Fall-Spring 2020


Fall 2020

Sep 11
Gesine Reinert (University of Oxford)

Stein’s method for multivariate continuous distributions and applications
online
Sep 18
Caroline Uhler (MIT)

Causal Inference and Overparameterized Autoencoders in the Light of Drug Repurposing for SARS-CoV-2
online
Sep 25
Dylan Foster (MIT)

Separating Estimation from Decision Making in Contextual Bandits
online
Oct 2
Richard Nickl (University of Cambridge)

Bayesian inverse problems, Gaussian processes, and partial differential equations
online
Oct 9
Gábor Lugosi (Pompeu Fabra University)

On Estimating the Mean of a Random Vector
online
Oct 16
Carola-Bibiane Schönlieb (University of Cambridge)

Data driven variational models for solving inverse problems
online
Oct 23
Jose Blanchet (Stanford University)

Statistical Aspects of Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Optimization Estimators
online
Oct 30
Alessandro Rinaldo (Carnegie Mellon University)POSTPONED
Nov 6
Daniela Witten (University of Washington)

Valid hypothesis testing after hierarchical clustering
online
Nov 13
Mary Wootters (Stanford University)

Sharp Thresholds for Random Subspaces, and Applications
online
Nov 20
Arnaud Doucet (University of Oxford)

Perfect Simulation for Feynman-Kac Models using Ensemble Rejection Sampling
online
Dec 4
Rong Ge (Duke University)

A Local Convergence Theory for Mildly Over-Parameterized Two-Layer Neural Net
online

Spring 2020 

Feb 7Weijie Su (University of Pennsylvania)

Gaussian Differential Privacy, with Applications to Deep Learning
E18-304
Feb 14Xiaohui Chen (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

Diffusion K-means Clustering on Manifolds: provable exact recovery via semidefinite relaxations
E18-304
Feb 21Rina Foygel Barber (University of Chicago)

Predictive Inference with the Jackknife+
E18-304
Feb 28Kavita Ramanan (Brown University)

Tales of Random Projections
E18-304
Mar 6
Suriya Gunasekar (Microsoft Research) POSTPONED
Mar 13Dan Spielman (Yale University)POSTPONED
Mar 20Hilary Finucane (Broad Institute of MIT)POSTPONED
Apr 10Alessandro Rinaldo (Carnegie Mellon University)POSTPONED
Apr 10Jonathan Niles-Weed (New York University)

Matrix Concentration for Products
online
Apr 17Ery Arias-Castro (University of California, San Diego)

On the Estimation of Distances Using Graph Distances
online
Apr 24Jon Wellner (University of Washington)POSTPONED
Apr 24Sebastien Bubeck (Microsoft Research)online
May 1Annie Liang (University of Pennsylvania)
POSTPONED
May 1Alexandre d’Aspremont (ENS, CNRS)

Naive Feature Selection: Sparsity in Naive Bayes
online
May 8Gerard Ben Arous (New York University, Courant Institute)POSTPONED