2024
Bahadur Memorial Lectures: Emmanuel Candès (day 1)
11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303
Monday, April 29, 2024, at 11:30 AM, Jones Laboratory, Room 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
BAHADUR MEMORIAL LECTURES
Pre-Seminar Refreshments will be served at 11:00 AM in Jones 303
“Statistical Inference in the Age of AI”
Student Seminars: Yiyuan (Chloe) Zhang
11:00–11:30 am Jones 111
Monday, April 29, 2024, at 11:00 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Yiyuan (Chloe) Zhang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“High-Dimensional Time Series: VAR Model Efficacy Across Lag Structures”
Student Seminar: Xinyu Wang
10:30–11:00 am Jones 111
Monday, April 29, 2024, at 10:30 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Xinyu Wang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Exploring the mechanism of self-attention”
Student Seminar: Qizhong Zhang
10:00–10:30 am Jones 111
Monday, April 29, 2024, at 10:00 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Qizhong Zhang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“DDSTPP: Denoising Diffusion Spatial Temporal Point Process”
Student Seminar: Shu-Hsiang Wang
9:30–10:00 am Jones 111
Monday, April 29, 2024, at 9:30 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Shu-Hsiang Wang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Sample Size Determination Methods for Non-Randomized Studies with Historical Data”
Student Seminar: Hao Zhu
8:50–9:20 am Jones 111
Monday, April 29, 2024, at 8:50 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Hao Zhu, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Time Series and Machine Learning Approaches for Forecasting Inflation in the USA”
Student Seminar: Mengqi Liu
2:00–2:30 pm Jones 111
Friday, April 26, 2024, at 2:00 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Mengqi Liu, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Revised Local Permutation Test for Conditional Independence Test”
Student Seminar: Austin Koort
10:30–11:00 am Jones 303
Friday, April 26, 2024, at 10:30 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Austin Koort, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Evaluating the Effect of Round Type on Collegiate Policy Debate Outcomes”
Student Seminar: Daniel Li
10:00–10:30 am Jones 303
Friday, April 26, 2024, at 10:00 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Daniel Li, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Simulation Study for Spatially Coherent Topic Modeling Utilizing Graph Structure”
CAM Colloquium: Jonathan Hauenstein
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Thursday, April 25, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Jonathan Hauenstein, Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics, University of Notre Dame
“Estimating root counts and probability distributions using homotopies”