Mark Your Calendars: Upcoming Events
October 3, 2019
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Friday, October 25
8:30 AM-4:00 PM, Newman Vertical Campus, 14th Floor
3rd Annual Symposium on Data Analytics, keynote speaker, Dr. Claudia Perlich, Senior Data Scientist, Two Sigma
The Paul H. Chook Department of Information Systems and Statistics invites you to the 3rd Annual Symposium on Data Analytics. The symposium will feature presentations of new research in data analytics and data science from a diverse group of disciplines, as well as an industry panel discussion on fairness and ethical considerations in data analytics and algorithmic decision making. This event is open to all faculty members and doctoral students from the academic community of New York City (including CUNY, NYU, Columbia University, Fordham University, Cornell Tech, Hofstra, Pace) and it is free to attend. To see the full program and the list of presentations and other activities, please follow this link.
Click here to RSVP by October 4.
Coming next week…
Thursday, October 10
11:45 AM-12:45 PM, Newman Vertical Campus, room 11-217, IS-STA Conference Room
The Information Systems and Statistics Research Seminar Series, presenter, Prof. Marco Avella, Columbia University
Differential privacy is a cryptographically-motivated definition of privacy that has become a very active field of research over the last decade. We assume there is a trusted curator who holds the data of individuals in a database and the goal of privacy is to simultaneously protect individual data while allowing statistical analysis of the database as a whole. We introduce a general framework for parametric inference with differential privacy guarantees. We first obtain differentially private estimators based on bounded influence M-estimators by leveraging their gross error sensitivity in the calibration of a noise term added to them in order to ensure privacy. We then we show how a similar construction can also be applied to construct differentially private test statistics analogous to the Wald, score and likelihood ratio tests. We provide statistical guarantees for all our proposals via an asymptotic analysis. We illustrate our results both on simulated and real data. For more information on this event, contact Rongning Wu.
No RSVP required. Open to the Baruch Community.
12:40 PM-2:20 PM, Newman Vertical Campus, room 3-215
LGBTQ+ History Month: Pride Around the World – I’m Coming Out! LGBTQ+ and Allies Meet and Greet
LGBTQ+ history month is designed to celebrate the LGBTQ+ community throughout the month of October. Attendees will have the opportunity to learn about LGBTQ+ history, network with LGBTQ+ professionals, alumni, and allies, and engage in discussion on the progress of LGBTQ+ community rights and the work still to be done. To learn more about this event and more like it, click here.
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12:45 PM-2:30 PM, 17 Lexington Avenue, room 404
African Ancestry and Breast Cancer Disparities, speakers, Dr. Melissa Davis, Weill Cornell Medicine
Dr. Melissa Davis will give a Globus Seminar on breast cancer disparities. She is an Assistant Professor of Cell and Developmental Biology, Research in Surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine. A light lunch will be served. For more information contact Rebecca Spokony.
No RSVP required. Open to the Baruch Community.
Friday, October 11
12:00 PM-1:15 PM, Newman Vertical Campus, room 14-270
Identifying Competitive Market Structures: A Deep Network Representation Learning Approach, presenter, P.K. Kannan, University of Maryland
P. K. Kannan (PK) is Dean’s Chair in Marketing Science at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He has a Ph.D. degree in Management Science and Marketing from Purdue University and previously has been on the faculty of IS and the faculty of marketing at University of Arizona. His main research focus is on marketing modeling and strategy, applying statistical and econometric methods to marketing data. His current research stream focuses on digital marketing, path to purchase models, social tags, attribution modeling, media mix modeling, new product/service development and customer relationship management (CRM). This event is sponsored by the Allen G. Aaronson Department of Marketing and International Business. For more information, contact Lauren Block.
No RSVP required.
Looking ahead…
Tuesday, October 15
6:00 PM-7:30 PM, Newman Vertical Campus, room 14-285
Why #MeToo Matters in PR, speakers, Elizabeth Borrelli, FleishmanHillard and Jason Morley, Zeno Group
Public Relations experts discuss the impact of the #MeToo movement in the communications industry. To learn more about this event and others visit corporatecomm.org.
RSVP: to erica@corporatecomm.org
Thursday, October 17
12:45 PM-2:30 PM, 17 Lexington Avenue, room 404
Polymers, Proteins and Black Holes, presenter, Ramzi Khuri
Dr. Ramzi Khuri, Baruch College Professor of Physics, will present his research on “Polymers, Proteins and Black Holes.” This event is part of the BioMed Club seminar series. A light lunch will be served. For more information contact Rebecca Spokony.
No RSVP required. Open to the Baruch Community.
Tuesday, October 22
5:00 PM-7:30 PM, Newman Library Building, Asriel and Marie Rachow Conference Room, room 750
A Reading and Conversation with Beth Macy, Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence
Beth Macy is the author of three bestselling nonfiction books about marginalized people in America. Based in southwest Virginia for three decades, she has won many national awards for her reporting, including a J. Anthony Lukas prize and a Nieman Fellowship in Journalism from Harvard. Her 2018 book, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America, was called a “masterwork of narrative nonfiction” in The New York Times and named to more than a dozen Best Books of 2018 lists. Join us as Ms. Macy shares her work and experiences with us. To learn more about the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence Program, visit www.baruch.cuny.edu/wsas/harman.
No RSVP required. This event is free and open to the public.
6:30 PM-8:00 PM, Newman Vertical Campus, room 14-270
Brexit: Cause and Effect, speaker, Dr. Nicholas Baldwin, Wroxton College
Nicholas Baldwin, dean of Wroxton College, discusses the effects of Brexit on the EU and US. To learn more about this event and others visit corporatecomm.org.
RSVP: to erica@corporatecomm.org
Thursday, October 24
12:45 PM-2:00 PM, 17 Lexington Avenue, room 404
Ensuring the next generation: insights into germline biology using Drosophila melanogaster, speaker, Dr. Lacy Barton, Damon Runyon Postdoctoral Fellow, NYU School of Medicine
Globus Seminar hosted by the Baruch BioMed Club open to all of Baruch. Lacy Barton is a postdoctoral reproductive biologist at New York University’s School of Medicine. Throughout her training, Lacy has harnessed the powerful genetic tools available in the common fruit fly model organism to reveal unexpected features of the embryonic development and adult maintenance of germ cells. For more information contact Rebecca Spokony.
No RSVP required. Open to the Baruch Community.
6:00 PM-7:30 PM, Newman Vertical Campus, room 14-270
Celebrating a Faculty Collaboration, speakers, Eugene Marlow and Grace Schulman
Please join us as the Departments of English and Journalism and the Writing Professions celebrate Blue in Green: Original Compositions by Eugene Marlow Inspired by the Jazz Poems of Grace Schulman. Profs. Marlow and Schulman will discuss their collaboration. Light refreshments will be served. For more information on this event, please contact Joshua Mills or Jessica Lang.
No RSVP required.
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