Our First event for the Statistics Department Colloquium Series for fall is scheduled for Monday, September 12th from 12:00 – 1:00pm (ET) and will be an in person presentation in room 316 of the Science Center. The speaker is Jacob Bien who is an associate professor in the Department of Data Sciences and Operations at the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California.

Title : Tree-Based Aggregation in Statistical Learning

Abstract : In many fields, data are routinely being collected at finer resolutions than would previously have...

Our upcoming event for the Statistics Department Colloquium Series is scheduled for this Monday, April 25th from 12:00 – 1:00pm (ET) and will be an in person presentation in room 316 of the Science Center. The speaker is Yury Polyanskiy who is an Associate Professor in the Department of Electrial Engineering and Computer Sciences at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Title: Empirical Bayes estimators for Poisson and normal means

Abstract : We consider the classical problems of estimating the mean of an n-dimensional normally (with...

Our upcoming event for the Statistics Department Colloquium Series is scheduled for this Monday, April 18th from 12:00 – 1:00pm (ET) and will be an in person presentation in room 316 of the Science Center. The speaker is Tselil Schramm who is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at Stanford University.

Title: Testing thresholds in high-dimensional random geometric graphs

Abstract: We study random geometric graphs in the high-dimensional setting, where the dimension grows to infinity with the number of...