Department of Statistics

Public Lecture Series

Public Lecture Series Video Archive

Our faculty and students work on statistical methodology, a subject that spans mathematics, philosophy, and computing, and impacts many areas of science, engineering, and business. Our department is also heavily involved in interdisciplinary research, where we work closely with scientists in fields like biology, astronomy, climate science, and social science. The purpose of this Department of Statistics public lecture series is to share our diverse research and statistical insights with as broad an audience as possible. This is particularly critical now given the enormous importance of statistics and data science to society. 

2026

Lingzhou Public Talk
Lingzhou Xue, Spring 2026

Beyond the Bell Curve Assumption: Recent Advances in Statistical Graphical Models

2025

Michael S Public Talk
Michael Schweinberger, Spring 2025

Causal Learning in the Interconnected and Interdependent World of the 21st Century

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Counting the Uncounted: The Network Scale-Up Method for Estimating Hard-to-Reach Populations

Maggie Niu, Fall 2025

2024

bharath lecture
Bharath Sriperumbudur, Spring 2024

A Kernel Hike Through the Machine Learning Forest

 

Keystone State Statistics Symposium

yanyuan ma talk
Yanyuan Ma, Keystone State Statistics Symposium

Causal Inference and Missingness

 

2023

Bing Li Talk
Bing Li, Spring 2023

Sufficiency: a Brief History of Data Reduction

Francesca Public Lecture

What can shapes teach us? Leveraging functional data in biomedical applications

Francesca Chiaromonte, Fall 2023

 

2022

dave hunter talk
Dave Hunter, Fall 2022

My Statistical Consulting Project was Declared Unconstitutional– And I’m Partly Glad