Spring 2024 Seminars

Date Presenter Title
Wednesday, January 24
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: F70 Huntsman Hall
Lingfu Zhang – University of California, Berkeley Probabilistic Perspective Toward KPZ Class Models
Wednesday, January 31
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: F70 Huntsman Hall
Arun Kumar Kuchibhotla- Carnegie Mellon University    A ‘robust’ framework for statistical inference
Monday, February 5
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location:F70 Huntsman Hall
Enric Boix- Adsera – Massachusetts Institute of Technology Beyond the black box: characterizing and improving how neural networks learn
Wednesday, February 7
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: F70 Huntsman Hall
Sifan Liu – Stanford University  An Exact Sampler for Inference after Polyhedral Selection
Wednesday, February 14
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: F70 Huntsman Hall
Ying Jin- Stanford University  Model-free Selective Inference: From Calibrated Uncertainty to Trusted Decisions 
Monday, February 19
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: G50 Huntsman Hall
Brian Trippe- Columbia University  Probabilistic Methods for Designing Functional Protein Structures
Wednesday, February 21
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: F70 Huntsman Hall
Shuangning Li- Harvard University  Inference and Decision-Making amid Social Interactions
Wednesday, February 28
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: F70 Huntsman Hall
Michael Celentano- University of California, Berkeley High-dimensional Statistics in the Inconsistency Regime
Wednesday, March 13
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: F70 Huntsman Hall
Jinchi Lv- University of Southern California SOFARI: High-Dimensional Manifold-Based Inference
Wednesday, March 20
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: F70 Huntsman Hall
Harrison Zhou – Yale School of Medicine Estimation for High-Dimensional Multi-Reference Alignment
Wednesday, March 27
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: F70 Huntsman Hall
Richard Samworth- University of Cambridge  Optimal Convex Loss Selection Via Score Matching
Wednesday, April 3
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: F70 Huntsman Hall
Adam Smith – Boston University  Privacy in Machine Learning and Statistical Inference
Wednesday, April 10
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: F60 Huntsman Hall
Cynthia Rudin – Duke University  Simpler Machine Learning Models for a Complicated World
Wednesday, April 17
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: F60 Huntsman Hall
Matteo Sesia – USC Marshall Adaptive Conformal Classification with Noisy Labels 
Thursday, April 18
Time: 10:15-11:15 am
Location: F95 JMHH
Damek Davis- Cornell University  Nonconvex Optimization for Statistical Estimation and Learning: Beyond Smoothness and Convexity
Friday, April 26
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: 370 JMHH
Stefan Wager- Stanford University  Learning from a Biased Sample 
Monday, April 29
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: 365 JMHH
Bodhisattva Sen – Columbia University  Extending the Scope of Nonparametric Empirical Bayes
Thursday, May 2
Time: 10:15-11:15 am
Location: G65 JMHH
Adel Javanmard – USC Marshall  Theoretical Insights into Wide Neural Networks: Optimization, Generalization and Robustness
Wednesday, May 15
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: 401 ARB
Sam Oman – Hebrew University of Jerusalem Kriging Using James-Stein Estimators which Contract to Subspaces

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