Past Events

2023

CAM and Stats Masters Students End of Year Picnic

5:00–7:00 pm Promontory Point

CAM and Stats MASTERS Students End of Year Picnic at the Point.

May 28
Omar Ghattas, PhD Student

Student Seminar: Omar Ghattas

4:00–5:30 pm Jones 111

Dissertation Proposal Presentation
OMAR GHATTAS, Department of Statistics, The University of  Chicago
“Non-Asymptotic Analysis of Ensemble Kalman Updates”

May 24
Wei Kuang, PhD Student

Student Seminar: Wei Kuang

3:00–4:00 pm Via Zoom

Dissertation Proposal Presentation
WEI KUANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Statistical Inference for Inexact Stochastic Newton Algorithm”

May 24

Mini-Seminars for Second-Year PhDs

1:00–4:00 pm Jones 303

Moderator: Soumyabrata Kundu

May 19
Huy Dang Tran, PhD candidate

Student Seminar: Huy Dang Tran

11:00 am–12:30 pm Jones 303

Dissertation Proposal Presentation
HUY DANG TRAN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“New Methodologies for High-Dimensional Data Under Structured Sparsity”

May 19
Russell Lyons, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University

Statistics Colloquium: Russell Lyons

4:30–5:30 pm Math/Stat 112

BILLINGSLEY LECTURES ON PROBABILITY
RUSSELL LYONS, Department of Mathematics, Indiana University
“Voronoi Tessellations without Nuclei”

May 18
Chi-Kwong Li

CAM Colloquium: Chi-Kwong Li

3:00–4:00 pm Jones 303

CHI-KWONG LI, Department of Mathematics, College of William and Mary & Institute for Quantum Computing, University of Waterloo
 “Some Recent Results in Quantum Tomography”  

May 18
Irina Cristali, PhD Candidate

Student Seminar: Irina Cristali

2:30–4:00 pm Jones 304

Dissertation Proposal Presentation
IRINA CRISTALI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Two Applications of Machine Learning: Causally Estimating Peer Influence on Networks and Learning Concepts from Text and Images”

May 17
Peng Ding

Statistics Colloquium: Peng Ding

4:30–5:30 pm Jones 303

PENG DING, Department of Statistics, University of California Berkeley
“Interpretable sensitivity analysis for the Baron–Kenny approach to mediation with unmeasured confounding”

May 15
Rachel Ward

CAM Colloquium: Rachel Ward

4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303

Joint Colloquium with The Data Science Institute
RACHEL WARD, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences, Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin
“Gradient Descent for Low-Rank Matrix Factorization”

May 11