2024
Student Seminar: Melissa Adrian
3:30–5:30 pm Jones 111
Thursday, April 25, 2024, at 3:30 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Melissa Adrian, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Estimation, prediction, and uncertainty quantification using sparse data in weather applications”
Student Seminar: Sida Li
3:30–4:00 pm Jones 111
Wednesday, April 24, 2024, at 3:30 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Sida (Star) Li, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Beyond Vanilla Metropolis-adjusted Langevin Algorithms: A Simulation-based Survey”
Student Seminar: Yuhan Liu
8:25–9:25 am Jones 111
Wednesday, April 24, 2024, at 8:25 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Presentation
Yuhan Liu, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“NON-PARAMETRIC CHANGE POINT ANALYSIS: TACKLING IRREGULAR CONDITIONS IN UNI-VARIATE AND MULTIVARIATE DATA”
Student Seminar: Zijian Zhao
4:00–4:30 pm Jones 111
Tuesday, April 23, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Zijian Zhao, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Knowledge Editing through Contrastive Fine-tuning”
Student Seminar: Ruixin Dai
2:30–3:00 pm Jones 111
Tuesday, April 23, 2024, at 2:30 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Ruixin Dai, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“FDR Control in ep-BH Procedure with Dependent P-values and E-values”
CAM and Stats Student Seminar: Runxin Ni
12:30–1:30 pm Searle 240A
Tuesday, April 23, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Jones 303, 5735 S. Ellis Avenue
CAM & Stats Student Seminar
Runxin Ni, Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics
“Globally Convergent Distributed Sequential Quadratic Programming with Overlapping Graph Decomposition and Exact Augmented Lagrangian”
Statistics Colloquium: Harry Crane
11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303
Monday, April 22, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Statistics Colloquium
Harry Crane, Department of Statistics, Rutgers
“Inference for Dynamic Networks and Trees”
Student Seminar: Chenfeng Li
10:00–10:30 am Jones 111
Friday, April 19, 2024, at 10:00 am, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Chenfeng Li, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Examining the Interplay Between Politicians’ Facial Expressions in Media Images and News Corporation Bias”
CAM Colloquium: Yulong Lu
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Thursday, April 18, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Yulong Lu, School of Mathematics, University of Minnesota Twin Cities
“Diffusion Models: Theory and Applications (in PDEs)”
2024 Spring Distinguished Speakers Series: Irina Rish
12:30–1:30 pm JCL 390
Spring 2024 Distinguished Speaker Series
Joint series by the Data Science Institute, Departments of Statistics and Computer Science, and the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics
Thursday, April 18, 2024, at 12:30 PM, JCL 390
Social lunch before seminar provided at 12:30 pm.
Irina Rish, Université de Montréal
“Scaling to AGI”