Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2024 I

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Some combinatorial problems in information theory

Prof. Marco Dalai, University of Brescia.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 24 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Quantitative Uniform Stability of the Iterative Proportional Fitting Procedure

George Degliannidis, University of Oxford.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 19 April 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

What has genomics ever done for us? A 20-year history of the human genome

Klaudia Walter, Sanger Institute.

Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John's College, Cambridge, CB2 1TP.

Thursday 21 March 2024, 19:15-21:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2024 V

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Feature learning and normalization layers

Dr Matus Telgarsky, NYU.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 13 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Concentration and Free Probability

Afonso Bandeira (ETH Zürich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Matrix Concentration and Free Probability

Afonso Bandeira (ETH Zürich).

MR12.

Tuesday 12 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Quantitative sub-ballisticity of self-avoiding walk on the hexagonal lattice

Christoforos Panagiotis (University of Bath).

MR12.

Tuesday 05 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Barycentric subspace analysis for sets of unlabeled graphs

Anna Calissano (Imperial College).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 01 March 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2024 IV

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Quantum Machine Learning: An Information-Theoretic Perspective

Prof. Osvaldo Simeone, King's College London.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 28 February 2024, 14:00-15:15

Probability

Two-periodic weighted dominos and the sine-Gordon field at the free fermion point

Scott Mason (Cambridge).

MR12.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Genetics-based drug discovery: Some stories from the frontline

Matt Tudball (5 Prime Sciences).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 27 February 2024, 13:00-14:00

Information Theory Seminar

Information-theoretic techniques and context-tree methods for time series

Ioannis Papageorgiou, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 21 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Probability

The Critical 2d Stochastic Heat Flow and other critical SPDEs

Nikos Zygouras (Warwick).

MR12.

Tuesday 20 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Compressed sensing for the sparse Radon transform

Giovanni Alberti (University of Genova).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 16 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2024 III

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

A theory of social balance

Dr George Cantwell, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 14 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Excess Folding for Transient Random Walks, Simple or Branching

Amine Asselah (Paris) and Bruno Schapira (Marseille).

MR12.

Tuesday 13 February 2024, 14:00-16:15

Statistics

Robust density estimation and model selection for the L1 loss : Applications to shape-constrained density estimation.

Hélène Halconruy (Télécom SudParis).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 09 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

Homotopy methods for convex optimization

Andreas Klingler (Innsbruck).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR11, CMS.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 14:30-15:30

Information Theory Seminar

Enabling Fast, Robust, and Personalized Federated Learning

Prof Ramtin Pedarsani, UC Santa Barbara .

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 07 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Distances on the CLE(4), critical Liouville quantum gravity and 3/2-stable maps

Emmanuel Kammerer (Ecole Polytechnique).

MR12.

Tuesday 06 February 2024, 15:30-16:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Wildlife from space: detecting, monitoring and studying wildlife using satellite imagery

Peter Fretwell, British Antarctic Survey.

Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Monday 05 February 2024, 19:00-21:00

Statistics

M-estimation, noisy optimization and user-level local privacy

Marco Avella Medina (Columbia University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 02 February 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2024 II

MR5 at CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 31 January 2024, 16:30-18:00

Probability

The invariant measure of the 2D Yang-Mills Langevin dynamic

Ilya Chevyrev (Edinburgh).

MR12.

Tuesday 30 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Optimization-based Sensitivity Analysis for Unmeasured Confounding using Partial Correlations

Tobias Freidling (Statistical Laboratory).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR12.

Friday 26 January 2024, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Response-adaptive randomization in clinical trials: from myths to practical considerations

Sofía Villar and David Robertson (MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 26 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Some aspects of the Anderson Hamiltonian in 1D

Laure Dumaz (CNRS, ENS Paris).

MR12.

Tuesday 23 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Non-asymptotic control of a kernel 2-sample test

Perrine Lacroix (ENS Lyon).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 19 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2024 I

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 17 January 2024, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Convexity properties of information functionals for Gaussian mixtures

Dr Lampros Gavalakis, Gustave Eiffel University.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 17 January 2024, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2023 V

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

The Role of Information Measures on the Regularization of Empirical Risk Minimization

Dr Iñaki Esnaola, University of Sheffield.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 29 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Weak coupling scaling of critical SPDEs

Guiseppe Cannizzaro, University of Warwick.

MR12.

Tuesday 28 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Manifold Fitting: an Invitation to Data Science

Zhigang Yao (National University of Singapore).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 24 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Quantifying personal exposure to air pollution with sensor technologies and digital science

Lia Chatzidiakou/Rod Jones.

Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, University of Cambridge.

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 19:00-21:00

Information Theory Seminar

Provably Safe Certification for Machine Learning Models under Adversarial Attacks

Prof. Miguel Rodrigues, UCL.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 22 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Critical core percolation on random graphs

Alice Contat (University of Paris-Saclay).

MR12.

Tuesday 21 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Comparative Frameworks for Relative Multivariate Analysis

Ganesh Karapakula (Economics Faculty - University of Cambridge).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR12.

Friday 17 November 2023, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Entropic optimal transport: stability, limit theorems, and algorithms

Kengo Kato (Cornell University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 17 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2023 IV

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Statistical-Computational Tradeoffs in Mixed Sparse Linear Regression

Gabriel Arpino, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 15 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

A topological transition in the XY model

Diederik van Engelenburg (Lyon).

MR12.

Tuesday 14 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Nonparametric Statistics for SPDEs

Markus Reiss (Humboldt University of Berlin).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 10 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

A functional perspective on Information Measures

Dr Amedeo Esposito, Institute of Science and Technology Austria.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 08 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Phase transitions of the graphical representations of the Ising model

Frederik Ravn Klausen (University of Copenhagen) .

MR12.

Tuesday 07 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Frequency and cardinality recovery from sketched data: a novel approach bridging Bayesian and frequentist views

Stefano Favaro (University of Turin).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 03 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2023 III

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Classical and quantum zero error communication

Satvik Singh, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 01 November 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

How long are the arms in Dielectric-Breakdown Model?

Ilya Losev (Cambridge).

MR12.

Tuesday 31 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Confounder selection via iterative graph expansion

Richard Guo (University of Cambridge).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR12.

Friday 27 October 2023, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Adaptive two-sample testing

Arthur Gretton (Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit, UCL).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 27 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Thompson Sampling for Stochastic Bandits with Noisy Contexts: An Information-Theoretic Analysis

Dr Sharu Jose, University of Birmingham.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 25 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Determinants of Laplacians of converging surfaces

Renan Gross (Tel Aviv).

MR12.

Tuesday 24 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Trading-Off Payments and Accuracy in Online Classification

Ciara Pike-Burke (Imperial College London).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 20 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

A new coefficient of correlation

Sourav Chatterjee (Stanford) .

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2023 II

MR4 at the CMS.

MR4.

Wednesday 18 October 2023, 15:00-16:30

Probability

Spin glass phase in the Edwards-Anderson model at zero temperature

Sourav Chatterjee (Stanford).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 17 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Assumption-lean Inference for Generalised Linear Model Parameters

Stijn Vansteelandt (Ghent University).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR12.

Friday 13 October 2023, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Orthogonal prediction of counterfactual outcomes

Stijn Vansteelandt (Ghent University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 13 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Sharp convergence guarantees for iterative (non)-convex empirical risk minimization with random data

Dr. Kabir Verchand, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 11 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Statistics and Data Analytics in the Film Industry

Allègre L. Hadida, Cambridge Judge Business School & Magdalene College.

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit.

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 19:15-21:30

Probability

Sampling from the random cluster model on the random regular graph at all temperatures

Andreas Galanis (Oxford).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 10 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Faster log-concave sampling via algorithmic warm starts

Sinho Chewi (Institute for Advanced Study).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 06 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2023 I

MR5 at the CMS.

MR5.

Wednesday 04 October 2023, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Right-Most Position of a Last Progeny Modified Branching Random Walk

Antar Bandyopadhyay, ISI Delhi.

MR11.

Wednesday 04 October 2023, 16:00-17:00

Information Theory Seminar

Load Balancing under Data Locality: Extending Mean-Field Framework to Constrained Large-Scale Systems

Dr Debankur Mukherjee, Georgia Tech.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 04 October 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2023 IV

The clinic takes place in MR12 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR12.

