CTML Events

2/26/25 Seminar: "RieszBoost: Gradient Boosting for Riesz Regression”

Mark your calendars for February 26th! The CTML Seminar Series explores “RieszBoost: Gradient Boosting for Riesz Regression.” This exciting talk will be led by Kaitlyn Lee from 12:00PM-1:00PM at Berkeley Way West, 5th Floor, Room 5401.

Answering causal questions often involves estimating linear functionals of conditional expectations, such as the average treatment effect or the effect of a longitudinal modified treatment policy. By the Riesz representation theorem, these functionals can be expressed as...

3/19/25 Biostatistics Career Panel

Join us for our Spring Biostatistics Career Panel sponsored by CTML! We’re thrilled to bring you a career panel featuring leading figures in biostatistics. Dive into their career stories, explore their research, and their unique perspectives on the field. This is your chance to engage in lively discussions and discover the many exciting paths within biostatistics!

Date: Wednesday, March 19th
Time: 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location: Berkeley Way West, 5th Fl, Rm 5401

Meet our Chair and Panelists!

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Spring 2025 CTML Seminar Series

CTML Seminar Series: Presentations and Resources
The following tables provide easy access to presenter information, research topics, and slide decks, making it a valuable resource for all members of the CTML community and anyone interested in the forefront of scientific inquiry.

CTML Seminar Series - Spring 2025 Syllabus

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2/19/25 Seminar Series: "Improving Efficiency in Transporting Average Treatment Effects"

The next talk in our CTML Seminar Series is coming up on February 19th! Join us for an engaging discussion led by Dr. Kara Rudolph on "Improving Efficiency in Transporting Average Treatment Effects." This talk will take place at 12:00PM at Berkeley Way West, 5th Floor, Room 5401.

We develop flexible, semiparametric estimators of the average treatment effect (ATE) transported to a new population (``target population'') that offer potential efficiency gains. First, we propose two one-step semiparametric estimators that incorporate knowledge of which covariates are effect modifiers and...

2/12/25 Seminar Series: "Bridging the Evidence Gap: Leveraging Historical Control Data to Address Underrepresentation in Health Research"

Our CTML Seminar Series continues on February 12th with an exciting talk led by Alissa Gordon on "Bridging the Evidence Gap: Leveraging Historical Control Data to Address Underrepresentation in Health Research." Don't miss this talk taking place at 12:00PM at Berkeley Way West, 5th Floor, Room 5401.

Many subpopulations cannot fully benefit from advances in health research due to lack of representation in trials, partly due to low RCT trial feasibility. To bridge this gap, we...

OTMLE Reading Group - Fridays @ 2pm

Starting January 24th, the OTMLE (Optimal Transport and Targeted Maximum Likelihood Estimation) reading group will further investigate the geometry of probability spaces and the implications for TMLE’s structure and behavior. Topics include deeper explorations of how optimal transport’s spatial and dynamic properties provide insights into likelihood-based optimization and its role in semiparametric models. Rather than diving into specific optimization techniques like natural gradient descent or Newton’s method, this semester focuses on laying the theoretical groundwork for...

Biostatistics Research Social Hour Sponsored by CTML

Date: February 19th, 2025 Time: 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM Location: 2121 Berkeley Way West | Emerti Lounge, 5th Floor Audience: Open to entire Biostatistics Community