Statistics Department Seminar
The Statistics Seminars for Autumn 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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We provide a LaTeX template for speakers to use when submitting the abstract for a seminar (sample PDF output). Using this template makes it possible to post the abstract promptly and without unintended errors that might creep in if your text has to be migrated from another source.
Questions about Seminars may be sent to seminars@stat.stanford.edu.
| Date/Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
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Fri 11 Jan
03:00PM Special Event
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Larry Wasserman | Carnegie Mellon University | --- |
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Wed 05 Dec
04:30PM Extra Seminar
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Matt Wand | University of Technology Sydney | Fast approximate inference for arbitrarily large statistical models via message passing |
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Tue 04 Dec
04:30PM |
Yingying Fan | USC | Asymptotic theory of eigenvectors for large random matrices with applications to network inference |
| Date/Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
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Tue 27 Nov
04:30PM |
Rachel Ward | UT Austin | AdaGrad for strong SGD convergence guarantees without step size tuning |
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Tue 20 Nov
04:30PM |
Thanksgiving Week | --- No Seminar --- | |
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Tue 13 Nov
04:30PM |
Dawn B. Woodard | Uber | Dynamic pricing and matching for ride-hailing |
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Tue 06 Nov
04:30PM |
Jason Lee | USC | Foundations of deep learning: SGD, overparametrization, and generalization |
| Date/Time | Speaker | Affiliation | Title |
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Tue 30 Oct
04:30PM SBJC
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Philip Stark | UC Berkeley | Student evaluations of teaching do not measure teaching effectiveness: What do they measure? |
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Tue 23 Oct
04:30PM |
Art Owen | Stanford Statistics | Optimizing the tie-breaker regression discontinuity design |
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Tue 16 Oct
04:30PM |
Tengyu Ma | Stanford Statistics and Computer Science | On the margin theory of feedforward neural networks |
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Tue 09 Oct
04:30PM |
Kristian Lum | Human Rights Data Analysis Group | Statistical challenges in casualty estimation |
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Tue 02 Oct
04:30PM |
David Donoho | Stanford Statistics | The statistical significance of perfect linear separation |
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Tue 25 Sep
04:30PM |
Jerry Li | UC Berkeley Simons Institute | Efficient algorithms for high-dimensional robust learning |
