2023
CAM and Stats Student Seminar: Soumyabrata Kundu
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 303
Soumyabrata Kundu, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Optimal Heteroskedasticity Testing in Random Design”
Student Seminar: An Xie
2:00–2:30 pm Jones 111
Master’s Thesis Presentation
An Xie, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“On two-step estimation of extreme VaR: would incorporating realized measures and bias-adjusted extreme value index estimation boost accuracy?”
Autumn 2023 Distinguished Speaker Series: Q. Vera Liao
12:00–1:30 pm John Crerar Library, Room 390
Q. Vera Liao, FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics of AI) Group, Microsoft Research
“Human-Centered AI Transparency”
Presented by the Data Science Institute in partnership with the Departments of Statistics, Computer Science, and the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics
CAM Colloquium: Mirjeta Pasha
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Mirjeta Pasha, Department of Mathematics, Tufts University
“Bayesian and Deterministic Methods with Edge-Preserving Priors for Spatio-Temporal Large-Scale Inverse Problems”
CAM and Stats Student Seminar: Yating Liu
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 303
Yating Liu, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Sparse topic modeling via spectral decomposition and thresholding”
Statistics Colloquium: Subhro Ghosh
11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303
Subhro Ghosh, Department of Mathematics/Dept of Statistics and Data Science, National University of Singapore
“The unreasonable effectiveness of negative association”
Probability and Statistical Physics Seminars: Catherine Wolfram
2:30–3:30 pm Eckhart Hall, Room 202
Catherine Wolfram, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Large deviations for the 3D dimer model”
Student Seminar: Jin Sung Kim
9:00–9:30 am Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Jin Sung Kim, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Efficiency of Various BERT Models in Identifying and Classifying Political Bias in Korea Media”
CAM Colloquium: Shidong Jiang
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Shidong Jiang, Center for Computational Mathematics, Flatiron Institute
“A Dual-space Multilevel Kernel-splitting Framework for Discrete and Continuous Convolution”
CAM and Stats Student Seminar: Kingsley Yeon
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 303
Kingsley Yeon, Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics
“Deep Univariate Polynomial and Conformal Approximation”