2023
Student Seminar: Zixuan Wu
4:00–4:30 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
ZIXUAN WU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Causal Mediation analysis for lifecourse Mendelian Randomization”
Student Seminar: Subhodh Kotekal
2:00–4:00 pm Jones 304
Dissertation Proposal Presentation
SUBHODH KOTEKAL, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Null Estimation in Large Scale Inference”
Student Seminar: Sounak Paul
1:00–2:00 pm Jones 304
Dissertation Proposal Presentation
SOUNAK PAUL, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Deep Neural Networks for Orbit Recovery from Method of Moments”
Student Seminar: Madhuri Raman
10:00–10:30 am Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
MADHURI RAMAN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Fixed-Effects vs. Random-Effects Models for Clustered Longitudinal Binary Outcomes”
Student Seminar: Shuo Xie
3:00–3:30 pm Jones 111
Master’s Thesis Presentation
SHUO XIE, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Hidden State Variability of Pretrained Language Models Can Guide Computation Reduction for Transfer Learning”
Statistics Colloquium: Lars Peter Hansen
4:30–5:30 pm Jones 303
LARS PETER HANSEN, Departments of Statistics and Economics; University of Chicago Booth School of Business
“Risk, Ambiguity, and Misspecification: Decision Theory, Robust Control, and Statistics”
CAM and Stats Student Seminar: Zhao Lyu
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 226
ZHAO LYU, Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Neighborhood selection with the oracle lasso in sparse high-dimensional graphs”
Student Seminar: Dong Xie
11:45 am–12:45 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
DONG XIE, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Simultaneous Predictions with Factor Model”
Student Seminar: Alexander Wei-Tsun Chen
11:00–11:30 am Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
ALEXANDER WEI-TSUN CHEN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Quantifying Gene Expression Dispersion Patterns in Differentiated Human Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells”
Statistics Colloquium: Molly Offer-Westort
4:30–5:30 pm Jones 303
MOLLY OFFER-WESTORT, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
“Design of adaptive experiments for policy learning and evaluation”