Wednesday 13 September 2023, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Residual Permutation Test for High-Dimensional Regression Coefficient Testing

Yuhao Wang, Tsinghua University.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 08 September 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2023 III

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 23 August 2023, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2023 II

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 02 August 2023, 16:30-18:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

[Journal Club] Granger Causality: A Review and Recent Advances

Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

Harley Mason Room, Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

Friday 21 July 2023, 15:30-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2023 I

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 19 July 2023, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2023 V

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 21 June 2023, 16:30-18:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Journal Club - Interventional Causal Representation Learning

Max Zhu (Statistical Laboratory, Department of Computer Science).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 16 June 2023, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Response-adaptive randomization in clinical trials: from myths to practical considerations

Canceled

Sofía Villar and David Robertson (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

Venue to be confirmed.

Friday 16 June 2023, 00:00-00:00

Probability

Scaling limits and decay of correlations for non-convex interaction

Stefan Adams (Warwick).

MR14.

Tuesday 13 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Scaling limits and decay of correlations for non-convex interaction

Stefan Adams (Warwick).

MR14.

Tuesday 13 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

A powerful methodology for analyzing correlated high dimensional data with factor models

Room changed

Hongyuan Cao (Florida State University).

MR1, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 09 June 2023, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Bayesian Inference using Generative Models

Room changed

John Liechty (Pennsylvania State University).

MR11/B1.39, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 09 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2023 IV

The clinic takes place in MR14 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR14.

Wednesday 07 June 2023, 16:30-18:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Journal Club - Bridging Matching, Regression, and Weighting as Math Programs for Causal Inference

Room changed

Tobias Freidling (Statistical Laboratory).

MR1, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 02 June 2023, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Simultaneous Directional Inference

Room changed

Ruth Heller (Tel-Aviv University).

MR11/B1.39, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 02 June 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

On Lévy-driven Loewner Evolutions

Room changed

Anne Schreuder (Statslab).

MR14.

Tuesday 30 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

A High-dimensional Convergence Theorem for U-statistics with Applications to Kernel-based Testing

Kevin Han Huang (Gatsby Unit, UCL).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 26 May 2023, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Randomized and exchangeable improvements of Markov's, Chebyshev's and Chernoff's inequalities

Aaditya Ramdas (Carnegie Mellon University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 26 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2023 III

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 24 May 2023, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Sphere-packings on lattices in mathematical physics

Izabella Stuhl (Penn State).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 23 May 2023, 15:30-16:30

Probability

Scaling limit of multi-type stationary measures in the KPZ class

Ofer Busani (Bonn).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 23 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

The multicast transmission approach to converse theorems

Note unusual day of the week

Dr Anelia Somekh-Baruch, Bar-Ilan University.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Monday 22 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Selective randomization inference for enrichment trials

Zijun Gao, Tobias Freidling (University of Cambridge - Statistical Laboratory).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 19 May 2023, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Physics informed spatial and functional data analysis over non-Euclidean domains

Laura Sangalli (Polytechnic University of Milan).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 19 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Causal Identification: Are We There Yet?

Prof. Negar Kiyavash, EPFL.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 17 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Mixing time of random walk on dynamical random cluster

Alexandre Stauffer (Bath).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 16 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Journal Club: Separable Effects for Competing Events

Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 12 May 2023, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

A powerful empirical Bayes approach for high dimensional replicability analysis

Hongyuan Cao (Florida State University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 12 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2023 II

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 10 May 2023, 16:30-18:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Stable Weighting and Estimation of conditional treatment effects

Ganesh Karapakula (University of Cambridge - Economics).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 05 May 2023, 15:30-17:00

Statistics

Bayesian sensitivity analysis in causal analysis

Aad van der Vaart (TU Delft).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 05 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Mordell Lectures

Bayesian inference in infinite dimensions

Aad van der Vaart (Delft).

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 04 May 2023, 17:00-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Error exponents for source coding under logarithmic loss

Dr Hamdi Joudeh.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 03 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

The bead process on the torus

Samuel Johnston (King's College London).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 02 May 2023, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Model-X and doubly robust conditional independence testing

Eugene Katsevich (University of Pennsylvania).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 28 April 2023, 15:30-17:00

CCIMI Seminars

Fundamental limits of generative AI

Helmut Bölcskei - ETH Zurich.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR12, CMS.

Friday 28 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2023 I

The clinic takes place in MR11 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR11.

Wednesday 26 April 2023, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Approximate fixed points of classical and quantum channels and robustness theory of quantum Markov chains

Room changed

Robert Salzmann, DAMTP, University of Cambridge.

MR11 (B1.39), CMS Pavilion B.

Wednesday 26 April 2023, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Cambridge Information Theory Colloquium

Multiple speakers (Deepmind, ETH Zurich, University of Surrey, Università degli Studi di Napoli Federico II).

James Dyson Building Seminar Room - Department of Engineering.

Friday 21 April 2023, 10:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2023 V

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Fundamental limits in structured PCA, and how to reach them

Note: different room from the usual

Dr Jean Barbier, International Center for Theoretical Physics (ICTP).

B1.19 (MR19), CMS Pavilion B .

Wednesday 15 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Capacity of the range of random walk

Izumi Okada (Tokyo).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 14 March 2023, 15:30-16:30

Probability

Transition of the simple random walk on the graph of the ice-model

Serge Cohen (Toulouse).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 14 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Statistical Challenges in Genetic Analysis of Biobank Data

Note unusual time

Hongyu Zhao (Yale University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 10 March 2023, 16:00-17:00

Information Theory Seminar

Generalization Bounds via Online Learning

Dr Gergely Neu, Universitat Pompeu Fabra.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 08 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Properties of the gradient squared of the Gaussian free field

Alessandra Cipriani (UCL).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 07 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Linear regression with unmatched data: a deconvolution perspective

Mona Azadkia (London School of Economics).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 03 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2023 IV

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Discriminating Classical and Quantum Channels

Bjarne Bergh, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 01 March 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

On the Replica Symmetric Regime of the SK Model

Christian Brennecke (Bonn).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 28 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Stochastic Causal Programming for Bounding Treatment Effects

Ricardo Silva (UCL).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 24 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Semantic and Pragmatic Communications

Prof. Deniz Gunduz, Imperial College London.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 22 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Random trees conditioned on the number of vertices and leaves

Slava Kargin (Binghampton).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 15:30-16:30

Probability

Large deviations for out of equilibrium correlations in the symmetric simple exclusion process

Benoit Dagallier (Statslab).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 21 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Parameterizing and Simulating from Causal Models

Robin Evans (University of Oxford).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 17 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2023 III

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Bayes-optimal estimation in generalized linear models

Ramji Venkataramanan, Department of Engineering, Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 15 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

The Kalman-Bucy filter revisited: Mean-field equations & duality

Joint Statistics and CCIMI Seminar (note unusual time)

Sebastian Reich (University of Potsdam).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 10 February 2023, 16:00-17:00

Information Theory Seminar

An Entropy-Based Model for Hierarchical Learning

Dr Amir Asadi, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 08 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Random tournaments

Brett Kolesnik (Oxford).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 07 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Counterfactual fairness (CANCELLED)

Joshua Loftus (London School of Economics).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 03 February 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2023 II

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 01 February 2023, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Variational Bayesian inference for PDE based inverse problems

Ieva Kazlauskaite (University of Cambridge).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 27 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Randomisation for Agnostic Selective Inference

Alastair Young (Imperial College, London).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 20 January 2023, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2023 I

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 18 January 2023, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2022 V

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Uniform entropic continuity bounds via majorization flow

Prof. Nilanjana Datta, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

Deep reinforced active learning

Emma Slade - GSK.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR4.

Wednesday 30 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

On the number of level sets of smooth Gaussian fields

Dmitry Belyaev (Oxford).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 29 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Biostatistics: successes, challenges and opportunities

Unusual starting time to accommodate a special tea event after the seminar

John Whittaker (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 25 November 2022, 15:00-16:00

Information Theory Seminar

How the strength of the inductive bias affects the generalization performance of interpolators

Dr Fanny Yang, ETH Zurich.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 23 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

The contact process over a dynamical d-regular graph

Daniel Valesin (Warwick).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 22 November 2022, 15:30-16:30

Probability

Expander graphs are globally synchronising

Victor Souza, Cambridge.

