Past Events

2025

Student Seminar: Yunpeng Gao

3:00–3:30 pm Jones 111

Wednesday, May 7, 2025, at 3:00 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Yunpeng Gao, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Asymptotic Approximations of Forward Differences for the Densities of Sums of i.i.d. Random Variables”

May 7

Student Seminars: Jaehong Ahn

2:00–2:30 pm Jones 111

Wednesday, May 7, 2025, at 2:30 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Jaehong Ahn, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“The Statistical Limit of Arbitrage under Overinference and Underinference”

May 7

Student Seminars: An Hui Chang

1:30–2:00 pm Jones 111

Wednesday, May 7, 2025, at 1:30 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
An Hui Chang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Matrix Completion for Missing Financial Variables: An Empirical Study with Public Firm Data”

May 7

Student Seminars: Xinchen Du

11:00–11:30 am Jones 111

Wednesday May 7, 2025, at 11:00 AM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Xinchen Du, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Online statistical inference for constrained stochastic optimization”

May 7

Student Seminar: Zeyu Zhang

4:30–5:00 pm Jones 111

Tuesday, May 6, 2025, at 4:30 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Zeyu Zhang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“SPCA: Integrating Spatial Structure for Gene Expression Data Analysis”

May 6

Student Seminars: Zechen Liu

3:30–4:00 pm Jones 111

Tuesday, May 6, 2025, at 3:30 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Zechen Liu, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Evaluating Spatial Modeling Approaches for Domain Detection in Spatial Transcriptomics”

May 6

Student Seminar: Yuyang Jiang

3:00–3:30 pm Jones 111

Tuesday, May 6, 2025, at 3:00 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Yuyang Jiang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“GPT-4V Cannot Generate Radiology Reports Yet”

May 6

Student Seminar: Evan Levine

2:30–3:00 pm Jones 111

Tuesday, May 6, 2025, at 2:30 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Evan Levine, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Bias-Adjusted Maximum Likelihood Estimators for LIMMA”

May 6

Student Seminar: Sparsho De

2:00–2:30 pm Jones 111

Tuesday, May 6, 2025, at 2:00 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Sparsho De, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Empirical bayes-powered skill model for darts players”

May 6

Student Seminar: Yuchen Qiu

2:00–2:30 pm Jones 111

Monday, May 5, 2025, at 2:00 PM, in Jones 111, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Master’s Thesis l Presentation
Yuchen Qiu, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Pre- and Post- Error Behavior in a Sequential Learning Task”

May 5