Statistics Seminar

Seminars from previous years can be found at All Past Events by filtering for the Statistics Seminar series. An archive of abstracts from past events is available; these documents extend back to the 1999-2000 academic year.

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Upcoming Events

April
29

Misclassification: The hidden source of hallucinations in language models

  CoDa E160
  Adam Kalai, OpenAI
May
6

Design sensitivity and its implications for weighted observational studies

  CoDa E160
  Sam Pimentel, UC Berkeley
May
13

Title to come

  CoDa E160
  Anderson Zhang, University of Pennsylvania
May
20

Title to come

  CoDa E160
  David Ritzwoller, Stanford GSB
May
27

Title to come

  CoDa E160
  Veronika Rockova, University of Chicago
June
3

Title to come

  CoDa E160
  Jinzhou Li, Stanford Statistics

Past Events

Uncertainty quantification for LLM-based survey simulations

  Tuesday, April 22, 2025, 4:30pm
  Kaizheng Wang, Columbia

Probabilistic methods for designing functional protein structures

  Wednesday, April 16, 2025, 4:30pm
  Brian Trippe, Stanford Statistics

Learning with latent symmetries

  Tuesday, April 15, 2025, 4:30pm
  Subhro Ghosh, National University of Singapore

How to tell the difference between machine learning and (bio)statistics

  Tuesday, April 8, 2025, 4:30pm
  Mike Baiocchi, Stanford SoM and Statistics
,
  Jordan Rodu, University of Virginia

Univariate-guided sparse regression

  Tuesday, April 1, 2025, 4:30pm
  Rob Tibshirani, Stanford BDS and Statistics

Learning from missing and imperfect information

  Tuesday, March 11, 2025, 4:30pm
  Manolis Zampetakis, Yale

Same root, different leaves: Time series and cross-sectional methods in panel data

  Tuesday, March 4, 2025, 4:30pm
  Dennis Shen, USC

Incremental effects and sensitivity analysis

  Tuesday, February 25, 2025, 4:30pm
  Edward Kennedy, CMU

The value of information in model-assisted decision-making

  Tuesday, February 18, 2025, 4:30pm
  Jessica Hullman, Northwestern

Anytime-valid inference and time-uniform central limit theory

  Tuesday, February 11, 2025, 4:30pm
  Ian Waudby-Smith, UC Berkeley