Spring 2020 Seminars

Date Presenter Title
Wednesday, January 15
*Time: 12:10-1:10 pm
*Location: F60 Huntsman Hall
Xiang Zhu – Stanford University Complex Trait Genetics Through the Lens of Regulatory Networks
Friday, January 17
*Time: 12:10-1:10 pm
*Location: F60 Huntsman Hall
Ewain Gwynne – University of Cambridge Random Surfaces and Liouville Quantum Gravity
Tuesday, January 21
*Time: 12:10-1:10 pm
*Location: F60 Huntsman Hall
Yuqi Gu – University of Michigan Uncover Hidden Fine-Grained Scientific Information: Structured Latent Attribute Models
Wednesday, January 22
*Time: 12:10-1:10 pm
*Location: F60 Huntsman Hall
Song Mei – Stanford University Generalization Error of Linearized Neural Networks: Staircase and Double-descent
Monday, January 27
*Time: 12:10-1:10 pm
*Location: F60 Huntsman Hall
Simon Du – Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton Foundations of Intelligent Systems with (Deep) Function Approximators
Wednesday, January 29
*Time: 12:10-1:10 pm
*Location: F60 Huntsman Hall
Paromita Dubey – University of California, Davis Fréchet Change Point Detection
Monday, February 3
*Time: 12:10-1:10 pm
*Location: F60 Huntsman Hall
Sean Jewell – University of Washington Estimation and Inference for Changepoint Models
Wednesday, February 5
*Time: 12:10-1:10 pm
*Location: F60 Huntsman Hall
Christopher Glynn – University of New Hampshire Estimating Inflection Points in Community-level Homeless Rates with a Bayesian Nonparametric Mixture Model
Monday, February 10
*Time: 12:10-1:10 pm
*Location: F60 Huntsman Hall
Cong Ma – Princeton University Statistics Meets Nonconvex Optimization: Computational Efficiency and Uncertainty Quantification
Wednesday, February 26
*Time: 12:10-1:10 pm
*Location: F60 Huntsman Hall
Nathan Kallus – Cornell University Smooth Contextual Bandits: Bridging the Parametric and Nonparametric Regret Regimes
Wednesday, March 4
*Time: 12:10-1:10 pm
*Location: F60 Huntsman Hall
Peter Bickel – University of California, Berkeley Some Basic Issues in Network Models and Fitting

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