Past Events

47 results

47 results

Carlos Cinelli (University of Washington)
September 24, 2025
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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CGIS Knafel Building, Room K354
Hybrid
Title Long Story Short: Omitted Variable Bias in Causal Machine Learning Abstract We develop a general theory of omitted variable bias for a wide range of common causal parameters, including (but not limited to) averages of potential outcomes, average...

Kentaro Nakamura (Harvard)
September 17, 2025
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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CGIS Knafel Building, Room K354
Hybrid
Title Surrogate Representation Inference for Noisy Text Annotations Abstract As researchers increasingly rely on machine learning models and LLMs to annotate texts, various approaches have been proposed to correct bias in downstream statistical analysis...

Aaron Kaufman (NYU)
September 10, 2025
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EDT
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CGIS Knafel Building, Room K354
Hybrid
Title Large Language Models are often politically extreme, usually ideologically inconsistent, and persuasive even in informational contexts Abstract Large Language Models (LLMs) are a transformational technology, fundamentally changing how people obtain...

Presenter- Kayhan Batmanghelich
February 11, 2015
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EST
In Person
Title: Joint Modeling Imaging and Genetics: a Probabilistic Approach Abstract: An increasing number of clinical and imaging research studies is collecting various additional information including genetic data. The goals of the emerging field of imaging...

Presenter- Lisa Berkman
February 4, 2015
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EST
In Person
Title: Work, Family, and Health Network results: preliminary findings on a randomized work site intervention to improve employee health Abstract- coming soon

Presenter: Jelani Nelson- Dimensionality Reduction Via Sparse Matrices
January 28, 2015
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12:00PM - 1:30PM EST
In Person
Presenter: Jelani Nelson Abstract: This talk will discuss sparse Johnson-Lindenstrauss transforms, i.e. sparse linear maps into much lower dimension which preserve the Euclidean geometry of a set of vectors. Both upper and lower bounds will be presented...