The ISL Colloquium convenes in person again (on Thursdays at 4pm PT in Packard 101) as of Fall 2021. For those unable to attend, talks are also streamed via Zoom. To avoid "Zoom-bombing", we ask attendees to input their email address here https://stanford.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJckfuCurzkvEtKKOBvDCrPv3McapgP6HygJ to receive the Zoom meeting details via email.

Talks

Winter 2022

06-Jan Chara Podimata Harvard

Contextual Search in the Presence of Irrational Agents

13-Jan Jonathan Ullman Northeastern University

The Foundations of Private Statistical Estimation

20-Jan Ben Recht UC Berkeley

[POSTPONED to 21-April-2022] TBD

03-Feb Raphaël Berthier EPFL

A Continuized View on Nesterov Acceleration for Stochastic Gradient Descent and Randomized Gossip

10-Feb Peyman Milanfar Google Research

Denoising as a Building Block for Imaging, Inverse Problems, and Machine Learning

24-Feb Julia Salzman Stanford

Statistical approaches for mechanistic biological discovery with genomics

03-Mar Daniel Russo Columbia Business School

Adaptivity and Confounding in Multi-Armed Bandit Experiments

10-Mar Ananda Theertha Suresh Google Research

Towards instance-optimal compression for distributed mean estimation

17-Mar Amin Karbasi Yale University

Palo Alto, We Have a Problem. There Is No Oracle!

Talks

Winter 2022

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