Department Seminar Series

Seminar Series

Last update: 4/27/12

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Seminars are followed by refreshments and informal discussion. Typically a speaker will present an introduction and survey of a particular problem, application, or research area of current statistical interest. Seminars usually last 50 minutes, with additional time for discussion.

STATISTICS COLLOQUIUM

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MONDAY, October 29, 2012, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
MARC HALLIN, European Center for Advanced Research in Economics and Statistics
To be announced.

SPRING QUARTER 2012

THURSDAY, May 31, 2012, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
BILLINGSLEY LECTURES ON PROBABILITY
S. R. S. VARADHAN, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University
"Large Deviations with Applications to Random Matrices and Random Graphs"

WEDNESDAY, May 23, 2012, at 4:00 PM, in Ryerson 277, 1100 E. 58th Street.
Lectures on Uncertainty Quantification
JIM BERGER, Duke University, and the Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
"Lecture 5: Additional Examples, Including Prediction of Extreme Events"

MONDAY, May 21, 2012, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
XIAOFENG SHAO, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
"Self-Normalization for Time Series"

WEDNESDAY, May 16, 2012, at 4:00 PM, in Ryerson 277, 1100 E. 58th Street.
Lectures on Uncertainty Quantification
JIM BERGER, Duke University, and the Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
"Lecture 4: Computer Model Discrepancies and Prediction of Reality"

MONDAY, May 14, 2012, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
STEVEN EVANS, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
"Metagenomics and Metrics on Spaces of Probability Measures"

WEDNESDAY, May 9, 2012, at 4:00 PM, in Ryerson 277, 1100 E. 58th Street.
Lectures on Uncertainty Quantification
MIHAI ANITESCU, Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago, and Argonne National Laboratory
"Lecture 3: Uncertainty Propagation: Hybrid Sampling—Derivative Methods"

MONDAY, May 7, 2012, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
ELCHANAN MOSSEL, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
"Stochastic Models of Social and Economic Networks"

WEDNESDAY, May 2, 2012, at 4:00 PM, in Ryerson 277, 1100 E. 58th Street.
Lectures on Uncertainty Quantification
JIM BERGER, Duke University, and the Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
"Lecture 2: Emulation of Computer Models and Design"

MONDAY, April 30, 2012, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
CHARLES FEFFERMAN, Department of Mathematics, Princeton University
"Fitting a Smooth Function to Data"

WEDNESDAY, April 25, 2012, at 4:00 PM, in Ryerson 277, 1100 E. 58th Street.
Lectures on Uncertainty Quantification
JIM BERGER, Duke University, and the Department of Statistics, The University of Chicago
"Lecture 1: Introduction to Uncertainty Quantification"

MONDAY, April 23, 2012, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
JUN ZHANG, Department of Psychology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
"Borda Scores and Aggregation of Preference: A Geometric-Combinatoric and a Topological Approach"

BAHADUR MEMORIAL LECTURES, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
PETER BÜHLMANN, Seminar für Statistik, ETH Zürich
MONDAY, April 16, 2012
"Assigning Statistical Significance in High-Dimensional Problems"
TUESDAY, April 17, 2012
"Causal Statistical Inference and Intervention Experiments for Large-Scale Biological Systems"

MONDAY, April 9, 2012, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
MIKHAIL BELKIN, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Ohio State University
"Learning Mixtures of Gaussians and Other Distributions"

MONDAY, April 2, 2012, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
JON WAKEFIELD, Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle
"Bayesian Inference for Two-Phase Studies"

MONDAY, April 2, 2012, at 1:00 PM, in Assembly Hall, International House, 1414 E. 59th Street.
Department of Computer Science Seminar
RICHARD STALLMAN, Free Software Foundation
"Copyright vs. Community in the Age of Computer Networks"

MONDAY, March 26, 2012, at 4:00 PM, in Eckhart 133, 5734 S. University Avenue.
TAMIR HAZAN, Toyota Technological Institute Chicago
"Estimating the Partition Function with Random Maximum A-Posteriori Perturbations"

SCIENTIFIC AND STATISTICAL COMPUTING SEMINAR

Departments of Computer Science, Mathematics, and Statistics

Fridays, at 3:30 PM, in Eckhart Hall, Room 133 (unless announced otherwise), 5734 S. University Avenue. For further information about the seminars and building access for persons with disabilities, please contact Lek-Heng Lim (lekheng@galton.uchicago.edu) or Jonathan Weare (weare@math.uchicago.edu).

COMPUTATIONS IN SCIENCE SEMINAR

Departments of Physics and Statistics and the James Franck Institute

Wednesdays, at 12:30 PM, in Kersten Physics Teaching Center, Room 206 (unless announced otherwise), 5720 S. Ellis Avenue. For further information about the seminars and building access for persons with disabilities, please contact William Irvine (wtmirvine@uchicago.edu), David Biron (david.biron@gmail.com), Wendy Zhang (wzhang@control.uchicago.edu), and Leo Kadanoff (leop@uchicago.edu).

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