2024
Statistics Colloquium: Yuling Yao
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 303
Thursday, February 15, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Refreshments will be served prior to the seminar at 12:00 PM in Jones 303
Yuling Yao, Center for Computational Mathematics, Flatiron Institute
“Calibration and aggregation in simulation-based inference”
Seminar Series on Quantum Topics: Abby Poteshman
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 226
Wednesday, February 14, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Jones 226, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Seminar Series on Quantum Topics
Abby Poteshman, Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM)
“Berry phases in electronic structure of solids”
UPDATED: AI+Science Schmidt Fellows Speaker Series: Ludwig Schneider (UChicago)
4:30–6:00 pm
UPDATED: AI+Science Schmidt Fellows Speaker Series
Ludwig Schneider (UChicago)
Multiscale Modeling Strategies for Polymeric Materials
February 13, 2024 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
William Eckhardt Research Center, Room 401, 5640 S Ellis Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637
Organized by the University of Chicago’s Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.
Student Seminar: Tonghun Lee
3:00–3:30 pm Jones 111
Tuesday, February 13, 2024, at 3:00 pm, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Tonghun Lee, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Contract Design for Digital Freight Platform”
Student Seminar: Matthew Yang
2:30–3:00 pm Jones 111
Tuesday, February 13, 2024, at 2:30 pm, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Matthew Yang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Latent Denoising Diffusion Probabilistic Models”
Student Seminar: Chenyang Lu
2:00–2:30 pm Jones 111
Tuesday, February 13, 2024, at 2:00 pm, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Chenyang Lu, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Association Testing for Multivariate Phenotypes”
Student Seminar: Hong Wong Jang
1:30–2:00 pm Jones 111
Tuesday, February 13, 2024, at 1:30 pm, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Hong Won Jang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“News sentiment-driven portfolios using large language models”
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”
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”
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”