2020
Student Seminar: Mengxiong Dong
1:00–2:00 pm Via ZOOM
Master’s Thesis Presentation
MENGXIONG DONG, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“An Empirical Study on Kernel Conditional Quantile Estimation Method for Stationary Processes”
Student Seminar: Tae Hyun Kim
11:00 am–12:30 pm Via ZOOM
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
TAE HYUN KIM, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Statistical Methods for Transcriptome Data”
Student Seminar: Ran Dai
2:00–3:30 pm Via ZOOM
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
RAN DAI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Statistical and Algorithmic Guarantees for High Dimensional Single Index Model”
Student Seminar: Haoyang Liu
2:00–3:00 pm Via ZOOM
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
HAOYANG LIU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Algorithmic and Statistical Optimality for High-Dimensional Data”
Student Seminar: Nathan Gill
2:00–3:00 pm Via Zoom
Master’s Thesis Presentation
NATHAN GILL, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Mixed-Effect Location-Scale Regression Models”
Statistics Colloquium: Joshua Weinstein
4:00–5:00 pm Via ZOOM
JOSHUA WEINSTEIN, Department of Medicine, The University of Chicago
‘Spatio-genetic Imaging with DNA Microscopy”
MINI-SEMINARS DAY 2
4:00–5:00 pm ZOOM links provided via EMAIL
MINI-SEMINARS DAY 2
Moderators: ABBY STEVENS and DANIEL XIANG
4:00 - 4:15 pm: YI WANG, “Literature Review on Distribution-Free Conditional Predictive Inference”
4:15 - 4:30 pm: YI WEI, “A New Modeling Framework for Multi-Trait Mapping of Binary and Quantitative Phenotypes”
4:30 - 4:45 pm: DONGYUE XIE, “Multiple Condition Diffferential Expression Analysis for RNAseq Data”
4:45 - 5:00 pm: LIJIA ZHOU, “Uniform Convergence of Low Norm Interpolators”
MINI-SEMINARS DAY 1
4:00–5:00 pm ZOOM links provided via EMAIL
MINI-SEMINARS DAY 1
Moderators: ABBY STEVENS and DANIEL XIANG
4:00 - 4:15 pm: CHIH-HSUAN WU, “Mixture Poisson Generalized Linear Mixed Model for Cell Type-Specific Methylation Analyhsis”
4:15 - 4:30 pm: HUANLIN ZHOU, “Some Statistical Issues About Large-Scale Testing for Gene-Gene Interaction”
4:30 - 4:45 pm: WANRONG ZHU, “Sharp High-Probability Bounds for SGD on Linear Model COnsidering Heavy-Tailed Noise”
4:45 - 5:00 pm: HAI TRAN-BACH: Mehler’s Formula, Branching Processers and Compositional Kernels of Deep Neural Networks”
5:00 - 5:15 pm: ZEHAO NIU, “Tensor Methods Using Stochastic Approximation of Score Functions for Gaussian Processes”
Student Seminar: Yongrui Chen
10:30 am–12:00 pm Via ZOOM
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
YONGRUI CHEN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“High-Frequency Functional Inference of Dynamic Data in Time and Frequency Domains”
Statistics Colloquium: Yuxin Chen
4:00–5:00 pm Via ZOOM
YUXIN CHEN, Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago
“Algorithmic Aspects of Machine Teaching: Tractability, Interpretability, and Robustness”