BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//132.216.98.100//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.4// BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20260602T084436EDT-36686paVhP@132.216.98.100 DTSTAMP:20260602T124436Z DESCRIPTION:\n Abstract:\n\n\nCausal discovery procedures are popular method s for discovering causal structure across the physical\, biological\, and social sciences. However\, most procedures for causal discovery only outpu t a single estimated causal model or single equivalence class of models. W e propose a procedure for quantifying uncertainty in causal discovery. Spe cifically\, we consider linear structural equation models with non-Gaussia n errors and propose a procedure which returns a confidence sets of causal orderings which are not ruled out by the data. We show that asymptoticall y\, the true causal ordering will be contained in the returned set with so me user specified probability.\n\nJoint work with Sam Wang and Mathias Dar ton.\n\n\n Speaker\n\n\nMladen Kolar is Associate Professor of Econometrics and Statistics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Kol ar’s research is focused on high-dimensional statistical methods\, probabi listic graphical models\, and scalable optimization methods\, driven by th e need to uncover interesting and scientifically meaningful structures fro m observational data. His research appears in journals such as the Journal of Machine Learning Research\, the Annals of Statistics\, the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society\, the Journal of the American Statistical As sociation\, Biometrika\, and other outlets. Kolar also regularly presents his research at the top machine learning conferences\, including Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) and the International C onference of Machine Learning (ICML). Kolar currently serves as associate editor for the Journal of Machine Learning Research\, the Journal of Compu tational and Graphical Statistics\, and the New England Journal of Statist ics in Data Science.\n\nKolar was awarded a prestigious Facebook Fellowshi p in 2010 for his work on machine learning and network models. He spent a summer with Facebook’s ads optimization team working on a large-scale syst em for click-through rate prediction. Kolar earned his PhD in Machine Lear ning in 2013 from Carnegie Mellon University\, as well as a diploma in Com puter Engineering from the University of Zagreb. For his Ph.D. thesis work on “Uncovering Structure in High-Dimensions: Networks and Multi-task Lear ning Problems\,” Kolar received from 2014 SIGKDD Dissertation Award honora ble mention.\n\nOutside of academia\, Kolar enjoys chess\, running\, cycli ng\, and hiking.\n\nOn Zoom only\n\nhttps://mcgill.zoom.us/j/83436686293?p wd=b0RmWmlXRXE3OWR6NlNIcWF5d0dJQT09\n\nMeeting ID: 834 3668 6293\n\nPassco de: 12345\n\n\n \n  \n \n\n DTSTART:20230324T193000Z DTEND:20230324T203000Z SUMMARY:Mladen Kolar URL:/mathstat/channels/event/mladen-kolar-347225 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR