2021
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”
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”
Named Professor Lecture Series: Matthew Stephens
1:00–1:45 pm Via Zoom
Matthew Stephens, Ralph W. Gerard Professor
Departments of Statistics and Human Genetics, and the College
“Finding and Exploiting Structure in Genetic Data”
Statistics Colloquium: Mariya Toneva
4:00–5:00 pm Via Zoom
Joint Seminar with the Department of Computer Science
MARIYA TONEVA, Machine Learning Department & The Neuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
“Data-Driven Transfer of Insight Between Brains and AI Systems”
Statistics Colloquium: Weihao Kong
4:00–5:00 pm Via Zoom
WEDNESDAY, January 27, 2021, at 4:00 PM, Via Zoom
Joint Seminar with the Department of Computer Science
WEIHAO KONG, University of Washington
“The Surprising Power of Little Data”
