm Jones 303

JIAHENG CHEN, Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Covariance Operator Estimation in the Small Lengthscale Regime”

Oct 10
Sabyasachi Chatterjee

Statistics Colloquium: Sabyasachi Chatterjee

11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303

Sabyasachi Chatterjee, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
“Theory for Cross Validation in Nonparametric Regression”

Oct 9
Maryam Fazel, University of Washington

Autumn 2023 Distinguished Speaker Series: Maryam Fazel

12:00–1:30 pm JCL 390

Presented by the Data Science Institute in partnership with the Departments of Statistics, Computer Science, and the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics
Maryam Fazel, Moorthy Family Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Washington
“Flat Minima and Generalization in Learning: the Case of Low-rank Matrix Recovery”

Oct 6
Anna Siegal

CAM Colloquium: Anna Seigal

4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303

Anna Seigal, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
“Factorising data”

Oct 5
William Eckhardt Research Center

Big Data and Machine Learning in Econometrics, Finance, and Statistics

Through October 7, 2023 Eckhardt Research Center, Room 161

This conference is made possible by the generous philanthropy of University of Chicago Trustee Steve G. Stevanovich and the Financial Mathematics Program.

Oct 5
Pedram Hassanzadeh

CAM Colloquium: Pedram Hassanzadeh

4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303

Pedram Hassanzadeh, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Department of Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Rice University
“Integrating the spectral analyses of neural networks and nonlinear physics for explainability, generalizability, and stability”

Oct 4
Kai Gong, MS Student

Student Seminar: Kai Gong

10:30–11:00 am Jones 303

Wednesday, October 4, 2023, at 10:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Kai Gong, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Comparison of Optimization Algorithms and Potential Improvement of ADAM Based on Time-Series”

Oct 4
Yuehaw Khoo, Assistant Professor

AI+Science Initiative Speaker Series: Yuehaw Khoo

4:30–6:00 pm William Eckhardt Research Center, Room 401

Yuehaw Khoo, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Randomized tensor-network algorithms for random data in high-dimensions”

Oct 3