2024
CAM & the Department of Statistics Joint Colloquium: DAN MIKULINCER
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, JANUARY 4, 2024, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with the Department of Statistics
DAN MIKULINCER, MIT Mathematics
“Diffusion-based probabilistic flows and low distortion mappings”
2023
CAM Colloquium: NISHA CHANDRAMOORTHY
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, December 7, 2023, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
NISHA CHANDRAMOORTHY, School of Computational Science and Engineering College of Computing, Georgia Tech
“Rigorous Computation of Linear Response and Sampling”
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CAM & The Department of Statistics and The Data Science Institute Joint Colloquium: ANNA GILBERT
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, November 30, 2023, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
Joint Colloquium with The Department of Statistics and The Data Science Institute
ANNA GILBERT, Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University
“Project and Forget: Solving Large-Scale Metric Constrained Problems”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: SOUMYABRATA KUNDU
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 303
Tuesday, November 28, 2023, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time), in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
SOUMYABRATA KUNDU, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
“Optimal Heteroskedasticity Testing in Random Design”
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Autumn 2023 Distinguished Speaker Series: Q. Vera Liao
12:30–1:30 pm John Crerar Library, Room 390
Lunch social starting at NOON before the lecture at 12:30 PM. (Lunch will be provided on a first come, first serve basis.)
Q. Vera Liao, FATE (Fairness, Accountability, Transparency, and Ethics of AI) Group, Microsoft Research
“Human-Centered AI Transparency”
Presented by the Data Science Institute in partnership with the Departments of Statistics, Computer Science, and the Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics
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CAM Colloquium: MIRJETA PASHA
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, November 16, 2023, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
MIRJETA PASHA, Department of Mathematics, Tufts University
“Bayesian and Deterministic Methods with Edge-Preserving Priors for Spatio-Temporal Large-Scale Inverse Problems”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: YATING LIU
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 303
Tuesday, November 14, 2023, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time), in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
YATING LIU, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
“Sparse Topic Modeling Via Spectral Decomposition and Thresholding”
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Autumn 2023 Distinguished Speaker Series: Milind Tambe
12:30–1:30 pm John Crerar Library Building, John Crerar Library Building, Room 390
Friday, November 10, 2023, 5730 S. Ellis Avenue, JCL Room 390
MILIND TAMBE, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science and Director of Center for Research in Computation and Society at Harvard University
“Integrating ML+Optimization: Driving Social Impact in public health and conservation”
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Statistics, DSI, CAM
CAM Colloquium: SHIDONG JIANG
4:00–5:00 pm Jones 303
THURSDAY, November 9, 2023, at 4:00 PM, in Jones 303, 5747 South Ellis Avenue
SHIDONG JIANG, Center for Computational Mathematics, Flatiron Institute
“A Dual-space Multilevel Kernel-splitting Framework for Discrete and Continuous Convolution”
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CAM & Stats Student Seminar: KINGSLEY YEON
12:30–1:30 pm Jones 303
Tuesday, November 7, 2023, at 12:30 PM (Central Daylight Time), in Jones 303, 5747 S. Ellis Avenue
KINGSLEY YEON, Committee on Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Chicago
“Deep Univariate Polynomial and Conformal Approximation”