5th Princeton Day of Statistics

November 18, 2016

Friend Center, Princeton University

All talks in Friend Center 006.

Speakers

  • David Blei (Columbia University)
  • Victor Chernozhukov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
  • Yang Feng (Columbia University)
  • Edward George, University of Pennsylvania
  • Marc Hallin (Université libre de Bruxelles)
  • Alfred Hero (University of Michigan)
  • Han Liu (Princeton University)
  • Alexander Rakhlin (University of Pennsylvania)

Schedule

Time Speaker or Event Topic or Activity
8:30am–9:00am Breakfast  
9:00am–9:45am Alfred Hero (University of Michigan) Continuum Limits of Shortest Paths
9:45am–10:30am Edward George, University of Pennsylvania Bayesian Penalty Mixing with the Spike and Slab Lasso
10:30am–11:00am Coffee Break  
11:00am–11:45am Han Liu (Princeton University) Combinatorial Inference
11:45am–12:30pm Marc Hallin (Université libre de Bruxelles) Center-Outward Distribution Functions and Monge-Kantorovitch Ranks
12:30pm–2:00pm Lunch  
2:00pm–2:45pm Yang Feng (Columbia University) Community Detection with Nodal Information
2:45pm–3:30pm Alexander Rakhlin (University of Pennsylvania) An Optimal Aggregation Procedure for Nonparametric Regression with Convex and Non-convex Models
3:30pm–4:00pm Coffee Break  
4:00pm–4:45pm Victor Chernozhukov (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Double Machine Learning for Treatment and Causal Parameters
4:45pm–5:30pm David Blei (Columbia University) Scaling and Generalizing Variational Inference