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Celebrating Trevor Hastie

Date
Fri September 12th 2025, All day
Location
CoDa E160

A "Thank You" slide deck from Trevor

Schedule of Events

TimeAgenda
9aWelcome & Opening Remarks: Rob Tibshirani and Andrea Montanari, Stanford
Session Chair: Will Fithian, UC Berkeley 
9:30a

Brad Efron, Stanford

"Prediction-powered classification using the bootstrap"

10a

Rahul Mazumder, MIT

"Computational statistics informs deep neural network compression"

10:30aMorning Break
Session Chair: Hui Zou, University of Minnesota 
11a

Anav Sood, OpenAI

"Some new results in rank verification"

11:30a

Jason Lee, Princeton

"Learning compositional functions with transformers from easy-to-hard data"

12nLunch Break
Session Chair: Ji Zhu, University of Michigan 
1:30p

Chiara Sabatti, Stanford

"Selecting variables and groups of variables"

2p

Qingyuan Zhao, Cambridge

"Heritability, variable importance, and analysis of variance: A counterfactual perspective"

2:30pAfternoon Break
Session Chair: Elena Tuzhilina, University of Toronto 
3p

 Stephen Boyd, Stanford

"We can solve that problem INSANELY fast: automatic generation of explicit quadratic programming solvers"

3:30p

Zijun Gao, USC

"Selective randomization inference for subgroup effects with continuous biomarkers"

4pOpen forum: Reminiscences