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Accurate and scalable large-scale variational inference for mixed models
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, September 29, 2023
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Omiros Papaspiliopoulos, Professor, Bocconi University
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When a little imprecision can help: Case studies from statistical privacy
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, October 06, 2023
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Ruobin Gong, Assistant Professor, Rutgers
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Collaborative and Federated Data Analytics Beyond Predictive Modeling
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, October 20, 2023
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Raed Al Kontar, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
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Machine Learning to Infer and Control Brain State
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, November 03, 2023
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
David Carlson, Assistant Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University
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Career Opportunities in Academic Healthcare
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Wednesday, November 08, 2023
3:05 pm - 4:20 pm
Gina-Maria Pomann PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine and Richard Barfield, Staff Biostatistician, Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Duke University School of Medicine
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Grey-Box Bayesian Optimization for Human-in-the-loop Optimization
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, November 10, 2023
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Peter Frazier Eleanor and Howard Morgan Professor Operations Research and Information Engineering Cornell University
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The Sahel Region: Coups, Jihadism, Wagner & Anti-French Sentiments
Sponsor(s):
Africa Initiative
Thursday, November 16, 2023
11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Leif Brottem (Grinnell College), Marc-Antoine Pérouse de Montclos (IRD, Paris), Alioune Sow (University of Florida), Stephen Smith (Duke)
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On low-dimensional structure in transport and inference
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, November 17, 2023
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Youssef Marzouk, Professor, MIT
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BET and BELIEF
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, December 01, 2023
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Kai Zhang, Associate Professor, UNC
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Model selection over partially ordered sets
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, December 08, 2023
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Armeen Taeb, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
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Video Imputation and Prediction Methods with Applications in Space Weather
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, January 12, 2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Yang Chen, Assistant Professor, University of Michigan
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Probabilistic methods for designing functional protein structures
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, January 19, 2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Brian Trippe, Columbia University
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Bridged Posterior: Optimization, Profile Likelihood and a New Approach of Generalized Bayes
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Monday, January 22, 2024
11:45 am - 12:45 pm
Leo Duan, Assistant Professor, University of Florida
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An Exact Sampler for Inference after Polyhedral Selection
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, January 26, 2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Sifan Liu, Stanford University
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CANCELLED:Geodesic Mixed Effects Models for Repeatedly Observed/Longitudinal Random Objects
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Monday, January 29, 2024
11:45 am - 12:45 pm
Satarupa Bhattacharjee, Pennsylvania State
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The Many Facets of Monte Carlo Methods: From Sampling Algorithms to Unbiased Estimators
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, February 02, 2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Guanyang Wang, Assistant Professor, Rutgers University
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Inference for machine learning under dependence
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Monday, February 05, 2024
11:45 am - 12:45 pm
Arkajyoti Saha, University of Washington
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A Day in the Life: JMP R&D
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Wednesday, February 07, 2024
3:05 pm - 4:20 pm
Dr. Ryan Lekivetz, Senior Manager, Advanced Analytics R&D, JMP
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Debiasing in the inconsistency regime
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, February 09, 2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Michael Celentano, University of California, Berkeley
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GS-BART: Graph split additive decision trees for classification and nonparametric regression of spatial and network data
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, February 23, 2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Huiyan Sang Professor of Statistics Texas A&M University
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InfiAgent: A Multi-Tool Agent for AI Operating Systems
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Wednesday, February 28, 2024
3:05 pm - 4:20 pm
Dr. Hongxia Yang, Head of Large Models, ByteDance US
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Leveraging Visual Cognition in Data Visualization
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, March 01, 2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Danielle Szafir, Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
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Bayesian trees and forests for unsupervised learning and their spatial adaptation properties
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, March 08, 2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Linxi Liu, Assistant Professor, University of Pittsburgh
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Surrogate modeling and uncertainty quantification for inverse problems and dynamical systems
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, March 29, 2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Ying Hung, Professor, Rutgers University
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Advances in Adversarial Risk Analysis
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, April 05, 2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Fabrizio Ruggeri, CNR IMATI, Milano, Italy
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Quantum Markov chain Monte Carlo(s)
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, April 12, 2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Andrew Holbrook, Assistant Professor, UCLA
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Sparse topic modeling via spectral decomposition and thresholding
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, April 19, 2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Claire Donnat, Department of Statistics, University of Chicago
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Utilizing Network Structure to Flexibly Model Areal Data
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, June 07, 2024
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Michael Christensen
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Graphical and Isoperimetric Perspectives in Sampling and Regularization
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Thursday, July 11, 2024
11:00 am - 1:00 pm
Ed Tam
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Ensembling and Coordination Methods for Sequential Decision Making Under Uncertainty
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Joseph Lawson
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Bayesian forecasting and decisions under model uncertainty: Here and back again (1988–2024)
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, September 06, 2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Mike West, The Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor (Emeritus Fall 2024) of Statistics & Decision Sciences, Duke University
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German Studies Fall 2024 Teacher & Student Mixer!
Sponsor(s):
German Studies
Thursday, September 12, 2024
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
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Ballot design and electoral outcomes: The role of candidate order and party affiliation
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, September 13, 2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Alessandro Arlotto, Associate Professor of Business Administration and Mathematics. Decision Sciences, The Fuqua School of Business, Duke University
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Normatively Backwards Rubric Scoring: Evidence from NIH Peer Review
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, September 20, 2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Elena Erosheva, Professor, University of Washington
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Causally Sound Priors for Binary Experiments
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, September 27, 2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Carlos Cinelli, Assistant Professor, University of Washington
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The Bayesian Infinitesimal Jackknife for Variance
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, October 04, 2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Ryan Giordano, Berkeley
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Phystatistics: The Rise of the Data Physicist
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, October 18, 2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Benjamin Nachman, Staff Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
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On Mixture of Experts in Large-Scale Statistical Machine Learning Applications
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, October 25, 2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Nhat Ho, Assistant Professor, The University of Texas at Austin
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Two Tales of L1 Variants for Sparse Signal and Low-rank Tensor Recovery
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, November 08, 2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Yifei Lou, Associate Professor, School of Data Science and Society, The University of North Carolina
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Data integration approaches to estimate heterogeneous treatment effects
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, November 15, 2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Carly Brantner, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Duke University
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Probabilistic Tensor Decomposition Model for Measuring Complex Dependence Structure in Sparse Dyadic Event Data
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, November 22, 2024
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Aaron Schein, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Data Science Institute, University of Chicago
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Multitask Learning for High-dimensional Time Series
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Monday, January 13, 2025
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Marie-Christine Dueker, Assistant Professor, Mathematical Statistics & Data Science, University of Erlangen-Nuremburg
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Bayesian Linear Regression with a Sparse Prior: Inference for a Single Coordinate
Sponsor(s):
Statistical Science
Friday, January 17, 2025
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Lasse Vuursteen, Postdoctoral Scholar, University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business
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