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	Statistical Analysis of Weak Signals
Wednesday, April 9 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Location: F45 Jon M. Huntsman Hall	Nicole Pashley – Rutgers University	Design-based inference for incomplete block designs
Wednesday, April 16 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Location: F45 Jon M. Huntsman Hall	Alex Wong – The Hong Kong Polytechnic University	A study of a two-step estimation approach for two-phase studies
Wednesday, April 23 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Location: F45 Jon M. Huntsman Hall	Ankur Moitra – Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Model Stealing for Low-Rank Language Models
Wednesday, April 30 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Location: F45 Jon M. Huntsman Hall	Becca Willet – University of Chicago	Off-the-shelf Algorithmic Stability
Wednesday, May 7 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Location: 255 Jon M. Huntsman Hall	Sumit Mukherjee – Columbia University	CLT in HD Bayesian linear regression

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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