2020
Student Seminar: Jason Willwerscheid
1:30–2:30 pm Jones 303
PhD Dissertation Proposal
JASON WILLWERSCHEID, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Empirical Bayes Matrix Factorization: Methods and Applications”
Student Seminar: Lei Sun
10:00 am–12:00 pm Jones 303
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
LEI SUN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Topics on the Empirical Bayes Normal Means Problem”
Statistics Colloquium: Claire Donnat
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
CLAIRE DONNAT, Statistics Department, Stanford University
“Quantifying Uncertainty in Complex Systems with Applications to Brain Connectomics”
Statistics Colloquium: Cong Ma
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
CONG MA, Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University
“Statistics Meets Nonconvex Optimization: Computational Efficiency and Uncertainty Quantification”
Statistics Colloquium: Shahar Kovalsky
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Joint Seminar with CAM
SHAHAR KOVALSKY, Department of Mathematics, Duke University
“Geometry + Optimization: Towards Computational Anatomy”
Statistics Colloquium: Yixin Wang
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
YIXIN WANG, Department of Statistics, Columbia University
“The Blessings of Multiple Causes”
Statistics Colloquium: Jeremy G. Hoskins
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Joint Seminar with CAM
JEREMY G. HOSKINS, Mathematics Department, Yale University
“Elliptic PDEs on Regions with Corners”
Statistics Colloquium: Lise-Marie Imbert-Gerard
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
Joint seminar with CAM.
LISE-MARIE IMBERT-GERARD, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland
“Wave Propagation in Inhomogeneous Media: An Introduction to Generalized Plane Waves”
Statistics Colloquium: Song Mei
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
SONG MEI, Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering and Department of Statistics, Stanford University
“Generalization Error of Linearized Neural Networks: Staircase and Double-descent”
Statistics Colloquium: Alisa Knizel
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
ALISA KNIZEL, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University
“A Quest for Universality”