Past Events

2019

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

Statistics Colloquium: Lin Lin

11:00 am–12:00 pm Kent 120

LIN LIN, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
“Feynman Diagrams, Luttinger-Ward Formalism, and Gibbs Measure”

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Apr 9

Statistics Colloquium: David M. Blei

4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133

DAVID M. BLEI, Departments of Statistics and Computer Science, Columbia University
“The Blessings of Multiple Causes”

Apr 8

Statistics Colloquium: Gregory Valiant

4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133

GREGORY VALIANT, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University
“When Your Big Data Seems Too Small”

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Mar 11

Statistics Colloquium: Mark Van Der Laan

4:30–4:30 pm Eckhart 133

MARK VAN DER LAAN, Departments of Biostatistics and Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
“Targeted Minimum Loss Estimation with the Highly Adaptive Lasso: Applications in Causal Inference”

Mar 4