2023 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

Nov. 30th, 2023: Krishnaiah Lecture - Kathryn Roeder

Date	Speaker	Title
February 23rd	Barry Nussbaum	It’s Not What We Said, It’s Not What They Heard, It’s What They Say They Heard
March 30th	Tianyuan Guan from Kent University	Markov Process Multistate Modeling of Large Data
April 6th	Aaditya Ramdas from CMU	Randomized and exchangeable improvements of Markov's, Chebyshev's and Chernoff's inequalities
April 13th	Alessandro Rinaldo from CMU	High-dimensional CLTs: near-optimal rates and modern inference for OLS regression
April 20th	Zhigen Zhao from Temple University	False Discovery Rate Control via Mirror Statistics
April 27th	Peter Craigmile from Ohio State	Enhancing statistical inference for stochastic processes using modern statistical methods
August 24th	Mikael Kuusela from Carnegie Mellon	Neural likelihood surface estimation for intractable spatial models
August 31st	John Liechty from the Smeal College of Business	Bayesian Inference using Generative Models
September 7th	Dajiang Liu from the Hershey College of Medicine	Methods and tools for multi-ancestry genetic association meta-analysis
September 28th	Sam Wong from Waterloo	Dynamic systems: estimation, assessment, and applications with sparse and noisy data
October 12th	Chen Yong from UPenn	PDA: Privacy-preserving Distributed Algorithms and statistical inference in the era of real-world data networks
October 26nd	Russel Shinohara (UPenn)	Integrating complex correlated imaging data in multi-center studies
November 2nd	Richard Zhehang Li (UC Santa Cruz)	Cause-of-Death Classification Using Verbal Autopsies From Multiple Heterogeneous Domains
November 9th	Marepalli Rao (University of Cincinnati)	The Legacy of Ronald Aylmer Fisher and the Turmoil Surrounding Him
November 16th	Ziv Goldfeld (Cornell)	Gromov-Wasserstein Alignment: Statistical and Computational Advancements via Duality

The colloquia will be held from 3:30pm to 4:30pm in Thomas 201

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