Past Events
Event Date:
October 16th, 12pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Quasi Stochastic Approximation with Applications to Gradient Free Optimization and Reinforcement Learning
Speaker
Sean Meyn, (University of Florida)
Abstract
Soon after the publication of Watkins’ Q-learning algorithm, it was recognized independently by Tsitsiklis and Jordan that the recursion... more
Event Date:
October 15, 2020 12:00 noon - 2 pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
[Please Note: The Statistics Debate session has already occurred. Go to the News Story for this event to read about what happened and view the recording.]
Where do YOU stand?
Given the issues surrounding the misuses and abuse of p-values, do you think p-values should be used?
Do you think the use... more
Event Date:
Friday, October 9th, 11am ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Off-Policy Estimation of Long-Term Average Outcomes with Applications to Mobile Health
Speaker
Susan Murphy (Harvard University)
Abstract
Due to the recent advancements in wearables and sensing technology, health scientists are increasingly developing mobile health (mHealth) interventions. The... more
Event Date:
October 7, 2020 1-4 pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
[Please Note: The Essential Data Science for Business: Data Science Workflows Session has already occurred.
Go to the News Story for this event to read about what happened., or...
Missed this Event? To gain access to the recording of this event along with links to supporting files and information... more
Event Date:
Friday, October 2nd, 11am ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Learning Dynamical Systems with Side Information
Speaker
Amir Ali Ahmadi, Princeton University
Abstract
We present a mathematical and computational framework for the problem of learning a dynamical system from noisy observations of a few trajectories and subject to side information. Side... more
Event Date:
September 25, 2020 1:30-3 pm EDT
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
[Please Note: This Ingram Olkin Forum session has already occurred. Go to the News Story for this event to read about what happened.]
Algorithms used for policies, evaluations, and discoveries that involve or affect people have become commonplace. Typically constructed by statistical and machine... more
Event Date:
September 18, 2020, 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. EDT
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Integrating Domain-Knowledge into Deep Learning
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, (Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Abstract
I will first discuss deep learning models that can find semantically meaningful representations of words, learn to read documents and... more
Event Date:
September 16, 2020 11-12:30 ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
[Please Note: The session has already occurred. Go to the News Story for this event to read about what happened.]
The National Institute of Statistical Science (NISS) and Merck are sponsoring a Virtual Meet-Up on Vaccine Development.
With the COVID pandemic having such a profound effect, everyone... more
Event Date:
September 15, 2020 3 pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Online Webinar
United States
United States
Statistical Optimization Methods for Machine Learning
Abstract
Statistics and optimization are two of the foundational pillars of machine learning, and it is well recognized that optimization provides powerful tools for statistics. In recent years, techniques of the complementary nature, i.e.,... more
Event Date:
September 15, 2020 10 - 1 pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
[Please Note: The Overview Session has already occurred. Go to the News Story for this event to read about what happened.]
Session Four: Randomization Tests
COVID-19 has resulted in unprecedented clinical trial disruptions. These disruptions have called into question the validity of many planned... more