2021
Student Seminar: Jun Jie Choo
9:45–10:15 am Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
JUN JIE CHOO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“The No-U-Turn Sampler: Adaptively Setting Path Lengths in Hamiltonian Monte Carlo”
Student Seminar: Ming Gao
9:00–9:30 am Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
MING GAO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Model-Based Trajectory Inference for Single-Cell RNA Sequencing Using Deep Learning with a Mixture Prior”
Student Seminar: Yuhang Cai
10:00–11:00 am Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
YUHANG CAI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Distances Between Probability Distributions of Different Dimensions”
Student Seminar: Hsiang Wang
9:00–9:30 am Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
HSIANG WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Monte Carlo Simulation for HJM Model and Learning Networks for Pricing Caplets/ Floorlets”
Student Seminar: Abby Stevens
3:00–4:00 pm Via Zoom
Dissertation Proposal Presentation
ABBY STEVENS, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Data Science Theory and Applications in Climate Science, Epidemics, and Public Health”
Student Seminar: Puyuan Peng
4:00–4:30 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
PUYUAN PENG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“A Correspondence Variational Autoencoder for Unsupervised Acoustic Word Embeddings”
Statistics Colloquium: Samory K. Kpotufe
4:00–5:00 pm Via Zoom
Joint Seminar with the Department of Computer Science
SAMORY K. KPOTUFE, Department of Statistics, Columbia University
“From Theory to Clustering”
Student Seminar: Haoyang Wu
11:00 am–12:00 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Haoyang Wu, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Conformal Predictive Inference for Kernel-conditional Coverage”
Student Seminar: James Leiner
10:00–11:00 am Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
JAMES LEINER, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Novel Data Splitting Techniques for Poisson Regression”
Student Seminar: Jin-Hong Du
9:00–9:30 am Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
JIN-HONG DU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Spectral Nearness Problems as Multiparameter Singular Value Problems”