SPRING QUARTER 2021
MONDAY, May 24, 2021, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
RICHARD GILL, Mathematical Institute, University of Leiden, Netherlands
"Statistical Issues in Serial Killer Nurse Cases"
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MONDAY, May 17, 2021,at 4:00 PM, Via Zoom
Joint Seminar with the Stevanovich Center for Financial Mathematics
MARKUS REIß, Institut für Mathematik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
"Testing the Rank of Time-varying Covariance Matrices"
Video from the talk
MONDAY, May 10, 2021, at 4:00 PM, Via Zoom
LIHUA LEI, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
"Conformal Inference of Counterfactuals and Time-to-event Outcomes"
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CANCELLED-- MONDAY, May 10, 2021, at 12:00 PM, Via Zoom
AXEL MUNK, Institut für Mathematische Stochastik, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
"Nanostatistics"
MONDAY, May 3, 2021, at 12:00 PM, Via Zoom
RUTH HELLER, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
"Designing Optimal Multiple Testing Procedures"
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MONDAY, April 26, 2021, at 4:00 PM, Via Zoom
AFONSO S. BANDEIRA, Department of Mathematics, ETH Zürich
"Computational Hardness of Hypothesis Testing and Quiet Plantings"
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MONDAY, April 19, 2021, at 4:00 PM, Via Zoom
PETER BÜHLMANN, Department of Mathematics, ETH Zürich
"Deconfounding"
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MONDAY, April 12, 2021, at 4:00 PM, Via Zoom
STEPHEN BATES, Departments of Statistics and EECS, UC Berkeley
"Distribution-Free, Risk-Controlling Prediction Sets"
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MONDAY, April 5, 2021, at 12:00 PM, Via Zoom
VLADIMIR VOVK, Centre for Reliable Machine Learning and Department of Computer Science, Royal Holloway, University of London
"Conformal Prediction and Testing"
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WINTER QUARTER 2021
MONDAY, March 8, 2021, at 4:00 PM, Via Zoom
BHASWAR B. BHATTACHARYA, Statistics Department, University of Pennsylvania
"Detection Thresholds for Distribution-Free Non-Parametric Tests: The Curious Case of Dimension 8"
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MONDAY, March 8, 2021, at 2:00 PM, Via Zoom
Joint Seminar with the Department of Computer Science
ZHUORAN YANG, Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University
"Demystifying (Deep) Reinforcement Learning: The Pessimist, The Optimist, and Their Provable Efficiency"
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MONDAY, March 1, 2021, at 4:00 PM, Via Zoom
SUMIT MUKHERJEE, Department of Statistics, Columbia University
"Global Testing for Dependent Bernoullis"
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WEDNESDAY, February 17, 2021, at 4:00 PM, Via Zoom
Joint Seminar with the Department of Computer Science
SAMORY K. KPOTUFE, Department of Statistics, Columbia University
"From Theory to Clustering"
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MONDAY, February 1, 2021, at 4:00 PM, Via Zoom
Joint Seminar with the Department of Computer Science
MARIYA TONEVA, Machine Learning Department & The Neuroscience Institute, Carnegie Mellon University
"Data-Driven Transfer of Insight Between Brains and AI Systems"
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WEDNESDAY, January 27, 2021, at 4:00 PM, Via Zoom
Joint Seminar with the Department of Computer Science
WEIHAO KONG, University of Washington
"The Surprising Power of Little Data"
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MONDAY, January 25, 2021, at 4:00 PM, Via Zoom
Joint Seminar with the Department of Computer Science
REBEKKA BURKHOLZ, Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
"Cascade Processes in Machine Learning"
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MONDAY, January 11, 2021, at 4:00 PM, Via Zoom
TETSUYA KAJI, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
"An Approximate Metropolis-Hastings Algorithm for Simulation-Based Bayesian Inference (with Veronika Ročková)"
AUTUMN QUARTER 2020
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MONDAY, November 30, 2020, at 4:00 PM, Via Zoom
KRISTIAN LUM, Human Rights Data Analysis Group
"Closer Than They Appear: A Bayesian Perspective on Individual Probabilities in Risk Assessment"
MONDAY, November 23, 2020, at at 4:00 PM, Via Zoom
RUOBIN GONG, Department of Statistics, Rutgers University
"Towards Good Statistical Inference from Differentially Private Data"
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Slides from the talk
MONDAY, November 16, 2020, at 4:00 PM, Via Zoom
PAUL RATHOUZ, Department of Population Health, The University of Texas at Austin
"Semiparametric Generalized Linear Models: Small, Large, and Biased Samples"
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MONDAY, November 9, 2020, at 4:00 PM, Via Zoom
DYLAN SMALL, Department of Statistics, University of Pennsylvania
"Gun Violence Prevention and Statistics"
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MONDAY, November 2, 2020, at 4:00 PM, Via Zoom
JUN LIU, Department of Statistics, Harvard University
"Multiple Data Splitting for FDR Controls"
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MONDAY, October 26, 2020, at 4:00 PM, Via Zoom
HONGKAI JI, Department of Biostatistics, John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
"Single Cell Genomic Data Science Methods for Mapping Gene Regulatory Landscape"
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MONDAY, October 19, 2020, CANCELLED
NATHAN SREBRO, TTIC, Department of Computer Science and Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
"TBA"
MONDAY, October 12, 2020, at 4:00 PM, Via Zoom
RAHUL MAZUMDER, Operations Research and Statistics Group at MIT Sloan School of Management
"Sparse Regression at Scale: Convex and Mixed Integer Programming Perspectives"
MONDAY, October 5, 2020, at 4:00 PM, Via Zoom
SVEN WANG, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics at the University of Cambridge
"On Polynomial-Time Computation of High-Dimensional Posterior Measures by Langevin-type Algorithms"