2020
Student Seminar: Gregory Naisat
1:00–2:30 pm Via ZOOM
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
GREGORY NAISAT, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Tropical Algebra and Algebraic Topology of Deep Neural Networks”
Student Seminar: Yi Liu
2:00–4:00 pm Via ZOOM
Dissertation Proposal Presentation
YI LIU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Efficient Likelihood Free Bayesian Inference for High Dimensional Problems with Applications to the Study of Transcriptional Control”
Student Seminar: Sungil Kim
10:30–11:00 am Via ZOOM
Master’s Thesis Presentation
SUNGIL KIM, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“TBA”
Statistics Colloquium: Fan Li
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
FAN LI, Departments of Statistical Science, Biostatistics, and Bioinformatics, Duke University
“Balancing Covariate Via Propensity Score Weighting”
Statistics Colloquium: Jessi Cisewski-Kehe
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
JESSI CISEWSKI-KEHE, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Yale University
“Analyzing Data Full of Holes: Topological Data Analysis”
Statstics Colloquium: Marc A. Suchard
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
MARC A. SUCHARD, Departments of Biomathematics, Biostatistics and Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
“TBA”
Statistics Colloquium: Akihiko Nishimura
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
AKIHIKO NISHIMURA, Department of Biomathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
“Bayesian Sparse Regression for Large-scale Observational Healthcare Analytics”
Statistics Colloquium: Julia A. Palacios
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
JULIA A. PALACIOS, Departments of Statistics and Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University
“Tajima Coalescent and Statistical Summaries of Unlabeled Genealogies”
Student Seminar: Qi Zhu
11:00 am–12:00 pm Jones 303
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Qi Zhu, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“TBA”
Student Seminar: Yuwei Luo
6:00–7:00 pm Jones 226
Master’s Thesis Presentation
YUWEI LUO, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“TBA”