2024
Student Seminar: Yudan Tang
10:00–10:30 am Zoom Meeting
Tuesday, July 23, 2024, at 10:00 AM, Via Zoom Meeting
Master’s Thesis Presentation Presentation
Yudan Tang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Continual Learning: Outliers and Diffusion-based Generative Replay”
Student Seminars: Irina Cristali
1:00–2:30 pm Jones 304
Monday, July 8, 2024, at 1:00 PM, in Jones 304, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Defense Presentation
Irina Cristali, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“TBA”
Student Seminar: Sounak Paul
9:00–11:00 am Zoom Meeting
Monday, July 8, 2024, at 9:00 AM, Zoom Presentation
PhD Dissertation Defense Presentation
Sounak Paul, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“On learning and optimization in inverse problems with group structured latent variables”
Student Seminars: Chih-Hsuan Wu
11:00 am–12:30 pm Jones 303
Wednesday, July 3, 2024, at 11:00 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Defense Presentation
Chih-Hsuan Wu, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Statistical Methods for Single-Cell RNA Data”
Student Seminar: Danlei Angelica Sun
10:30–11:30 am Jones 304
Wednesday, July 3, 2024, at 10:30 AM, in Jones 304, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Danlei Angelica Sun, Department of Statistic, The University of Chicago
“Random-Effect Pattern-Mixture Models — Application on EMA-Recorded Tobacco Use and Mood Swings”
Student Seminars: Huanlin Zhou
9:00–10:30 am Jones 111
Wednesday, July 3, 2024, at 9:00 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Defense Presentation
Huanlin Zhou, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Overcoming the “feast or famine” effect: improved interaction testing in GWAS”
CAM Special Colloquium: Jonas Latz
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Tuesday, July 2, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
CAM Special Colloquium
Jonas Latz, Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester
“Losing momentum in continuous-time stochastic optimisation”
CAM Special Colloquium: Sebastian Reich
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Monday, July 1, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Special Colloquium
Sebastian Reich, Institute of Mathematics, University of Potsdam
“Filtered data based estimators for stochastic processes driven by coloured noise”
Student Seminar: Vasileios Katsianos
2:00–3:30 pm Jones 304
Monday, July 1, 2024, at 2:00 PM, in Jones 304, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Defense Presentation
Vasileios (Bill) Katsianos, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Genetic Association Analysis of Phenotypes Jointly Influenced by a Pair of Interacting Organisms”
Student Seminar: Huy Tran
11:00 am–1:00 pm Jones 304
Thursday, June 20, 2024, at 11:00 AM, in Jones 304, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Defense Presentation
Huy Dang Tran, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“New Methodologies for High-Dimensional Data”