2019
Statistics Colloquium: Sayan Mukherjee
12:25–12:25 pm
SAYAN MUKHERJEE, Department of Statistical Science, Duke University
“Integral Geometry for Modeling Shapes”
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Statistics Colloquium: Ying Nian Wu
4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133
YING NIAN WU, Department of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles
“A Representational Theory of Grid Cells”
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Statistics Colloquium: Rebecca Steorts
4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133
REBECCA STEORTS, Department of Statistical Science, Duke University
“Entity Resolution with Societal Impacts in Machine Learning”
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Statistics Colloquium: Lin Lin
11:00 am–12:00 pm Kent 120
LIN LIN, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley
“Feynman Diagrams, Luttinger-Ward Formalism, and Gibbs Measure”
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Statistics Colloquium: David M. Blei
4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133
DAVID M. BLEI, Departments of Statistics and Computer Science, Columbia University
“The Blessings of Multiple Causes”
Statistics Colloquium: Gregory Valiant
4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133
GREGORY VALIANT, Department of Computer Science, Stanford University
“When Your Big Data Seems Too Small”
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Statistics Colloquium: Mark Van Der Laan
4:30–4:30 pm Eckhart 133
MARK VAN DER LAAN, Departments of Biostatistics and Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
“Targeted Minimum Loss Estimation with the Highly Adaptive Lasso: Applications in Causal Inference”
Statistics Colloquium: Jeff Leek
4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133
JEFF LEEK, The Johns Hopkins Data Science Lab & Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
“Data Science Education as a Scalable Economic and Public Health Intervention”
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Statistics Colloquium: Pragya Sur
4:30–5:30 pm Eckhart 133
PRAGYA SUR, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
“A Modern Maximum-Likelihood Approach for High-Dimensional Logistic Regression”
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Statistics Colloquium: Jonathan Weed
4:00–5:00 pm
JONATHAN WEED, The Statistics and Data Science Center & Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
“Fast Rates and Fast Algorithms for the Wasserstein Distance”
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