Columbia HomeEvery summer, we invite up to two eminent statisticians/probabilists to teach a short special topic course to our Ph.D. students. These 1-2 week-long courses, allow our Ph.D. students to engage with an eminent researcher to learn and discuss advanced topics in a relaxed setting. Recent Summer Visitors include Peter Buhlmann, John Lafferty, Sourav Chatterjee, Minge Xie, Denis Talay, Liza Levina, and Roman Vershynin.
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David Aldous
Professor, University of California, BerkeleyProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~aldous/
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Jean Bertoin
Professor, Institut für Mathematik Universität ZürichProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: https://www.math.uzh.ch/index.php?id=people&key1=6119
Year of Visit: 2008
Topics Course: G8201D - Topics in Probability
"An introduction to subordinators and Levy processes"
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Peter Buhlmann
Professor, ETH ZurichProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: https://stat.ethz.ch/~buhlmann/
Year of Visit: Summer 2020
Topics Course: "Causality -- in a wide sense."
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Andreas Buja
Professor, The Wharton School University of PennsylvaniaProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~buja/
Year of Visit: Summer 2009
Topics Course: G8200D - Topics in Statistics
"Lectures on Statistics and Data Analysis"
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Ismael Castillo
Professor, Laboratoire de Probabilités, Statistique et Modélisation, Sorbonne UniversitéProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://www.proba.jussieu.fr/~castillo/
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Sourav Chatterjee
Professor, Stanford UniversityProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://statweb.stanford.edu/~souravc/
Year of Visit: Summer 2016
Topics Course: G8201 - Topics in Probability
"A short course in Stein's method"
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Guido Consonni
Professor, Universita’ Cattolica del Sacro CuoreProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://docenti.unicatt.it/ita/guido_consonni/
Year of Visit: Summer 2011
Topics Course: G8200D - Topics in Statistics
"Objective Bayesian Model Choice"
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Jay Devore
ProfessorProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
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Mark Hansen
David and Helen Gurley Brown Professor of Journalism and Innovation; Director, David and Helen Gurley Brown Institute of Media Innovation, Columbia School of JournalismProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: https://journalism.columbia.edu/faculty/mark-hansen
Year of Visit: Summer 2012
Topics Course: G8201D - Topics in Probability
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Miguel Hernan
Professor, Harvard School of Public HealthProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/miguel-hernan/
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Michael Jordan
Professor, University of California, BerkeleyProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~jordan/
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Young S. Kim
Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, Northland CollegeProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
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Vladimir Koltchinskii
Professor, Georgia Institute of Technology, School of MathematicsProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: https://math.gatech.edu/people/vladimir-koltchinskii
Year of Visit: Summer 2019
Topics Course: GR8301 - Probability Theory
"Estimation of Functionals of High-Dimensional Parameters"
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Ioannis Kontoyiannis
Professor, Athens Univ of Economics & BusinessProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://pages.cs.aueb.gr/~yiannisk/
Year of Visit: Summer 2010
Topics Course: G8201D - Topics in Probability
"Non-asymptotics: Probability, entropy and additive combinatorics"
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John Lafferty
Professor, The University of ChicagoProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: https://galton.uchicago.edu/~lafferty/
Year of Visit: Summer 2016
Topics Course: G8200(1) - Topics in Statistics
"High Dimensional Statistical Learning"
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Tze Leung Lai
Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Statistics, Stanford UniversityProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://statweb.stanford.edu/~ckirby/lai/
Year of Visit: Summer 2019
Topics Course: GR8201D - Topics in Statistics
"The financial industry (Wall Street) and the broader economy (Main Street) undergo cycles of boom and bust."
Year of Visit: Summer 2015
Topics Course: GR8200D - Topics in Statistics
"Statistical Methods for Medical Product Safety Evaluation"
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Steven Lalley
Professor, University of ChicagoProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: https://galton.uchicago.edu/~lalley/
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Liza Levina
Vijay Nair Collegiate Professor and Chair, Michigan Institute for Data ScienceProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://dept.stat.lsa.umich.edu/~elevina/
Year of Visit: Summer 2018
Topics Course: GR8201D – Topics in Statistics
"Statistical models and algorithms for analyzing network data."
