Past Events

  • 2023 Dec 04

    Statistics Colloquium Series

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Science Center 316

    Our upcoming event for the Statistics Department Colloquium Series is scheduled for Monday, December 4 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 Claire Donnat of the Statistics Department at the University of Chicago.

    Sparse topic modeling via spectral decomposition and thresholding

    Abstract: By modeling documents as mixtures of topics, Topic...

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  • 2023 Dec 01

    Probabilitas Seminar Series

    10:30am to 11:30pm

    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, December 1, from 10:30-11:30am EST. This week's guest will be Sam Hopkins of MIT.
  • 2023 Nov 27

    Statistics Colloquium Series

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Science Center 316

    Our upcoming event for the Statistics Department Colloquium Series is scheduled for Monday, November 27 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 Scott Linderman of the Statistics Department at Stanford University.

     

    Title: Latent States of Brains and Behavior

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  • 2023 Nov 20

    Statistics Colloquium Series

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Science Center 316

    Our upcoming event for the Statistics Department Colloquium Series is scheduled for Monday, November 20 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 Linda Zhao of the Statistics Department at the University of Pennsylvania.

     

    Doubly High-Dimensional Contextual Bandits: An Interpretable Model for Joint Assortment-Pricing

     

    Abstract

    Key challenges in running a...

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  • 2023 Nov 17

    Probabilitas Seminar Series

    10:30am to 11:30am

    Location: 

    Science Center 112
    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, November 17, from 10:30-11:30am EST. This week's guest will be Frederic Koehler of Stanford University. 
  • 2023 Nov 13

    Statistics Colloquium Series

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Science Center 316

    Our upcoming event for the Statistics Department Colloquium Series is scheduled for Monday, November 13 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 Davide Viviano of the Economics Department at Harvard University.

     

    Title: Policy design in experiments with network interference

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  • 2023 Nov 06

    Statistics Colloquium Series

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Science Center 316

    Our upcoming event for the Statistics Department Colloquium Series is scheduled for Monday, November 6 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 Rahul Singh of the Economics Department at Harvard University.

     

    Title: Causal Inference with Corrupted Data: Measurement Error, Missing Values, Discretization, and Differential Privacy

    Abstract: The US Census Bureau will deliberately corrupt...

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  • 2023 Nov 03

    Probabilitas Seminar Series

    10:30am to 11:30am

    Location: 

    Online

    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, November 3, from 10:30-11:30am EST. This week's speaker is Marco Mondelli from IST Austria. To attend the seminar, please use the following Zoom link: ...

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  • 2023 Oct 30

    Statistics Colloquium Series

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Science Center 316

    Our upcoming event for the Statistics Department Colloquium Series is scheduled for Monday, October 30 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 David Alvarez-Melis of the Computer Science Department at Harvard University.

     

    Title: Machine Learning in the Space of Datasets: an Optimal Transport Perspective

     

    Abstract: Machine learning —as taught in classrooms and textbooks— typically involves...

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  • 2023 Oct 23

    Statistics Colloquium Series

    12:00pm to 1:30pm

    Location: 

    Science Center 316

    Our upcoming event for the Statistics Department Colloquium Series is scheduled for Monday, October 23 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 Alex Leudtke of the Statistics Department at the University of Washington.

     

    Title: One-Step Estimation of Differentiable Hilbert-Valued Parameters


    Abstract: We present estimators for smooth Hilbert-valued parameters, where smoothness is characterized by a...

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