
September 2016
Complex Systems and Statistics: Andrew D. Martin, PhD, University of Michigan
The Center for the Study of Complex Systems and the Department of Statistics present Andrew D. Martin Professor of Political Science & Statistics Dean, College of Literature, Science, & the…
September 2018
MIDAS Seminar Series presents: Ivo D. Dinov, PhD, University of Michigan
Ivo D. Dinov Professor of Health Behavior and Biological Sciences, School of Nursing Professor of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Medical School Associate Director of Education and Training, Michigan Institute for…
MIDAS Seminar Series presents: Kevin Xu, PhD, University of Toledo
Kevin S. Xu Assistant Professor Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Toledo Recorded Seminar "Statistical models for analyzing dynamic social network data" Abstract:Â Due in part to…
October 2018
MIDAS Seminar Series presents: Jonathan Terhorst, PhD, University of Michigan
Jonathan Terhorst Assistant Professor of Statistics University of Michigan RECORDED SEMINAR New methods for detecting natural selection in large samples of genetic data Abstract:Â Understanding how humans evolved…
MIDAS Seminar Series presents: Yang Chen, PhD, University of Michigan
Yang Chen Assistant Professor of Statistics University of Michigan RECORDED SEMINAR Determine the Number of States in Hidden Markov Models via Marginal Likelihood Abstract:Â Hidden Markov models (HMM)…
MIDAS Seminar Series presents: Chris Callison-Burch, PhD, University of Pennsylvania
Chris Callison-Burch, PhD Associate Professor University of Pennsylvania "The Promise of Crowdsourcing for Natural Language Processing and Other Data Sciences" Recorded Seminar Abstract:Â Crowdsourcing is a new tool for…
November 2018
MIDAS Seminar Series presents: Matias D. Cattaneo, PhD, University of Michigan
Matias D. Cattaneo Professor of Economics Professor of Statistics University of Michigan Two-Step Estimation and Inference with Possibly Many Included Covariates RECORDED SEMINAR Abstract:Â We study the implications…
MIDAS Seminar Series presents: Tamara Broderick, PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Tamara Broderick Assistant Professor, ITT Career Development Massachusetts Institute of Technology "Automated Scalable Bayesian Inference Via Data Summarization" RECORDED SEMINAR Abstract:Â Bayesian methods are attractive for analyzing large-scale…
MIDAS Seminar Series presents: Adriene Beltz, PhD, University of Michigan
Adriene Beltz Assistant Professor of Psychology University of Michigan Recorded Seminar Person Specific Temporal Networks: Accuracy, Dynamics, and Emojis 😕 Abstract: Networks are everywhere! They provide a powerful…
January 2019
MIDAS Seminar Series Presents: Justin Grimmer, PhD, Stanford University
Justin Grimmer Professor Department of Political Science Stanford University RECORDED SEMINAR How to Make Causal Inferences Using Texts Abstract: New text-as-data techniques offer a great promise: the…
MIDAS Seminar: Claire Cardie, PhD, Cornell University, “Information Extraction from Online Text — From Opinions to Arguments to Persuasion”
Claire Cardie, PhD Professor Department of Computer Science Department of Information Science Cornell University VIEW RECORDING Information Extraction from Online Text --- from Opinions to Arguments to Persuasion Abstract: A…
MIDAS Seminar: Chris Miller, PhD, University of Michigan, Quantify Systematics from Mislabeled Tables in Supervised Learning
Chris Miller, PhD Associate Professor of Astronomy Associate Professor of Physics College of Literature, Science, and the Arts University of Michigan RECORDING Quantify Systematics from Mislabeled Truth Tables…
February 2019
MIDAS Seminar: Josh Pasek, PhD, University of Michigan, What Can Tweets Tell Us about Public Opinions? Uncovering the Data Generating Process by Linking Twitter Data with Surveys
Josh Pasek Assistant Professor of Communication Studies University of Michigan RECORDING What Can Tweets Tell Us About Public Opinions? Uncovering the Data Generating Process by Linking Twitter Data with…
MIDAS Seminar: Gil Shamir, Google AI
Gil Shamir, PhD Google AI RECORDED TALK Leveraging Information Theory to Practical Machine Learning: Minimum Description Length Regularization for Online Learning Abstract: Classical online learning techniques enforce…
March 2019
MIDAS Seminar: Ji Zhu, PhD, University of Michigan
Ji Zhu Department of Statistics University of Michigan Recorded Seminar Matrix Completion in Network Analysis Abstract: Matrix completion is an active area of research in itself,and a…
MIDAS Seminar: Animashree Anandkumar, PhD, California Institute of Technology
Animashree Anandkumar Department of Computer + Mathematical Sciences California Institute of Technology View Recording Infusing Structure into Machine Learning Algorithms Abstract: Standard deep-learning algorithms are based on a function-fitting…
CANCELLED – MIDAS Seminar
For more information on MIDAS or the Seminar Series, please contact midas-contact@umich.edu. MIDAS gratefully acknowledges Wacker Chemie AG for its generous support of the MIDAS Seminar Series.
