Past Events

2022

Fabian Faulstich

CAM Colloquium: Fabian Faulstich

4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303

FABIAN FAULSTICH, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
“On the Pure State V-representability of Density Matrix Embedding Theory”

Dec 1
Mladen Kolar, Associate Professor, University of Chicago Booth School

Statistics Colloquium: Mladen Kolar

4:30–5:30 pm Jones 303

MLADEN KOLAR, Econometrics and Statistics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
“Adaptive Stochastic Optimization with Constraints”

Nov 28
Adrianna Gillman, University of Colorado, Boulder

CAM Colloquium: Adriana Gillman

4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303

ADRIANA GILLMAN, Department of Applied Mathematics, University of Colorado, Boulder
“Fast Direct Solvers for Boundary Integral Equations”

Nov 17
Cheng Peng, MS student

Student Seminar: Cheng Peng

2:00–2:30 pm Via Zoom

Master’s Thesis Presentation
CHENG PENG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“LASSO-Driven Simultaneous Inference on High Dimensional Dependent Data”

Nov 17
Joonsuk Kang, PhD Student

Student Seminar: Joonsuk Kang

1:30–3:00 pm Jones 304

Dissertation Proposal Presentation
JOONSUK KANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Learning Meaningful Representations of Data with Empirical Bayes Methods”

Nov 16
Will Fithian, University of California, Berkeley

Statistics Colloquium: Will Fithian

4:30–5:30 pm Jones 303

WILL FITHIAN, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
“Conditional calibration: controlling FDR under dependence, uniformly improving knockoffs, and estimating model selection FDR”

Nov 14
Jordan Boyd-Graber

DSI Autumn 2022 Distinguished Speaker Series: Jordan Boyd-Graber

12:00–1:30 pm JCL 390

This talk will also be broadcast via Zoom. Please register to receive viewing information.

JORDAN BOYD-GRABER, University of Maryland
“If We Want AI to be Interpretable, We Need to Define and Measure It”

Nov 11
Benjamin Recht, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley

CAM Colloquium: Benjamin Recht

4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303

BENJAMIN RECHT, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
“Steampunk Data Science”

Nov 10
Weishi Wang, MS Student

Student Seminar: Weishi Wang

2:00–2:30 pm Jones 303

Master’s Thesis Presentation
WEISHI WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“GAN-MC: a Variance Reduction Tool for Derivatives Pricing”

Nov 8
Kathryn Roeder, Carnegie Mellon University

Statistics Colloquium: Kathryn Roeder

4:30–5:30 pm Jones 303

KATHRYN ROEDER, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
“Model-free prediction test and distribution-free independence test for high dimension data with applications to genomics data”

Nov 7