Past Events

2021

Ming Gao

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”

Feb 22
Yuhang Cai, MS Student

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”

Feb 19
Hsiang Wang, MS Student

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”

Feb 19
Abby Stevens, PhD Student

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”

Feb 18
Puyuan Peng, MS Student

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”

Feb 17
Samory K. Kpotufe

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”

Feb 17
Haoyang Wu, MS Student

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”

Feb 17
James Leiner, MS Student

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”

Feb 17
Jinhong Du, MS Student

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”

Feb 17
Zihao Zheng, MS Student

Student Seminar: Zihao Zheng

8:30–9:00 am Via Zoom

Master’s Thesis Presentation
ZIHAO ZHENG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Inference of Trends in Time Series”

Feb 17