| 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 |
Model Misspecification in Microbiome Studies |
Wednesday, November 2
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: F60 Jon M. Huntsman Hall |
Jonathan Niles-Weed – New York University |
Weak Limits of Entropy-regularized Optimal Transport |
Wednesday, November 9
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: Virtual |
Mengjie Chen – University of Chicago |
Demystifying the Drop-outs in Single Cell RNA-seq Data |
Wednesday, November 16
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: 355 Jon M. Huntsman Hall |
Iain Johnstone – Stanford University |
Estimating Sparse Eigenstructure for High Dimensional Data – Biases and Balms |
Thursday, November 17
Time: 3:30-4:30 pm
Location: 355 Jon M. Huntsman Hall |
Iain Johnstone – Stanford University |
Likelihood Ratios and a Transition from Gaussian to Tracy-Widom |
Friday, November 18
Time: 1:30-2:30 pm
Location: 345 Jon M. Huntsman Hall |
Iain Johnstone – Stanford University |
Expectation Propagation in Mixed Models |
Wednesday, November 30
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: F60 Jon M. Huntsman Hall |
Tengyuan Liang – University of Chicago |
Universal Prediction Band, Variance Interpolation, and Semi-Definite Programming |
Wednesday, December 7
Time: 12:00-1:00 pm
Location: F60 Jon M. Huntsman Hall |
Rina Foygel Barber – University of Chicago |
Testing the Stability of a Black-box Algorithm |
