Past Events

2019

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

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”


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Nov 26

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”

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Nov 19

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”

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Nov 12

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

Nov 8

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”

Nov 5