2024
Statistics Colloquium: Siting Liu
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Thursday January 25, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM)
Siting Liu, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
“Enhancing PDE Computations and Score-Based Generative Models through Optimization”
Workshop: Graph Neural Networks for the Sciences: From Theory to Practice
Through January 26, 2024 Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation
Join us on January 25th & 26th, 2024, at the University of Chicago
GNNs for the Sciences: from Theory to Practice
Institute for Mathematical and Statistical Innovation
1155 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637
AI+Science Schmidt Fellows Speaker Series: Frederic Howard
4:30–5:30 pm William Eckhardt Research Center
January 23, 2024 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Frederick Howard (UChicago) – AI+Science Schmidt Fellows Speaker Series
Applying Artificial Intelligence on Digital Histology to Personalize Breast Cancer Treatment
William Eckhardt Research Center
Organized by the University of Chicago’s Eric and Wendy Schmidt AI in Science Postdoctoral Fellowship Program.
CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Nathan Wanoriek
12:30–1:30 pm Searle 240A
Tuesday, January 23, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Searle 240A (location change this quarter), 5735 South Ellis Avenue
Nathan Waniorek, Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM), The University of Chicago
“Hierarchical Bayesian Inverse Problems: A High-Dimensional Statistics Viewpoint”
Statistics Colloquium: Ernest Ryu
11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303
Monday, January 22, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM)
Ernest Ryu, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Seoul National University
“Toward a grand unified theory of accelerations in optimization and machine learning”
Statistics Colloquium: Nicholas Boffi
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Thursday, January 18, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM)
Nicholas Boffi, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
“On flows and diffusions: from the many-body Fokker-Planck equation to stochastic interpolants”
Student Seminar: Junchi Zhang
2:00–2:30 pm Via Zoom
Thursday, January 18, 2024, at 2:00 pm, via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Junchi Zhang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“NLP Application in Clinical Records— Using BERT and Edit Distance for Spell Check Pipeline”
Statistics Colloquium: Yizhe Zhu
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Tuesday, January 16, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM)
Yizhe Zhu, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine
“Asymmetry Helps: Non-Backtracking Spectral Methods for Sparse Matrices and Tensors”
CAM & Stats Student Seminar: Erasmo Tani
12:30–1:30 pm Searle 240A
Tuesday, January 16, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Searle 240A, 5735 S. Ellis Avenue
Erasmo Tani, Department of Computer Science, The University of Chicago
“Recent Progress on Learning Partitions with a Faulty Same-Cluster Oracle”
Statistics Colloquium: Montie Avery
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Thursday, January 11, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM)
Montie Avery, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University
“Universal spreading into unstable states”