Past Events
Event Date:
February 12, 2021 at 3:00 PM EST
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Come join us for the NISS Graduate Student Network Winter Social!
The social will take place over Zoom on Friday February 12, 2021 at 3:00 PM ET (12:00 PM PT).
Find the Zoom link on the NISS Graduate Student Network website!
Event Date:
February 10, 2021 1-4 pm ET
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
[Please Note: The Essential Data Science for Business: Unstructured Data Analysis - Text Mining with Tidy Data Principles has already occurred.
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Event Date:
Friday, February 5, 2021 - 11 am ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Machine Learning under a Modern Optimization Lens
Speaker
Dimitris Bertsimas, (MIT)
Abstract
We use modern optimization methods to address a variety of ML problems:
1) We transform sparse regression problems to convex mixed-integer optimization problems, which we solve via cutting planes... more
Event Date:
Thursday, February 4th, 2021 12-1pm ET (9-10am PT)
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
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Host and Viral Genetics of SARS-CoV-2 to Enable Epidemiologic Surveillance, Clinical Insight and Pathobiology
About this Webinar Series
The COPSS-NISS... more
Event Date:
Friday, January 29, 2021 - 11am ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Online Webinar
United States
United States
Competitive Control via Online Optimization
Speaker
Adam Wierman, (CalTech)
Abstract
Online optimization is a powerful framework in machine learning that has seen numerous applications to problems in distributed systems, robotics, autonomous planning, and sustainability. In my group at Caltech, we... more
Event Date:
January 22, 2021 4pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Robust Online Learning and its Applications to Assortment Optimization
Speaker
Xi Chen (New York University)
Abstract
In this talk, we will first provide an overview of my research on online learning and decision-making. We will highlight a few applications on dynamic pricing, assortment... more
Event Date:
Thursday, January 21, 2021 12-1pm ET (9-10am PT)
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
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Transmission Dynamics of SARS-CoV-2: Inference and Projection
About this Webinar Series
The COPSS-NISS COVID-19 Data Science webinar... more
Event Date:
January 15, 2021 - 12 noon ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Online Webinar
United States
United States
Join us for our first "Meeting with the Alumni" of the new year on January 15, 2021 at 9:00 AM Pacific Time - 12 noon Eastern Time.
At this meeting alumni will be sharing their experiences in the job market and answer your questions.
Alumni:
Lauren Cappiello (Assistant Professor at California... more
Event Date:
Friday, January 15, 2021 11am EDT
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Preconditioning Helps: Faster Convergence in Statistical and Reinforcement Learning
Speaker
Yuejie Chi, (Carnegie Mellon University)
Abstract
Exciting progresses have been made in demystifying the efficacy of vanilla gradient methods in solving challenging nonconvex problems in statistical... more
Event Date:
January 13, 2021 11 -12:45 pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
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Overview
The National Institute of Statistical Science (NISS) and Merck are sponsoring a Virtual Meet-Up on SARS-COV-2 Vaccine... more