Past Events
Event Date:
July 17, 2020 11 am EDT
The COVID-19 Forecast Hub: Using Statistics and Data Science to Support Decision-making in a Pandemic
Speaker
Dr. Nicholas G Reich, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Abstract
The COVID-19 Forecast Hub is a consortium of modeling teams from across the world making forecasts of the COVID-19... more
Event Date:
Friday, July 10, 2020
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Online Webinar
United States
United States
Semiparametric Bayesian Inference for the Transmission Dynamics of COVID-19 with a State-Space Model
Speaker
Dr. Yuan Ji, Professor, University of Chicago
Abstract
The outbreak of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) is an ongoing pandemic affecting over 200 countries and regions. Inference about... more
Event Date:
July 7, 2020 3pm EDT
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Smoothness in Nonsmooth Optimization
Speaker
Adrian S. Lewis, Cornell University
Abstract
Fast black-box nonsmooth optimization, while theoretically out of reach in the worst case, has long been an intriguing goal in practice. Generic concrete nonsmooth objectives are "partly" smooth: their... more
Event Date:
July 2nd, 3pm EDT
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Recent Advances in Stochastic Programming
Abstract
Traditionally stochastic optimization was discussed in the realms of Markov Decision Processes (MDP), Stochastic Optimal Control (SOC) and Stochastic Programming (SP). Although MDP, SOC and SP are supposed to deal with somewhat related classes of... more
Event Date:
Tuesday, June 30, 2020 1 - 3 pm (ET)
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Online Tutorial
United States
United States
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The Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) model is being used by scientists around the world to study the infectious disease dynamics of the COVID-19... more
Event Date:
June 26, 2020, 11 am EDT
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Online Webinar
United States
United States
The Opportunities and Challenges of Healthcare Systems in the COVID-19 Era
Speaker
Dr. Kimia Ghobadi, John C. Malone Assistant Professor, Johns Hopkins University
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a major global challenge since its emergence. With the fast growth in its range of spread, the... more
Event Date:
Tuesday, June 23, 2020 3 pm EDT
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Nonparametric Active Learning with Kernels and Neural Networks
Speaker
Robert Nowak, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Abstract
The field of Machine Learning (ML) has advanced considerably in recent years, but mostly in well-defined domains using huge amounts of human-labeled training data. Machines... more
Event Date:
June 19, 2020, 11 am EDT
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Online Webinar
United States
United States
A statistical transmission model for COVID-19 outbreak, with adjustment of external factors
Speaker:
Dr. Yifan Zhu, Staff Scientist, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Abstract:
The COVID-19 pandemic showed some resemblances to previous outbreaks caused by coronaviruses such as SARS and MERS.... more
Event Date:
June 16, 2020 3 pm (ET)
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Representation, Modeling, and Gradient Based Optimization in Reinforcement Learning
Speaker
Sham Kakade, University of Washington, Seattle
Abstract
Reinforcement learning is now the dominant paradigm for how an agent learns to interact with the world. The approach has lead to successes ranging... more
Event Date:
June 12, 2020 11 am (ET)
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Statistics and Modeling in Response to COVID-19 at NIAID
Speaker
Dr. Dean Follmann, Chief of the Biostatistics Research Branch at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic is an enormous public health challenge which requires an extraordinary... more