2019
Student Seminar: Ran Dai
10:30–11:30 am Jones 304
Dissertation Proposal
RAN DAI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Three Tales in High Dimensional Statistics”
Statistics Colloquium: Daniel Hsu
4:30–5:30 pm Jones 303
DANIEL HSU, Computer Science Department & Data Science Institute, Columbia University
“Predictive Models from Interpolation”
Student Seminar: Xialiang Dou
10:00–11:00 am Jones 303
PhD Dissertation Proposal
XIALIANG DOU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Distributionally Robust Optimization with Time Dependent Data”
Student Seminar: Shinpei Nakamura Sakai
10:30–11:30 am Jones 304
Master’s Thesis Presentation
SHINPEI NAKAMURA SAKAI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Multiplex Network Modelling via GERGM”
Statistics Colloquium: Elizabeth Purdom
4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133
ELIZABETH PURDOM, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
“Topics in the analysis of high-throughput molecular data and the bootstrap in high dimensions”
Student Seminar: Ka Kwan Albert Lam
2:00–3:00 pm Jones 304
Master’s Thesis Presentation
KA KWAN ALBERT LAM, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Hyperparameter-Free Online Matrix Factorization”
Student Seminar: Kyoung Hwan Kook
11:00 am–12:00 pm Jones 111
Master’s Thesis Presentation
KYOUNG HWAN KOOK, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Empirical Study of Goodness-of-Fit Tests for Copulas”
Statistics Colloquium: Simon Tavare
4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133
SIMON TAVARE, Department of Statistics & Systems Biology, Columbia University
“Some Statistical Problems in Cancer Genomics”
Student Seminar: Weilin Chen
1:00–1:30 pm Jones 111
Master’s Thesis Presentation
WEILIN CHEN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Asymptotic and Finite-Sample Properties of Panel Unit Root Tests Under Cross-Sectional Dependence”
CANCELLED -- Statistics Colloquium: Sham Kakade
4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133
CANCELLED **** SHAM KAKADE, Departments of Computer Science & Statistics, University of Washington
“TBA”