University of California, Los Angeles
9:30 am - 5:00 pm
We are pleased to announce our Third Annual Lange Symposium. This year’s topic was Computational Statistics. This annual event is hosted by the UCLA Department of Computational Medicine and supported in part by a grant from the National Human Genome Research Institute; R25 HG011845. The Annual Lange Symposium was launched in 2020 to honor UCLA Professor and National Academy of Sciences Fellow Kenneth Lange. The event celebrates the impact of Dr. Lange’s research, mentorship, and teaching over the course of an illustrious career spanning more than four decades. To read about the Ken Lange Symposium Endowment, click here. To make a gift, click here.
The February 3, 2023 Lange Symposium was held at the UCLA Luskin Conference Center.
Registration Rates:
For more information contact Jeanette Papp
Recordings of the talks can be viewed by clicking on the talk titles
| Time | Speaker | Title and Video Link |
|---|---|---|
| 9:30am | Coffee and light refreshments | |
| 10:00am | Hua Zhou, Ken Lange UCLA |
Welcome |
| 10:15am | Marc Suchard UCLA |
Approximate is good enough? Scalable, gradient-based inference for phylogenetics |
| 11:00am | Break: Coffee and light refreshments | |
| 11:15pm | Joong-Ho (Johann) Won Seoul National University |
High-performance statistical computing: experiences with GPUs, clouds, and supercomputing centers |
| 12:00pm | Lunch Break (on your own) | |
| 1:30pm | Genevera Allen Rice University |
Fast minipatch ensemble strategies for discovery and inference |
| 2:15pm | Oscar Madrid Padilla UCLA |
Theory and methods for quantile trend filtering |
| 3:00pm | Break: Coffee and light refreshments | |
| 3:15pm | Jason Xu Duke University |
Majorization-minimization and distance-to-set penalties for constrained statistical learning |
| 4:00pm | David Hunter Pennsylvania State University |
Model-based clustering: some new ideas, some old ideas |
| 4:45pm | Eleazar Eskin UCLA |
Closing remarks |
We offer travel awards for attendees who will further the goal of increasing the diversity of the biomedical workforce. This includes persons from underrepresented groups (i.e., racial and ethnic minorities, first-generation college students, and persons with disabilities). You may also apply if you are faculty from an advanced degree granting institution with a high enrollment of underrepresented minority students, who would be interested in partnering with UCLA faculty to make symposium and workshop material available to their students.
Travel awards cover travel within the U.S., meals, and lodging.
The 2025 Lange Symposium on Computational Statistics will be held at UCLA on Junuary 27, 2025.
Information about past events, including links to selected video recordings, slides, software, exercises, and tutorials, are available at the links below