Wharton Statistics and Data Science Seminars, Conferences, and Workshops

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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 
Wednesday, April 10
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: F70 Huntsman Hall
Cynthia Rudin – Duke University 
Wednesday, April 17
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: F70 Huntsman Hall
Matteo Sesia – USC Marshall Adaptive Conformal Classification with Noisy Labels 
Friday, April 26
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: 370 JMHH
Stefan Wager- Stanford University  Learning from a Biased Sample 

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Conferences/Workshops

Date Title
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