2025
Statistics Colloquium: Sara Algeri
11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303
Sara Algeri, School of Statistics, University of Minnesota
“When Pearson’s Chi-square and other divisible statistics are not goodness-of-fit tests”
Joint Colloquium with DSI: Jeremy Bernstein
11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303
Jeremy Bernstein, Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, MIT
“Metrized deep learning: Fast & scalable optimization via programmatic theory”
Student Seminar: Minji Park
2:00–2:30 pm Jones 304
Thursday, February 20, 2025, at 2:00 PM, in Jones 304, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Minji Park, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Evaluating Hybrid Models for Time Series Demand Forecasting: An Empirical Comparison of ES-RNN and Alternative Models”
Student Seminar: Jianan Rui
2:00–2:30 pm Jones 304
Wednesday, February 19, 2025, at 2:00 PM, in Jones 304, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Jianan Rui, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Mixed-effects Location Scale Model and Extensions”
Student Seminar: Qianqian Lei
9:30–10:00 am
Wednesday, February 19, 2025, at 9:30 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Qianqian Lei, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Convergence of Stochastic Gradient Descent with Mixture Learning Rates”
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”