Seminars 2024-25

FALL 2024:

Fall 2024 Seminar Instructor: Prof. Xiucai Ding. 

  • Thur, September 26, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Lexin Li (Biostatistics and Epidemiology, UC Berkeley)
      • Title: "Statistical Neuroimaging Analysis: An Overview"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, October 3, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Michael Berger (Head of Insure AI, Munich Re)
      • Title" Risk Assessment for Machine Learning Models"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, October 10, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Dogyoon Song (Statistics, UC Davis)
      • Title: "Taming Overparameterized Models: OLS Interpolators, Regularization, and Beyond"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, October 17, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Min-ge Xie (Rutgers University)
      • Title: "Fisher Inversion, Repro Samples Method, and Principled Random Forests"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, October 24, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Thomas Trogdon (University of Washington)
      • Title: "Applications of orthogonal polynomials in the study of random matrices and randomized algorithms"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, October 31, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Qijia Jiang (Statistics, UC Davis)
      • Title "Applied Mathematics Beyond the Textbook"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, November 7: NO SEMINAR THIS WEEK
  • Thur,  November 14, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Tracy Ke (Harvard University)
      • Title: "Recent Advances in Topic Modeling"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, November 21, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Weining Shen (UC Irvine)
      • Title: "Data integration in clinical trials and sports analytics"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Fri, November 22, 2:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Yingjie Feng (Tsinghua University)
      • Title: "Uniform Estimation and Inference for Nonparametric Partitioning-Based M-Estimators"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, December 5, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Shelton Peiris (University of Sydney, visiting professor at UC Davis)
      • Title: "Generalised Long Memory Time Series and Applications: An Overview"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Mon, December 9, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Hau-Tieng Wu (New York University)
      • Title: "Statistical Advances in Time-Frequency Analysis for Digital Health: Tackling Signal Quality Challenges"
      • ABSTRACT

WINTER 2025:

Winter Seminar Instructor: Prof. Qijia Jiang.

Seminars are open for anyone to attend. If you are registering for STA 290 credit, the CRN is 39909. Students registering may register for one unit. If registering for two units please contact Prof. Jiang for approval. Above two units is not permitted.

  • Thur, January 9, 4:10pm - MSB 2112 (2nd floor, Math dept)
    • Speaker: Riccardo Rastelli (University College Dublin - visiting UC Davis)
      • Title: "A latent position model for multivariate time series analysis"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, January 16, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Rebecca Killick (Lancaster University, visiting UC Santa Cruz)
      • Title: "Nonstationary Forecasting - what can be done?"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, January 23, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Venkat Chandrasekaran (Caltech)
      • Title: "On False Positive Error"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, January 30, 4:10pm - NO SEMINAR
  • Thur, February 6, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Leonardo Zepeda Núñez (Google Research / UW Madison)
      • Title: "Recent Advances in Probabilistic Scientific Machine Learning through Generative Diffusion Models"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, February 13, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Shang-Ying Shiu (National Taipei University - visiting UC Davis)
      • Title: "A Large-Scale Clustering Method for ARGO Data Analysis"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, February 20 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Qiang Liu (University of Texas, Austin)
      • Title: "Rectified flow: A straight approach to generative modeling and transport mapping"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, February 27, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Brian Trippe (Stanford University)
      • Title: "Probabilistic methods for designing functional protein structures"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, March 6, 4:10pm - PDSB 1025 (Physical & Data Sciences Building - location)
    • Speaker: Mahdi Soltanokoltabi (University of Southern California)
      • Title: "Towards More Reliable Generative AI: Probing Failure Modes and Harnessing Test-Time Inference"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, March 13, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Ting-Li Chen (Academia Sinica - visiting UC Davis)
      • Title: "Towards Novel Categorical Embedding for Enhanced Data Representation"
      • ABSTRACT

SPRING 2025:

Spring Seminar Instructor: Prof. Xiaodong Li

  • Thur, April 3rd, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Cong Ma (University of Chicago)
      • Title: "Estimating shared subspace with AJIVE: the power and limitation of multiple data matrices"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Wed, April 9th, 4:30pm - hosted at UC Berkeley (Stanley 106)
    • Joint UC Berkeley / UC Davis Colloquium
    • Speaker: Jiming Jiang (UC Davis)
      • Title: "Amazing Journey: The Conquest of Asymptotic Analysis of Maximum Likelihood Estimator in Generalized Linear Mixed Models with crossed Random Effects."
      • ABSTRACT
      • MORE DETAILS (links to UC Berkeley)
  • Thur, April 10th, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Po-Ling Loh (University of Cambridge)
      • Title: "Differentially private M-estimation via noisy optimization"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, April 17th, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Akira Horiguchi (Statistics, UC Davis)
      • Title: "Sampling depth trade-off in function estimation under a two-level design"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, April 24th, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Guang Cheng (UCLA)
      • Title: "Golden Ratio Weighting Prevents Model Collapse"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, May 1st, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Jinchi Lv (University of Southern California)
      • Title: "SOFARI-R: High-Dimensional Manifold-Based Inference for Latent Responses"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, May 8th, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Stanislav Volgushev (University of Toronto)
      • Title: "Comparing many functional means"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, May 15th, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Arash Amini (UCLA)
      • Title: Polynomial Graph Neural Networks: Theoretical Limits and Graph Noise Impact
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, May 22nd, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Joint Math-Stats Colloquium
    • Speaker: Sourav Chatterjee (Stanford University)
      • Title: "Neural networks can learn any low complexity pattern"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, May 29th, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Fan Xia (UC San Francisco)
      • Title: "Efficient Design-based Inference for the Stepped Wedge Design"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, June 5th, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Xiaoyue Li (Google)
      • Title: "Ad Click Prediction - A Look at Industrial-Scale Ads Recommendation Models"
      • ABSTRACT

Joint Statistics/Linguistics Seminars (not in the STA 290 Series)

  • Friday, February 21, 10:00am - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Fei Wang (University of Southern California)
      • Title : "From Risk to Resilience: Addressing Misalignment in (Multimodal) Large Language Models"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Friday, February 28, 10:00am - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Naomi Saphra (Kempner Institute, Harvard University)
      • Title : "Understanding Language Models by Understanding Training"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Monday, March 3 3:30pm - PDSB 1025
    • Speaker: Alexander Spangher (University of Southern California)
      • Title: "Towards Planning in Creative Contexts"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Friday, March 7, 10:00am - SSH 2203
    • Speaker: Xinyi Wang (UC Santa Barbara)
      • Title: "Understanding Large Language Models from Pretraining Data Distribution"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Friday, March 14, 10:00am - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Sarah Wiegreffe (Allen Institute for AI)
      • Title: "Demystifying the Inner Workings of Language Models"
      • ABSTRACT

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