Past Events
Event Date:
Friday, October 9th, 11am ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Off-Policy Estimation of Long-Term Average Outcomes with Applications to Mobile Health
Speaker
Susan Murphy (Harvard University)
Abstract
Due to the recent advancements in wearables and sensing technology, health scientists are increasingly developing mobile health (mHealth) interventions. The... more
Event Date:
October 7, 2020 1-4 pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
[Please Note: The Essential Data Science for Business: Data Science Workflows Session has already occurred.
Go to the News Story for this event to read about what happened., or...
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Event Date:
Friday, October 2nd, 11am ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Learning Dynamical Systems with Side Information
Speaker
Amir Ali Ahmadi, Princeton University
Abstract
We present a mathematical and computational framework for the problem of learning a dynamical system from noisy observations of a few trajectories and subject to side information. Side... more
Event Date:
September 25, 2020 1:30-3 pm EDT
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
[Please Note: This Ingram Olkin Forum session has already occurred. Go to the News Story for this event to read about what happened.]
Algorithms used for policies, evaluations, and discoveries that involve or affect people have become commonplace. Typically constructed by statistical and machine... more
Event Date:
September 18, 2020, 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. EDT
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Integrating Domain-Knowledge into Deep Learning
Ruslan Salakhutdinov, (Machine Learning Department, School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University
Abstract
I will first discuss deep learning models that can find semantically meaningful representations of words, learn to read documents and... more
Event Date:
September 16, 2020 11-12:30 ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
[Please Note: The session has already occurred. Go to the News Story for this event to read about what happened.]
The National Institute of Statistical Science (NISS) and Merck are sponsoring a Virtual Meet-Up on Vaccine Development.
With the COVID pandemic having such a profound effect, everyone... more
Event Date:
September 15, 2020 3 pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Online Webinar
United States
United States
Statistical Optimization Methods for Machine Learning
Abstract
Statistics and optimization are two of the foundational pillars of machine learning, and it is well recognized that optimization provides powerful tools for statistics. In recent years, techniques of the complementary nature, i.e.,... more
Event Date:
September 15, 2020 10 - 1 pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
[Please Note: The Overview Session has already occurred. Go to the News Story for this event to read about what happened.]
Session Four: Randomization Tests
COVID-19 has resulted in unprecedented clinical trial disruptions. These disruptions have called into question the validity of many planned... more
Event Date:
September 11th, 3pm ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Convergence and Sample Complexity of Gradient Methods for the Model-Free Linear Quadratic Regulator Problem
Abstract
Model-free reinforcement learning attempts to find an optimal control action for an unknown dynamical system by directly searching over the parameter space of controllers. The... more
Event Date:
September 11, 2020, 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. ET
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
A Representational Model of Grid Cells Based on Matrix Lie Algebras
Ying Nian Wu (Department of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles)
Abstract: A key perspective of deep learning is representation learning, where concepts are embedded in latent space and are represented by latent... more