2023
Student Seminar: Kai Gong
10:30–11:00 am Jones 303
Wednesday, October 4, 2023, at 10:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Kai Gong, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Comparison of Optimization Algorithms and Potential Improvement of ADAM Based on Time-Series”
AI+Science Initiative Speaker Series: Yuehaw Khoo
4:30–6:00 pm William Eckhardt Research Center, Room 401
Yuehaw Khoo, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Randomized tensor-network algorithms for random data in high-dimensions”
CAM and Stats Student Seminar: Subhodh Kotekal
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 303
Subhodh Kotekal, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
“Optimal Heteroskedasticity Testing in Nonparametric Regression”
Statistics Colloquium: Ryan Tibshirani
11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303
Ryan Tibshirani, Department of Statistics, University of California- Berkeley
“How many parameters does your interpolator use? Revisiting degrees of freedom in the wake of overparametrized machine learning”
Takintayo Akinbiyi memorial award ceremony
11:15–11:30 am Jones 303
Please join us in Jones 303 as we present the second annual Takintayo Akinbiyi Memorial Award for Academic Excellence in Statistics.
CAM Colloquium: Jeremy Hoskins
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Jeremy Hoskins, Department of Statistics, and member of the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM), University of Chicago
“Title to be announced”
CAM and Stats Student Seminar: Raphael Rossellini
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 303
Raphael Rossellini, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Integrating Uncertainty Awareness into Conformalized Quantile Regression”
University-wide Graduate Student Orientation
11:30 am–3:00 pm In-person event
More than 2,000 incoming students from UChicago’s 12 graduate schools and divisions will join together to mark the beginning of the new academic year.
Workshop on Mathematical Trends in Medical Imaging
Through August 10, 2023 Jones 303 and 304
The workshop Mathematical Trends in Medical Imaging, organized by the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM) at the University of Chicago, will bring together researchers working on both theoretical and practical aspects of inverse problems to discuss recent trends and new challenges in the field, mainly focusing on its applications in medical imaging. Topics include, but are not limited to, mathematical modeling, analytic and geometric methods, computational approaches, numerical algorithms.
Student Seminar: Yi Wang
2:00–3:00 pm Via Zoom
Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Yi Wang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Energy minimization problem for Ferromagnetic Ising model with localized defect via a coupling method”