Past Events

2019

Statistics Colloquium: Samuel Kou

4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133

SAMUEL KOU, Department of Statistics, Harvard University
“Big data, Google and Disease Detection: A Statistical Adventure”


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May 20

Statistics Colloquium: Yuxin Chen

4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133

YUXIN CHEN
Department of Statistics
Harvard University

Title:  “Bridging Convex and Nonconvex Optimization in Noisy Matrix Completion: Stability and Uncertainty Quantification”

May 13

Statistics Colloquium: Yuxin Chen

4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133

YUXIN CHEN, Department of Electrical Engineering, Princeton University
“Bridging Convex and Nonconvex Optimization in Noisy Matrix Completion: Stability and Uncertainty Quantification”


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May 13

Bahadur Memorial Lectures: Iain Johnstone

3:30–4:30 pm Kent 107

We are pleased to have Iain Johnstone, Professor of Statistics and Health Research and Policy (Biostatistics), Stanford University, as our honored speaker, for the twentieth annual Bahadur Memorial Lectures. The talk is entitled, “High Dimensional Principal Component Analysis: Biases and Balms.”

May 9

Statistics Colloquium: Bahadur Memorial Lectures--Iain Johnstone

3:30–4:30 pm Kent 120

BAHADUR MEMORIAL LECTURES
IAIN JOHNSTONE, Departments of Statistics, Health Research and Policy, Stanford University
“High Dimensional Principal Component Analysis: Biases and Balms”


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IAIN JOHNSTONE, Departments of Statistics, Health Research and Policy, Stanford University
“High Dimensional Principal Component Analysis: Biases and Balms”

May 9

Bahadur Memorial Lectures: Iain Johnstone

4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133

We are pleased to have Iain Johnstone, Professor of Statistics and Health Research and Policy (Biostatistics), Stanford University, as our honored speaker, for the twentieth annual Bahadur Memorial Lectures. The talk is entitled, “High Dimensional Classical Multivariate Analysis: Ladders and Local Asymptotic Normality.” We will host a reception before the lecture at 4:00 p.m. in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue.

May 6

Statistics Colloquium: Bahadur Memorial Lectures--Iain Johnstone

4:30–5:30 pm

Reception Before Lecture at 4:00 PM in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue

BAHADUR MEMORIAL LECTURES
IAIN JOHNSTONE, Departments of Statistics, Health Research and Policy, Stanford University
“High Dimensional Classical Multivariate Analysis: Ladders and Local Asymptotic Normality”


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May 6

Statistics Colloquium: Sayan Mukherjee

12:25–12:25 pm

SAYAN MUKHERJEE, Department of Statistical Science, Duke University
“Integral Geometry for Modeling Shapes”

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Apr 29

Statistics Colloquium: Ying Nian Wu

4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133

YING NIAN WU, Department of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles
“A Representational Theory of Grid Cells”

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Apr 22

Statistics Colloquium: Rebecca Steorts

4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133

REBECCA STEORTS, Department of Statistical Science, Duke University
“Entity Resolution with Societal Impacts in Machine Learning”

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Apr 15