Past Events
Event Date:
November 6th, 11am ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Statistical Learning in Operations: The Interplay between Online and Offline learning
Speaker
David Simichi-Levi, MIT
Abstract
Traditionally, statistical learning is focused on either (i) online learning where data is generated online according to some unknown model; or (ii) offline learning where... more
Event Date:
November 4, 2020 1-4 pm
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Online Tutorial
United States
United States
[Please Note: The Essential Data Science for Business: Descriptive Analytics, Exploratory Data Analysis, and Data Visualization has already occurred.
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Event Date:
October 30, 2020 at 3:00 PM ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Come join us for the first ever NISS Graduate Student Network Fall Social!
This event is for graduate students at NISS Affiliate departments or institutions. If you are not certain if your institution is a NISS Affiliate, please check the list of Affiliatte Academic Departments.
Connection... more
Event Date:
Friday, October 30, 2020, 11am ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Title: Coming Soon!
Speaker
Anima Anandkumar, (California Institute of Technology)
Abstract
Coming Soon!
Bio
Anima Anandkumar is a Bren Professor at Caltech and Director of ML Research at NVIDIA. She was previously a Principal Scientist at Amazon Web Services. She has received several honors such... more
Event Date:
October 30, 2020 11 am ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
The Department of Statistics at Florida State University is pleased to announce Nancy Reid, University Professor and Canada Research Chair in Statistical Methodology at the University of Toronto, as the inaugural speaker for its newly endowed Myles Hollander Distinguished Lecture.
Reid will... more
Event Date:
October 23, 2020, 1:00 - 2:30 PM Pacific Time
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Data Science Analytics and Methodology in Biomedical Research and Clinical Trials
This is a webinar of the 2020 Orange County Biostatistics Symposium Series to present topics related to data science and analytics in biomedical research and clinical trials. The webinar has some interesting topics... more
Event Date:
Friday, October 23, 2020 11am ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Learning Linear Dynamical Systems: Improved Rates and the Role of Regularization
Speaker
Maryam Fazel, (University of Washington, Seattle)
Abstract
We consider the problem of learning linear dynamical systems from input-output data, or system identification, given limited output samples. Learning... more
Event Date:
October 21, 2020 1-4 pm
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
[Please Note: The Essential Data Science for Business: Descriptive Analytics, Exploratory Data Analysis, and Data Visualization has already occurred.
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Event Date:
October 16th, 12pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Quasi Stochastic Approximation with Applications to Gradient Free Optimization and Reinforcement Learning
Speaker
Sean Meyn, (University of Florida)
Abstract
Soon after the publication of Watkins’ Q-learning algorithm, it was recognized independently by Tsitsiklis and Jordan that the recursion... more
Event Date:
October 15, 2020 12:00 noon - 2 pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
[Please Note: The Statistics Debate session has already occurred. Go to the News Story for this event to read about what happened and view the recording.]
Where do YOU stand?
Given the issues surrounding the misuses and abuse of p-values, do you think p-values should be used?
Do you think the use... more