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A Particulate Solution: Data Science in the Fight to Stop Air Pollution and Climate Change | IDSS Distinguished Speaker Seminar
Francesca Dominici (Harvard University)
E18-304
Abstract: What if I told you I had evidence of a serious threat to American national security – a terrorist attack in which a jumbo jet will be hijacked and crashed every 12 days. Thousands will continue to die unless we act now. This is the question before us today – but the threat doesn’t come from terrorists. The threat comes from climate change and air pollution. We have developed an artificial neural network model that uses on-the-ground air-monitoring data…
Find out more »SDSCon2019
MIT Media Lab Multi-Purpose room: E14-674
SDSCon 2019 is the third annual celebration of the statistics and data science community at MIT and beyond, organized by MIT’s Statistics and Data Science Center (SDSC).
Find out more »MIT Policy Hackathon 2019
MIT Stata Center
The MIT Policy Hackathon is a 48-hour hackathon that will gather participants to work together in teams to propose creative policy solutions using a combination of robust data analytics and domain knowledge.
Find out more »LIDS Seminar – Gah-Yi Ban (London Business School)
Gah-Yi Ban (London Business School)
32-155
Title Talk: LIDS Seminar Speaker: Gah-Yi Ban Affiliation: London Business School Abstract: TBD Bio: TBD ____________________________________ The LIDS Seminar Series features distinguished speakers who provide an overview of a research area, as well as exciting recent progress in that area. Intended for a broad audience, seminar topics span the areas of communications, computation, control, learning, networks, probability and statistics, optimization, and signal processing.
Find out more »Exponential line-crossing inequalities
Aaditya Ramdas (Carnegie Mellon University)
E18-304
Abstract: This talk will present a class of exponential bounds for the probability that a martingale sequence crosses a time-dependent linear threshold. Our key insight is that it is both natural and fruitful to formulate exponential concentration inequalities in this way. We will illustrate this point by presenting a single assumption and a single theorem that together strengthen many tail bounds for martingales, including classical inequalities (1960-80) by Bernstein, Bennett, Hoeffding, and Freedman; contemporary inequalities (1980-2000) by Shorack and Wellner,…
Find out more »Stochastics and Statistics Seminar Series
Aaron Roth (University of Pennsylvania)
E18-304
LIDS Seminar – Yoram Singer (Google)
Yoram Singer (Google)
32-G449 (KIva/Patel)
Title Talk: LIDS Seminar Speaker: Yoram Singer Affiliation: Google Abstract: TBD Bio: TBD ____________________________________ The LIDS Seminar Series features distinguished speakers who provide an overview of a research area, as well as exciting recent progress in that area. Intended for a broad audience, seminar topics span the areas of communications, computation, control, learning, networks, probability and statistics, optimization, and signal processing.
Find out more »LIDS Seminar – Youssef Marzouk (MIT)
Youssef Marzouk (MIT)
32-155
Title Talk: LIDS Seminar Speaker: Youssef Marzouk Affiliation: MIT Abstract: TBD Bio: TBD ____________________________________ The LIDS Seminar Series features distinguished speakers who provide an overview of a research area, as well as exciting recent progress in that area. Intended for a broad audience, seminar topics span the areas of communications, computation, control, learning, networks, probability and statistics, optimization, and signal processing.
Find out more »Stochastics and Statistics Seminar Series
Tracy Ke (Harvard University)
E18-304