Department Seminars
Upcoming Seminars
| Speaker | Title (Click for details) | Time |
|---|---|---|
| Edgar Dobriban | How to Use Synthetic Data for Improved Statistical Inference? | Jan 26th, 2026 11:30 am |
| Trevor Campbell | TBD | Feb 2nd, 2026 11:30 am |
| Qiyang Han | Algorithmic inference via nonconvex gradient descent | Feb 9th, 2026 11:30 am |
Past Seminars
| Speaker | Time | Sponsor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bayesian Models for Understanding Chromatin Structure in Single-cell Data | Dec 10th, 2021 | ||
| Debdeep Pati | Statistical and Algorithmic Foundations of Variational Inference | Dec 3rd, 2021 |
| Speaker | Time | Sponsor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nicolas Garcia Trillos | On Adversarial Training, Perimeter Minimization, and Multimarginal Optimal Transport Problems | Nov 19th, 2021 | |
| Kristian Lum | Blackwell Seminar: Closer than they appear: A Bayesian Perspective on Individual-Level Heterogeneity in Risk Assessment | Nov 12th, 2021 |
| Speaker | Time | Sponsor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sumit Mukherjee | Global Testing for Dependent Bernoullis | Oct 29th, 2021 | |
| Thomas Berrett | Optimal Rates for Independence Testing via U-Statistic Permutation Tests | Oct 22nd, 2021 | |
| Lihua Lei | Conformal Inference of Counterfactuals and Time-to-event Outcomes | Oct 15th, 2021 | |
| Fang Han | Rank Correlations | Oct 8th, 2021 |
| Speaker | Time | Sponsor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Folded Concave Laplacian Spectral Penalty Learns Block Diagonal Sparsity Patterns with the Strong Oracle Property | Jun 4th, 2021 |
| Speaker | Time | Sponsor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Irina Gaynanova | Truncated Latent Gaussian Copula Model for Zero-Inflated Data | May 28th, 2021 | |
| Shubhadeep Chakraborty | High-dimensional Change-point Detection Using Generalized Homogeneity Metrics | May 21st, 2021 | |
| Trevor Campbell, Alex Luedtke | Joint Colloquium with UBC & UW | May 14th, 2021 | |
| Eardi Lila | Functional Random-Effects Modeling of Brain Shape and Connectivity | May 7th, 2021 |
| Speaker | Time | Sponsor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Stephen Walker | Martingale Posterior Distributions | Apr 30th, 2021 | |
| Stephen Bates | Distribution-Free, Risk-Controlling Prediction Sets | Apr 23rd, 2021 |
| Speaker | Time | Sponsor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| De-biased Inference on Heterogeneous Quantile Treatment Effects in High Dimensions | Mar 9th, 2021 | ||
| Jacob Steinhardt, Ema Perkovic | Joint Colloquium with UC Berkeley & UW | Mar 8th, 2021 |
| Speaker | Time | Sponsor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| From Statistical Bounds to Optimization Complexity in Sparse Recovery Problems | Feb 26th, 2021 |
| Speaker | Time | Sponsor | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ken Rice | *Joint with Biostatistics* - 2019-20 Ross L. Prentice Lecture: Striving for Balance: How to View Statistical Methods as Tradeoffs | Dec 10th, 2020 | |
| Sida Peng | Estimating the Effects of a New Technology using a Duration Model for Staggered Adoption (with Aureo de Paula) | Dec 4th, 2020 |