2020
Student Seminar: Changji Xu
3:00–4:30 pm Via ZOOM
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
CHANGJI XU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Random Walk Among Bernoulli Obstacles”
Student Seminar: Petr Panov
1:30–3:00 pm Via ZOOM
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
PETR PANOV, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Loop Soup Occupation Fields and Poisson Cylinders”
Student Seminar: Yi-Hung Liu
1:00–1:30 pm Via ZOOM
Master’s Thesis Presentation
YI-HUNG LIU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Causal Relations and Feature Extraction in Contextualized Sentence Representation”
Statistics Colloquium: Bryon Aragam
4:00–5:00 pm Via ZOOM
BRYON ARAGAM, Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago
“Identifiability of Nonparametric Mixture Models, Clustering, and Semi-supervised Learning”
Student Seminar: Boxin Zhao
1:30–2:00 pm Via ZOOM
Master’s Thesis Presentation
BOXIN ZHAO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“FuDGE: Functional Differential Graph Estimation with Fully and Discretely Observed Curves”
Student Seminar: Fengshuo Zhang
3:00–4:00 pm Via Zoom
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
FENGSHUO ZHANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Statistical Guarantee of Variational Inference and Its Applications”
Student Seminar: Zhipeng Lou
2:00–3:00 pm Via ZOOM
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
ZHIPENG LOU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“High Dimensional Inference Based on Quadratic Forms”
Student Seminar: Bumeng Zhuo
2:30–4:00 pm Via ZOOM
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
BUMENG ZHUO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Topics on Bayesian Inference Sampling Algorithms”
Student Seminar: Bryan Chang
3:00–3:30 pm Via ZOOM
Master’s Thesis Presentation
BRYAN CHANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Optimizing MLB’s Batter-Pitcher Matchup through a Representation Learning Approach”
Student Seminar: Minzhe Wang
1:30–2:30 pm Via ZOOM
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
MINZHE WANG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Estimations in Topic Modeling”