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 21 November 2022, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Simulation of random fields on Riemannian manifolds

Annika Lang (Chalmers University of Technology).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 18 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2022 IV

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Typical error exponents

Dr Albert Guillén i Fàbregas, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 16 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Gaussian multiplicative chaos measures, Painlevé equations, and conformal blocks

Harini Desiraju (Newton Institute).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 15 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Flexible Multiple Testing with All-Resolutions Inference

Jelle Goeman (Leiden University Medical Center).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 11 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Communication in the presence of adversarial jamming: The curious case of the erasure channel

Dr Sidharth Jaggi, University of Bristol.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 09 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

The scaling limit theory of critical planar fuzzy Potts models

Matthis Lehmkuehler (ETH Zurich).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 08 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Local Independence Graphs

Niels Richard Hansen (University of Copenhagen).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 04 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2022 III

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Energy-Optimal Signaling using the Example of Optical Communication

Dr Stefan Moser, ETH Zurich.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 02 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Regularity of SLE: Precise variation and modulus of continuity

Yizheng Yuan (Statslab).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 01 November 2022, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Latent space models for multiplex networks with shared structure

Elizaveta Levina (University of Michigan).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 28 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Resampling methods for networks

Liza Levina (Michigan).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 27 October 2022, 17:00-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

On the monotonicity of entropy in the discrete entropic central limit theorem

Mr Lampros Gavalakis, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 26 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

State spaces and stochastic dynamics for Yang Mills in 2D and 3D

Ajay Chandra (Imperial).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 25 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Root and community inference on Markovian models of networks

Min Xu (Rutgers University).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 21 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2022 II

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 19 October 2022, 16:30-18:00

Information Theory Seminar

Communication-constrained hypothesis testing: Optimality, robustness, and reverse data processing inequalities

Dr Varun Jog, University of Cambridge.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 19 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Scaling limit of a branching process in a varying environment

Guillaume Conchon-Kerjan (Bath).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 18 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Comparison of Markov chains via weak Poincaré inequalities, with application to pseudo-marginal MCMC

Sam Power (University of Bristol).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 14 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Information Theory Seminar

Strong and epsilon-dependent converses for source or channel coding and for hypothesis testing

Prof. Michele Wigger, Telecom Paris.

MR5, CMS Pavilion A.

Wednesday 12 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

The scaling limit of the 2D discrete Gaussian model at high temperature

Jiwoon Park (Statslab).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 11 October 2022, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Long Story Short: Omitted Variable Bias in Causal Machine Learning

Statistics and CCIMI seminar, followed by a drinks reception

Victor Chernozhukov (MIT).

MR5, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 07 October 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2022 I

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

MR5.

Wednesday 05 October 2022, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2022 IV

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 21 September 2022, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Schur-Weyl duality and large $N$ limit in 2d Yang-Mills theory

Thierry Lévy (Sorbonne Université).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 07 September 2022, 15:00-16:00

Probability

Well-posedness and large-particle limit for a model in collective dynamics

Sara Merino-Aceituno (Universität Wien).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 07 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Planar aggregation with subcritical fluctuations and the Hastings-Levitov models

Vittoria Silvestri (Università di Roma La Sapienza).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 07 September 2022, 11:30-12:30

Probability

The Anderson operator

Ismael Bailleul (Université de Rennes).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 07 September 2022, 10:00-11:00

Probability

Limits of Polya urns with innovations

Jean Bertoin (Zurich).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 07 September 2022, 09:00-10:00

Probability

Depth-First Search in a Random Digraph

Svante Janson (Uppsala Universitet).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 06 September 2022, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Hidden Ancestor Graphs with Assortative Vertex Attributes

Richard Darling (NSA).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 06 September 2022, 15:00-16:00

Probability

Kac's process and the spatially homogeneous Boltzmann equation

Daniel Heydecker (MPI).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 06 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Height function delocalisation on cubic planar graphs

Piet Lammers (IHES).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 06 September 2022, 11:30-12:30

Probability

On the enumeration of random maps with three tight boundaries and its probabilistic consequences

Gregory Miermont (Lyon).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 06 September 2022, 10:00-11:00

Probability

The motion of hybrid zones (and how to stop them)

Alison Etheridge (Oxford).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 06 September 2022, 09:00-10:00

Probability

Stability of the elliptic Harnack Inequality

Martin Barlow (UBC).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 05 September 2022, 16:30-17:30

Probability

A polynomial expansion for Brownian motion and the associated fluctuation process

Karen Habermann (Warwick).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 05 September 2022, 15:00-16:00

Probability

Signatures and functions on unparameterised path space

Thomas Cass (Imperial College London).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 05 September 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Rough Paths and more scalable data science

Terry Lyons (Oxford).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 05 September 2022, 11:30-12:30

Probability

Stochastic quantisation of Yang-Mills

Martin Hairer (Imperial College London).

MR9, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 05 September 2022, 10:00-11:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2022 III

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 31 August 2022, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2022 II

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 03 August 2022, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2022 I

The clinic takes place in MR2 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 13 July 2022, 16:30-18:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Causal de Finetti: On the Identification of Invariant Causal Structure in Exchangeable Data

Siyuan Guo (University of Cambridge).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Monday 04 July 2022, 13:30-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Counterfactual inference in sequential experimental design

Raaz Dwivedi (Harvard and MIT).

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Friday 24 June 2022, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

(CANCELLED) Stochastic Causal Programming for Bounding Treatment Effects

Ricardo Silva (UCL).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 17 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

The implicit boundary integral method

Richard Tsai (UT Austin).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR5.

Wednesday 15 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Exit sets for vector valued GFF and interplay with planar O(N) models

Christophe Garban (Lyon).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 14 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2022 IV

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 08 June 2022, 16:30-18:00

Probability

A dynamical approach to lattice Yang-Mills

Hao Shen (Wisconsin, Madison).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 07 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Unbiased Set-Estimation of Heterogeneous Causal Effects

Ganesh Karapakula (University of Cambridge).

MR11 (B1.39), CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Monday 06 June 2022, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

A machine learning approach for causal structure estimation in high dimensions

Sach Mukherjee (MRC Biostatistics Unit).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 03 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

Inverse consistency and global convergence of ResNets

Francois-Xavier Vialard (Université Gustave Eiffel).

Virtual.

Wednesday 01 June 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Scaling limit of the heavy-tailed ballistic deposition model with p-sticking

Santiago Saglietti (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile).

Online (Zoom).

Tuesday 31 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2022 III

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 25 May 2022, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Percolation, long-range correlations and critical exponents on transient graphs

Alexander Drewitz (Universität zu Köln).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 24 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Scaling limits and macroscopic behavior for stochastic models of active matter

Clément Erignoux, INRIA Lille Nord.

MR2.

Tuesday 17 May 2022, 13:00-14:30

Statistics

Optimal prediction of Markov chains without mixing conditions

Yihong Wu (Yale University).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 13 May 2022, 15:00-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2022 II

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Metropolis Adjusted Langevin Trajectories: a robust alternative to Hamiltonian Monte Carlo

Lionel Riou-Durand (University of Warwick).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, MR14.

Wednesday 11 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

The chemical distance in random interlacements in the low-intensity regime

Saraí Hernández-Torres (Technion).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 10 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Minimum L1-norm interpolators: Precise asymptotics and multiple descent

Yuting Wei (University of Pennsylvania).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 06 May 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2022 I

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Generative Modeling by Estimating Gradients of the Data Distribution

Stefano Ermon (Stanford University).

Virtual (Zoom details under abstract).

Wednesday 27 April 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2022 V

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 30 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Demystifying Deep Learning

Rob Nowak (U. Wisconsin).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Thursday 17 March 2022, 17:00-18:00

Probability

Integrable fluctuations in random growth

Jeremy Quastel (Toronto).

Online (Zoom).

