Statistics in the Big Data Era

Jun 1, 2022 to Jun 3, 2022

Wednesday, June 1st, 2022
8:30 am–9:00 am		Coffee & Check In
9:00 am–9:20 am		Opening Remarks Jennifer Chayes (UC Berkeley) & Sandrine Dudoit (UC Berkeley)
9:20 am–10:20 am		Testing: Variations On A Theme (Solo And Choir) Ya’acov Ritov (University of Michigan)
10:20 am–10:40 am		Break
10:40 am–11:20 am		Bickel's Influence On My Career Harrison Zhou (Yale University)
11:20 am–12:00 pm		Debiasing Random Forests For Treatment Effect Estimation Jasjeet Sekhon (Yale University)
12:00 pm–1:40 pm		Lunch
1:40 pm–2:20 pm		Bdrygp: A Boundary-Integrated Gaussian Process Model For Computer Code Emulation Jeff Wu (Georgia Institute of Technology)
2:20 pm–3:00 pm		Calibrated Inference: Statistical Inference That Accounts For Both Sampling Uncertainty And Distributional Uncertainty Dominik Rothenhaeusler (Stanford University)
3:00 pm–3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm–4:10 pm		Adaptive Interpolating Nonparametric Estimators Alexandre Tsybakov (CREST-ENSAE)
4:10 pm–4:50 pm		The Trimmed Lasso: Sparse Recovery Guarantees And Practical Optimization Boaz Nadler (Weizmann Institute of Science)
5:00 pm–7:00 pm		Reception & Poster Session

Thursday, June 2nd, 2022
8:30 am–9:00 am		Coffee & Check In
9:00 am–9:40 am		Global Community Detection Using Individual-Centered Partial Information Networks Rachel Wang (University of Sydney)
9:40 am–10:20 am		Bias-Adjusted Spectral Clustering In Multi-Layer Stochastic Block Models Jing Lei (Carnegie Mellon University)
10:20 am–10:40 am		Break
10:40 am–11:20 am		DNA Copy Number Profiling From Bulk Tissue To Single Cells Nancy Zhang (University of Pennsylvania)
11:20 am–12:00 pm		Enhancing Statistical Rigor In Genomic Data Science Jingyi Jessica Li (UCLA)
12:00 pm–1:40 pm		Lunch
1:40 pm–2:20 pm		General Network Models with Transitive Structures Sharmodeep Bhattacharyya (Oregon State University)
2:20 pm–3:00 pm		Statistics and Biology: A Virtuous Cycle Driving Innovation Ben Brown (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
3:00 pm–3:30 pm		Break
3:30 pm–4:30 pm		Discussion Panel: Statistics in the Big Data Era Panel featuring Peter Bickel (UC Berkeley), Peter Buhlmann (ETH), Jianqing Fan (Princeton), Jon McAuliffe (Voleon/UC Berkeley), Tao Shi (Citadel), Bin Yu (UC Berkeley); Liza Levina (University of Michigan; moderator).
5:30 pm		Conference Reception and Dinner

Friday, June 3rd, 2022
8:30 am–9:00 am		Coffee & Check In
9:00 am–9:40 am		Expectation Propagation In Mixed Models Iain Johnstone (Stanford University)
9:40 am–10:20 am		Bootstrapping The Error Of Oja’S Algorithm Purnamrita Sarkar (University of Texas at Austin)
10:20 am–10:40 am		Break
10:40 am–11:20 am		Optimal Nonparametric Testing Of Missing Completely At Random, And Its Connections To Compatibility Richard Samworth (University of Cambridge)
11:20 am–12:00 pm		Cyclic Permutation Test: A Nonstandard Exact Test For Linear Models Lihua Lei (Stanford University)
12:00 pm–1:40 pm		Lunch
1:40 pm–2:20 pm		Statistics In Quantum Computational Supremacy Yazhen Wang (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
2:20 pm–3:00 pm		Inspirations Across Seven Decades David Donoho (Stanford University)
3:00 pm–3:15 pm		Poster Awards & Closing Remarks Haiyan Huang (UC Berkeley)
3:15 pm–4:00 pm		Coffee & Discussion