Student Seminar Series – Spring 2017

Schedule for Spring 2017

 

Seminars are on Wednesdays
Time: 12:00pm – 1:00pm
Location: Room 903, 1255 Amsterdam Avenue
Contacts: Susanna Makela, Robin Winstanley

Information for speakers: For information about schedule, direction, equipment, reimbursement and hotel, please click here.

Previous semesters’ schedules can be viewed here: Fall 2015; 2014-2015 academic year

 
 
1/25/17 research talks by Profs Mukherjee, Paninski, and Sobel

2/1/17

research talks by Profs Feng and Gelman
2/8/17 Gonzalo Mena, “Auto-encoding variational inference”
2/15/17  Gabriel Loaiza “MADE: Masked Autoencoder for Distribution Estimation”
2/22/17  
3/1/17  
3/8/17  
3/15/17  
3/22/17  
3/29/17  

Stefan Wager on “Efficient Policy Learning”

4/5/17  Milad Bakhshizadeh (Columbia) presenting the paper “A short history of stochastic integration and mathematical finance: The early years, 1880-1970” (https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.lnms/1196285381)     
 4/12/17  Michael Betancourt (ISERP, Columbia) “Hamiltonian Monte Carlo” along with a Q&A session.
4/19/17 Jonah Gabry (Columbia)
4/26/17 Student Presentations