Schedule

Below is the official schedule for the event. All times are in EDT.

Opening Remarks

Time: 9:45-10:00

Speaker: KC Tsiolis (DoSS)

Block 1: Theoretical Statistics

Chair: KC Tsiolis (DoSS)

Time	Title	Speaker
10:00–10:30	Universality of Benign Overfitting in Binary Linear Classification (abstract)	Ichiro Hashimoto (DoSS)
10:30–11:00	Regression based EM Algorithm (abstract)	Bingqing Li (DoSS)

Block 2: Applied Statistics

Chair: Yaqi Shi (DoSS)

Time	Title	Speaker
11:15–11:45	Quantifying Uncertainty in Air Pollution Machine Learning Models (abstract)	Mandy Yao (DoSS)
11:45–12:15	Causal Variance Decompositions for Measuring Health Inequalities (abstract)	Lin Yu (Public Health)
12:15–12:45	Estimating Associations Between Cumulative Exposure and Health via Generalized Distributed Lag Non-Linear Models using Penalized Splines (abstract)	Tianyi Pan (Waterloo Stats & ActSci)

Lunch

Time: 12:45–13:30

Block 3: Mathematical Finance and Actuarial Science

Chair: Elijah French (DoSS)

Time	Title	Speaker
13:30–14:00	Simplifying Complexities in IBNR Claims Count Estimation With A Bayesian GLM Approach (abstract)	Hassan Abdelrahman (DoSS)
14:00–14:30	Dimension Reduction of Distributionally Robust Optimization Problems (abstract)	Brandon Tam (DoSS)

Poster Session

Time: 14:30–15:45

Abstracts for the poster session are also available here.

Block 4: Graphical Models

Chair: Ruyi Pan (DoSS)

Time	Title	Speaker
15:45–16:15	Inference for Graphical Models for Extremes (abstract)	Philip Choi (DoSS)
16:15–16:45	Restricted Search Space Graph MCMC via Birth-Death Processes (abstract)	Morris Greenberg (DoSS)

Closing Remarks

Time: 16:45-17:00

Speaker: KC Tsiolis (DoSS)