Past Events

2021

Brandon Rhodes, MS candidate

Student Seminar: Brandon Rhodes

10:00–10:30 am Via Zoom

Master’s Thesis Presentation
BRANDON RHODES, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Methods and Applications for Shot Charts from the National Basketball Association (NBA)”

May 12

Student Seminar: Yi Hong Gordon Cheo

9:00–9:30 am Via Zoom

Master’s Thesis Presentation
YI HONG GORDON CHEO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Exploring Joint and Layerwise Training of Hybrid Autoencoder Architectures”

May 12
Jiaai (Alex) Pan, MS candidate

Student Seminar: (Alex) Jiaai Pan

8:00–8:30 am Via Zoom

Master’s Thesis Presentation
(ALEX) JIAAI PAN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Unsupervised Layerwise Learning of CNN”

May 12

Student Seminar: Michael Bian

4:00–4:30 pm Via Zoom

Master’s Thesis Presentation
MICHAEL BIAN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Training-Conditional Coverage for Distribution-Free Predictive Inference”

May 11
Yuguan Wang, MS Candidate

Student Seminar: Yuguan Wang

3:00–3:30 pm Via Zoom

Master’s Thesis Presentation
YUGUAN WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Estimating the Correlation Structure of Z-scores for Trans-eQTLs Detection”

May 11
Adam Ratner, MS Candidate

Student Seminar: Adam Ratner

2:00–2:30 pm Via Zoom

Master’s Thesis Presentation
ADAM RATNER, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
​​​​​​​“Estimating Risk Neutral Distributions”

May 11
Zhaojun Zhang, MS Candidate

Student Seminar: (Jane) Zhaojun Zhang

1:00–1:30 pm Via Zoom

Master’s Thesis Presentation
(JANE) ZHAOJUN ZHANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Statistical Inference for RNA Editing Rate Comparison”

May 11
Lihua Lei, Department of Statistics, Stanford University

Statistics Colloquium: Lihua Lei

4:00–5:00 pm Via Zoom

LIHUA LEI, Department of Statistics, Stanford University 
“Conformal Inference of Counterfactuals and Time-to-event Outcomes”

May 10
Pinrui Yu, MS candidate

Student Seminar: Pinrui Yu

3:00–3:30 pm Via Zoom

Master’s Thesis Presentation
PINRUI YU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Cascading Failure Event Computation with Optimal Control”

May 10

Student Seminar: Benjamin Harris

1:00–1:30 pm Via Zoom

Master’s Thesis Presentation
BENJAMIN HARRIS, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Short-Term Solar Irradiance Prediction”

May 10