Tuesday 15 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Mordell Lectures

Dynamics of dilute gases: a statistical approach

Laure Saint-Raymond, ENS Lyon.

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 10 March 2022, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2022 IV

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Model free Deep Hedging

Josef Teichmann (ETH Zurich).

Virtual (Zoom details under abstract).

Wednesday 09 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Mixing times for the TASEP on the circle

Dominik Schmid (Princeton and Bonn).

MR12.

Tuesday 08 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Random Planted Forest: a directly interpretable tree ensemble

Enno Mammen (Heidelberg University).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 04 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Absolutely Continuous Self Similar Measures

Sam Kittle (Cambridge) .

MR12.

Tuesday 01 March 2022, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Interpretable Model-Independent Detection of New Physics Signals

Purvasha Chakravarti (Imperial College London).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 25 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2022 III

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Variational Bayes for high-dimensional linear regression with sparse priors

Kolyan Ray (Imperial College London).

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 23 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Sharpness of the phase transition for level set percolation of long-range correlated Gaussian fields

Stephen Muirhead (Melbourne).

MR12.

Tuesday 22 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

The interchange model and related spin systems on two-block graphs

Jakob Bjornberg (Chalmers).

MR12.

Tuesday 15 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Robust inference for intractable likelihood models using kernel divergences

Francois-Xavier Briol (UCL).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 11 February 2022, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2022 II

The clinic takes place in MR5 at the Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Speaker to be confirmed.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 09 February 2022, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

On the Sample Complexity of Learning with Geometric Stability

Alberto Bietti (NYU).

Virtual (Zoom details under abstract).

Wednesday 09 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Entropic Independence and Optimal Sampling from Combinatorial Distributions

Nima Anari (Stanford).

Online (Zoom).

Tuesday 08 February 2022, 16:30-17:30

Probability

Characteristic of a second class particle.

Mustazee Rahman, Durham University.

Online (Zoom).

Tuesday 01 February 2022, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2022 I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 26 January 2022, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Deep and reliable – Uncertainty quantification using Empirical Bayesian deep neural networks.

Stefan Franssen (TU Delft).

Virtual (Zoom details under abstract).

Wednesday 26 January 2022, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Two-sample testing of high-dimensional linear regression coefficients via complementary sketching

Tengyao Wang (LSE).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 21 January 2022, 13:30-14:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2021 V

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 15 December 2021, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2021 IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 01 December 2021, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Deep Denoising for Scientific Discovery

Carlos Fernandez-Granda (NYU).

Virtual (Zoom details under abstract).

Wednesday 01 December 2021, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Brownian excursions, conformal loop ensembles and critical Liouville quantum gravity

Ellen Powell (Durham).

MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 30 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

CANCELLED: Systematic inducement of sparsity

Heather Battey (Imperial College London).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 26 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Geodesic stars in Brownian geometry

Jean-Francois Le Gall (Universite Paris-Saclay).

Online (Zoom).

Tuesday 23 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Variable elimination and graph reduction: towards an efficient g-formula for causal DAGs

Richard Guo (University of Cambridge).

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 19 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2021 III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 17 November 2021, 16:30-18:00

Probability

On a probabilistic approach to the parabolic-parabolic Keller-Segel system

Milica Tomasevic (École Polytechnique).

MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 15:30-16:30

Probability

Regularity of the SLE(4) uniformizing map and the SLE(8) trace

Konstantinos Kavvadias (Cambridge).

MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 16 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Random Graph Asymptotics for Treatment Effect Estimation under Network Interference

Shuangning Li (Stanford University).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 12 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

CCIMI Seminars

A medley of geometry, optimal transport, and machine learning

Varun Jog (Cambridge).

Virtual (Zoom details under abstract).

Wednesday 10 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Large degrees yield short trees

Serte Donderwinkel (Oxford).

MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 09 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

New Approaches for Inference on Optimal Treatment Regimes

Lan Wang (University of Miami).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 05 November 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2021 II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Coordinate Descent on the Orthogonal Group for Recurrent Neural Network Training

Estelle Massart (Oxford).

Virtual (Zoom details under abstract).

Wednesday 03 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Learning low-degree functions from few random queries

Alexandros Eskenazis (Cambridge).

MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 02 November 2021, 15:30-16:30

Probability

Empirical measures, geodesic lengths, and a variational formula in first-passage percolation

Erik Bates, University of Wisconsin-Madison .

MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 02 November 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

MARS via LASSO

Aditya Guntuboyina (UC Berkeley).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 29 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Distribution dependent SDEs driven by additive continuous and fractional Brownian noise

Avi Mayorcas (Cambridge) .

MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 26 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2021 I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)..

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Three-point bounds for sphere packing

David de Laat (Delft).

Virtual (Zoom details under abstract).

Wednesday 20 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Quenched and annealed heat kernels on the uniform spanning tree

Martin Barlow (UBC).

MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

TBC

Lester Mackey (Microsoft Research).

Zoom.

Friday 15 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Kernel Thinning and Stein Thinning

Lester Mackey (Microsoft Research).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 15 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Probability

The Slow Bond Problem

Sourav Sarkar (Cambridge).

MR12 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 12 October 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Global testing for dependent Bernoullis

Sumit Mukherjee (Columbia University).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/93998865836?pwd=VzVzN1VFQ0xjS3VDdlY0enBVckY5dz09.

Friday 08 October 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2021 - Skype session IV

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype/Zoom.

Wednesday 22 September 2021, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2021 - Skype session III

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype/Zoom.

Wednesday 01 September 2021, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2021 - Skype session II

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype/Zoom.

Wednesday 04 August 2021, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2021 - Skype session I

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype/Zoom.

Wednesday 14 July 2021, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Wilson loop expectations as sums over surfaces in 2D

Minjae Park (MIT).

Zoom.

Tuesday 15 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Wilson loop expectations as sums over surfaces in 2D

Minjae Park (MIT).

Zoom.

Tuesday 15 June 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2021 - Skype session IV

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype/Zoom.

Wednesday 09 June 2021, 16:30-18:00

Probability

The directed landscape

Duncan Dauvergne (Princeton).

Zoom.

Tuesday 08 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Hastings-Levitov planar aggregation

James Norris (Statslab).

Zoom.

Tuesday 01 June 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Distribution-free inference for regression: discrete, continuous, and in between

Rina Foygel Barber, University of Chicago.

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95871364531?pwd=aFZaV0loSWt6QmRDbm5ONWNjTTBjZz09.

Friday 28 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2021 - Skype session III

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype/Zoom.

Wednesday 26 May 2021, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Integrability of the conformal loop ensemble

Morris Ang (MIT).

Zoom.

Tuesday 25 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Distribution-Free Nonparametric Inference Based on Optimal Transport: Efficiency Lower Bounds and Rank-Kernel Tests

Bhaswar Bhattacharya, University of Pennsylvania.

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95871364531?pwd=aFZaV0loSWt6QmRDbm5ONWNjTTBjZz09.

Friday 21 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Intersection of the traces of two independent walks in high dimensions

Amine Asselah (Paris-Est Creteil).

Zoom.

Tuesday 18 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Correlated randomly growing graphs

Miklos Racz, Princeton University.

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95871364531?pwd=aFZaV0loSWt6QmRDbm5ONWNjTTBjZz09.

Friday 14 May 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2021 - Skype session II

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype.

Wednesday 12 May 2021, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Revisiting optimal scaling of Metropolis-Hastings methods

Jure Vogrinc.

Zoom.

Tuesday 11 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

Finding stationary points on the bounded-rank variety: a geometric hurdle and a smooth workaround

Nicolas Boumal (EPFL).

Online (Join Zoom Meeting https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81608191565?pwd=RDR2Uk1pU1Y3bHdZV3Q0SFlWdVYzdz09).

Wednesday 05 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Probability

On the radius of Gaussian free field excursion clusters

Franco Severo (Geneva and IHES).

Zoom.

Tuesday 04 May 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Recent progress on the KLS conjecture and Eldan’s stochastic localization scheme

Yuansi Chen, Duke University.

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/95871364531?pwd=aFZaV0loSWt6QmRDbm5ONWNjTTBjZz09.

Friday 30 April 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2021 - Skype session I

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype.

