September 3, 2026
Thursday 10/01/2026, Time: 2-3pm, Manifold-Aligned Generative Transport
Location: Geology Building 4660 Xiaotong Shen, Distinguished ProfessorCollege of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota Abstract: High-dimensional generative modeling requires a
May 27, 2026
Thursday 05/28/2026, Time: 2-3:15pm, Low-Rank Generalized Tensor-On-Tensor Regression And Applications
Location: Public Affairs Building 1246 Carlos Llosa, Senior Member of the Technical StaffDepartment of Statistical Sciences, Sandia National Laboratories Abstract:
May 18, 2026
Thursday 05/21/2026, Time: 2-3:15pm, To Graph or Not to Graph: When GNNs Help, When They Fail, and Why
Location: Public Affairs Building 1246 Claire Donnat, Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Statistics, University of Chicago Abstract: From neuroscience and connectomics to
May 11, 2026
Thursday 05/14/2026, Time: 2-3:15pm, Infinite-Order U-Processes and Their Applications to Half-Space Depth
Location: Public Affairs Building 1246 Stanislav Minsker, ProfessorDepartment of Mathematics, University of Southern California Abstract: U-statistics were introduced by Wassily
May 1, 2026
Thursday 05/07/2026, Time: 2-3:15pm, Reward-Directed Score-Based Diffusion Models via q-Learning
Location: Public Affairs Building 1246 Xunyu Zhou, Liu Family Professor of Financial Engineering and Operations ResearchColumbia University Abstract: We propose
April 22, 2026
Thursday 04/30/2026, Time: 2-3:15pm, Bridging Classical and Modern Robot Autonomy: From Latent Geometric Representations for Robot Navigation to VLM-guided Robot Manipulation
Location: Public Affairs Building 1246 Michael Yip, Associate ProfessorElectrical and Computer Engineering, UC San Diego Abstract: Robotics is the newest,
April 12, 2026
Thursday 04/16/2026, Time: 2-3:15pm, Optimal Sequence Identification In Order-Of-Addition Experiments Using Complete Consecutive Order Pairing (Ccop) Designs
Location: Public Affairs Building 1246 Frederick Kin Hing Phoa, Research FellowInstitute of Statistical Science at Academia Sinica (ISSAS), Taiwan Abstract:
March 30, 2026
Thursday 04/23/2026, Time: 2-3:15pm, Statistical and Computational Approaches for Investigating Virus-host Interactions Using Metagenomic Hi-C data
Location: Public Affairs Building 1246 Fengzhu Sun, Professor of Quantitative and Computational BiologyUniversity of Southern California (USC) Abstract: Viruses play
March 30, 2026
Thursday 04/16/2026, Time: 2-3:15pm, Optimal Sequence Identification in Order-of-Addition Experiments Using Complete Consecutive Order Pairing (CCOP) Designs
Location: Public Affairs Building 1246 Frederick Kin Hing Phoa, Research FellowInstitute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica (ISSAS) Abstract: Order-of-addition (OofA)
March 30, 2026
Friday 04/10/2026, Time: 3:30 – 4:30pm, Is Box-Cox Regression Still Worthy?
Location: Centennial Room, Luskin Conference Center Hui Zou, Professor of StatisticsUniversity of Minnesota Abstract: Since the seminal paper of Box