Research Workshops Econometrics and Statistics Colloquium
Faculty and invited speakers present current econometrics and statistics research, with particular emphasis on methods and applications relating to business and economic problems. Meetings are open to all interested faculty and MBA and PhD students.
The workshop will be held in-person (in HC 3B, unless otherwise noted), with no virtual options. Please contact workshop administrator Mary Kate Stanfa to be added to the listserv for weekly updates.
When possible, links to the workshop papers are posted to this page for printing. Occasionally, speakers opt not to circulate their papers. Therefore, the link will be unavailable.
Autumn 2024
| Date | Time | Location | Topic | Speaker | Institution |
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Thursday, October 3rd |
1:20pm - 2:30pm | Harper 3B |
Unexpected Test Losses from Generalization Theory? |
Frederic Koehler | UChicago Stats |
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Thursday, October 10th |
1:20pm - 2:30pm |
Harper 3B |
Causal inference with complex experiments: spillover effects and generalizability |
Davide Viviano | Harvard |
| Thursday, October 17th | 1:20pm - 2:30pm |
Harper 3B | Asymptotic Representations for Sequential Decisions, Adaptive Experiments, and Batched Bandits |
Jack Porter | Wisconsin |
| Thursday, October 24th | 1:20pm - 2:30pm |
Harper 3B |
Decoding Equity Market Reactions to Macroeconomic News |
Michele Modugno |
Federal Reserve |
| Thursday, October 31st | 1:20pm - 2:30pm | Harper 3B | Transformers, parallelism, and the role of depth |
Daniel Hsu | Columbia |
| Thursday, November 7th | 1:20pm - 2:30pm |
Harper 3B | Theoretical Foundations of Variational Bayesian Inference |
Yun Yang | Maryland |
| Thursday, November 14th | 1:20pm - 2:30pm | Harper 3B | Structured density estimation using diffusion models | Minwoo Chae | Postech |
| Thursday, November 21st | 1:20pm - 2:30pm |
Harper 3B |
Data Integration for Heterogeneous Data | Annie Qu |
UC Irvine |
| Thursday, November 28th | Thanksgiving - No Workshop | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Thursday, December 5th | 1:20pm - 2:30pm | Harper 3B |
Learning High-Dimensional Distributions via Flow-Based Generative Models |
Yao Xie | Georgia Tech |
| Thursday, December 12th | 1:20pm - 2:30pm | Harper 3B | Distributionally constrained empirical likelihood for robust inference |
Debdeep Pati | Wisconsin |
Winter 2025
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Spring 2025
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