2024
CAM & Department of Mathematics Special Joint Colloquium: Bernd Sturmfels
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Thursday, May 30, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
CAM & Department of Mathematics Special Joint Colloquium
Bernd Sturmfels, MPI Leipzig and UC Berkeley
“The two lives of the Grassmannian”
Student Seminar: Wentao Hu
9:30 am–12:00 pm Jones 111
Friday, May 24, 2024, at 9:30 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Wentao Hu, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Granger Causality Test in High Dimensional Time Series”
CAM Colloquium: Haizhao Yang
4:00–5:30 pm Jones 226
Thursday, May 23, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 226, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
CAM Colloquium
Haizhao Yang, Departments of Mathematics and Computer science (Affiliated), The University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland
“Finite Expression Method: A Symbolic Approach for Scientific Machine Learning”
Student Seminar: Lin Gui
2:30–4:00 pm Jones 111
Tuesday, May 21, 2024, at 2:30 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Lin Gui, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Unleash the power of special distributions in statistics and machine learning”
Mini-seminars for Second Year PhDs
1:00–4:30 pm Jones 303
Friday, May 17, 2024, from 1:00-4:30 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Mini-Seminars for Second-Year PhDs
Moderator: Sean O-Hagan
CAM Colloquium: Laure Zanna
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
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Thursday, May 16, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
CAM Colloquium
Laure Zanna, Courant Institute, New York University
“Multiscale Climate Modeling in the Era of AI”
Student Seminar: Yuepeng Yang
4:00–5:00 pm Wieboldt 130
Wednesday, May 15, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Wieboldt 130, 1050 E 59th Street
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Yuepeng Yang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Ranking from Sparse Comparison Data”
Student Seminar: Jinwen Yang
3:00–4:30 pm Harper Memorial 145
Wednesday, May 15, 2024, at 3:00 PM, in Harper Memorial 145, 1116 E. 59th Street
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Jinwen Yang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Scale up and Speed up Classic Optimization on Modern Computing Architectures”
CAM Colloquium: Cong Ma
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Tuesday, May 14, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
CAM Colloquium
Cong Ma, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
“Top-K Ranking with a Monotone Adversary”
CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Daniel Xiang
12:30–1:30 pm Searle 240A
Tuesday, May 14, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Searle 240A, 5735 S. Ellis Avenue
CAM & Stats Student Seminar
Daniel Xiang, Assistant Instructional Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
“Interpretation of local false discovery rates under the zero assumption”