Wharton Statistics and Data Science Seminars, Conferences, and Workshops
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Fall 2024 Seminars
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Wharton Special Student Invited Seminar Wednesday, August 28 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Location: 109 Steinberg Hall – Dietrich Hall |
Victor Chernozhukov – Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Long Story Short: Omitted Variable Bias in Causal Machine Learning |
| Wednesday, September 4 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Location: 109 Steinberg Hall – Dietrich Hall |
Ruodu Wang – University of Waterloo | Combining P-Values Under Dependence and Optimal Transport |
| Statistics-Biostatistics Distinguished Invited Lectureship Wednesday, September 11 Time: 11:00-12:00 pm Location: Arthur H. Rubenstein Auditorium |
Wing Hung Wong – Stanford University | Applications of AI Methods in Mainstream Statistics |
| Wednesday, September 18 Time: 3:30-4:30 pm Location: F60 Jon M. Huntsman Hall |
Lihua Lei – Stanford University | Model-Agnostic Covariate-Assisted Inference on Partially Identified Causal Effects |
| Wednesday, September 25 Time: 3:30-4:30 pm Location: G65 Jon M. Huntsman Hall |
Jane-Ling Wang – University of California, Davis | Deep Learning for Censored Survival Data |
| Wednesday, October 2 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Location: 109 Steinberg Hall – Dietrich Hall |
Lorin Crawford- Microsoft/Brown University | Statistical Challenges and Opportunities in Defining, Modeling, and, Targeting Cell State in Cancer |
| Monday, October 7 Time: 4:30-5:30 pm Location: 213 Steinberg Hall – Dietrich Hall |
Denny Zhou- Google DeepMind | LLM Reasoning: Key Ideas and Limitations |
| Wednesday, October 9 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Location: 109 Steinberg Hall – Dietrich Hall |
Bo Li – Washington University, St. Louis | Perspectives on Climate Model Evaluation |
| Wednesday, October 16 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Location: 109 Steinberg Hall – Dietrich Hall |
Samuel Hopkins – Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Robustness Auditing for Linear Regression — To Singularity and Beyond |
| Wednesday, October 23 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Location: 109 Steinberg Hall – Dietrich Hall |
Vladimir Koltchinskii – Georgia Tech | Efficient Estimation of Smooth Functionals of High-Dimensional Parameters: Two Models and Two Estimation Methods |
| Wednesday, October 30 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Location: 109 Steinberg Hall – Dietrich Hall |
Cong Ma – University of Chicago | Taming Covariate Shift: From Prediction to Uncertainty Quantification |
| Wednesday, November 6 Time: 3:30 – 4:30 pm Location: G65 Jon M. Huntsman Hall |
Edward Kennedy – Carnegie Mellon University | Minimax Optimality in Causal Inference |
| Wednesday, November 13 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Location: 109 Steinberg Hall – Dietrich Hall |
Yihong Wu- Yale University | Next- Symbol Prediction Without Mixing: Optimal Rates, Algorithms, and Hardness |
| Lawrence D. Brown Distinguished Lecture Wednesday, November 20 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Location: 109 Steinberg Hall – Dietrich Hall |
Susan Murphy- Harvard University | Lawrence D. Brown Distinguished Lectures Series |
| Wednesday, December 4 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Location: 109 Steinberg Hall – Dietrich Hall |
Edo Airoldi – Temple University | |
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Conferences/Workshops
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| 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 |