Statistics Department Seminar
The Statistics Seminars for Summer Quarter will be held in Room 380C of the Sloan Mathematics Center in the Main Quad at 4:30pm on Tuesdays. Refreshments are served at 4pm in the Lounge on the first floor of Sequoia Hall.
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Questions about Seminars may be sent to seminars@stat.stanford.edu.
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Tue 21 Aug
04:30PM Special Event
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Eugenio Regazzini | University of Pavia, Italy | Empirical estimation of initial distributions |
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Tue 14 Aug
04:30PM |
Will Fithian | UC Berkeley | AdaPT: An interactive procedure for multiple testing with side information |
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Tue 07 Aug
04:30PM |
Miaoyan Wang | University of Wisconsin Madison | Learning from binary multiway data: Probabilistic tensor decomposition and its statistical optimality |
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Tue 31 Jul
04:30PM |
Joint Statistical Meetings | --- No Seminar --- | |
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Tue 24 Jul
04:30PM |
Sylvain Sardy | University of Geneva | Model selection with lasso-zero: Adding straw to the haystack to better find needles |
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Tue 17 Jul
04:30PM |
Deanna Needell | UCLA | Simple classification from binary data |
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Thu 12 Jul
04:30PM Day, Venue Change
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Bibhas Chakraborty | National University of Singapore | Estimating optimal dynamic treatment regimes with shared parameters |
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Tue 03 Jul
04:30PM |
Amir Dembo | Stanford Mathematics and Statistics | Large deviations theory for chemical reaction networks |
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Tue 26 Jun
04:30PM |
Yue Wang | University of Washington Seattle | An impossibility theorem of quantifying causal effect |
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Tue 05 Jun
04:30PM |
Emmanuel Candès | Stanford Mathematics and Statistics | What do we really know about logistic regression? A modern maximum-likelihood theory |
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Tue 29 May
04:30PM |
Didier Nibbering | Erasmus University Rotterdam | Inference in high-dimensional linear regression models |
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Wed 23 May
04:30PM Extra Seminar
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Samuel Kou | Harvard University | Statistical analysis of single-molecule protein-targeting experiments via hierarchical hidden Markov models |
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Tue 22 May
04:30PM |
Subhadeep Mukhopadhyay | Temple University | Bayesian modeling via goodness-of-fi t |
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Tue 15 May
04:30PM |
Johan Ugander | Stanford MS&E | Ruffled feathers: Trait inference on social networks beyond homophily |
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Tue 08 May
04:30PM |
Guido Imbens | Stanford GSB | Matrix completion methods for causal panel data models |
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Tue 01 May
04:30PM |
Gregory Valiant | Stanford CS | Estimating unexplained variance and learnability in the sublinear data regime |
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Tue 24 Apr
04:30PM |
Qingyuan Zhao | University of Pennsylvania | Statistical inference in Mendelian randomization: From genetic association to epidemiological causation |
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Tue 17 Apr
04:30PM |
Ramses Mena | National Autonomous University of Mexico | On some Markovian processes derived from Bayesian ideas |
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Tue 10 Apr
04:20PM |
Rob Tibshirani | Stanford Statistics | A pliable lasso |
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Thu 05 Apr
04:30PM Extra Seminar
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Scott Linderman | Columbia University | Bayesian methods for discovering structure in neural and behavioral data |
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Tue 03 Apr
04:00PM BSJC
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John Duchi | Stanford Statistics | Solving composite minimization problems arising in statistics and engineering, with applications to phase retrieval |
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Tue 13 Mar
04:30PM |
Genevera Allen | Rice University | Inference, computation, and visualization for convex clustering and biclustering |
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Tue 06 Mar
04:30PM |
Daniela Witten | University of Washington | Exact spike train inference via L0 optimization |
| Date/Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
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Tue 27 Feb
04:30PM |
Jelena Bradic | UC San Diego | Can we do inference without sparsity in the high-dimensional setting or breaking the curse of dimensionality? |
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Tue 20 Feb
04:30PM |
Guillaume Basse | Harvard University | --- |
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Tue 13 Feb
04:30PM |
Art Owen | Stanford Statistics | Importance sampling the union of rare events with an application to power systems analysis |
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Tue 06 Feb
04:30PM |
Yuting Wei | UC Berkeley | Geometric analysis of hypothesis testing and early stopping for boosting |
| Date/Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
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Tue 30 Jan
04:30PM |
Shirshendu Ganguly | UC Berkeley | Understanding rare events in models of statistical mechanics |
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Thu 25 Jan
04:00PM Extra Seminar
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Roy Lederman | Princeton University | Inverse problems and unsupervised learning with applications to cryo-electron microscopy |
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Tue 23 Jan
04:30PM Venue Change
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Dominik Rothenhaeusler | ETH Zurich | Anchor regression: Heterogeneous data meets causality |
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Thu 18 Jan
04:30PM Extra Seminar
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Anderson Zhang | Yale University | Mean field variational inference: Computational and statistical guarantees |
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Tue 16 Jan
12:15PM Joint with MS&E
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Guillaume Basse | Harvard University | Testing for two-stage experiments in the presence of interference |
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Thu 11 Jan
04:30PM Day Change
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Aaditya Ramdas | UC Berkeley | Interactive algorithms for multiple hypothesis testing |
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Tue 05 Dec
04:30PM |
Weijie Su | University of Pennsylvania | HiGrad: Statistical inference for stochastic approximation and online learning |
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Tue 28 Nov
02:30PM LKSC Berg A
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A Memorial Symposium | hosted by Stanford Statistics | Remembering Charles Stein: Scientist, Colleague, and Friend |
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Tue 21 Nov
04:30PM |
Thanksgiving Week | --- No Seminar --- | |
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Tue 14 Nov
04:30PM |
Julia Palacios | Stanford Statistics | Different coalescent modeling resolutions for posterior inference of evolutionary parameters |
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Tue 07 Nov
04:30PM |
Hidetoshi Shimodaira | Kyoto University / RIKEN AIP | Selective inference for the problem of regions via multiscale bootstrap |
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Thu 02 Nov
04:30PM Extra Seminar
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Galen Reeves | Duke University | Additivity of information in multilayer networks via additive Gaussian noise transforms |
| Date/Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
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Tue 31 Oct
04:30PM |
Zaid Harchaoui | University of Washington | Adaptive recovery of approximately shift-invariant signals by convex optimization |
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Tue 24 Oct
04:30PM SBJC
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Jasjeet Sekhon | UC Berkeley | Meta-learners for estimating heterogeneous treatment effects using machine learning |
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Tue 17 Oct
04:30PM |
Alexander Volfovsky | Duke University | Design of experiments for networks with interference |
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Tue 10 Oct
04:30PM |
Ryan Tibshirani | Carnegie Mellon University | Excess optimism: How biased is the apparent error of an estimator tuned by SURE? |
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Tue 03 Oct
04:30PM |
Adrian Raftery | University of Washington | Probabilistic projection of carbon emissions |
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Tue 26 Sep
04:30PM |
Zheng (Tracy) Ke | University of Chicago | Spectral approach to topic learning |
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Fri 22 Sep
03:30PM Extra Seminar
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Hau-tieng Wu | Duke University | Modern data science solutions to some medical time series challenges |
