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
March 30, 2026
Thursday 04/02/2026, Time: 2-3:15pm, Recent Progress in Statistical and Computational Optimal Transport Barycenters
Location: Public Affairs Building 1246 Xiaohui Chen, ProfessorDepartment of Mathematics, University of Southern California Abstract: Recent progress in statistical and
February 27, 2026
Thursday 03/12/2026, Time: 2-3:15pm, Statistical Inference for Matrix Data: Robustness and Extremes
Joshua Cape, Assistant Professor of StatisticsUniversity of Wisconsin-Madision Abstract: Matrices are ubiquitous for representing, manipulating, and analyzing large datasets across
February 27, 2026
Thursday 03/05/2026, Time: 2-3:15pm, Compositionality in Large Language Models: Emergence, Generalization, and Geometry
Yiqiao Zhong, Assistant ProfessorDepartment of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madision Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have demonstrated remarkable reasoning abilities through