Wharton Statistics and Data Science Seminars, Conferences, and Workshops
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Fall 2022 Seminars
| Date | Presenter | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, August 31 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Location: Virtual |
Xiao-Li Meng – Harvard University | Personalized Treatments: Sounds Heavenly, but Where on Earth Did They Find My Guinea Pigs? |
| Wednesday, September 7 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Location: F60 Jon M. Huntsman Hall |
Zhou Fan – Yale University | Maximum Likelihood for High-noise Group Orbit Estimation and Cryo-EM |
| Wednesday, September 14 Time: 3:30-4:30 pm Location: F70 Jon M. Huntsman Hall |
Giles Hooker – University of California, Berkeley | There is No Free Variable Importance: Traps in Interpreting Black Box Functions |
| Wednesday, September 21 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Location: F60 Jon M. Huntsman Hall |
Konrad Kording – University of Pennsylvania | Machine Learning for Causality |
| Wednesday, September 28 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Location: F60 Jon M. Huntsman Hall |
Samuel Kou – Harvard University | Catalytic Prior Distributions for Bayesian Inference |
| Wednesday, October 5 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Location: F60 Jon M. Huntsman Hall |
Zheng Tracy Ke – Harvard University | Mixed Membership Estimation for Large Social Networks |
| Wednesday, October 12 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Location: F60 Jon M. Huntsman Hall |
Annie Qu – University of California, Irvine | Query-augmented Active Metric Learning |
| Wednesday, October 19 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Location: Virtual |
Stephanie Hicks – Johns Hopkins University | Scalable Statistical Methods and Software for Single-cell and Spatial Data Science |
| Wednesday, October 26 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Location: Virtual |
Amy Willis – University of Washington | … |
| Wednesday, November 2 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Location: F60 Jon M. Huntsman Hall |
Jonathan Niles-Weed – New York University | … |
| Wednesday, November 9 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Location: TBD |
Mengjie Chen – University of Chicago | … |
| Wednesday, November 16 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Location: 355 Jon M. Huntsman Hall |
Iain Johnstone – Stanford University | … |
| Wednesday, November 30 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Location: F60 Jon M. Huntsman Hall |
Tengyuan Liang – University of Chicago | … |
| Wednesday, December 7 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Location: F60 Jon M. Huntsman Hall |
Rina Foygel Barber – University of Chicago | … |
Previous Statistics Seminars
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Conferences/Workshops
| Date | Title |
|---|---|
| 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 |