2025
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”
Statistics Colloquium: Vadim Gorin
11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303
Vadim Gorin
Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
Title and Abstract TBA
Joint Colloquium with DSI: Tijana Zrnic
4:00–5:00 pm JCL 390
Tijana Zrnic, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
“AI-Assisted Approaches to Data Collection and Inference”
Statistics Colloquium: Shirshendu Ganguly
11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303
Shirshendu Ganguly
Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley
“Models of random geometry and interfaces: some recent developments”
Joint Colloquium with DSI: Boris Hanin
4:00–5:00 pm JCL 390
Boris Hanin, School of Engineering and Applied Science, Princeton University
“Neural Network Scaling Limits”
Student Seminar: Samantha Yang
2:30–3:30 pm Jones 111
Tuesday, January 21, 2025, at 9:00 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Samantha Yang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Longitudinal analysis of glycemic variability using Mixed-effects location scale (MELS) model”