Wharton Statistics and Data Science Seminars, Conferences, and Workshops

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Spring 2025 Seminars

Date Presenter Title
 Wednesday, January 29
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: F45 Jon M. Huntsman Hall		 Brice Huang – Massachusetts Institute of Technology Algorithmic Thresholds in Random Optimization Problems 
Wednesday, February 5
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: F45 Jon M. Huntsman Hall		 John Cherian – Stanford University Statistical Methods for Assessing the Factual Accuracy of Large Language Models
Wednesday, February 12
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: F45 Jon M. Huntsman Hall		 Shuangping Li – Stanford University Spectral Clustering in the Gaussian Mixture Block Model
Wednesday, February 19
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: F45 Jon M. Huntsman Hall		 Reese Pathak – UC Berkeley Generalizing Beyond the Training Data: New Theory and Algorithms for Optimal Transfer Learning
Wednesday, February 26
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: F45 Jon M. Huntsman Hall		 Anya Katsevich – New York University High-dimensional Laplace-type asymptotics
Wednesday, March 19
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: F45 Jon M. Huntsman Hall		 Michael Kosorok – University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Linear regression using Hilbert-space valued covariates with unknown reproducing kernel
Wednesday, March 26
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: F45 Jon M. Huntsman Hall		 Whitney Newey – Massachusetts Institute of Technology  Automatic Debiased Machine Learning via Riesz Regression
Wednesday, April 2
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: F45 Jon M. Huntsman Hall		 Peter Song – University of Michigan
Wednesday, April 9
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: F45 Jon M. Huntsman Hall		 Nichole Pashley – Rutgers University
Wednesday, April 16
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: F45 Jon M. Huntsman Hall		 Alex Wong – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Wednesday, April 23
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: F45 Jon M. Huntsman Hall		 Ankur Moitra – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Wednesday, April 30
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: F45 Jon M. Huntsman Hall		 Becca Willet – University of Chicago
Wednesday, May 7
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: TBD		 Sumit Mukherjee – Columbia 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