All Topics (October 31 through December 31) Thursday, November 5 4:00 PM The Bak-Sneppen Model of Biological Evolution and Related Models (Iddo Ben-Ari--University of Connecticut) Thursday, November 12 4:00 PM Optimal Concentration of Information for Log-Concave Distributions (Mokshay Madiman--University of Delaware) Thursday, November 19 4:00 PM Transport maps for Bayesian computation (Youssef Marzouk -- Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Thursday, December 3 4:00 PM Self-normalized resampling for time series (Shuyang Bai -- Boston University) Wednesday, December 9 4:00 PM Estimating Causal Effects in the Presence of Interfering Units (Edoardo M. Airoldi -- Harvard University) Thursday, December 10 4:00 PM Towers, Codes and Approximate Conjugacy (Vidhu Prasad -- University of Massachusetts Lowell)