2023
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”
CAM and Stats Student Seminar: Allen Poteshman
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 303
ALLEN POTESHMAN, Vatic Investments
Q&A
Student Seminar: Liang Yu Lin
12:00–12:30 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
LIANG YU LIN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Copula-based GARCH model — Application on stock and bond returns”
Student Seminar: Yuantao Shi
11:30 am–12:00 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
YUANTAO SHI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“High-Dimensional Online Change-Point Detection”
CAM Colloquium: Stephen Kirkland
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
STEPHEN KIRKLAND, Department of Mathematics, University of Manitoba
“Kemeny’s constant for an undirected graph: how much can adding one edge change things?”