Wednesday 28 April 2021, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic 2021 Easter Vacation - Skype session

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype.

Wednesday 31 March 2021, 16:30-18:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Causal Inference for Nonlinear Outcome Models with Possibly Invalid Instrumental Variables

Sai Li (University of Pennsylvania).

https://zoom.us/j/97791179955?pwd=eFMrTFNSRmhnTzBHdDBLZlgrTFRQdz09.

Thursday 25 March 2021, 13:30-15:00

Probability

Supercritical Percolation on Finite Transitive Graphs

Philip Easo (Cambridge).

Zoom.

Tuesday 16 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Sharp Sensitivity Analysis for Inverse Propensity Weighting via Quantile Balancing

Kevin Guo, Stanford University.

https://zoom.us/j/97791179955?pwd=eFMrTFNSRmhnTzBHdDBLZlgrTFRQdz09.

Thursday 11 March 2021, 16:00-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2021 - Skype session IV

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype.

Wednesday 10 March 2021, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Fluctuation bounds for O'Connell-Yor type systems

Philippe Sosoe (Cornell).

Zoom.

Tuesday 09 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Functional Models for Time Varying Random Objects

Paromita Dubey, Stanford University.

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 05 March 2021, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Soliton decomposition of the Box-Ball System

Leo Rolla (Warwick).

Zoom.

Tuesday 02 March 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Seminar Cancelled

Rina Foygel Barber (University of Chicago).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 26 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2021 - Skype session III

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype.

Wednesday 24 February 2021, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Variational methods for a singular SPDE yielding the universality of the magnetisation ripple

Pavlos Tsatsoulis (Max-Planck-Institut, Leipzig).

Zoom.

Tuesday 23 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Optimal rates for independence testing via U-statistic permutation tests

Tom Berrett, University of Warwick.

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 19 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Limiting Behaviour for Heat Kernels of Random Processes in Random Environments

Peter Taylor (Statslab).

Zoom.

Tuesday 16 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Fair Data Adaptation with Quantile Preservation

Harvey Klyne (Stats Lab).

Zoom.

Thursday 11 February 2021, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2021 - Skype session II

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype.

Wednesday 10 February 2021, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Geodesics in the Brownian map: Strong confluence and geometric structure

Wei Qian (Orsay).

Zoom.

Monday 08 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Distribution-Free, Risk-Controlling Prediction Sets

Stephen Bates, University of California Berkeley.

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 05 February 2021, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Random walks on decorated Galton-Watson trees

Ellie Archer (Tel Aviv).

Zoom.

Tuesday 02 February 2021, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2021 - Skype session I

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype.

Wednesday 27 January 2021, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Factors in probability and ergodic theory

Terry Soo (UCL).

Zoom.

Tuesday 26 January 2021, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

A precise high-dimensional asymptotic theory for Adaboost

Pragya Sur (Harvard University).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 22 January 2021, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2020 - Skype session (Christmas vacation)

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype.

Wednesday 16 December 2020, 16:30-18:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Structural Nested Models and G-estimation: The Partially Realized Promise

Katarzyna Reluga (University of Cambridge).

Zoom.

Thursday 03 December 2020, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2020 - Skype session IV

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype.

Wednesday 02 December 2020, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Maximum and coupling of the sine-Gordon field

Michael Hofstetter (Cambridge).

Zoom.

Tuesday 01 December 2020, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Generalized Kernel Two-Sample Tests

Hao Chen (University of California, Davis).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 27 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2020 - Skype session III

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype.

Wednesday 18 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Provable representation learning in deep learning

Jason Lee (Princeton University).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 13 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Probability

How far do activated random walkers spread from a single source?

Vittoria Silvestri (La Sapienza, Rome).

Zoom.

Tuesday 10 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Minimax estimation of smooth densities in Wasserstein distance

Jonathan Niles-Weed (Courant Institute).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 06 November 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2020 - Skype session II

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype.

Wednesday 04 November 2020, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Monotonicity and phase transition for the edge-reinforced random walk

Remy Poudevigne.

Zoom.

Tuesday 03 November 2020, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Model selection for estimation of causal parameters

Dominik Rothenhaeusler (Stanford University).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92821218455?pwd=aHFOZWw5bzVReUNYR2d5OWc1Tk15Zz09.

Friday 30 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

CCIMI Seminars

Practical Challenges in Portfolio Construction

James Ng (GAM Systematic).

Online (email ccimi@maths.cam.ac.uk for the link).

Wednesday 28 October 2020, 15:00-16:00

Probability

Dimensions of the two-valued sets of the 2D GFF

Lukas Schoug (Cambridge).

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/5903322638?pwd=dzJRRS9BKzhEaGVCNncxaWcvL0IxQT09.

Tuesday 27 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

A Negative Correlation Strategy for Bracketing in Difference-in-Differences

Ting Ye (University of Pennsylvania).

Zoom.

Thursday 22 October 2020, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2020 - Skype session I

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype.

Wednesday 21 October 2020, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Percolation for the Gaussian free field on the cable system

Alexis Prévost.

https://maths-cam-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/92621143616?pwd=YWZsclZMb2Mwa2hOZ09IajNOUTNEdz09.

Tuesday 20 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Probability

A Markov Process associated to the noncutoff Boltzmann Equation

Daniel Heydecker (Cambridge).

Zoom.

Tuesday 13 October 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Title to be confirmed

Rod Jones, Department of Chemistry.

MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Tuesday 06 October 2020, 19:15-21:30

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Jonathan Niles-Weed (Courant Institute).

Venue to be confirmed.

Tuesday 06 October 2020, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2020 - Skype session III

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype.

Wednesday 23 September 2020, 16:30-18:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Synthetic Difference in Differences

Yuhao Wang.

https://zoom.us/j/97791179955.

Thursday 13 August 2020, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2020 - Skype session II

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype.

Wednesday 12 August 2020, 16:30-18:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Minimax Crossover Designs

Yao Zhang (University of Cambridge).

https://zoom.us/j/97791179955.

Thursday 30 July 2020, 13:30-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

Iteratively Reweighted FGMRES and FLSQR for sparse reconstruction

Silvia Gazzola.

Virtual Zoom meeting.

Wednesday 15 July 2020, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

A Formal Causal Interpretation of the Case-Crossover Design

yao zhang (University of Cambridge).

https://zoom.us/j/97791179955.

Thursday 02 July 2020, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2020 - Skype session I

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype.

Wednesday 01 July 2020, 16:30-18:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Bias and high-dimensional adjustment in observational studies of peer effects

Florian Pein.

https://zoom.us/j/97791179955.

Thursday 18 June 2020, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2020 - Skype session III

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype.

Wednesday 17 June 2020, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

A nonparametric problem for stochastic PDEs

Randolf Altmeyer.

Virtual Zoom meeting.

Wednesday 17 June 2020, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Partial identification in instrumental variables

Yuhao Wang.

https://zoom.us/j/97791179955.

Thursday 04 June 2020, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2020 - Skype session II

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype.

Wednesday 03 June 2020, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Implicit Regularization for Optimal Sparse Recovery

Varun Kanade, University of Oxford.

https://zoom.us/j/95022384263?pwd=N3Z6elB2Vy9Jajd6azlCNjFHQVlKdz09.

Friday 29 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Improved Nonparametric Empirical Bayes Estimation using Transfer Learning

Gourab Mukherjee, University of Southern California.

https://zoom.us/j/95022384263?pwd=N3Z6elB2Vy9Jajd6azlCNjFHQVlKdz09.

Friday 22 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Identification In Missing Data Models Represented By Directed Acyclic Graphs

Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

https://zoom.us/j/97791179955.

Thursday 21 May 2020, 13:30-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2020 - Skype session I

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype.

Wednesday 20 May 2020, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Network Representation Using Graph Root Distributions

Jing Lei, Carnegie Mellon University.

https://zoom.us/j/95022384263?pwd=N3Z6elB2Vy9Jajd6azlCNjFHQVlKdz09.

Friday 15 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Neyman-Pearson Classification

Xin Tong, University of Southern California.

https://zoom.us/j/95022384263?pwd=N3Z6elB2Vy9Jajd6azlCNjFHQVlKdz09.

