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