2023
Student Seminar: Ruizheng (Patrick) Bai
2:00–2:30 pm Jones 303
Master’s Thesis Presentation
RUIZHENG (PATRICK) BAI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Functional Principal Trade-off Analysis: Universal Approximation via Disc Game Embedding”
Student Seminar: Kwong Wai (Theo) Man
11:00–11:30 am Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
KWONG WAI (THEO) MAN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Modeling Subject-level Variances on Intensive Longitudinal Data: An Application of Mixed-effects Location Scale Model”
Statistics Colloquium: Xinran Li
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 303
XINRAN LI, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
“Rerandomization and heterogeneous treatment effects in modern experiments”
Student Seminar: Seung Chul Lee
11:00–11:30 am Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
SEUNG CHUL LEE, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Understanding Shift-Share Instruments: an Application”
Student Seminar: Xinyi Gu
2:00–2:30 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
XINYI GU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Non-Contrastive Self-Supervised Learning with Video Frames”
Student Seminar: Yuchien Chu
2:00–2:30 pm Jones 111
Master’s Thesis Presentation
YUCHIEN CHU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Informative Dorfman’s Two-Stage Group Testing: An Analysis of Efficiency and Accuracy”
DSI Events: Nicole Immorlica
2:00–3:00 pm JCL 390
Nicole Immorlica, Microsoft Research New England
“Data, the Fundamental Particle of Interaction”
CAM and Stats Student Seminar: Abigail Poteshman
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 303
ABIGAIL POTESHMAN, Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics, The University of Chicago
“Comparing ab initio methods to calculate polarization for high-throughput ferroelectric screening”
Statistics Colloquium: Alessandro Rinaldo
4:30–5:30 pm Jones 303
ALESSANDRO RINALDO, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Carnegie Mellon University
“High-dimensional CLTs: near-optimal rates and modern inference for OLS regression”
Celebrating the Year of the Rabbit
11:45 am–1:15 pm Jones 303
Annual Lunar New Year Lunch
The Year of the Rabbit begins January 22, 2023, and culminates in the Lantern Festival on February 5, 2023.