Past Events

2023

Raphael Rossellini, MS Student

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”

Sep 26

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.

Sep 19
Workshop on Mathematical Trends in Medical Imaging

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.

Aug 7
Yi Wang, PhD student

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”

Aug 4
Maroon Phoenix

Student Seminar: Samuel Wheeler

1:00–1:30 pm Via Zoom

Master’s Thesis Presentation
Samuel Wheeler, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Exploring Token-to-Token Interactions in Self Attention”

Jul 26
Misha Sohan, PhD student

Student Seminar: Misha Sohan

9:00–9:30 am Via Zoom

Master’s Thesis Presentation
Misha Sohan, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Self-Supervised Learning: Pre-Training with Denoising Autoencoders Using Layer-wise Learning”

Jul 25
Maroon Phoenix

Student Seminar: Taiga Morioka

9:00–9:30 am Via Zoom

Master’s Thesis Presentation
Taiga Morioka, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Simulating Acoustic Wave Propagation Using 3D-Printed Topographic Models” 

Jul 20
Daniel Xiang, PhD Student

Student Seminar: Daniel Xiang

3:00–4:30 pm Jones 303

PhD Dissertation Presentation
Daniel  Xiang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Testing on the Edge”

Jul 10
Dongyue Xie, PhD student

Student Seminar: Dongyue Xie

10:00–11:30 am Jones 303

PhD Dissertation Presentation
Dongyue Xie, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Empirical Bayes methods for analyzing sequencing count data”

Jun 29
Kevin Wang, MS student

Student Seminar: Kevin Wang

3:30–4:00 pm Jones 303

Master’s Thesis Presentation
Kevin Wang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Universality of Neural Networks over Finite Fields”

Jun 20