SPRING QUARTER 2020
MONDAY, JUNE 1, 2020, at 4:00 PM, Via Zoom
JOSHUA WEINSTEIN, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago
"Spatio-genetic Imaging with DNA Microscopy"
MONDAY, MAY 18, 2020, at 4:00 PM, Via Zoom
YUXIN CHEN, Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago
"Algorithmic Aspects of Machine Teaching: Tractability, Interpretability, and Robustness"
MONDAY, May 4, 2020, at 4:00 PM, Via Zoom
ERIC JONAS, Department of Computer Science, University of Chicago
"Machine Learning for Molecular Inverse Problems"
TUESDAY, April 28, 2020, at 4:00 PM, Via Zoom
BRYON ARAGAM, Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago
"Identifiability of Nonparametric Mixture Models, Clustering, and Semi-supervised Learning"
WINTER QUARTER 2020
MONDAY, March 9, 2020, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
FAN LI, Departments of Statistical Science, Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University
"Balancing Covariate Via Propensity Score Weighting"
THURSDAY, March 5, 2020, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
JESSI CISEWSKI-KEHE, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Yale University
"Analyzing Data Full of Holes: Topological Data Analysis"
MONDAY, MARCH 2, 2020, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
MARC A. SUCHARD, Departments of Biomathematics, Biostatistics and Human Genetics, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA
"Large-scale Evidence Generation Across a Network of Databases (LEGEND) for Hypertension: Real-world, Reliable and Reproducible"
TUESDAY, February 25, 2020, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
AKIHIKO NISHIMURA, Department of Biomathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
"Bayesian Sparse Regression for Large-scale Observational Healthcare Analytics"
MONDAY, February 24, 2020, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
JULIA A. PALACIOS, Departments of Statistics and Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University
"Tajima Coalescent and Statistical Summaries of Unlabeled Genealogies"
WEDNESDAY, February 19, 2020, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
TYLER H. MCCORMICK, Departments of Statistics and Sociology, University of Washington
"Using Aggregated Relational Data to Feasibly Identify Network Structure Without Network Data"
MONDAY, February 17, 2020, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
COLIN B. FOGARTY, Operations Research and Statistics, MIT Sloan School of Management
"Prepivoting in Finite Population Causal Inference"
MONDAY, February 10, 2020, at 4:30 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
PETER GRÜNWALD, Machine Learning, Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica; Mathematical Institute, Leiden University
"Safe Testing"
THURSDAY, February 6, 2020, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
ARUN KUMAR KUCHIBHOTLA, Statistic Department, The Wharton School, The University of Pennsylvania
"Valid Post-selection Inference: Why and How"
WEDNESDAY, February 5, 2020, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
VICTOR VEITCH, Department of Statistics, Columbia University
"Adapting Black-box Machine Learning Methods for Causal Inference"
MONDAY, February 3, 2020, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Joint Seminar with CAM
FRANCA HOFFMANN, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology
"Gradient Flows: From PDE to Data Analysis."
FRIDAY, January 31, 2020, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
YI SUN, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University
"Fluctuations for Products of Random Matrices"
WEDNESDAY, January 29, 2020, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
CLAIRE DONNAT, Statistics Department, Stanford University
"Quantifying Uncertainty in Complex Systems with Applications to Brain Connectomics"
MONDAY, January 27, 2020, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
CONG MA, Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University
"Statistics Meets Nonconvex Optimization: Computational Efficiency and Uncertainty Quantification"
THURSDAY, January 23, 2020, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Joint Seminar with CAM
SHAHAR KOVALSKY, Department of Mathematics, Duke University
"Geometry + Optimization: Towards Computational Anatomy"
TUESDAY, January 21, 2020, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
YIXIN WANG, Department of Statistics, Columbia University
"The Blessings of Multiple Causes"
THURSDAY, January 16, 2020, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Joint Seminar with CAM
JEREMY G. HOSKINS, Mathematics Department, Yale University
"Elliptic PDEs on Regions with Corners"
WEDNESDAY, January 15, 2020, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Joint Seminar with CAM
LISE-MARIE IMBERT-GÉRARD, Department of Mathematics, University of Maryland
"Wave Propagation in Inhomogeneous Media: An Introduction to Generalized Plane Waves"
MONDAY, January 13, 2020, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
SONG MEI, Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering and Department of Statistics, Stanford University
"Generalization Error of Linearized Neural Networks: Staircase and Double-descent"
THURSDAY, January 9, 2020, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
ALISA KNIZEL, Department of Mathematics, Columbia University
"A Quest for Universality"
MONDAY, January 6, 2020, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
Joint Seminar with CAM
BORIS HANIN, Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University
"Mathematics of Deep Neural Networks"
AUTUMN QUARTER 2019
TUESDAY, December 3, 2019, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
MICHAEL BRENNER, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University
"Machine Learning for Partial Differential Equations"
MONDAY, December 2, 2019, at 4:30 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
FANG HAN, Department of Statistics, University of Washington
"Marginal and multivariate ranks, optimal transport theory, and Le Cam"
MONDAY, November 25, 2019, at 4:30 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
HARRISON ZHOU, Department of Statistics and Data Science, Yale University
"Understanding Clustering: The Beginning of A Journey"
FRIDAY, November 22nd, at 3:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
JICHUN XIE, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University
"Controlling False Discovery Rate for Hypotheses with Localizing Structures"
MONDAY, November 18th, at 4:30 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
DANIEL HSU, Computer Science Department & Data Science Institute, Columbia University
"Predictive Models from Interpolation"
MONDAY, November 11, 2019, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
ELIZABETH PURDOM, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
"Topics in the analysis of high-throughput molecular data and the bootstrap in high dimensions"
MONDAY, November 4, 2019, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
SIMON TAVARÉ, Director, Irving Institute for Cancer Dynamics & Department of Statistics & Systems Biology, Columbia University
"Some Statistical Problems in Cancer Genomics"
CANCELLED - MONDAY, October 28, 2019, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
SHAM KAKADE, Departments of Computer Science & Statistics, University of Washington
"TBA"
MONDAY, October 21, 2019, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
CHAO GAO, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
"Robust Estimation: Optimal Rates, Computation and Adaptation"
MONDAY, October 14, 2019, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
GUILLAUME POULIOT, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago
"Instrumental Variables Quantile Regression with Multivariate Endogenous Variable"
MONDAY, October 7, 2019, at 4:30 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue
GENEVERA ALLEN, Department of Statistics, Rice University
"Data Integration: Data-Driven Discovery from Diverse Data Sources"