2024
CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Phillip Lo
12:30–1:30 pm
Tuesday, April 30, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Searle 240A, 5735 S. Ellis Avenue
CAM & Stats Student Seminar
Phillip Lo, Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics
“The Sample Complexity of Noisy Curve Recovery”
Student Seminar: Sheng-Hau Peng
12:00–12:30 pm Jones 111
Tuesday, April 30, at 12:00 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Sheng-Hau Peng, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Optimizing Sentiment Analysis through Hyperparameter Tuning: An Alternative Way to Revisit SESTM Algorithm”
Student Seminar: Huanyu Zhang
2:30–3:00 pm Jones 111
Monday, April 29, 2024, at 2:30 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Huanyu Zhang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Statler: State-Maintaining Language Models for Embodied Reasoning”
Student Seminar: Xingyu Piao
2:00–2:30 pm Jones 111
Monday, April 29, 2024, at 2:00 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Xingyu Piao, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Impact of a country’s GDP on the number of students studying in the U.S. from that country”
Bahadur Memorial Lectures: Emmanuel Candès (day 1)
11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303
Monday, April 29, 2024, at 11:30 AM, Jones Laboratory, Room 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
BAHADUR MEMORIAL LECTURES
Pre-Seminar Refreshments will be served at 11:00 AM in Jones 303
“Statistical Inference in the Age of AI”
Student Seminars: Yiyuan (Chloe) Zhang
11:00–11:30 am Jones 111
Monday, April 29, 2024, at 11:00 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Yiyuan (Chloe) Zhang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“High-Dimensional Time Series: VAR Model Efficacy Across Lag Structures”
Student Seminar: Xinyu Wang
10:30–11:00 am Jones 111
Monday, April 29, 2024, at 10:30 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Xinyu Wang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Exploring the mechanism of self-attention”
Student Seminar: Qizhong Zhang
10:00–10:30 am Jones 111
Monday, April 29, 2024, at 10:00 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Qizhong Zhang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“DDSTPP: Denoising Diffusion Spatial Temporal Point Process”
Student Seminar: Shu-Hsiang Wang
9:30–10:00 am Jones 111
Monday, April 29, 2024, at 9:30 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Shu-Hsiang Wang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Sample Size Determination Methods for Non-Randomized Studies with Historical Data”
Student Seminar: Hao Zhu
8:50–9:20 am Jones 111
Monday, April 29, 2024, at 8:50 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Hao Zhu, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Time Series and Machine Learning Approaches for Forecasting Inflation in the USA”