Lecture

Friday, December 13, 2024 10:00 am - 11:30 am EST (GMT -05:00)

DLS: Virginia Vassilevska Williams — A Fine-grained Approach to Algorithms and Complexity

Please note: This distinguished lecture will take place in DC 1302 and online.

Virginia Vassilevska Williams, Professor
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department
Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Please note: This distinguished lecture will take place in DC 1302.

Bhramar Mukherjee
John D. Kalbfleisch Distinguished University Professor of Biostatistics
University of Michigan

Despite several proposed roadmaps to increase diversity in scientific research, most of the world’s research data are collected on people of European ancestry. We rely on summary statistics from historically privileged populations and then devise clever statistical methods to transfer/transport them for cross-ancestry use.