2019
RTG Summer Lectures on Data Science
1:30–4:00 pm Stevanovich Center
Lectures 5 & 6: Spectral methods in network analysis
Speaker: David Bindel, Cornell University
Friday, June 21, 2019, at 1:30-2:30 PM and 3:00-4:00 PM
RTG Summer Lectures on Data Science
1:30–5:30 pm Stevanovich Center
Lectures 3 & 4: Scalable kernel methods
Speaker: David Bindel, Cornell University
Wednesday, June 19, 2019, at 1:30-2:30 PM and 3:00-4:00 PM
Seminar II: Empirical risk minimization over deep neural networks overcomes the curse of dimensionality in the numerical approximation of Kolmogorov PDEs
Speaker: Julius Berner, University of Vienna
Wednesday, June 19, 2019, at 4:30-5:30 PM
RTG Summer Lectures on Data Science
1:30–5:30 pm Stevanovich Center
Lectures 1 & 2: Latent factor models
David Bindel, Cornell University
Monday, June 17, 2019, at 1:30-2:30 PM, and 3:00-4:00 PM
Seminar I: Universal sparsity of deep ReLU networks
Speaker: Dennis Elbrächter, University of Vienna
Monday, June 17, 2019, at 4:30-5:30 PM
Christopher McKennan: Dissertation Presentation and Defense
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 111
The University of Chicago
Department of Statistics
CHRISTOPHER MCKENNAN
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
Title: “Latent Variables in ‘omic’ Data”
Jing Yu: Dissertation Presentation and Defense
11:00 am–12:00 pm Jones 111
The University of Chicago
Department of Statistics
JING YU
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
Title: “On the Application, Theory and Computation of Optimal Experimental Design in the Context of Sensor Placement”
Statistics Colloquium: Samuel Kou
4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133
STATISTICS COLLOQUIUM
SAMUEL KOU
Department of Statistics
Harvard University
Title: “Big data, Google and Disease Detection: A Statistical Adventure”
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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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”
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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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.”