2024
Student Seminar: Danlei Angelica Sun
10:30–11:30 am Jones 304
Wednesday, July 3, 2024, at 10:30 AM, in Jones 304, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Danlei Angelica Sun, Department of Statistic, The University of Chicago
“Random-Effect Pattern-Mixture Models — Application on EMA-Recorded Tobacco Use and Mood Swings”
Student Seminars: Huanlin Zhou
9:00–10:30 am Jones 111
Wednesday, July 3, 2024, at 9:00 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Defense Presentation
Huanlin Zhou, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Overcoming the “feast or famine” effect: improved interaction testing in GWAS”
CAM Special Colloquium: Jonas Latz
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Tuesday, July 2, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
CAM Special Colloquium
Jonas Latz, Department of Mathematics, University of Manchester
“Losing momentum in continuous-time stochastic optimisation”
CAM Special Colloquium: Sebastian Reich
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Monday, July 1, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Special Colloquium
Sebastian Reich, Institute of Mathematics, University of Potsdam
“Filtered data based estimators for stochastic processes driven by coloured noise”
Student Seminar: Vasileios Katsianos
2:00–3:30 pm Jones 304
Monday, July 1, 2024, at 2:00 PM, in Jones 304, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Defense Presentation
Vasileios (Bill) Katsianos, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Genetic Association Analysis of Phenotypes Jointly Influenced by a Pair of Interacting Organisms”
Student Seminar: Huy Tran
11:00 am–1:00 pm Jones 304
Thursday, June 20, 2024, at 11:00 AM, in Jones 304, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Defense Presentation
Huy Dang Tran, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“New Methodologies for High-Dimensional Data”
Student Seminar: Rohan Hore
9:00–11:00 am Jones 304
Monday, June 10, 2024, at 9:00 AM, in Jones 304, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Rohan Hore, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Localized hypotheses: the impact of randomization on hardness in distribution-free inference”
Incubator: Causal Inference OCE Conference III: Art Owen
3:45–4:30 pm The David Rubenstein Forum, University of Chicago, 1201 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL
Friday, June 7, 2024, 3:45-4:30 PM
The David Rubenstein Forum, University of Chicago, 1201 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL
Art Owen, Max H. Stein Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
will speak at the Incubator: Causal Inference OCE Conference III
Hosted by the Griffin Applied Econometrics Incubator.
Student Seminar: Yu Gui
10:30–11:00 am Jones 304
Monday, June 3, 2024, at 10:30 AM, in Jones 304, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Yu Gui, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Statistical learning with distribution shift: sample reweighting and constrained boosting for robustness”
CAM & Department of Mathematics Special Joint Colloquium: Bernd Sturmfels
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Thursday, May 30, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
CAM & Department of Mathematics Special Joint Colloquium
Bernd Sturmfels, MPI Leipzig and UC Berkeley
“The two lives of the Grassmannian”