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Format: Typically a speaker will present an introduction and survey of a particular problem, application, or research area of current statistical interest. Seminars usually last 50 minutes, with additional time for discussion. A reception will be held before each seminar
NOTE: For Zoom sessions, detailed information will be sent via our weekly email distribution.
Spring Quarter 2024
Monday, March 25, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Pre-Seminar refreshments will be served at 11:00 AM in Jones 303
Statistics Colloquium
Stephen Bates, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Department, MIT
“Hypothesis testing with information asymmetry” [link to abstract PDF]
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Past Seminars
Autumn 2023
October
Monday, October 2, 2023, at 11:30 AM, Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Ave.
Ryan Tibshirani, Department of Statistics, University of California- Berkeley
"How many parameters does your interpolator use? Revisiting degrees of freedom in the wake of overparametrized machine learning"
Monday, October 9, 2023, at 11:30 AM, Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Ave.
Sabyasachi Chatterjee, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
"Theory for Cross Validation in Nonparametric Regression"
Monday, October 23, 2023, at 11:30 AM, Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Ave.
Morgane Austern, Department of Statistics, Harvard University
"Novel results for uncertainty quantification."
Monday, October 30, 2023, at 11:30 AM, Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Ave.
Liza Levina, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan
"Latent space models for multiplex networks"
November
CANCELLED Monday, November 6, 2023, at 11:30 AM, Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Ave.
Susan Murphy, Department of Statistics and Computer Science, Harvard University
"TBA"
Monday, November 13, 2023, at 11:30 AM, Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Ave.
Subhro Ghosh, Department of Mathematics/Dept of Statistics and Data Science, National University of Singapore
"The unreasonable effectiveness of negative association"
Thursday, November 30, 2023, at 4:00 PM, Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Ave.
Joint Colloquium with The Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics
Anna Gilbert, Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University
"Project and Forget: Solving Large-Scale Metric Constrained Problems"
Winter 2024
January
Thursday, January 4, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM)
Dan Mikulincer, MIT Mathematics
"Diffusion-based probabilistic flows and low distortion mappings"
Monday, January 8, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM)
Lingfu Zhang, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
"Probabilistic Perspective Toward Last Passage Percolation and KPZ"
Thursday, January 11, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM)
Montie Avery, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Boston University
"Universal spreading into unstable states"
Tuesday, January 16, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM)
Yizhe Zhu, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine
"Asymmetry Helps: Non-Backtracking Spectral Methods for Sparse Matrices and Tensors"
Thursday, January 18, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM)
Nicholas Boffi, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
“On flows and diffusions: from the many-body Fokker-Planck equation to stochastic interpolants”
Monday, January 22, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM)
Ernest Ryu, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Seoul National University
"Toward a grand unified theory of accelerations in optimization and machine learning"
Thursday January 25, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM)
Siting Liu, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
"Enhancing PDE Computations and Score-Based Generative Models through Optimization"
Monday, January 29, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with the Data Science Institute (DSI)
Li Ma, Department of Statistical Science, Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Duke University
“Two examples of scalable unsupervised learning with trees and recursive partitions”
Tuesday, January 30, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM)
Promit Ghosal, Department of Mathematics, Brandeis University
“Fractal Geometry of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations”
February
Thursday, February 1, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics (CCAM)
Nisha Chandramoorthy, School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Tech
“Learning from dynamics, learning dynamics and the dynamics of learning”
Monday, February 5, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Yiqun Chen, Data Science, Stanford University
“Advancing Biomedical Data Science: Testing data-driven hypotheses post-clustering & Leveraging ChatGPT for genomics data.”
Thursday, February 8, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Brian Trippe, Department of Statistics, Columbia University
“Probabilistic methods for designing functional protein structures”
Monday, February 12, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Shuangning Li, Department of Statistics, Harvard University
“Inference and Decision-Making amid Social Interactions”
Thursday, February 15, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Yuling Yao, Center for Computational Mathematics, Flatiron Institute
"Calibration and aggregation in simulation-based inference"
Monday, February 19, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with the Data Science Institute (DSI)
Carter Butts, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California Irvine
"Modeling Ensembles of Networks"
Monday, February 26, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with the Data Science Institute (DSI)
Yuejie Chi, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University
"From Single-agent to Federated Reinforcement Learning"
