Past Events
Event Date:
May 27-29, 2020
Event Type:
Affiliate Award Fund Eligible, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Hyatt Regency Newport Beach
1107 Jamboree Road
Newport Beach, California,
United States
1107 Jamboree Road
Newport Beach, California,
United States
SLDS 202 is a bi-annual gathering of top researchers in Statistical Learning, Data Science, and Nonparametric Statistics, and a forum for presentation and discussion of research.
For more information click on the Conference Website link.
Please Note the Following Deadlines
February 15th, 2020 -... more
Event Date:
Tuesday, May 26th 3pm EDT
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
On the Statistical Complexity of Reinforcement Learning
Speaker:
Mengdi Wang, Princeton University
Abstract:
Recent years have witnessed increasing empirical successes in reinforcement learning (RL). However, many theoretical questions about RL were not well understood. For example, how many... more
Event Date:
Friday, May 22, 2020 12-1 pm (ET)
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
[Please Note: This event has already occurred. Go to the News Story to read about what happened and to access a recording and speaker slides.]
Government institutions have a unique mission when it comes to the data they collect as well as the importance of the research they engage in - especially... more
Event Date:
May 22, 2020 11 am (ET)
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Predictions, role of interventions and implications of a national lockdown on the COVID-19 outbreak in India
Abstract
India has taken strong and early public health measures for arresting the spread of the COVID-19 epidemic. With only 536 COVID-19 cases and 11 fatalities, India –-- a democracy of 1... more
Event Date:
Tuesday, May 19th, 3pm EDT
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Statistical Inference on Membership Profiles in Large Networks
Speaker:
Jianqing Fan, Princeton University
Abstract:
Network data is prevalent in many contemporary big data applications in which a common interest is to unveil important latent links between different pairs of nodes. The nodes can be... more
Event Date:
Friday, May 15, 2020, 11 am EDT
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
COVID-19: Analytic studies and opportunities for outside of epidemiology
Speaker
Dr. David Corliss, Founder and Director, Peace-Work
Abstract
Like all pandemics, COVID-19 has many dimensions. Beyond the medical crisis, research is being conducted in a wide variety of disciplines.This has created... more
Event Date:
Thursday, May 14, 12-1:30 (ET)
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Learning from COVID-19 Data in Wuhan, USA and Europe on Intervention Strategies
[Please Note: This event has already occurred. Go to the News Story to read about what happened and to access a recording and speaker slides.]
Speaker
Xihong Lin
Department of Biostatistics and Department of Statistics... more
Event Date:
Tuesday, May 12th, 3pm EDT
Event Type:
NISS Sponsored
Ultra-Sparse Models of Multiway Data
Speaker
Alfred O. Hero, University of Michigan
Abstract
Modeling multi-way data is important for applications involving multi-indexed observables, e.g., hyperpsectral data that is indexed over spatial, frequency, and temporal dimensions. The sparse matrix... more
Event Date:
Wednesday May 6, 10 am – 12 noon, ET
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
[Please Note: This event has already occurred. Go to the News Story to read about what happened and to access a recording and speaker slides.]
NISS is hosting a third webinar that will focus on the use of p-values in making decisions.
In 2017 the ASA published the statement, "The ASA's Statement... more
Event Date:
Tuesday, May 5, 2020 12-1:30 pm (ET)
Event Type:
NISS Hosted, NISS Sponsored
Event Location:
Virtual Meet-up
United States
United States
[Please Note: This event has already occurred. Go to the News Story to read about what happened and to access a recording and speaker slides.]
Register for this event here!
The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting all of us! The spread of the virus is far-reaching and the consequences from infections... more