Student Seminars

Autumn Quarter 2023

Zoom links will be provided in their corresponding email announcements.

October

Past Seminars

Summer Quarter 2023

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August

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Spring Quarter 2023

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April

Winter Quarter 2023

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Autumn Quarter 2022

December

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Summer Quarter 2022

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Autumn Quarter 2021

NOVEMBER

Summer Quarter 2021

August

  • Tuesday, August 24, 2021, at 2:00 PM Central Daylight  Time (US & Canada), via Zoom
    Dissertation Proposal Presentation
    Nathan Gill, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
    "Variance Decomposition in Several Settings"

July

Spring Quarter 2021

May

  • Friday, May 28, 2021, at 3:00-5:00 PM Central Daylight Time, via Zoom
    Mini-Seminars Day 2
    Moderator:  Daniel Xiang
    Video Mini-Seminars Day 2
    • Huy Dang Tran, “Graph Neural Networks“
    • Yuhan Liu, “The Time, The Gaussianity, and The Connectome“
    • Sounak Paul, “Differentially Private Networks“
    • Omar Ghattas, “Valid Statistical Inference with Random Forests“
    • YoonHaeng Hur, “Optimal Transport for Data Science“
    • Irina Cristali, “Using Embeddings for Estimating Causal Effects Over Social Networks“
  • Thursday, May 27, 2021, at 12:00-2:00 PM Central Daylight Time, via Zoom
    Mini-Seminars Day 1
    Moderator:  Abby Stevens
    Video Mini-Seminars Day 1 
    • (Joon) Joonsuk Kang, “Not All Factor Loadings Are Created Equal“
    • Wei Kuang, “Over-parameterized Matrix Sensing with Factorized Gradient Descent“
    • Subhodh Kotekal, “Statistical Limits of Sparse Mixture Detection“
    • Anghzi Fan, “WGAN and Its Regularization“
    • (Bill) Vasileios Katsianos, “Quantifying the Uncertainty in Drug-Drug Interaction Predictions“
    • Thursday, May 13, 2021, at 1:00 PM Central Daylight Time (US &Canada), via Zoom
    • Master's Thesis Presentation
    • Tianrui Hou, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
    • "Macroeconomic Nowcasting via Bootstrap Particle Filtering"

April

Winter Quarter 2021

March

February

January

  • Wednesday, January 20, 2021, at 9:30 AM Central Standard Time (US & Canada), via Zoom
    Master's Thesis Presentation
    Wenxuan Guo, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
    "Statistics of the Shepp p-Product"

Autumn Quarter 2020

December

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September