Events

03/25/
2024
Monday
4:00pm
Associate Professor, Management Science & Engineering (MS&E) Institute for Computational & Mathematical Engineering (ICME) Cisco Systems Faculty Scholar, School of Engineering Stanford University
Harvesting randomness to understand computational social systems
Modern social systems are increasingly infused with algorithmic components, designed to optimize various objectives under diverse constraints. 
04/01/
2024
Monday
4:00pm
University of Texas at Austin
Score identity Distillation: Exponentially Fast Distillation of Pretrained Diffusion Models for One-Step Generation

Diffusion-based models, key to advancing generative AI with their photorealistic outputs, face a major hurdle: slow generation speed.

04/08/
2024
Monday
4:00pm
Georgia Institute of Technology
Robust Statistics in High Dimension

The goal of robust statistics is to find accurate estimates of statistical parameters despite adversarial corruptions of data (an \eps fraction of data is arbitrarily corrupted by an adversary).

04/15/
2024
Monday
4:00pm
Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
TBA
04/22/
2024
Monday
4:00pm
University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School
Analyzing genetic summary data: statistical models and platforms

Summary statistics from extensive genetic and -omic research provide valuable biological insights into human complex traits and diseases, but also introduce new statistical, logistical, and computational challenges.

04/29/
2024
Monday
4:00pm
Northwestern University
Title: TBA