2023
Statistics Colloquium: Peng Ding
4:30–5:30 pm Jones 303
PENG DING, Department of Statistics, University of California Berkeley
“Interpretable sensitivity analysis for the Baron–Kenny approach to mediation with unmeasured confounding”
CAM Colloquium: Rachel Ward
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Joint Colloquium with The Data Science Institute
RACHEL WARD, Oden Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences, Department of Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin
“Gradient Descent for Low-Rank Matrix Factorization”
CAM PhD Dissertation Defense: Solomon Quinn
3:00–4:00 pm Jones 303
CAM PhD Dissertation Defense
SOLOMON QUINN, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Asymmetric Transport in Continuous Topological Insulators”
Statistics Colloquium: Johannes Schmidt-Hieber
4:30–5:30 pm Jones 303
JOHANNES SCHMIDT-HIEBER, Department of Statistics, University of Twente
“Statistical learning in biological neural networks”
CAM and Stats Student Seminar: Melissa Adrian
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 226
MELISSA ADRIAN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Data Assimilation in Data-Driven Weather Forecasting: Pairing FourCastNet with the Auto-Differentiable Ensemble Kalman Filter”
CAM & DSI Joint Colloquium: Amit Singer
3:00–4:00 pm Jones 303
Joint Colloquium with The Data Science Institute
AMIT SINGER, Department of Mathematics, Program in Applied and Computational Mathematics (PACM), & Center for Statistics and Machine Learning (CSML), Princeton University
“Method of Moments in Cryo-EM”
Statistics Colloquium: Sara van de Geer
3:30–4:30 pm Jones 303
BAHADUR MEMORIAL LECTURES
Lecture 22 (May 1st and 4th)
SARA VAN DE GEER, Department of Mathematics, Seminar für Statistik (SfS), ETH Zürich
“Small noise, no regularization”
Student Seminar: Boxuan Zhou
2:00–2:30 pm Jones 304
Master’s Thesis Presentation
BOXUAN ZHOU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Donation-Based Ideal Points”
Student Seminar: Ke Xu
10:30–11:00 am Jones 304
Master’s Thesis Presentation
KE XU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“(Ⅰ) Metric Entropy Approaches in Estimating Instability of Inverse Problems and (Ⅱ) a Bayesian Latent Variable Framework in Multivariable Mendelian Randomization”
Statistics Colloquium: Yair Goldberg
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
YAIR GOLDBERG, Department of Mathematics, ETH Zürich
“Waning immunity of the BNT162b2 vaccine and the Israeli decision on a booster campaign”