2024
Student Seminar: Joonsuk Kang
10:00–11:00 am Jones 111
Tuesday, May 14, 2024, at 10:00 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Joonsuk Kang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Learning Meaningful Representations of Data with Empirical Bayes Methods”
Student Seminar: Zihao Wang
3:00–4:00 pm Jones 304
Monday, May 13, 2024, at 3:00 PM, in Jones 304, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Zihao Wang, Department of Statistic, The University of Chicago
“Interpreting and Steering Large Generative Models”
Statistics Colloquium: Jason Xu
11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303
Monday, May 13, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Statistics Colloquium
Jason Xu, Department of Statistical Science, Duke University
“Distance-to-set penalties and priors for estimation under constraints”
CAM Colloquium: Michael I. Weinstein
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Thursday, May 9, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Michael I. Weinstein, Department of Applied Physics and Applied Mathematics, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University
“Pseudo-magnetism and Landau Levels”
CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Jimmy Lederman
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 303
Tuesday, May 7, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Searle 240A, 5735 South Ellis Avenue
Jimmy Lederman, Computational and Applied Mathematics, The University of Chicago
“Modeling Underdispersion in Matrix Factorization with Poisson Maxima”
Statistics Colloquium: Andrew Gelman
11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303
Monday, May 6, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Pre-Seminar refreshments will be served at 11:00 AM in Jones 303
Statistics Colloquium
Andrew Gelman, Departments of Statistics and Political Science, Columbia University
“It’s About Time”
Probability and Statistical Physics Seminar: Sourav Chatterjee
2:30–3:30 pm Ryerson 276
Friday, May 3, 2024, at 2:30 PM, in Ryerson 276, 1100 E. 58th Street
Probability and Statistical Physics Seminar
“Chaos in lattice spin glasses”
Billingsley Lectures on Probability: Sourav Chatterjee
4:30–5:30 pm Math/Stat 112
Thursday, May 2, 2023, at 4:30 PM, Math/Stat 112, 5727 South University Avenue
Billingsley Lectures on Probability
Reception immediately following the lecture at 5:30 pm, in the Reading Room, Math/Stat 101, 5727 South University Avenue
Sourav Chatterjee, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
“A definition of spectral gap for nonreversible Markov chains”
Student Seminar: Diemeng Hu
3:30–4:00 pm Jones 111
Thursday, May 2, 2024, at 3:30 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Diemeng Hu, Department of Statistic, The University of Chicago
“Application of Mixed Effects Location Scale Models in Analyzing Environmental Impacts on Sedentary Behavior”
Spring 2024 Distinguished Speaker Series: Brandon Stewart
12:30–1:30 pm JCL 390
Spring 2024 Distinguished Speaker Series
Joint series by the Data Science Institute, Departments of Statistics and Computer Science, and the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics
Thursday, April 18, 2024, at 12:30 PM, JCL 390
Social lunch before seminar provided at 12:30 pm.
Brandon Stewart, Princeton University
“Inference Right with LLM Annotations in the Social Sciences”