2021
Student Seminar: Micól Tresoldi
2:00–3:00 pm Via Zoom
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
MICÓL TRESOLDI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Sparsity”
Student Seminar: You-Lin Chen
2:00–3:00 pm Via Zoom
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
YOU-LIN CHEN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Stochastic and Online learning with Applications to Machine Learning and Statistics”
Student Mini-Seminars (Day 2)
3:00–5:00 pm Via Zoom
Moderator: Daniel Xiang
1. Huy Dang Tran, “Graph Neural Networks“
2. Yuhan Liu, “The Time, The Gaussianity, and The Connectome“
3. Sounak Paul, “Differentially Private Networks“
4. Omar Ghattas, “Valid Statistical Inference with Random Forests“
5. YoonHaeng Hur, “Optimal Transport for Data Science“
6. Irina Cristali, “Using Embeddings for Estimating Causal Effects Over Social Networks“
Student Mini-Seminars (Day 1)
12:00–2:00 pm Via Zoom
Moderator: Abby Stevens
1. (Joon) Joonsuk Kang, “Not All Factor Loadings Are Created Equal“
2. Wei Kuang, “Over-parameterized Matrix Sensing with Factorized Gradient Descent“
3. Subhodh Kotekal, “Statistical Limits of Sparse Mixture Detection“
4. Anghzi Fan, “WGAN and Its Regularization“
5. (Bill) Vasileios Katsianos, “Quantifying the Uncertainty in Drug-Drug Interaction Predictions“
Statistics Colloquium: Richard Gill
4:00–5:00 pm Via Zoom
RICHARD GILL, Mathematical Institute, Leiden University
“Statistical Issues in Serial Killer Nurse Cases”
Statistics Colloquium: Markus Reiß
4:00–5:00 pm Via Zoom
Joint Seminar with the Stevanovich Center for Financial Mathematics
MARKUS REIß, Institut für Mathematik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
“Testing the Rank of Time-varying Covariance Matrices”
Student Seminar: Tianrui Hou
1:30–2:00 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
TIANRUI HOU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Macroeconomic Nowcasting via Bootstrap Particle Filtering”
Student Seminar: (Percy) Shengjun Zhai
6:00–6:30 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
(PERCY) SHENGJUN ZHAI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Simultaneous Inference of Covariances for Long Memory High-dimensional Time Series”
Student Seminar: Ziqing Xu
1:30–2:00 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
ZIQING XU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Neural Networks for Partial Differential Equations”
Student Seminar: (George) Shuhong Liu
10:45–11:15 am Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
(GEORGE) SHUHONG LIU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“An Application of Isotonic Regression in Distribution-Free Record Series Analysis”