Welcome to our casual research seminar organized in the Department of Statistical Sciences at the University of Toronto. Our aim is to discuss new ideas with everyone in the department (students, postdocs, visitors, and faculty). Talks usually last around 30 minutes, followed by discussions. We welcome current research, overviews of emerging topics, statistics pedagogy, research methodologies, 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, Ontario Power Building (700 University Avenue). Pizza will be served around 12:20pm.
To sign up to give a talk, use our spreadsheet.
Upcoming talks
Date | Speaker | Title | Remarks |
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Feb 11 | Skip for UTSC search job talk | ||
Feb 18 | Ziyi Liu | Sequential Probability Assignment with Contexts: Minimax Regret, Contextual Shtarkov Sums, and Contextual Normalized Maximum Likelihood | Internal Speaker |
Feb 25 | Zhijing Jin | Causal Reasoning with Large Language Models | Incoming Assistant Professor at CS |
Mar 4 | Skip for UTSC search job talk | ||
Mar 11 | Ichiro Hashimoto | Universality of Benign Overfitting in Binary Linear Classification | Internal Speaker |
Past talks
Date | Speaker | Title | Remarks |
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Feb 4 | Skip for job talk | ||
Jan 28 | Skip for job talk | ||
Jan 21 | Skip for job talk | ||
Jan 14 | Sabrina Sixta | MCMC common random number simulation: discoveries and mysteries | Internal Speaker |
Jan 7 | Jeffrey Rosenthal | Chess champions, CEOs, streaks, and probabilities | Internal Speaker |
Dec 10 | Claire Yu | Speed up your computation: strategies and platforms | Internal Speaker |
Dec 3 | Ruyi Pan | Devariation: a robust approach to improve statistical power in high-dimensional multi-view association testing | Internal Speaker |
Nov 26 | Kevin McKinnon | BP3M: Bayesian Positions, Parallaxes, and Proper Motions derived from the Hubble Space Telescope and Gaia data | Astro postdoc |
Nov 19 | Kathleen Miao | Robust Elicitable Functionals | Internal Speaker |
Nov 12 | Skip for DoSS Postdoc Day on Nov 14 | ||
Nov 5 | Nancy Reid | Some aspects of inference under model misspecification | Internal Speaker |
Oct 29 | Jun Young Park | What makes good applied statistics research? Some recent case studies from neuroimaging statistics | Internal Speaker |
Oct 22 | Piotr Zwiernik | Property testing in Gaussian graphical models | Internal Speaker |
Oct 15 | no meeting | ||
Oct 8 | Scott Schwartz | Incorporation of AI chatbots into STA130 | Internal speaker |
Oct 1 | DSI Research Day | Skip | Skip |
Sep 24 | Vianey Leos Barajas | Statistics Summer Research Clubs (AI for Baseball, Shark Statistics) | Internal speaker |
Sep 17 | Biprateep Dey | Calibrated Uncertainty Quantification for Physical Sciences | Internal speaker |
- We would like to acknowledge funding from the Department of Statistical Sciences.