Friday 08 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Spillover Effects in Cluster Randomized Trials with Noncompliance

Hyunseung Kang, University of Wisconsin.

Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/98898559684?pwd=MTZ2Q1dvUUZucDdwUXZVVUp1VjhsQT09 Meeting ID: 988 9855 9684 Password: likelihood.

Friday 01 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Random measures on the Brownian path with prescribed expectation

Abel Farkas (Rényi Institute, Budapest).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 28 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Langevin Monte Carlo for Degenerately Convex Potentials

Murat Erdogdu, University of Toronto.

Zoom Meeting https://zoom.us/j/96976140978 Meeting ID: 969 7614 0978 Password: likelihood.

Friday 24 April 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic - Skype session

Statistics Clinic team.

Skype.

Wednesday 01 April 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - Easter Vacation: CANCELLED

CANCELLED.

CANCELLED.

Wednesday 25 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 11 March 2020, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Random walk on the simple symmetric exclusion process

Daniel Kious (Bath).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Causal Inference in Genetic Trio Studies

yao zhang (University of Cambridge).

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 10 March 2020, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Network change point detection

Yi Yu, University of Warwick.

MR12.

Friday 06 March 2020, 15:00-16:00

Probability

On the statistical behavior of the Riemann zeta function

Christian Webb (Aalto, Finland).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Dynamic Treatment Regimes III

Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 03 March 2020, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Selection bias, missing data and causal inference

Kate Tilling, University of Bristol.

MR12.

Friday 28 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Invoicing and Pricing-to-market: Evidence from UK Exports/Imports Transactions

Meredith Crowley, Department of Economics.

The Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John’s College, St John’s Street, Cambridge CB2 1TP.

Thursday 27 February 2020, 19:15-21:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 26 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Empirical Measure and Small Noise Asymptotics under Large Deviation Scaling for Interacting Diffusions

Amarjit Budhiraja (UNC Chapel Hill).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 25 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

The concept of separable effects for causal mediation and competing risks analyses

Vanessa Didelez, Leibniz Institute for Prevention Research and Epidemiology - BIPS, Bremen, Germany.

MR12.

Friday 21 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

The Cycle of Statistical Research

Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 19 February 2020, 15:00-16:00

Probability

The optimal matching problem

Martin Huesmann.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Stable prediction

Harvey Klyne.

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 18 February 2020, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Posterior contraction rates for potentially nonlinear inverse problems

Sergios Agapiou, University of Cyprus.

MR12.

Friday 14 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Computer-aided worst-case analyses and design of first-order methods for convex optimization

Adrien Taylor (INRIA Paris).

MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 12 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Local geometry of the rough-smooth interface in the two-periodic Aztec diamond.

Sunil Chhita (Durham).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Dynamic treatment regimes II

Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 11 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

On Statistical Learning for Individualized Decision Making with Complex Data

Chengchun Shi, London School of Economics.

MR12.

Friday 07 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Graphical models for extremes

Harvey Klyne.

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Mixing and cut-off for random walks on finite fields and random polynomials

Emmanuel Breuillard (Cambridge).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 04 February 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

The impact of uncertainty on trade agreements between the UK and EU

Oliver Exton, Department of Economics.

Dept of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB..

Monday 03 February 2020, 19:15-21:30

Statistics

Convergence of Gaussian process emulators with estimated hyper-parameters and applications in Bayesian inverse problems

Aretha Teckentrup, University of Edinburgh.

MR12.

Friday 31 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2020 - I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 29 January 2020, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Patterns and Szemerédi phenomena in random fractals

Pablo Shmerkin (Buenos Aires).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Dynamic treatment regimes I

Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 28 January 2020, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Optimal Transport: Fast Probabilistic Approximation with Exact Solvers

Yoav Zemel, University of Cambridge.

MR12.

Friday 24 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Fluctuations in the number of level set components of planar Gaussian fields

Stephen Muirhead (Queen Mary).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Negative controls in causal inference

Yuhao Wang.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 21 January 2020, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Approximate Cross Validation for Large Data and High Dimensions

Tamara Broderick, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

MR12.

Friday 17 January 2020, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2019 - Christmas Vacation

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11 (Pavilion B, 1st floor).

Wednesday 11 December 2019, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Collaborative Analytics and Education in Data Science

Martin Spott (HTW Berlin).

MR14, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 04 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Kinetic theory for the low-density Lorentz gas

Jens Marklof (Bristol).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Regression discontinuity design

Florian Pein.

MR10, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 03 December 2019, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

On the convergence of the Hamiltonian Monte Carlo algorithm and other irreversible MCMC methods

Alain Durmus — École Normale Superieure, Cachan.

MR12.

Friday 29 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

How feasible is DNA as a long-term digital storage system?

Nick Goldman, European Bioinformatics Institute.

The Statistical Laboratory,Centre for Mathematical Sciences,Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 19:15-21:30

Causal Inference Reading Group

Anchor regression

Dr Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 26 November 2019, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Optimal Transport for Machine Learning

Gabriel Peyré — École Normale Superieure.

MR12.

Friday 22 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2019 - IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Machine learning and theorem proving

Henryk Michalewski.

CMS, MR14.

Wednesday 20 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Higher-order influence function

Dr Yuhao Wang.

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 19 November 2019, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Multiscale Analysis of Bayesian CART

Veronika Rockova — University of Chicago.

MR12.

Friday 15 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

CCIMI Colloquium - The Statistical Finite Element Method

Professor Mark Girolami, University of Cambridge.

MR3, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Wednesday 13 November 2019, 17:00-19:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Invoicing and Pricing-to-market: Evidence from UK Exports/Imports Transactions

Meredith Crowley, Department of Economics.

The Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John’s College, St John’s Street, Cambridge CB2 1TP.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 19:15-21:30

Probability

CENTRAL LIMIT THEOREMS AND THE GEOMETRY OF POLYNOMIALS

Julian Sahasrabudhe (Cambridge).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 15:15-16:15

Probability

Variational principle for lattice models with long-range interactions

Piet Lammers (Statslab).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

Tackling invalid instrumental variables

Sven Wang (University of Cambridge).

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 12 November 2019, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Identifying Cointegration by Eigenanalysis

Qiwei Yao — London School of Economics.

MR12.

Friday 08 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2019 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 06 November 2019, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Understanding Liouville quantum gravity through two square subdivision models

Josh Pfeffer (MIT).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

The Blessing of Multiple Causes

Dr Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 05 November 2019, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Classification with unknown class conditional label noise on non-compact feature spaces

Henry Reeve — University of Birmingham.

MR12.

Friday 01 November 2019, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Cutoff for the mean-field zero-range process

Justin Salez (Paris-Dauphine).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 15:15-16:15

Probability

Forest fire processes and near-critical percolation with heavy-tailed impurities

Pierre Nolin (City University of Hong Kong).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

High dimensional data and latent confounding II

Rajen Shah (University of Cambridge).

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 29 October 2019, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

On Estimation of Unnormalized Density Models

Song Liu — University of Bristol.

MR12.

Friday 25 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2019 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 23 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Cutoff for Random Walk on Random Cayley Graphs

Sam Thomas (Statslab).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Causal Inference Reading Group

High dimensional data and latent confounding I

Dr Qingyuan Zhao (Statistical Laboratory).

MR6, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 22 October 2019, 13:30-15:00

Statistics

Asymptotic normality of certain transformation averages

Peter Orbanz — University College London.

MR12.

Friday 18 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Distributed Statistics à la Economics

Elchanan Mossel (MIT).

MR12.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Fortuin-Kastelyn type representations for Threshold Gaussian and Stable Vectors: aka Divide and Color processes (joint work with Malin Palö Forsström)

Jeff Steif (Chalmers).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 15 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Peter Whittle Lecture

Simplicity and Complexity of Belief-Propagation

Elchanan Mossel (MIT).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Monday 14 October 2019, 16:30-17:30

Statistics

On the robustness of gradient-based MCMC algorithms

Sam Livingstone — University College London.

MR12.

Friday 11 October 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Clueless Voting

Imre Leader, Department of Pure Mathematics and Mathematical Statistics.

MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 19:15-21:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2019 - I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11 (Pavilion B, 1st floor).

Wednesday 09 October 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2019 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 11 September 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2019 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 07 August 2019, 16:30-18:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer 2019 - I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 17 July 2019, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Regularized linear autoencoders, the Morse theory of loss, and backprop in the brain

Jon Bloom (Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard).

MR12.

Monday 24 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2019 - IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 19 June 2019, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Hard-core configurations on Z^2 and other lattices

Izabella Stuhl (Penn State).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 11 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Geometrizing rates of convergence under local differential privacy

Lukas Steinberger, University of Freiburg.

MR12.

Friday 07 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Recent Developments in the Study of Single-Index Type Models

Mouli Banerjee, University of Michigan.

MR12.

Friday 07 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2019 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 11 (Pavilion B, 1st floor).

Wednesday 05 June 2019, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Large deviations of subgraph counts for sparse random graphs

Amir Dembo (Stanford).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 04 June 2019, 14:00-15:00

Applied and Computational Analysis

An Introduction to Randomized Algorithms for Matrix Computations

This is a joint ACA–CCIMI seminar

Ilse Ipsen (NCSU).

MR 14.

Monday 03 June 2019, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Nonparametric maximum likelihood methods for binary response models with random coefficients

Roger Koenker, University College London.

MR12.

Friday 31 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Communication in the presence of sparsity

Yiannis Kontoyiannis (Cambridge).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, meeting room MR14.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

Title to be confirmed - CCIMI Colloquium

Professor Mark Girolami, University of Cambridge.

Venue to be confirmed.

Wednesday 29 May 2019, 00:00-00:00

Probability

Isomorphism theorems and the sign cluster geometry of the Gaussian free field

Pierre-Francois Rodriguez (IHES, Paris).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 28 May 2019, 15:00-16:00

CCIMI Seminars

CCIMI Video Contest

CCIMI Members.

MR2, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Tuesday 28 May 2019, 14:30-17:30

Statistics

MAP estimators and posterior consistency for Bayesian inverse problems with exponential priors

Masoumeh Dashti, University of Sussex.

MR12.

Friday 24 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2019 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Diffusion bridge simulation in geometric statistics

Frank van der Meulen, Delft University of Technology.

CMS, MR14.

Wednesday 22 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Existence and uniqueness of the Liouville quantum gravity metric for γ ∈ (0, 2)

Ewain Gwynne (Cambridge).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 21 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

On distributed Bayesian computation

Harry van Zanten, University of Amsterdam.

MR12.

Friday 17 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Stochastic homogenization in amorphous media and applications to exclusion processes

Alessandra Faggionato (La Sapienza, Rome).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 14 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

On the Consistency of Supervised Learning with Missing Values

Julie Josse, École Polytechnique.

MR12.

Friday 10 May 2019, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

[Special Statslab Seminar] Scalable methods for machine learning optimisation

Milan Vojnovic (LSE).

MR12.

Friday 10 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2019 - I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

[Special Statslab Seminar] Scalable stochastic optimization and large-scale data

Michael W. Mahoney (ICSI and Department of Statistics, UC Berkeley).

MR11, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Wednesday 08 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Flux Large Deviations

Robert Patterson (Weierstrass Institute, Berlin).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 07 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

Stochastic variants of classical optimization methods, with complexity guarantees

Professor Coralia Cartis.

CMS, MR14.

Wednesday 01 May 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

The Algorithm is Going to Get You: Should We Fear the Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Criminal Justice?

Matthew Bland, Institute of Criminology.

Amgen Ltd, Cambridge Science Park, Milton Road, Cambridge CB4 0WG.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 19:15-21:30

Probability

Covariance formulas for fluctuations of linear spectral statistics for Wigner matrices with few moments

Anna Maltsev (Queen Mary University of London).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 30 April 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Nuisance parameters

Heather Battey, Imperial College London.

MR12.

Friday 26 April 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - Easter Vacation

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 27 March 2019, 16:30-18:00

Mordell Lectures

Joinings of higher rank diagonalizable actions

Elon Lindenstrauss, Einstein Institute, Jerusalem.

MR2, CMS.

Thursday 21 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

A Bayesian model‐free approach to combination therapy phase I trials using censored time‐to‐toxicity data

Graham Wheeler, Cancer Research UK and UCL Cancer Trials Centre @ University College London.

Cambridge Institute of Public Health. Large Seminar Room (First Floor), Forvie Site, Robinson Way. CB2 0SR.

Tuesday 19 March 2019, 19:15-21:30

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 13 March 2019, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Large deviations for the maximum of a branching random walk

Nina Gantert (Technical University of Munich).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

A variational approach to nonlinear and interacting diffusions

Professor Pierre Del Moral.

CMS, MR11.

Tuesday 12 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Explicit stabilised Runge-Kutta methods and their application to Bayesian inverse problems

Kostas Zygalakis, University of Edinburgh.

MR12.

Friday 08 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Entropy decay and concentration for Strong Rayleigh measures via couplings

Jonathan Hermon (Cambridge).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 05 March 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Analysis of Networks via the Sparse β-Model

Chenlei Leng, University of Warwick.

MR12.

Friday 01 March 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 27 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Subsequential limits for Liouville graph distance

Alex Dunlap (Stanford).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 26 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Solving the Reproducibility Crisis

Nicole Janz, School of Politics and International Relations, University of Nottingham.

The Lightfoot Room, Divinity School, St John’s College, St John’s Street, Cambridge CB2 1TP.

Monday 25 February 2019, 19:15-21:30

Statistics

High-dimensional sign tests for the direction of a skewed single-spiked distribution

Davy Paindaveine, Université Libre de Bruxelles.

MR12.

Friday 22 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

CCIMI Seminars

Advances in machine learning for molecules

José Miguel Hernández-Lobato, Department of Engineering (University of Cambridge).

CMS, MR14.

Wednesday 20 February 2019, 14:30-15:30

Probability

Mixing times of exclusion processes on regular graphs

Richard Pymar (Birkbeck).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 19 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

On the fundamental understanding of distributed computation

Botond Szabó, University of Leiden.

MR12.

Friday 15 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 13 February 2019, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Scaling limit of the condensate dynamics in a reversible zero range process

Michail Loulakis (Athens).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 12 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Post-selection confidence intervals and confidence curves

Gerda Claeskens, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven .

MR12.

Friday 08 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Bootstrap percolation and kinetically constrained spin models: critical time scales

Cristina Toninelli (Dauphine).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 05 February 2019, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

From Fingertips to RAP: getting statistics into public health policy and practice

Sian Evans and Stephen Yeung (Public Health England).

Dept of Applied Mathematics & Theoretical Physics, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB..

Monday 04 February 2019, 19:15-21:30

Statistics

Model selection with Lasso-Zero and a robust extension with an application to the problem of missing covariates

Sylvain Sardy, Université de Genève.

MR12.

Friday 01 February 2019, 16:00-17:00

Psychology talks and events

How People Really Make Medical Decisions: The Problem of the Patient

Prof Talya Miron-Shatz - Ono Academic College, Israel.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge.

Thursday 31 January 2019, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Lent 2019 - I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Pure Mathematics in Crisis

Professor Kevin Buzzard.

CMS, MR3.

Wednesday 30 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Probability

Sumset bounds for the entropy on abelian groups

Ioannis Kontoyiannis (Engineering, Cambridge).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 29 January 2019, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Geometric MCMC for infinite-dimensional Bayesian Inverse Problems

Alexandros Beskos, University College London .

MR12.

Friday 25 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Scaling limits for planar aggregation with subcritical fluctuations

Amanda Turner (Lancaster).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 22 January 2019, 16:30-17:30

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Mapping Health: Why, How, Considering what ...

Sylvia Richardson, MRC Biostatistics Unit @ University of Cambridge.

MRC Cognition & Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Monday 21 January 2019, 19:15-21:30

Statistics

On the hypocoercivity of some PDMP-Monte Carlo algorithms

Christophe Andrieu, University of Bristol.

MR12.

