2019
Student Seminar: Micol Tresoldi
2:00–3:00 pm Jones 111
Dissertation Proposal Presentation
MICOL TRESOLDI, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Sparsity”
Master's Thesis Presentation: Zhengyang Feng
2:00–2:30 pm Jones 304
Zhengyang Fang, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“An Extension of Susie Model with Mixture-Gaussian Prior”
Student Seminar: Yufeng Han
3:00–4:00 pm Jones 304
Dissertation Presentation and Defense
Yuefeng Han, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Robust Estimation of High Dimensional Time Series”
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