2024

Lunar New Year Party
11:30 am–1:15 pm Jones 303 and 304
Statistics Lunar New Year Party
Come join us in celebrating the Year of the Dragon.

Student Seminar: Ke Shao
2:00–2:30 pm Jones 111
Thursday, February 15, 2024, at 2:00 pm, Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Ke Shao, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Deep Generative Modeling for Cryo-EM”

Statistics Colloquium: Yuling Yao
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 303
Thursday, February 15, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Refreshments will be served prior to the seminar at 12:00 PM in Jones 303
Yuling Yao, Center for Computational Mathematics, Flatiron Institute
“Calibration and aggregation in simulation-based inference”

Seminar Series on Quantum Topics: Abby Poteshman
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 226
Wednesday, February 14, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Jones 226, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Seminar Series on Quantum Topics
Abby Poteshman, Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM)
“Berry phases in electronic structure of solids”

UPDATED: AI+Science Schmidt Fellows Speaker Series: Ludwig Schneider (UChicago)
4:30–6:00 pm
UPDATED: AI+Science Schmidt Fellows Speaker Series
Ludwig Schneider (UChicago)
Multiscale Modeling Strategies for Polymeric Materials
February 13, 2024 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
William Eckhardt Research Center, Room 401, 5640 S Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637
Organized by the University of Chicago’s Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.

Student Seminar: Tonghun Lee
3:00–3:30 pm Jones 111
Tuesday, February 13, 2024, at 3:00 pm, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Tonghun Lee, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Contract Design for Digital Freight Platform”

Student Seminar: Matthew Yang
2:30–3:00 pm Jones 111
Tuesday, February 13, 2024, at 2:30 pm, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Matthew Yang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Latent Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models”

Student Seminar: Chenyang Lu
2:00–2:30 pm Jones 111
Tuesday, February 13, 2024, at 2:00 pm, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Chenyang Lu, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Association Testing for Multivariate Phenotypes”

Student Seminar: Hong Wong Jang
1:30–2:00 pm Jones 111
Tuesday, February 13, 2024, at 1:30 pm, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Hong Won Jang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“News sentiment-driven portfolios using large language models”

CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Suzanna Parkinson
12:30–1:30 pm
Tuesday, February 13, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Searle 240A
CAM & Stats Student Seminar
Suzanna Parkinson, PhD student, CCAM
“Depth Separation of Neural Networks in Learning”