Wharton Statistics and Data Science Seminars, Conferences, and Workshops

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Fall 2025 Seminars

Date Presenter Title
Wednesday, September 3
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: 109 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall		 Aaditya Ramdas – Carnegie Mellon University The Numeraire e-variable and Reverse Information Projection
Wednesday, September 10
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: 109 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall		 Rina Foygel Barber – University of Chicago Evaluating Algorithms and Model Classes: Fundamental Limits in the Distribution-free Setting
Wednesday, September 17
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: 109 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall		 Jingshu Wang – University of Chicago  Aggregating dependent signals: validity and power of Heavy-Tailed Combination Tests
Wednesday, September 24
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: 109 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall		 Will Fithian – University of California, Berkeley Estimating the FDR of Variable Selection
Lawrence D. Brown Distinguished Lecture
Wednesday, October 1
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: G60 Jon M. Huntsman Hall		 Michael I. Jordan – University of California, Berkeley Lawrence D. Brown Distinguished Lectures by Michael I. Jordan
Wednesday, October 8
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: 109 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall		 Edward George – University of Pennsylvania Proper Bayes Minimax Multiple Shrinkage Estimation
Wednesday, October 15
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: 109 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall		 Scott Linderman- Stanford University  Parallelizing MCMC Across the Sequence Length: T samples in O(log2 T) time
Wednesday, October 22
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: 109 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall		 Renyuan Xu – Stanford University Diffusion Models for Structured Financial and Economic Data: From Factors to Adaptive Sequences
Wednesday, October 29
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: 109 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall		 Julia Wrobel – Emory University  Functional Survival Models for Detecting Recent Cannabis Intoxication Using Wearable Pupillometers
Wednesday, November 5
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: 109 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall		 Yang Feng – New York University  Regularized Fine-Tuning for Representation Multi-Task Learning: Adaptivity, Minimaxity, and Robustness
Wednesday, November 12
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: 109 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall		 Kengo Kato – Cornell University  Statistical Theory for Gromov-Wasserstein Distances
Wednesday, November 19
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: 109 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall		 Yuexi Wang – University of Illinois  Simulation-based Inference via Structured Score Matching
Wharton Special Student Invited Seminar 
Monday, December 8
Time: 3:30-4:30 pm
Location: G65 Jon M. Huntsman Hall		 Martin Wainwright – MIT Wild Refitting for Black box Prediction
Wednesday, December 10
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: 109 Steinberg Hall-Dietrich Hall		 Daniel Nevo – Tel Aviv University Causal Inference with Misspecified Network Interference Structure

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Conferences/Workshops

Date Title
Wednesday, October 1, 2025 – Friday, October 3, 2025 Lawrence D. Brown Distinguished Lectures by Michael I. Jordan
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 – Thursday, November 21, 2024 Lawrence D. Brown Distinguished Lecture Series by Susan Murphy
Tuesday, April 23, 2024 – Thursday, April 25, 2024 Lawrence D. Brown Distinguished Lecture Series by David Donoho
Friday, February 3, 2023 Women in Data Science Philadelphia@Penn 2023 Conference
Friday, December 10 – Saturday, December 11, 2021 Perspectives in Statistical Modeling and Inference: A Workshop in Honor of Ed George’s 70th Birthday
Wednesday, September 8 – Friday, September 10, 2021 Lawrence D. Brown Distinguished Lecture Series by James Berger
Monday, February 8 – Friday, February 12, 2021 Women in Data Science Philadelphia@Penn 2021 Virtual Conference
Friday, November 30 – Saturday, December 1, 2018 Memorial Service and Workshop in Honor of Lawrence D. Brown
May 20, 2015 Atlantic Causal Inference Conference 2015
December 15, 2010 Borrowing Strength Theory Powering Applications
June 5, 2009 Objective Bayes Meeting 2009
May 20, 2009 Atlantic Causal Modeling Conference 2009