2020

Student Seminar: Andrew Goldstein
1:00–2:00 pm Via Zoom
Dissertation Proposal Presentation
ANDREW GOLDSTEIN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“VEB-Boost: Variational Empirical Bayes Boosting”

Statistics Colloquium: Kristian Lum
4:00–5:00 pm Via Zoom
KRISTIAN LUM, Human Rights Data Analysis Group
“Closer Than They Appear: A Bayesian Perspective on Individual Probabilities in Risk Assessment”

Student Seminar: Zhan Lin
1:30–2:30 pm Via Zoom
Dissertation Proposal Presentation
ZHAN LIN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Risk Averse Control with Mixture of Gaussian Noise”

Statistics Colloquium: Ruobin Gong
4:00–5:00 pm Via Zoom
RUOBIN GONG, Department of Statistics, Rutgers University
“Towards Good Statistical Inference from Differentially Private Data”

Student Seminar: Yonghoon Lee
12:30–1:30 pm Via Zoom
Dissertation Proposal Presentation
YONGHOON LEE, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Binary Classification with Corrupted Labels and Distribution-free Inference with Atoms”

Student Seminar: Pinhan Chen
2:00–3:00 pm Via Zoom
Dissertation Proposal Presentation
PINHAN CHEN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Rank, Ranking and Phase Transition”

Student Seminar: Qing Yan
11:00 am–12:00 pm Via ZOOM
Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Qing Yan, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Deep Generative Model: Apply, Design and Improve”

Statistics Colloquium: Paul Rathouz
4:00–5:00 pm Via Zoom
PAUL RATHOUZ, Department of Population Health, The University of Texas at Austin
“Semiparametric Generalized Linear Models: Small, Large, and Biased Samples”

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Through November 20, 2020
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Student Seminar: Jiacheng Wang
12:00–1:00 pm Via Zoom
Dissertation Proposal Presentation
Jiacheng Wang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Tensor Multi-clustering and Tensor Completion with Missing Fibers”