Past Events

2019

Statistics Colloquium: Pragya Sur

4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133

PRAGYA SUR, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
“A Modern Maximum-Likelihood Approach for High-Dimensional Logistic Regression”


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Feb 11

Statistics Colloquium: Jonathan Weed

4:00–5:00 pm

JONATHAN WEED, The Statistics and Data Science Center & Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Fast Rates and Fast Algorithms for the Wasserstein Distance”


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Feb 6

Statistics Colloquium: Subhabrata Sen

4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133

SUBHABRATA SEN, Microsoft Research Lab – New England & Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Network Data: Modeling and Statistical Analysis”

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Feb 4

Statistics Colloquium: James Johndrow

1:00–2:00 pm Kent 120

JAMES JOHNDROW, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
“Bayes Shrinkage at GWAS Scale”


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Jan 31

Statistics Colloquium: Jingshu Wang

4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133

JINGSHU WANG, Statistics Department, The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania
“Data Denoising for Single-cell RNA Sequencing”

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Jan 28

Statistics Colloquium: Eugene Katsevich

4:00–5:00 pm

EUGENE KATSEVICH, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
“Multiple Testing for Modern Data: Structure, Curation, and Replicability”

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Jan 24

Statistics Colloquium: Gal Mishne

4:00–5:00 pm Eckhart 133

GAL MISHNE, Department of Mathematics, Yale University
“Local Geometric Spectral Data Analysis”

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Jan 22

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”

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Jan 17

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”

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Jan 14

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”

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Dec 3