Past Events
Event Date:
Wednesday, June 3, 12-1:00 pm (ET)
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
[Please Note: This event has already occurred. Go to the News Story to read about what happened and to access a recording and speaker slides.]
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In the March issue of the IMS Bulletin in 2014, Terry Speed advised his readers to Give Industry a Chance. Terry articulated... more
Event Date:
June 2nd, 3pm EDT
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Distributionally Robust Optimization, Online Linear Programming and Markets for Public-Good Allocations
Speaker:
Yinyu Ye, Stanford University
Abstract:
We present several decision and optimization problems driven by uncertain and online data. We show how analytical models and computational... more
Event Date:
May 29, 2020 11 am (ET)
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Can the reported COVID-19 data tell us the truth? Scrutinizing the data from the measurement error models perspective
The mystery of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and the lack of effective treatment for COVID-19 have presented a strikingly negative impact on public health. While research... more
Event Date:
May 27-29, 2020
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Hyatt Regency Newport Beach
1107 Jamboree Road
Newport Beach, California,
United States
1107 Jamboree Road
Newport Beach, California,
United States
SLDS 202 is a bi-annual gathering of top researchers in Statistical Learning, Data Science, and Nonparametric Statistics, and a forum for presentation and discussion of research.
For more information click on the Conference Website link.
Please Note the Following Deadlines
February 15th, 2020 -... more
Event Date:
Tuesday, May 26th 3pm EDT
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
On the Statistical Complexity of Reinforcement Learning
Speaker:
Mengdi Wang, Princeton University
Abstract:
Recent years have witnessed increasing empirical successes in reinforcement learning (RL). However, many theoretical questions about RL were not well understood. For example, how many... more
Event Date:
Friday, May 22, 2020 12-1 pm (ET)
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
[Please Note: This event has already occurred. Go to the News Story to read about what happened and to access a recording and speaker slides.]
Government institutions have a unique mission when it comes to the data they collect as well as the importance of the research they engage in - especially... more
Event Date:
May 22, 2020 11 am (ET)
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Predictions, role of interventions and implications of a national lockdown on the COVID-19 outbreak in India
Abstract
India has taken strong and early public health measures for arresting the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic. With only 536 COVID-19 cases and 11 fatalities, India –-- a democracy of 1... more
Event Date:
Tuesday, May 19th, 3pm EDT
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Statistical Inference on Membership Profiles in Large Networks
Speaker:
Jianqing Fan, Princeton University
Abstract:
Network data is prevalent in many contemporary big data applications in which a common interest is to unveil important latent links between different pairs of nodes. The nodes can be... more
Event Date:
Friday, May 15, 2020, 11 am EDT
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
COVID-19: Analytic studies and opportunities for outside of epidemiology
Speaker
Dr. David Corliss, Founder and Director, Peace-Work
Abstract
Like all pandemics, COVID-19 has many dimensions. Beyond the medical crisis, research is being conducted in a wide variety of disciplines.This has created... more
Event Date:
Thursday, May 14, 12-1:30 (ET)
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Learning from COVID-19 Data in Wuhan, USA and Europe on Intervention Strategies
[Please Note: This event has already occurred. Go to the News Story to read about what happened and to access a recording and speaker slides.]
Speaker
Xihong Lin
Department of Biostatistics and Department of Statistics... more