All Topics (October 25 through December 31) Thursday, October 25 4:00 PM Stein's method on Finite Spaces (Dheeraj Nagaraj - MIT) Thursday, November 1 4:00 PM Gaussian and bootstrap approximations of high-dimensional U-statistics with applications and extensions (Xiaohui Chen-UIUC) Thursday, November 8 4:00 PM Recent results on quadratic BSDEs arising in equilibrium models (Daniel Schwarz - University College London) Thursday, November 15 4:00 PM Distributions of Persistence Diagrams and Approximations-Vasileios Maroulas (University of Tennessee) Thursday, November 29 4:00 PM Negative Dependence and Sampling in Machine Learning - Stefanie Jegelka (MIT) Thursday, December 6 4:00 PM Phase transitions and scaling limits in lattice models (Zhongyang Li - UConn)