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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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”