April 2019
MIDAS Seminar: Alex Leow, MD, PhD, University of Illinois at Chicago
Alex Leow, MD, PhD Departments of Psychiatry, Bioengineering, and Computer Science University of Illinois at Chicago Recorded Seminar Making Connections: Data Science Approaches to Understanding Mood and Cognition…
October 2019
MIDAS Seminar Series Presents: David Dunson, Duke
DAVID DUNSON, PHD Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor of Statistical Science & Mathematics Duke University VIEW RECORDING Learning & exploiting low-dimensional structure in high-dimensional data This talk will focus…
Constructing tumor-specific gene regulatory networks based on samples with tumor purity heterogeneity
Pei Wang, PhD Professor, Department of Genetics and Genomic Sciences, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Recording Constructing tumor-specific gene regulatory networks based on samples with tumor…
December 2019
MIDAS Seminar Series Presents: Arthur Spirling – New York University
Arthur Spirling Deputy Director, Center for Data Science New York University VIEW RECORDING Word Embeddings What works, what doesn’t, and how to tell the difference for applied research Abstract:…
January 2020
MIDAS Seminar Series Presents: Benjamin Lauderdale – University College London
Benjamin Lauderdale Professor of Political Sciences University College London VIEW RECORDING Model-Based Pre-Election Polling for National and Sub-National Outcomes Abstract:Â Traditional political polling has gained a bad reputation in…
MIDAS Seminar Series Presents: Julia Stoyanovich – New York University
This seminar is co-sponsored by the Center for Ethics, Society and Computing. Julia Stoyanovich Assistant Professor, New York University Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering…
MIDAS Seminar Series Presents: Luonan Chen, PhD – Chinese Academy of Sciences
Luonan Chen, PhD Professor Executive Director, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences Chinese Academy of Sciences Criticality detection and time-series prediction from small samples by dynamics-based model-free approaches Abstract:…
February 2020
MIDAS Seminar Series Presents: Edward Stabler – UCLA
Edward Stabler Professor of Linguistics, University of California, Los Angeles Adversarial Training for Semantic Parsing ABSTRACT: Semantic parsing maps natural language sentences to formal representations of their meanings. In…
MIDAS Seminar Series Presents: Charles Yang – University of Pennsylvania
Charles Yang Director of Undergraduate Studies in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania VIEW RECORDING How Language Makes Us Smart (Without Big Data) Abstract: Language provides the glue that combines…
Communicating the Value & Impact of Science to Broad Audiences
Jill Jividen, PhD, Director of Research Development at the U-M Office of Research, will explore the what, why, and how of communicating research to the public. In what some consider…
Don’t Blind Them with Science: How to Write in Plain Language
Jill Jividen, PhD, Director of Research Development at the U-M Office of Research, will conduct a hands-on writing workshop that teaches researchers how to translate their work for lay audiences.…
MIDAS Seminar Series Presents: Jen Stirrup – Founder and CEO, Data Relish
Jen Stirrup Founder and CEO, Data Relish; Microsoft Regional Director VIEW RECORDING Is it possible to democratize AI for businesses? Abstract: If data is the new 'oil', then AI…
March 2020
MIDAS Seminar Series Presents: Nicholas Diakopoulos – Northwestern University
Nicholas Diakopoulos Assistant Professor, School of Communication, Northwestern University Director, Computational Journalism Lab VIEW RECORDING The Role of Algorithmic Intermediaries in Shaping Attention to News As people seek news information…