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Xihong Lin
Professor, Harvard UniversityProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/xihong-lin/
Year of Visit: 2021
Topics Course: G8201 - Topics in Theoretical Statistics
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George Moustakides
Professor, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of PatrasProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://www.ssp.ece.upatras.gr/moustakides/
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Michael Newton
Professor, University of Wisconsin-MadisonProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://www.stat.wisc.edu/~newton/
Year of Visit: Summer 2013
Topics Course: G8200 - Topics in Statistics
"Statistical Modeling in Cancer and Molecular Biology"
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Mark Podolskij
Professor, Department of Mathematics, Aarhus UniversityProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://www.podolskij.uni-hd.de/
Year of Visit: Summer 2012
Topics Course: G8201D- Topics in Probability
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James Robins
Professor, School of Public Health, Harvard UniversityProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/james-robins/
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Mathieu Rosenbaum
Professor, Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) and École Polytechnique, ParisProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://www.crest.fr/ses.php?user=3046
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Donald Rubin
John L. Loeb Professor of Statistics, Harvard UniversityProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://statistics.fas.harvard.edu/people/donald-b-rubin
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Larry Shepp
Professor, The University of Pennsylvania Wharton SchoolProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~shepp/pict/Larryshepp.JPG
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Michael Stein
Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Professor, Department of Statistics and the College, University of ChicagoProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: https://galton.uchicago.edu/~stein/
Year of Visit: Summer 2014
Topics Course: G8200D - Topics in Statistics
"Gaussian Processes: Theory, Applications and Computation"
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Denis Talay
Professor, École PolytechniqueProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: https://www-sop.inria.fr/members/Denis.Talay/me.html
Year of Visit: Summer 2017
Topics Course: GR8301D – Topics in Probability
The course is aimed to introduce the analysis of invariant measures of ergodic diffusion processes with two main motivations: the paramedic estimation of ergodic diffusions and the long time behaviour of numerical simulations.
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Roman Vershynin
Professor of Mathematics, University of California, Irvine and Associate Director of the Center for Algorithms, Combinatorics and OptimizationProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: https://www.math.uci.edu/~rvershyn/
Year of Visit: Summer 2018
Topics Course: GR8301D – Topics in Probability
"Introduction to high-dimensional probability and its applications."
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Larry Wasserman
Professor, Department of Statistics and in the Machine Learning Department , Carnegie Mellon UniversityProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~larry/
Year of Visit: Summer 2010
Topics Course: G8200D - Topics in Statistics
"Statistical Machine Learning"
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Henry Wynn
Professor, London School of EconomicsProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://www.lse.ac.uk/researchandexpertise/experts/profile.aspx?KeyValue=h.wynn%40lse.ac.uk
Year of Visit: Summer 2011
Topics Course: G8201D - Topics in Probability
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Minge Xie
Distinguished Professor, Rutgers UniversityProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://www.stat.rutgers.edu/home/mxie/
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Benjamin Yakir
Professor, Hebrew University of JerusalemProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://pluto.huji.ac.il/~msby/
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Bin Yu
Professor, University of California, BerkeleyProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: https://www.stat.berkeley.edu/~binyu/Site/Welcome.html
Year of Visit: Summer 2008
Topics Course: G8200D - Topics in Statistics
"Information Theory and Statistics"
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Thaleia Zariphopailou
Professor, Department of Mathematics, College of Natural Sciences Department of Information, Risk, and Operations Management, University of Texas at AustinProgram(s): Statistics Department, Summer Visitors
Website: http://www.ma.utexas.edu/users/zariphop/
Year of Visit: Summer 2015
Topics Course: G8201 - Topics in Probability
"Stochastic optimization in optimal portfolio selection and pricing in incomplete markets."
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