2024
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”
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”
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”
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”