Reading Groups
The MaD group hosts semester-long thematic reading groups, which are publicly accessible here.
Previous
Spring 2020
We ran general group meeting on the broad theme of “Information Theory, Old and New.”
- Information and schedule are available here.
Fall 2019
We ran a general group meeting on the broad theme of “statistical and computational tradeoffs in high-dimensional inference.”
- Information and schedule are available here.
Spring 2019
We organized three working groups on different topics:
- The low-degree polynomials method; notes available here
- Nonconvex optimization
- Optimal transport
Fall 2018
We ran a working group on the theme of “statistical-to-computational gaps and statistical estimation with algebraic structure.”
Spring 2017
We ran two simultaneous reading groups:
- High-dimensional probability, following Ramon van Handel’s notes
- Statistical physics, loosely following Mézard and Montanari’s book