Past Events

  • 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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  • 2024 Feb 26

    Colloquium Series: Zhou Fan

    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 Zhou Fan of the Statistics and Data Science department at Yale University.

    Gradient flows for empirical Bayes in high-dimensional linear models

     

    Abstract: Empirical Bayes provides a powerful approach to learning and adapting to latent structure...

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  • 2024 Feb 23

    Probabilitas Seminar Series: Murat Erdogdu

    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, February 23, from 10:30-11:30am EST. This week's guest will be Murat Erdogdu of the Univesity of Toronto.

     

    Title: Feature Learning in Two-layer Neural Networks: The Effect of Data Covariance

    Abstract: We study the effect of gradient-based optimization on
    feature learning in two-layer neural networks. We consider...

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  • 2024 Feb 12

    Colloquium Series: Sitan Chen

    12:00pm to 1:00pm

    Location: 

    Science Center 316

    Our upcoming event for the Statistics Department Colloquium Series is scheduled for Monday, February 12 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 Sitan Chen of the Computer Science Department at Harvard.

    Provably learning a multi-head attention layer

    Abstract: Despite the widespread empirical success of transformers,...

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  • 2023 Dec 08

    Probabilitas Seminar Series

    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, December 8, from 10:30-11:30am EST. This week's guest will be Murat Erdogdu of the Univesity of Toronto.
  • 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.

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