STA 290 Seminars

Statistics Seminar Series

Statistics Seminar

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SPRING 2026:

Fall Seminar Instructor: Prof. Dogyoon Song

Seminars are open for anyone to attend. If you are registering for STA 290 credit, the CRN is 52984. Students registering may register for one unit. If registering for two units please contact Prof. Song for approval. Above two units is not permitted.

  • Thur, April 2, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Jingfeng Wu, Simons Institute, UC Berkeley
      • Title: "Towards a Less Conservative Theory of Machine Learning: Unstable Optimization and Implicit Regularization"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, April 9, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Santiago Barreda Castañón, Linguistics, UC Davis
      • Title: "Investigating formant repetition error using the Davis Repetition Corpus"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, April 16, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Natesh Pillai, Statistics, Harvard University
      • Title: "A Heavily Right Strategy for Integrating Dependent Studies in Any Dimension"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, April 23, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Ian Waudby-Smith, Statistics, UC Berkeley
      • Title: "Log-optimality and multi-armed sequential hypothesis testing"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, April 30, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Sylvia Klosin, Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis
      • Title: "Causal Inference in Panel Data with Dynamics, Continuous Treatments, and Machine Learning"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, May 7, 4:10pm  - MSB 1147
    • UC Berkeley/UC Davis Annual Joint Symposium
    • Speaker: Ryan Tibshirani, Statistics, UC Berkeley
      • Title: "Online Conformal Prediction, Multi-Level Quantile Tracking, and Gradient Equilibrium"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, May 14, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Guanyu Hu, Michigan State University
      • Title: "How Competitive Is Competition? A Bayesian View of Parity Over Time"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, May 21, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Vasilis Syrgkanis, Stanford University
      • Title: "Inference on Optimal Policy Values and Other Irregular Functionals via Softmax Smoothing"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, May 28, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Stefan Wager, Stanford University
      • Title: "Estimating Dynamic Marginal Policy Effects under Sequential Unconfoundedness"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Fri, May 29, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Annual Math/Stats Colloquium
    • Speaker: Persi Diaconis, Stanford University
      • Title: "Estimating the Size of a Finite Set"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, June 4, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Sewon Min, UC Berkeley (TBC)
      • Title : "Rethinking Modularity and Abstraction in LLMs"
      • ABSTRACT

Locations:

  • MSB 1147 - Mathematical Sciences Building 1147 (Colloquium Room), 1st floor
  • PDSB 1025 - Physical and Data Sciences Building 1025, 1st floor

NON-STA 290 Statistics Talks:

  • TBA

Previous seminars...

For seminar abstracts from previous quarters, please visit the Recent Seminar Abstract Library.

 

 

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