Welcome to our casual research seminar organized in the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Toronto. Our aim is to explore the diverse research conducted by our faculty, students, and postdocs. Talks usually last around 30 minutes, followed by discussions. We cover current research, overviews of emerging topics, and more. Some pizzas will be offered before the seminar around 12:20pm.
Seminar organizers: Austin Brown & Archer Gong Zhang & Piotr Zwiernik
Meetings are on Tuesdays, 12:30pm (30 min talk + discussion), room: 9014 (pizza will be served around 12:20pm)
To sign up to give a talk use our spreadsheet.
Upcoming talks
| Date | Speaker | Title | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 30/4/24 | Piotr Zwiernik | Entropic covariance models | Internal speaker |
Past talks
| Date | Speaker | Title | Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
| 23/4/24 (11:30am-12:30pm) | Wenlong Mou | On Bellman equations for continuous-time policy evaluation | Internal speaker |
| 16/4/24 | Thibault Randrianarisoa | Deep Gaussian Processes | External speaker |
| 9/4/24 | Riccardo Passeggeri | A universal robustification procedure | External speaker invited by Nancy Reid |
| 2/4/24 | Ziteng Cheng | Learning conditional distribution on continuous spaces | Internal speaker |
| 26/3/24 | Cancelled | ||
| 19/3/24 | Skipped due to job talk | ||
| 12/3/24 | Sebastian Jaimungal | An Intro to Mean Field Game Theory and Step-Wise Regret | Internal speaker |
| 5/3/24 | Leonard Wong | How finance, geometry and transport came together | Internal speaker |
| 27/2/24 | Xin Bing | Linear Discriminant Regularized Regression | Internal speaker |
| 20/2/24 | Jun Young Park | Spatial-extent inference for neuroimaging data | Internal speaker |
| 13/2/24 | Skipped due to job talk | ||
| 6/2/24 | Austin Brown | Error analysis for a parallel Monte Carlo estimator from many short Markov chains | Internal speaker |
| 30/1/24 | Break | ||
| 23/1/24 | Skipped due to room conflict | ||
| 16/1/24 | Marlon Moresco | Uncertainty Propagation and Dynamic Robust Risk Measures | Internal speaker |
| 9/1/24 | Yaoming Zhen | Some examples of tensor decompositions | Internal speaker |
| 12/12/23 | Paolo Onorati | An Extension of the Unified Skew-Normal Family of Distributions and Application to Bayesian Binary Regression | Visiting PDF from Rome |
| 05/12/23 | Xin Bing | Optimal vintage factor analysis with deflation varimax | Internal speaker |
| 28/11/23 (starts 12:00pm) | Rohan Alexander | Evaluating the Decency and Consistency of Data Validation Tests Generated by LLMs (https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01402) | Internal speaker, Information and DoSS |
| 21/11/23 (starts 1:15pm) | Josh Speagle | Nested Sampling and its Potential Role in Computational Bayesian Education | Internal speaker |
| 14/11/23 | Krishna Balasubramanian | From Stability to Chaos: Analyzing Gradient Descent Dynamics in Quadratic Regression | A guest from UC Davis |
| 7/11/23 | Liam Welsh | Nash Equilibria in Greenhouse Gas Offset Credit Markets | PhD student at DoSS |
| 31/10/23 | Emma Kroell | Optimal Robust Reinsurance with Multiple Insurers | PhD student at DoSS |
| 24/10/23 | Wenlong Mou | A decorrelation method for general regression adjustment | Internal speaker |
| 17/10/23 | Vedant Choudhary | Generative modeling of financial time series data | PhD student at DoSS |
| 10/10/23 | Luis Nieto-Barajas | Spatio-temporal Pareto modelling of heavy-tail data | Luis is a visiting professor from ITAM-Mexico |
| 3/10/23 | Qiang Sun | From asymptotics to finite samples, and back again | Internal speaker |
| 25/9/23 (M) | Jing Dong | General Transformation for Consistent Online Approximation Algorithms | External speaker invited by Qiang Sun |
| 18/9/23 (M) | Austin Brown | How to utilize lower bounds on the convergence rates to tune Metropolis-Hastings algorithms to avoid poor empirical performance. | Internal speaker |
- We would like to acknowledge funding from the Department of Statistical Sciences.