Friday 18 January 2019, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2018 - Christmas Vacation

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 12 December 2018, 16:30-18:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Radial excitations of superconducting (Witten) vortices

Note: MONDAY lunchtime

Patrick Peter (DAMTP, and Inst. Astrophys. Paris).

Potter Room, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 03 December 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2018 - IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 28 November 2018, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Kazhdan groups have cost 1

Tom Hutchcroft (Cambridge).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 27 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Seminars

Gen-Oja: A Simple and Efficient Algorithm for Streaming Generalized Eigenvector Computation

Dr Nicolas Flammarion.

CMS, MR11.

Monday 26 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Posterior concentration for Bayesian regression trees and their ensembles

Stephanie van der Pas, University of Leiden.

MR12.

Friday 23 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Bayesian and structural integration of background evidence in the design, analysis and interpretation of clinical trial data

Fabio Rigat (GSK) & Nicky Best (Imperial College).

Statistical Laboratory, Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 19:15-21:30

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Topological Terms in Sigma Models on Homogeneous Spaces

Joe Davighi (DAMTP).

MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Probability

On gradient estimates for random walks in time-dependent random environments

Martin Slowik (Berlin).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 20 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Concentration of tempered posteriors and of their variational approximations

Pierre Alquier, ENSAE.

MR12.

Friday 16 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2018 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)5.

Wednesday 14 November 2018, 16:30-18:00

Probability

The smoothed KPZ equation in dimension three and higher: Edwards-Wilkinson regime of its fluctuations and its localization properties

Chiranjib Mukherjee (Munster).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 13 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Phase transitions on community detectability for various types of stochastic block models

Laurent Massoulié, INRIA.

MR12.

Friday 09 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

CCIMI Seminars

Adaptive and robust nonparametric Bayesian contraction rates for discretely observed compound Poisson processes

Dr Alberto J. Coca.

CMS, MR14.

Wednesday 07 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Loop Correlations in Random Wire Models

Costanza Benassi (Northumbria).

MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Probability

The TAP-Plefka variational principle for mean field spin glasses

David Belius (Basel).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 06 November 2018, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Towards a better understanding of early stopping for boosting algorithms

Yuting Wei, Stanford University.

MR12.

Friday 02 November 2018, 16:00-17:00

Finance - Centre for Financial Research

Volatility and arbitrage: short- and long-term relative arbitrage in stochastic portfolio theory

Johannes Ruf, LSE.

CMS, MR15.

Thursday 01 November 2018, 13:00-14:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2018 - II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement)5.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 16:30-18:00

CCIMI Seminars

Estimation of Low-Rank Matrices via Approximate Message Passing

Dr Ramji Venkataramanan.

CMS, MR15.

Wednesday 31 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Newton-Cartan Gravity with Unconstrained Torsion: a Galilean General Theory of Gravity

Marco Cariglia (U. Fed. Ouro Preto, Brazil).

MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Nonpositive curvature is not coarsely universal

Alexandros Eskenazis (Princeton).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 30 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Bayesian regression models for complex spatially or serially correlated functional data

Jeffrey Morris, MD Anderson Cancer Center.

MR12.

Friday 26 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Making Sense of the Standard Model: an Exceptional Quantum Algebra

Note -- on THURSDAY

Ivan Todorov (Sofia, Bulgaria).

MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Thursday 25 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Mixing time for the non-babktracking random walk on random graphs with communities

Anna Ben-Hamou (Paris).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 23 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Nonparametric Bayes for support boundary recovery

Johannes Schmidt-Hieber, University of Leiden.

MR12.

Friday 19 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Michaelmas 2018 - I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 5 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 17 October 2018, 16:30-18:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Kinks with Long-range Tails

Nick Manton (DAMTP).

MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 16 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Last-Passage Percolation with constraints, and applications to polymers in random environment

Quentin Berger (Paris).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 16 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Uniform rates of Glivenko-Cantelli convergence and their use in Bayesian inference

Emanuele Dolera, Università degli Studi di Pavia.

MR12.

Friday 12 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Heteroskedastic PCA: Algorithm, Optimality, and Applications

Tony Cai, University of Pennsylvania.

MR13.

Thursday 11 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Discussion Group (CSDG)

Why is cancer survival lower in England than in other high income countries?

Sarah Walters & Sara Benitez Majano, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.

MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, 15 Chaucer Road, Cambridge CB2 7EF.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 19:15-21:30

Peter Whittle Lecture

When Statistics Meets Computing

Professor Tony Cai (Wharton, University of Pennsylvania).

Centre for Mathematical Sciences MR2.

Wednesday 10 October 2018, 17:00-18:00

Mathematical Physics Seminar

Skyrmion Vibrations

Chris Halcrow (Leeds).

MR11 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Tuesday 09 October 2018, 16:00-17:00

Probability

Invariance principle for the random Lorentz gas beyond the [Boltzmann-Grad / Gallavotti-Spohn] limit

Balint Toth (Bristol).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 09 October 2018, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer Vacation III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 19 September 2018, 16:30-18:00

Probability

The Dirichlet problem for circle packings

Asaf Nachmias (Tel Aviv).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 18 September 2018, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer Vacation II

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 15 August 2018, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Delocalization of uniform graph homomorphisms from Z^2 to Z

Martin Tassy (Dartmouth).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 07 August 2018, 14:00-15:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Summer Vacation I

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 4 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 18 July 2018, 16:30-18:00

Statistics

Sketchy decisions: Low-rank convex matrix optimization with optimal storage

Joel Tropp (Caltech).

MR12.

Monday 18 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

CCIMI Short course: First-order methods for large scale optimisation problems

First-order methods for large scale optimisation problems - Additional large-scale algorithms

Stephen Becker, University of Colorado.

MR3 Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 15 June 2018, 14:00-16:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2018 - IV

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 9 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 13 June 2018, 16:30-18:00

Probability

Polluted Bootstrap Percolation

Alexander E Holroyd.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 12 June 2018, 14:00-15:00

CCIMI Short course: First-order methods for large scale optimisation problems

First-order methods for large scale optimisation problems - Modern first-order methods for structured convex problems

Stephen Becker, University of Colorado.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 11 June 2018, 14:00-16:00

CCIMI Short course: First-order methods for large scale optimisation problems

First-order methods for large scale optimisation problems - Convex optimization problems and optimality

Stephen Becker, University of Colorado.

MR21, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Friday 08 June 2018, 14:00-16:00

Statistics

What is the dimension of a stochastic process?

Victor Panaretos (EPFL).

MR11.

Thursday 07 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

CCIMI Short course: First-order methods for large scale optimisation problems

First-order methods for large scale optimisation problems - Convex analysis

Stephen Becker, University of Colorado.

MR12, Centre for Mathematical Sciences.

Monday 04 June 2018, 14:00-16:00

Statistics

Title to be confirmed

Sabyasachi Chatterjee (UIUC).

MR12.

Friday 01 June 2018, 16:00-17:00

Cambridge Statistics Clinic

Statistics Clinic Easter 2018 - III

Speaker to be confirmed.

Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Meeting Room 21 (centre building, basement).

Wednesday 30 May 2018, 16:30-18:00

Probability

High-density hard-core configurations on a triangular lattice

Yuri Suhov (Penn State and Statslab).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 29 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

CL-CompBio

Structured deep models: Deep learning on graphs and beyond

Thomas Kipf, University of Amsterdam.

Lecture Theatre 2, Cambridge University Computer Laboratory, J J Thompson Avenue, Madingley Road, Cambridge.

Friday 25 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Probability

A particle model for Wasserstein type diffusion

Vitalii Konarovskyi.

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 22 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

On momentum methods and acceleration in stochastic optimization

Praneeth Netrapalli (Microsoft Research India).

MR14.

Monday 21 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Statistics

Bayesian estimation of the mean response in a missing data model

Kolyan Ray (King's College London).

MR12.

Friday 18 May 2018, 16:00-17:00

Probability

The criticality of a randomly-driven front

Amir Dembo (Stanford).

MR12, CMS, Wilberforce Road, Cambridge, CB3 0WB.

Tuesday 15 May 2018, 14:00-15:00

Statistics

Multiple change point estimation based on moving sum statistics

Claudia Kirch (Magdeburg).

MR12.

Friday 11 May 2018, 16:00-17:00