Past Events

  • 2023 Apr 17

    Statistics Colloquium Series

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Science Center, Room 316

    Our upcoming event for the Statistics Department Colloquium Series is scheduled for this Monday, April 17th from 12:00 – 1:00pm (ET) and will be an in-person presentation Science Center Rm. 316. The speaker will be Ilias Diakonikolas who is a faculty member in the Department of Computer Sciences at UW Madison.

    Title : Algorithmic Robust Statistics

    Abstract : The field of Robust Statistics studies the problem of designing estimators that perform well even when the data significantly deviates from the idealized modeling...

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  • 2023 Apr 10

    Statistics Colloquium Series

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Science Center, Room 316

    Our upcoming event for the Statistics Department Colloquium Series is scheduled for this Monday, April 10th from 12:00 – 1:00pm (ET) and will be an in-person presentation Science Center Rm. 316. The speaker will be Edward McFollwand who is an Assistant Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School.

    Title : Anomalous Pattern Detection: A Novel Lens for Statistical Inquiry

    Abstract : There has been a growing interest in the use of machine learning methods for causal...

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  • 2023 Apr 03

    Statistics Colloquium Series

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Science Center, Room 316

    Our upcoming event for the Statistics Department Colloquium Series is scheduled for this Monday, April 3rd from 12:00 – 1:00pm (ET) and will be an in-person presentation Science Center Rm. 316. The speaker will be Tony Cai, who is a Daniel H. Silberberg Professor of Statistics and Data Science at the Wharton School University of Pennsylvania.

    Title: Optimal Statistical Estimation under Nonstatistical Constraints

    Abstract: In the conventional statistical...

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  • 2023 Mar 27

    Statistics Colloquium Series

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Science Center, Room 316

    Our upcoming event for the Statistics Department Colloquium Series is scheduled for this Monday, March 27th from 12:00 – 1:00pm (ET) and will be an in-person presentation Science Center Rm. 316. The speaker will be Xiang Zhou, who is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University.

    Title: Disparity Analysis: A Tale of Two Approaches

    Abstract:...

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  • 2023 Mar 20

    Statistics Colloquium Series

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Science Center, Room 316

    Our upcoming event for the Statistics Department Colloquium Series is scheduled for this Monday, March 20th from 12:00 – 1:00pm (ET) and will be an in-person presentation Science Center Rm. 316. The speaker will be Qingyuan Zhao is an Assistant Professor at the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge.

    Title: Simultaneous hypothesis testing using negative controls

    Abstract: Negative control is a common technique in scientific investigations and broadly refers to the situation where a null effect...

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  • 2023 Feb 13

    Statistics Colloquium Series

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Science Center, Room 316

    Our upcoming event for the Statistics Department Colloquium Series is scheduled for this Monday, February 13th from 12:00 – 1:00pm (ET) and will be an in-person presentation Science Center Rm. 316. The speaker will be Sasha Rakhlin who is is a Professor at MIT, with appointments in the Statistics & Data Science Center and the Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences.

    Title : Bridging Estimation and Interactive Decision Making

    Abstract : In this talk, we will present a unifying framework for...

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  • 2023 Feb 06

    Statistics Colloquium Series

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Science Center, Room 316

    Our upcoming event for the Statistics Department Colloquium Series is scheduled for this Monday, February 6th from 12:00 – 1:00pm (ET) and will be an in-person presentation Science Center Rm. 316. The speaker will be Cynthia Rudin who is an Earl D. McLean, Jr. Professor of Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Statistical Science, Mathematics, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics at Duke University, and directs the Interpretable Machine Learning Lab.

    Title: Do Simpler Machine Learning Models Exist and How Can We Find Them?

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  • 2023 Jan 30

    Statistics Colloquium Series

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Science Center, Room 316

    Our upcoming event for the Statistics Department Colloquium Series is scheduled for this Monday, January 30th from 12:00 – 1:00pm (ET) and will be an in-person presentation Science Center Rm. 316. The speaker will be Victor Veitch who is is an Assistant Professor of Data Science and Statistics at the University of Chicago, and a research scientist at Google Brain.

    Title: Concept Algebra for Text-Controlled Vision Models

    Abstract: This talk concerns the control of text-guided generative models, where a user provides a natural...

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  • 2023 Jan 23

    Statistics Colloquium Series

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Science Center, Room 316

    Our upcoming event for the Statistics Department Colloquium Series is scheduled for this Monday, January 23rd from 12:00 – 1:00pm (ET) and will be an in person presentation in room 316 of the Science Center.  The speaker is Diana Cai who is a Ph.D. candidate in computer science at Princeton University.

    Title : Probabilistic inference under misspecification

    Abstract : Probabilistic inference is a pillar of modern data analysis, and the flexibility...

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  • 2022 Dec 05

    Statistics Colloquium Series

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Science Center, Room 316

    Our upcoming event for the Statistics Department Colloquium Series is scheduled for this Monday, November 21st from 12:00 – 1:00pm (ET) and will be an in-person presentation Science Center Rm. 316. The speaker will be Yongyi Guo who is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Statistics, Harvard University, hosted by Professor Susan A. Murphy. In the fall of 2023, she will start as an assistant professor at the Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

    Title: A statistical approach to feature-based dynamic pricing...

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