2023

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.

Student Seminar: Zhenghao Jiang
10:30–11:00 am Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
ZHENGHAO JIANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Solving and Estimating Structural Dynamic Equilibrium Models”

Student Seminar: Qingyao Sun
2:30–3:00 pm Jones 111 and via Zoom
MASTER’S THESIS PRESENTATION
XINGYAO SUN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Beyond Invariance: Test-Time Label-Shift Adaptation for Addressing ‘Spurious’ Correlations”

Student Seminar: Yu-Chun Lai
3:30–4:00 pm Jones 303
Master’s Thesis Presentation
YU-CHUN LAI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Hidden Markov Models and Their Application in Finance”

CAM and Stats Student Seminar: Sounak Paul
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 303
SOUNAK PAUL, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Amortized Method of Moments for Multireference Alignment and Cryo-EM”

DSI Events: Ce Zhang
2:00–3:00 pm JCL 390
CE ZHANG, ETH Zurich
“Optimizing Communications and Data for Distributed and Decentralized Learning”

Mathematics Colloquium: Elchanan Mossel
3:00–4:00 pm Eckhart Hall, 202
ELCHANAN MOSSEL, Department of Mathematics, IDSS, MIT
“Stochastic Processes on Trees and Their Applications”

Statistics Colloquium: Theodor Misiakiewicz
10:00–11:00 am Jones 303
THEODOR MISIAKIEWICZ, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
“New statistical and computational phenomena from Deep Learning”

CAM and Stats Student Seminar: Brainstorm Session
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 303
In place of a research talk, the next CAM & Stats Student Seminar will be a session to brainstorm and write content for an unofficial student guide to the Stats and CAM PhD and Masters’ programs.

Statistics Colloquium: Zhimei Ren
2:00–3:00 pm Jones 303
ZHIMEI REN, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
“Stable Variable Selection with Knockoffs”