2019
Statistics Colloquium: Yuehaw Khoo
4:00–5:00 pm Eckhart 133
YUEHAW KHOO, Department of Mathematics, Stanford University
“Multi-marginal Optimal Transport, Density Functional Theory, and Convex Relaxation”
For further information and inquiries about building access for persons with disabilities, please contact Jonathan G. Rodriguez at 773.702.8333 or send him an email at jgrodriguez@galton.uchicago.edu. If you wish to subscribe to our email list, please visit the following website: https://lists.uchicago.edu/web/subscribe/statseminars.
Statistics Colloquium: Alexander Young
4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133
Joint Seminar with the Department of Human Genetics
ALEXANDER YOUNG, Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford University, U.K.
“Disentangling Nature and Nurture Using Genomic Family Data”
For further information and inquiries about building access for persons with disabilities, please contact Jonathan G. Rodriguez at 773.702.8333 or send him an email at jgrodriguez@galton.uchicago.edu. If you wish to subscribe to our email list, please visit the following website: https://lists.uchicago.edu/web/subscribe/statseminars.
2018
Statistics Colloquium: Peter Hoff
4:30–5:30 pm
PETER HOFF, Department of Statistical Science, Duke University
“FAB Tests and Intervals for Multilevel Data”
For further information and inquiries about building access for persons with disabilities, please contact Jonathan G. Rodriguez at 773.702.8333 or send him an email at jgrodriguez@galton.uchicago.edu. If you wish to subscribe to our email list, please visit the following website: https://lists.uchicago.edu/web/subscribe/statseminars.
Statistics Colloquium: Jinchi Lv
4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133
JINCHI LV, Departments of Data Sciences and Operations, University of Southern California
“Asymptotic Theory of Eigenvectors for Large Random Matrices with Applications to Network Inference”
For further information and inquiries about building access for persons with disabilities, please contact Jonathan G. Rodriguez at 773.702.8333 or send him an email at jgrodriguez@galton.uchicago.edu. If you wish to subscribe to our email list, please visit the following website: https://lists.uchicago.edu/web/subscribe/statseminars.
Statistics Colloquium: Miaoyan Wang
11:06–11:06 am
MIAOYAN WANG, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
“Learning from Binary Multiway Data: Probabilistic Tensor Decomposition and its Statistical Optimality”
For further information and inquiries about building access for persons with disabilities, please contact Jonathan G. Rodriguez at 773.702.8333 or send him an email at jgrodriguez@galton.uchicago.edu. If you wish to subscribe to our email list, please visit the following website: https://lists.uchicago.edu/web/subscribe/statseminars.
Statistics Colloquium: Nancy Zhang
4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133
NANCY ZHANG, Statistics Department, The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania
“Transfer Learning in Single Cell Transcriptomics”
For further information and inquiries about building access for persons with disabilities, please contact Jonathan G. Rodriguez at 773.702.8333 or send him an email at jgrodriguez@galton.uchicago.edu. If you wish to subscribe to our email list, please visit the following website: https://lists.uchicago.edu/web/subscribe/statseminars.
Billingsley Lectures on Probability: Allan Sly
9:40–10:40 am Kent 120
BILLINGSLEY LECTURES ON PROBABILITY IN HONOR OF PATRICK BILLINGSLEY
ALLAN SLY, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University
“Phase Transitions of Random Constraint Satisfaction Problems”
Reception following the seminar at 5:00 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Statistics Colloquium: Weijie Su
4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133
WEIJIE SU, Statistics Department, The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania
“Uncertainty Quantification for Online Learning”
Statistics Colloquium: Panagiotis Toulis
4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133
PANAGIOTIS TOULIS,
The University of Chicago Booth School of Business
“Randomization Tests for Causal Inference with Interference Between Units”
For further information and inquiries about building access for persons with disabilities, please contact Jonathan G. Rodriguez at 773.702.8333 or send him an email at jgrodriguez@galton.uchicago.edu. If you wish to subscribe to our email list, please visit the following website: https://lists.uchicago.edu/web/subscribe/statseminars.
Statistics Colloquium: Boaz Nadler
4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133
BOAZ NADLER, Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, Weizmann Institute of Science
“Unsupervised Ensemble Learning”