Seminars 2025-26

FALL 2025:

Fall STA 290 Seminar Instructor: Prof. Mina Karzand. 

  • Thur, September 25, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Sebastien Roch, University of Wisconsin
      • Title : "Large-scale inference of phylogenetic tree mixtures via nucleotide site pattern scoring"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, October 2nd, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Thomas Cortade, UC Berkeley
      • Title: "Information inequalities on Euclidean space"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, October 9th, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Jason Lee, UC Berkeley
      • Title: 'Emergence and scaling laws for SGD learning" and "Learning Compositional Functions with Transformers"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, October 16th, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Jasper Lee, Dept Computer Science, UC Davis
      • Title: "Mean estimation in 1 and high dimensions"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, October 23rd - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Pragya Sur, Harvard University
      • Title: "Data Integration: Challenges and Opportunities for Interpolation Learning under Distribution Shifts"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, October 30th, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Yunpeng Shi, Math, UC Davis
      • Title: "Fast image denoising and alignment via steerable transforms"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, November 6th, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Eshaan Nichani, Princeton University
      • Title: "How Transformers Learn Causal Structure with Gradient Descent"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, November 13th, 4:10pm - NO SEMINAR
  • Thur, November 20th, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Lingfu Zhang, CalTech
      • Title: "Sharp phase transition of the repeated average process"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, November 27th - no seminar (Thanksgiving)
  • Thur, December 4th, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Abi Gopal, Math, UC Davis
      • Title: "Direct solvers for scattering problems"
      • ABSTRACT

 

NON-STA 290 Statistics Talks, FALL 2025:

  • Wed, October 22nd, 4:10pm - PDSB 1025
    • Joint Math Data Science/Statistics Seminar
    • Speaker: Amit Singer, Math, Princeton Univ.
      • Title: "Mathematics of Cryo-Electron Microscopy"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Tue, October 28th, 1:00pm - PDSB 1025
    • Speaker: Kai Zhang, Univ. North Carolina, Chapel Hill
  • Fri, November 21st, 3:00pm - 5:00pm - MSB 1143
    • Speaker #1: Hong Chang Ji,
      • Title: "Spectral estimators in general linear models"
      • ABSTRACT
    • Speaker #2: David Renfrew
      • Title: "Universality for roots of derivatives of entire functions"
      • ABSTRACT

 

WINTER 2026:

Fall Seminar Instructor: Prof. Alexander Aue

  • Fri, January 9, 11:00am - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Tuan Pham, University of Texas, Austin
      • Title: "Time-uniform bounds for iterative algorithms"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Mon, January 12, 11:00am - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Jiaqi Li, University of Chicago
      • Title: "Mathematical Foundations for Machine Learning from a Nonlinear Time Series Perspective"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, January 15, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Qi Xu, Carnegie Mellon University
      • Title: "Statistical Inference for Multi-Modality Data in the AI Era"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Fri, January 16, 11:00am - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Shihao Wu, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
      • Title: "Efficient Embedding and Generative Modeling for Hypergraphs"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Tue, January 20, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Rae Yu, Princeton University
      • Title: "Statistical Limits of Causal Trees for Heterogeneous Treatment Effect Estimation"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, January 29, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Nicolai Amann, Statistics, UC Davis
      • Title: "Uncertainty quantification in high dimensions"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, February 5, 4:10pm - MSB 1147 - Chair's Conversation with Grad Students
    • Speaker: Jiming Jiang, Chair, Department of Statistics UC Davis
      • (Event for Graduate Students)
  • Thur, February 12, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Aaron Smith, UC Berkeley
      • Title: "Long-Run Forecasting for Climate Policy"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, February 19, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Sebastian Calonico, GSM, UC Davis
      • Title: "Treatment Effect Heterogeneity in Regression Discontinuity Designs"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, February 26, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Lihua Lei, Stanford University
      • Title: "Causal clustering: design of cluster experiments under network interference"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, March 5, 4:10pm - PDSB 1025
    • Speaker: Will Townes, Carnegie Mellon
      • Title: "A novel class of mixed Poisson distributions and wastewater-based epidemiology"
      • ABSTRACT
  • Thur, March 12, 4:10pm - MSB 1147
    • Speaker: Matias Cattaneo, Princeton University
      • Title: "Robust Inference for Convex Pairwise Difference Estimators"
      • ABSTRACT to come

SPRING 2026:

Fall Seminar Instructor: Prof. Dogyoon Song

  • 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

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