2024

Student Seminar: Vasileios Katsianos
2:00–3:30 pm Jones 304
Monday, July 1, 2024, at 2:00 PM, in Jones 304, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Defense Presentation
Vasileios (Bill) Katsianos, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Genetic Association Analysis of Phenotypes Jointly Influenced by a Pair of Interacting Organisms”

Student Seminar: Huy Tran
11:00 am–1:00 pm Jones 304
Thursday, June 20, 2024, at 11:00 AM, in Jones 304, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Defense Presentation
Huy Dang Tran, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“New Methodologies for High-Dimensional Data”

Student Seminar: Rohan Hore
9:00–11:00 am Jones 304
Monday, June 10, 2024, at 9:00 AM, in Jones 304, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Rohan Hore, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Localized hypotheses: the impact of randomization on hardness in distribution-free inference”

Incubator: Causal Inference OCE Conference III: Art Owen
3:45–4:30 pm The David Rubenstein Forum, University of Chicago, 1201 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL
Friday, June 7, 2024, 3:45-4:30 PM
The David Rubenstein Forum, University of Chicago, 1201 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL
Art Owen, Max H. Stein Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
will speak at the Incubator: Causal Inference OCE Conference III
Hosted by the Griffin Applied Econometrics Incubator.

Student Seminar: Yu Gui
10:30–11:00 am Jones 304
Monday, June 3, 2024, at 10:30 AM, in Jones 304, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Yu Gui, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Statistical learning with distribution shift: sample reweighting and constrained boosting for robustness”

CAM & Department of Mathematics Special Joint Colloquium: Bernd Sturmfels
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Thursday, May 30, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
CAM & Department of Mathematics Special Joint Colloquium
Bernd Sturmfels, MPI Leipzig and UC Berkeley
“The two lives of the Grassmannian”

Student Seminar: Wentao Hu
9:30 am–12:00 pm Jones 111
Friday, May 24, 2024, at 9:30 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Wentao Hu, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Granger Causality Test in High Dimensional Time Series”

CAM Colloquium: Haizhao Yang
4:00–5:30 pm Jones 226
Thursday, May 23, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 226, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
CAM Colloquium
Haizhao Yang, Departments of Mathematics and Computer science (Affiliated), The University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, University of Maryland
“Finite Expression Method: A Symbolic Approach for Scientific Machine Learning”

Student Seminar: Lin Gui
2:30–4:00 pm Jones 111
Tuesday, May 21, 2024, at 2:30 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PhD Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Lin Gui, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Unleash the power of special distributions in statistics and machine learning”

Mini-seminars for Second Year PhDs
1:00–4:30 pm Jones 303
Friday, May 17, 2024, from 1:00-4:30 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Mini-Seminars for Second-Year PhDs
Moderator: Sean O-Hagan