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2024 Colloquia
2024 Colloquia
The Statistics Department Colloquia invites academic scholars and industrial researchers to present and communicate cutting-edge research and progress in statistics, machine learning, data science, and their interdisciplinary applications. Colloquia are held weekly and open for attendance by faculty, students, and staff.
Speakers
Fall 2024
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Aug 29 | Weijie Su (University of Pennsylvania) | How Statistics Can Advance Large Language Models: Fairness Alignment and Watermarking |
| Sep 5 | Sherry Wang (UT Arlington) | Bayesian Multi-instance Learning: From Healthcare to Online Review Analysis |
| Sep 12 | Carlos Cinelli (UW) | Long Story Short: Omitted Variable Bias in Causal Machine Learning |
| Sep 19 | Will Townes (CMU) | Bizarre mixed Poisson distributions and wastewater-based epidemiology |
| Oct 3 | Lizhen Lin (UMD) | Statistical foundations of deep generative models |
| Oct 17 | Max Morris (Iowa State) | Preliminary Two-Level Experimental Designs within Three-Level Orthogonal Arrays |
| Oct 24 | Tingting Zhang (Pitt) | Analysis of Functional Connectivity Changes from Childhood to Old Age: A Study Using HCP-D, HCP-YA, and HCP-A Datasets |
| Nov 21 | Mary Meyer (Colorado State) | TBA |
| Dec 5 | Kai Zhang (UNC) | BET and BELIEF |
| Dec 12 | Kelly McConville (Bucknell) | A Cautious Survey Statistician’s Approach to Estimation in the Age of Big Data |
Spring 2024
| Date | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 21-22 |
Marker Lecture with Xiao-Li Meng Note: non-standard time |
Data Minding Before Data Mining (Or How Small are Big Data?) |
| Feb 29 | Ian Fellows (Fellows Statistics) | Flexible Modeling of Network Growth: The Latent Order Logistic (LOLOG) Model |
| Mar 21 | Public Lecture (Bharath Sriperumbudur) | A Kernel Hike in the Machine Learning Forest |
| Mar 26 | SAGF Lecture - Dr. Elizabeth Stuart | Learning What Works in Populations for Public Health and Public Policy: The Role of Careful Study Design, Statistics, and Statisticians |
| Mar 28 | Bruno Sanso (UCSC) | Non-Gaussian geostatistical models using nearest neighbors processes. |
| Apr 5-7 | Infectious Disease Workshop | Visit Program |
| Apr 11 | Anne van Deltt (Columbia) | A Statistical Framework for Analyzing Shape in a Time Series of Random Geometric Objects |
| Apr 18 | Wei-Biao Wu (University of Chicago) | Fast Algorithms for Estimating Covariance Matrices of Stochastic Gradient Descent Solutions |
| Apr 25 | End of Year Party |
The colloquia will be held from 3:30pm to 4:30pm in Thomas 201
A look back at previous COLLOQUIA.