2023
Ecology and Evolution Seminars: Aaron Ragsdale
3:30–4:30 pm KCBD 1103
Aaron Ragsdale, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Archaic introgression and the shared distribution of functional variation.”
Probability and Statistical Physics Seminar: Dmtry Krachun
1:30–2:30 pm Eckhart 202
Dmitry Krachun, University of Geneva
“TBA”
TTIC at Chicago, Distinguished Lecture Series: Yejin Choi
11:30 am–12:30 pm TTIC 5-530
Yejin Choi, University of Washington
“Possible Impossibilities and Impossible Possibilities”
Computer Science Seminar: Amy Greenwald
11:00 am–12:00 pm Location TBA
Amy Greenwald, Brown University
“From Min-max Optimization to Stackelberg Games: Solutions and Applications”
Autumn 2023 Distinguished Speaker Series: Adam Klivans
12:00–1:30 pm John Crerar Library, Room 390
Presented by the Data Science Institute in partnership with the Departments of Statistics, Computer Science, and the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics
Adam Klivans, Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at Austin
“Testable Learning”
CAM Colloquium: Mathias Oster
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Mathias Oster, Institute für Geometrie und Praktische Mathematik at the RWTH Aachen
“On Semi-global Optimal Control and its Application to Machine Learning”
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)”
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”
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”
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”