Every 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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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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