Past Events

Refreshments: 10:30 AM

Seminar: 11:00 AM

Title: Sharp bounds for causal effects leveraging instruments and outcome proxies

The Iowa State University Department of Mathematics is hosting the Aggie Ho Memorial Lecture Series from April 1st-April 3rd.  This is the latest installment of the "Miller Family Endowed Lecture Series", renamed "Aggie

Refreshments: 10:30 AM

Seminar: 11:00 AM

Title: SADA: Safe and Adaptive Aggregation of Multiple Black-Box Predictions

Title: Transformers Learn Generalizable Chain-of-Thought Reasoning via Gradient Descent

Refreshments: 10:30 AM

Seminar: 11:00 AM

Title: Multi-component matching queues with abandonment and buffers : Fluid limit and large deviations.

Statistical Consulting is jointly hosting a Data and Stats in Research Grad Mixer Wednesday in partnership with Research Data Services.

Refreshments: 10:30 AM

Seminar: 11:00 AM

Title: Challenge and issues in biomedical data analysis

There will be poker and bridge, and if there are any other games you'd like to bring, please do so! You do not need to know how to play any of the games in order to come! Rules will be explained once there.

Refreshments: 10:30 AM

Seminar: 11:00 AM

Title: Anytime-valid inference via time-uniform central limit theory

The Department of Statistics will host the 2026 annual meeting of the Iowa chapter of the American Statistical Association (ASA) on February 27, 2026.  A tentative schedule of events includes poster presentations by both undergraduate and gra

Refreshments: 10:30 AM

Seminar: 11:00 AM

Title: Partial Identification via Schrödinger bridges (joint work with Bruno Nunes Costa, University of Michigan)

R is a powerful, versatile programming language used for data processing, statistics, and analysis.

Refreshments: 10:30 AM

Seminar: 11:00 AM

Title: When the Expert Is Not Optimal: Leveraging Human Feedback in Deep Reinforcement Learning

Refreshments: 10:30 AM

Seminar: 11:00 AM

Title: A statistical perspective on algorithm unrolling models for inverse problems

Refreshments: 10:30 AM

Seminar: 11:00 AM

Title: Randomization inference for distributions of individual treatment effects

Statistical Consulting will be offering drop-in hours from during Grad Mixer Wednesdays during Spring 2026.

Title: Weakly interacting particle systems on graphs and their applications

Speaker: Namrata Vaswani, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Iowa State University

The final show and tell of this semester will focus on the upcoming digital accessibility requirements and their impact on students, faculty, and staff. Folks are welcome to join us in person or virtually (Zoom Link).