2024
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”
Statistics Colloquium: Yizhe Zhu
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Tuesday, January 16, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM)
Yizhe Zhu, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine
“Asymmetry Helps: Non-Backtracking Spectral Methods for Sparse Matrices and Tensors”
CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Erasmo Tani
12:30–1:30 pm Searle 240A
Tuesday, January 16, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Searle 240A, 5735 S. Ellis Avenue
Erasmo Tani, Department of Computer Science, The University of Chicago
“Recent Progress on Learning Partitions with a Faulty Same-Cluster Oracle”
Statistics Colloquium: Montie Avery
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Thursday, January 11, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM)
Montie Avery, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University
“Universal spreading into unstable states”
CISE Distinguished Lecture: Rebecca Willett
10:00 am–11:15 pm Via Zoom
CISE Distinguished Lecture
Rebecca Willett, Departments of Statistics and Computer Science, and the Data Science Institute
“Machine Learning Foundations Accelerate Innovation and Promote Trustworthiness”
AI+Science Schmidt Fellows Speaker Series: Logan Ward
4:30–5:30 pm Eckhardt 401
Organized by the University of Chicago’s Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.
Agenda
4:30pm – 5:15pm: Presentation
5:15pm – 5:30pm: Q&A
5:30pm – 6:00pm: Reception
CAM and Stats Student Seminar: Owen Melia
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 240A
Tuesday, January 9, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Searle 240A (location change this quarter), 5735 South Ellis Avenue
Owen Melia, Department of Computer Science, The University of Chicago
“Deep Learning for Inverse Scattering in a Highly-Nonlinear Regime”
Statistics Colloquium: Lingfu Zhang
11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303
Monday, January 8, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM)
Lingfu Zhang, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
“Probabilistic Perspective Toward Last Passage Percolation and KPZ”
Student Seminar: Kulunu Dharmakeerthi
9:00–10:30 am Jones 111
Tuesday, January 7, 2024, at 9:00 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Kulunu Dharmakeerthi, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Denoising Diffusions with Optimal Transport”
Statistics Colloquium: Dan Mikulincer
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Thursday, January 4, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM)
Dan Mikulincer, MIT Mathematics
“Diffusion-based probabilistic flows and low distortion mappings”