Past Events

  • 2024 Apr 08

    Colloquium Series: Jioyang Huang

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Our upcoming event for the Statistics Department Colloquium Series is scheduled for Monday, February 26 from 12:00 – 1:00pm (ET) and will be an in-person presentation Science Center Rm. 316. Lunch will be provided to guests following the talk. This week's speaker will be Jioyang Huang of the Statistics and Data Science Department at the UPenn Wharton School.
  • 2024 Apr 05

    Probabilitas Seminar Series: Eric Vanden-Eijnden

    10:30am to 11:30am

    Location: 

    Science Center 316

    The Probabilitas Seminar series focuses on high-dimensional problems that combine statistics, probability, information theory, computer science, and other related fields. The upcoming seminar takes place on Friday, March 8, from 10:30-11:30am EST. This week's guest will be ric Eric Vanden-Eijnden of NYU.

  • 2024 Apr 01

    Colloquium Series: Stephen Bates

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Our upcoming event for the Statistics Department Colloquium Series is scheduled for Monday, February 26 from 12:00 – 1:00pm (ET) and will be an in-person presentation Science Center Rm. 316. Lunch will be provided to guests following the talk. This week's speaker will be Stephen Bates of MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.

     

    Title: Hypothesis testing with information asymmetry

    Abstract:...

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  • 2024 Mar 29

    Probabilitas Seminar Series: Yuejie Chi

    10:30am to 11:30am

    Location: 

    Science Center 316

    The Probabilitas Seminar series focuses on high-dimensional problems that combine statistics, probability, information theory, computer science, and other related fields. The upcoming seminar takes place on Friday, March 8, from 10:30-11:30am EST. This week's guest will be Yuejie Chi of the Electrical and Computer Engineering department at Carnegie Mellon University.

     

    Title: Solving Inverse Problems with Generative Priors: From Low-rank to Diffusion Models

    Abstract: Generative priors are effective countermeasures to combat the curse of...

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  • 2024 Mar 25

    Colloquium Series: Andrea Montanari

    12:00pm

    Our upcoming event for the Statistics Department Colloquium Series is scheduled for Monday, February 26 from 12:00 – 1:00pm (ET) and will be an in-person presentation Science Center Rm. 316. Lunch will be provided to guests following the talk. This week's speaker will be Andrea Montanari of the Statistics and Mathematics departments at Stanford University.
  • 2024 Mar 22

    Probabilitas Seminar Series: Ramon Van Handel

    10:30am to 11:30am

    Location: 

    Science Center 300H

    The Probabilitas Seminar series focuses on high-dimensional problems that combine statistics, probability, information theory, computer science, and other related fields. The upcoming seminar takes place on Friday, March 22, from 10:30-11:30am EST. This week's guest will be Ramon Van Handel of the Mathematics department at Princeton University.

     

    Title: Sharp matrix concentration inequalities

    Abstract:

    Much of random matrix theory is concerned with a relatively small collection...

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  • 2024 Mar 18

    Colloquium Series: Michael Li

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Our upcoming event for the Statistics Department Colloquium Series is scheduled for Monday, February 26 from 12:00 – 1:00pm (ET) and will be an in-person presentation Science Center Rm. 316. Lunch will be provided to guests following the talk. This week's speaker will be Michael Li of the Harvard Business School.

    Title: The Cram Method for Efficient Simultaneous Learning and Evaluation

    Abstract: We introduce the `cram'...

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  • 2024 Mar 08

    Probabilitas Seminar Series: Cedric Gerbelot

    10:30am to 11:30am

    Location: 

    Science Center 316

    The Probabilitas Seminar series focuses on high-dimensional problems that combine statistics, probability, information theory, computer science, and other related fields. The upcoming seminar takes place on Friday, March 8, from 10:30-11:30am EST. This week's guest will be Cedric Gerbelot of NYU.

     

    Title : Dynamics of optimization on the multi-rank spiked tensor and matrix model

    Abstract : We consider the multi-rank spiked matrix and tensor model and study gradient flow (GF), Langevin dynamics and online stochastic gradient descent (SGD). This model...

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  • 2024 Mar 04

    Colloquium Series: Emery Brown

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Science Center 316
    Our upcoming event for the Statistics Department Colloquium Series is scheduled for Monday, February 26 from 12:00 – 1:00pm (ET) and will be an in-person presentation Science Center Rm. 316. Lunch will be provided to guests following the talk. This week's speaker will be Emery Brown of MIT's Departments of Computational Neuroscience and Health Sciences and Technology.
  • 2024 Mar 01

    Probabilitas Seminar Series: Sagnik Nandy

    10:30am to 11:30am

    Location: 

    Science Center 316

    The Probabilitas Seminar series focuses on high-dimensional problems that combine statistics, probability, information theory, computer science, and other related fields. The upcoming seminar takes place on Friday, March 1, from 10:30-11:30am EST. This week's guest will be Sagnik Nandy of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

     

    Title: Orchestrated Approximate Message Passing: A new way of information integration in multimodal data

     

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