2025
Student Seminar: Zhiyuan Chen
9:00–9:30 am
Wednesday, February 19, 2025, at 9:00 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Zhiyuan Chen, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Mixed-effects Location Scale Model and Extensions”
Student Seminar: Jiangchuan Du
2:00–2:30 pm Jones 111
Tuesday, February 18, 2025, at 2:00 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Jiangchuan Du, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Design-based sharp inference for quantiles of individual treatment effects”
Student Seminar: Kyong Ju Lee
2:00–2:30 pm Jones 111
Monday, February 17, 2025, at 2:00 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Kyong Ju Lee, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Doublet Detection via Noisy PU Learning”
Joint Colloquium with DSI: Alex Damian
11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303
Joint Colloquium with the Data Science Institute (DSI)
Alex Damian, Program in Applied & Computational Mathematics, Princeton University
“Foundations of Deep Learning: Optimization and Representation Learning”
Student Seminar: Jose Copca Penchyna
1:00–1:30 pm Jones 111
Friday, February 14, 2025, at 1:00 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Jose Copca Penchyna, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Predicting outcomes in soccer matches with bivariate Poisson models”
Student Seminars: Kiho Park
3:30–4:00 pm Jones 111
Thursday, February 13, 2025, at 3:30 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Kiho Park, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“The Geometry of Concepts in Large Language Models”
Joint Colloquium with DSI: John Cherian
2:00–3:00 pm
Joint Colloquium with the Data Science Institute (DSI)
John Cherian, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
“Statistical methods for assessing the factual accuracy of large language models”
Student Seminar: Jiaming Liu
3:00–4:00 pm Jones 111
Wednesday, February 12, 2025, at 3:00 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Jiaming Liu, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Efficient trans-perturb-QTL detection using multivariate differential expression analysis”
Statistics Colloquium: Hao Shen
11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303
Hao Shen
Department of Mathematics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Langevin dynamics of Yang-Mills”
Joint Colloquium with DSI: Eli Weinstein
2:00–3:00 pm
Joint Colloquium with the Data Science Institute (DSI)
Eli Weinstein, the Data Science Institute, Columbia University
“Probabilistic Experimental Design for Petascale DNA Synthesis”