2024
CAM and Stats Student Seminar: Andrew Dennehy
12:30–1:30 pm Searle 240A
Tuesday, January 30, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Searle 240A, 5735 S. Ellis Avenue
CAM & Stats Student Seminar
Andrew Dennehy, Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics
“Strategic Feature Extraction: Methods for Low-Dimensional Representation of Games”
Student Seminar: Yang Xu
11:30 am–12:00 pm Jones 226 and via Zoom
Monday, January 29, 2024, at 12:30 pm, in Jones 226 and via Zoom (HYBRID TALK)
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Yang Xu, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Nonnegative Constraints on Image Reconstruction”
Statistics Colloquium: Li Ma
11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303
Monday, January 29, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Refreshments will be served prior to the Seminar at 11:00 am in Jones 303
Joint Colloquium with the Data Science Institute (DSI)
Li Ma, Department of Statistical Science, Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Duke University
“Two examples of scalable unsupervised learning with trees and recursive partitions”
Statistics Colloquium: Siting Liu
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Thursday January 25, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM)
Siting Liu, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
“Enhancing PDE Computations and Score-Based Generative Models through Optimization”
Workshop: Graph Neural Networks for the Sciences: From Theory to Practice
Through January 26, 2024 Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation
Join us on January 25th & 26th, 2024, at the University of Chicago
GNNs for the Sciences: from Theory to Practice
Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation
1155 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
AI+Science Schmidt Fellows Speaker Series: Frederic Howard
4:30–5:30 pm William Eckhardt Research Center
January 23, 2024 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Frederick Howard (UChicago) – AI+Science Schmidt Fellows Speaker Series
Applying Artificial Intelligence on Digital Histology to Personalize Breast Cancer Treatment
William Eckhardt Research Center
Organized by the University of Chicago’s Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.
CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Nathan Wanoriek
12:30–1:30 pm Searle 240A
Tuesday, January 23, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Searle 240A (location change this quarter), 5735 South Ellis Avenue
Nathan Waniorek, Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM), The University of Chicago
“Hierarchical Bayesian Inverse Problems: A High-Dimensional Statistics Viewpoint”
Statistics Colloquium: Ernest Ryu
11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303
Monday, January 22, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM)
Ernest Ryu, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Seoul National University
“Toward a grand unified theory of accelerations in optimization and machine learning”
Statistics Colloquium: Nicholas Boffi
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Thursday, January 18, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM)
Nicholas Boffi, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
“On flows and diffusions: from the many-body Fokker-Planck equation to stochastic interpolants”
Student Seminar: Junchi Zhang
2:00–2:30 pm Via Zoom
Thursday, January 18, 2024, at 2:00 pm, via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Junchi Zhang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“NLP Application in Clinical Records— Using BERT and Edit Distance for Spell Check Pipeline”