2019
Master's Thesis Presentation: Zhi Rong Tan
4:00–4:30 pm Jones 304
Zhi Rong Tan, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Multidimensional Scaling Analysis of Legislative Roll Calls in Multi-Party Systems”
Master's Thesis Presentation: Bo Wei Ooi
3:00–3:30 pm Jones 304
Master’s Thesis Presentation
Bo Wei Ooi, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Statistical Inference and Clustering of Trend Functions in High-Dimensional Time Series”
Student Seminar: Eric Weine
1:00–1:30 pm Jones 304
Master’s Thesis Presentation
ERIC WEINE, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Efficient Calculation of Improved Simultaneous Testing Bands for QQplots.”
Summer Quarter begins
All day
RTG Summer Lectures on Data Science
1:30–4:00 pm Stevanovich Center
Lectures 5 & 6: Spectral methods in network analysis
Speaker: David Bindel, Cornell University
Friday, June 21, 2019, at 1:30-2:30 PM and 3:00-4:00 PM
RTG Summer Lectures on Data Science
1:30–5:30 pm Stevanovich Center
Lectures 3 & 4: Scalable kernel methods
Speaker: David Bindel, Cornell University
Wednesday, June 19, 2019, at 1:30-2:30 PM and 3:00-4:00 PM
Seminar II: Empirical risk minimization over deep neural networks overcomes the curse of dimensionality in the numerical approximation of Kolmogorov PDEs
Speaker: Julius Berner, University of Vienna
Wednesday, June 19, 2019, at 4:30-5:30 PM
RTG Summer Lectures on Data Science
1:30–5:30 pm Stevanovich Center
Lectures 1 & 2: Latent factor models
David Bindel, Cornell University
Monday, June 17, 2019, at 1:30-2:30 PM, and 3:00-4:00 PM
Seminar I: Universal sparsity of deep ReLU networks
Speaker: Dennis Elbrächter, University of Vienna
Monday, June 17, 2019, at 4:30-5:30 PM
Christopher McKennan: Dissertation Presentation and Defense
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 111
The University of Chicago
Department of Statistics
CHRISTOPHER MCKENNAN
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
Title: “Latent Variables in ‘omic’ Data”
Jing Yu: Dissertation Presentation and Defense
11:00 am–12:00 pm Jones 111
The University of Chicago
Department of Statistics
JING YU
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
Title: “On the Application, Theory and Computation of Optimal Experimental Design in the Context of Sensor Placement”