2024
![Matthew Yang, MS Student](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/shared-resources/i/template/transparent.gif)
Student Seminar: Matthew Yang
2:30–3:00 pm Jones 111
Tuesday, February 13, 2024, at 2:30 pm, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Matthew Yang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Latent Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models”
![Chenyang Lu, MS Student](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/shared-resources/i/template/transparent.gif)
Student Seminar: Chenyang Lu
2:00–2:30 pm Jones 111
Tuesday, February 13, 2024, at 2:00 pm, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Chenyang Lu, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Association Testing for Multivariate Phenotypes”
![Hong Won Jang, MS Student](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/shared-resources/i/template/transparent.gif)
Student Seminar: Hong Wong Jang
1:30–2:00 pm Jones 111
Tuesday, February 13, 2024, at 1:30 pm, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Hong Won Jang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“News sentiment-driven portfolios using large language models”
![Suzanna Parkinson, PhD CCAM](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/shared-resources/i/template/transparent.gif)
CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Suzanna Parkinson
12:30–1:30 pm
Tuesday, February 13, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Searle 240A
CAM & Stats Student Seminar
Suzanna Parkinson, PhD student, CCAM
“Depth Separation of Neural Networks in Learning”
![Shuangning Li, Harvard University](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/shared-resources/i/template/transparent.gif)
Statistics Colloquium: Shuangning Li
11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303
Monday, February 12, 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
Shuangning Li, Department of Statistics, Harvard University
“Inference and Decision-Making amid Social Interactions”
![Brent Doiron](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/shared-resources/i/template/transparent.gif)
Physics Colloquium Series: Brent Doiron
3:30–4:30 pm KPTC 106
Thursday, February 2, 2024, 3:30 PM, KPTC 106, 5720 S. Ellis Avenue
Physics Colloquium Series
Brent Doiron, Director, Grossman Center for Quantitative Biology and Human Behavior, University of Chicago
“Heterogeneity and dimension in recurrent neuronal networks”
![Paarth Sharma, MS Student](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/shared-resources/i/template/transparent.gif)
Student Seminar: Paarth Sharma
2:00–2:30 pm Jones 303
Thursday, February 8, 2024, at 2:00 pm, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Paarth Sharma, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Modeling the Prior with Normalizing Flows for Autoencoder-based Vision Models”
![Brian Trippe, Columbia University](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/shared-resources/i/template/transparent.gif)
Statistics Colloquium: Brian Trippe
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 303
Thursday, February 8, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Pre-Seminar refreshments will be served at 12:00 PM in Jones 303
Brian Trippe, Department of Statistics, Columbia University
“Probabilistic methods for designing functional protein structures”
![Seppe Kuehn](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/shared-resources/i/template/transparent.gif)
AI+Science Schmidt Fellows Speaker Series: Seppe Kuehn
4:30–6:00 pm
AI+Science Schmidt Fellows Speaker Series
Tuesday, February 6, 2024, at 4:30pm, William Eckhardt Research Center, Room 401
Seppe Kuehn, University of Chicago
“Lessons in Statistical Learning from Microbial Communities”
![Sean O'Hagan, PhD Student](https://d3qi0qp55mx5f5.cloudfront.net/shared-resources/i/template/transparent.gif)
CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Sean O'Hagan
12:30–1:30 pm Searle 240A
Tuesday, February 6, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Searle 240A, 5734 S. Ellis Avenue
CAM & Stats Student Seminar
Sean O’Hagan, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Reinforcement Learning for Approximate Bayesian Computation via Tree-Based Recursive Partitioning”