2024
CAM & Stats Student Seminar: JOHN HOOD
12:30–1:30 pm Searle 240A
Tuesday, February 20, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Searle 240A (location change this quarter), 5735 South Ellis Avenue
JOHN HOOD, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“The Allocore Tensor Decomposition”
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Statistics Lunar New Year Party
11:30 am–1:15 pm Jones 303 & Jones 304
Statistics Lunar New Year Party
Jointly hosted with CAM
Friday, February 16, 2024, 11:00 am-2:00 pm, Jones 303 and 304.
Come join us in celebrating the Year of the Dragon.
The Year of the Dragon falls on Saturday, February 10th, 2024, and celebrations culminate with the Lantern Festival on February 24th, 2024.
Celebrations last up to 16 days, but only the first 7 days are considered a public holiday (February 10th–February 16th, 2024).
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: SUZANNA PARKINSON
12:30–1:30 pm Searle 240A
Tuesday, February 13, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Searle 240A (location change this quarter), 5735 South Ellis Avenue
SUZANNA PARKINSON, Computational and Applied Mathematics, The University of Chicago
“Depth Separation of Neural Networks in Learning”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: SEAN O'HAGAN
12:30–1:30 pm Searle 240A
Tuesday, February 6, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Searle 240A (location change this quarter), 5735 South Ellis Avenue
SEAN O’HAGAN, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
“Reinforcement Learning for Approximate Bayesian Computation via Tree-Based Recursive Partitioning”
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CAM & the Department of Statistics Joint Colloquium: NISHA CHANDRAMOORTHY
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, February 1, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with the Department of Statistics
NISHA CHANDRAMOORTHY, School of Computational Science and Engineering, Georgia Tech
“Learning from dynamics, learning dynamics and the dynamics of learning”
CAM & the Department of Statistics Joint Colloquium: PROMIT GHOSAL
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
TUESDAY, JANUARY 30, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with the Department of Statistics
PROMIT GHOSAL, Department of Mathematics, Brandeis University
“Fractal Geometry of Stochastic Partial Differential Equations”
CAM & Stats Student Seminar: ANDREW DENNEHY
12:30–1:30 pm Searle 240A
Tuesday, January 30, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Searle 240A (location change this quarter), 5735 South Ellis Avenue
ANDREW DENNEHY, Computational and Applied Mathematics, The University of Chicago
“Strategic Feature Extraction: Methods for Low-Dimensional Representation of Games”
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CAM & the Department of Statistics Joint Colloquium: SITING LIU
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, January 25, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with the Department of Statistics
SITING LIU, Department of Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles
“Enhancing PDE Computations and Score-Based Generative Models through Optimization”
CAM & Stats Student Seminar: NATHAN WANIOREK
12:30–1:30 pm Searle 240A
Tuesday, January 23, 2024, at 12:30 PM, in Searle 240A (location change this quarter), 5735 South Ellis Avenue
NATHAN WANIOREK, Computational and Applied Mathematics, The University of Chicago
“Hierarchical Bayesian Inverse Problems: A High-Dimensional Statistics Viewpoint”
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CAM & the Department of Statistics Joint Colloquium: ERNEST RYU
11:30 am–12:30 pm Jones 303
MONDAY, JANUARY 22, 2024, at 11:30 AM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with the Department of Statistics
ERNEST RYU, Department of Mathematical Sciences, Seoul National University
“Toward a grand unified theory of accelerations in optimization and machine learning”