Past Events

2024

Suzanna Parkinson, PhD CCAM

CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Suzanna Parkinson

12:30–1:30 pm

Tuesday, February 13, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Searle 240A 
CAM & Stats Student Seminar
Suzanna Parkinson, PhD student, CCAM
“Depth Separation of Neural Networks in Learning”

Feb 13
Shuangning Li, Harvard University

Statistics Colloquium: Shuangning Li

11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303

Monday, February 12, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Pre-Seminar refreshments will be served at 11:00 AM in Jones 303
Shuangning Li, Department of Statistics, Harvard University
“Inference and Decision-Making amid Social Interactions”

Feb 12
Brent Doiron

Physics Colloquium Series: Brent Doiron

3:30–4:30 pm KPTC 106

Thursday, February 2, 2024, 3:30 PM, KPTC 106, 5720 S. Ellis Avenue
Physics Colloquium Series
Brent Doiron, Director, Grossman Center for Quantitative Biology and Human Behavior, University of Chicago
“Heterogeneity and dimension in recurrent neuronal networks”

Feb 8
Paarth Sharma, MS Student

Student Seminar: Paarth Sharma

2:00–2:30 pm Jones 303

Thursday, February 8, 2024, at 2:00 pm, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Paarth Sharma, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Modeling the Prior with Normalizing Flows for Autoencoder-based Vision Models”

Feb 8
Brian Trippe, Columbia University

Statistics Colloquium: Brian Trippe

12:30–1:30 pm Jones 303

Thursday, February 8, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Pre-Seminar refreshments will be served at 12:00 PM in Jones 303
Brian Trippe, Department of Statistics, Columbia University
“Probabilistic methods for designing functional protein structures”

Feb 8
Seppe Kuehn

AI+Science Schmidt Fellows Speaker Series: Seppe Kuehn

4:30–6:00 pm

AI+Science Schmidt Fellows Speaker Series
Tuesday, February 6, 2024, at 4:30pm, William Eckhardt Research Center, Room 401
Seppe Kuehn, University of Chicago
“Lessons in Statistical Learning from Microbial Communities”

Feb 6
Sean O'Hagan, PhD Student

CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Sean O'Hagan

12:30–1:30 pm Searle 240A

Tuesday, February 6, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Searle 240A, 5734 S. Ellis Avenue
CAM & Stats Student Seminar
Sean O’Hagan, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Reinforcement Learning for Approximate Bayesian Computation via Tree-Based Recursive Partitioning”

Feb 6
Yiqun Chen

Statistics Colloquium: Yiqun Chen

11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303

Monday, February 5, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Pre-Seminar refreshments will be served at 11:00 AM in Jones 303
Yiqun Chen, Data Science, Stanford University
“Advancing Biomedical Data Science: Testing data-driven hypotheses post-clustering & Leveraging ChatGPT for genomics data”

Feb 5
Nisha Chandramoorthy

Statistics Colloquium: Nisha Chandramoorthy

4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303

Thursday, February 1, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Refreshments will be served prior to the Seminar at 3:30 pm in Jones 303
Joint Colloquium with the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM)
Nisha Chandramoorthy, School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Tech
“Learning from dynamics, learning dynamics and the dynamics of learning”

Feb 1
Stephanie Palmer

AI+Science Schmidt Fellows Speaker Series: Stephanie Palmer

4:30–6:00 pm ​​​​​​​William Eckhardt Research Center, Room 401

January 30, 2024 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
AI+Science Schmidt Fellows Speaker Series
Stephanie Palmer, Associate Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy, University of Chicago
Organized by the University of Chicago’s Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.
William Eckhardt Research Center, Room 401

Jan 30