Below is a tentative schedule for the event. All times are in EDT.
9:05: Welcome
| Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 9:10 to 9:50 | Invited talk: A Bayesian Hierarchical Time Series Model for Reconstructing Hydroclimate from Multiple Proxies (abstract) | Niamh Cahill |
| 9:50 to 10:00 | Q & A with Niamh | Niamh Cahill |
| 10:00 to 10:15 | Adaptively Exploiting d-Separators with Causal Bandits (abstract) | Blair Bilodeau |
| 10:15 to 10:30 | Estimating causes of maternal death in data-sparse contexts (abstract) | Michael Chong |
| 10:30 to 10:40 | Q & A with Blair and Michael | Blair Bilodeau and Michael Chong |
| Cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances |
20 minute break
| Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 11:00 to 11:40 | Invited talk: Multiscale modeling for option pricing and optimal execution (abstract) | Yuri Saporito |
| 11:40 to 11:50 | Q & A with Yuri | Yuri Saporito |
| 11:50 to 12:05 | Modelling Heterogeneous Risks with Random Effects in the Mixture-of-Experts Model (abstract) | Spark Tseung |
| 12:05 to 12:20 | A Mean Field Game of Sequential Testing (abstract) | Steven Campbell |
| 12:20 to 12:30 | Q & A with Spark and Steven | Spark Tseung and Steven Campbell |
LUNCH: 75 minutes
| Time | Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 1:45 to 2:25 | Invited talk: Benign Overfitting without Linearity (abstract) | Spencer Frei |
| 2:25 to 2:35 | Q & A with Spencer | Spencer Frei |
| 2:35 to 2:50 | Fighting Noise with Noise: Causal Inference with Many Candidate Instruments (abstract) | Cindy Zhang |
| 2:50 to 3:05 | Modified Likelihood Root in High Dimensions (abstract) | Yanbo Tang |
| 3:05 to 3:15 | Q & A with Cindy and Yanbo | Cindy Zhang and Yanbo Tang |
| 3:15 to 3:25 | Break | |
| 3:25 to 3:40 | Convergence rate bounds for iterative random functions using one-shot coupling (abstract) | Sabrina Sixta |
| 3:40 to 3:55 | Analysis of Langevin Monte Carlo from Poincaré to Log-Sobolev (abstract) | Mufan Li |
| 3:55 to 4:05 | Q & A with Sabrina and Mufan | Sabrina Sixta and Mufan Li |
| 4:05 to 4:20 | The Promises of Parallel Outcomes (abstract) | Ying Zhou |
| 4:20 to 4:25 | Q & A with Ying | Ying Zhou |