Carnegie Mellon University
STAMPS@CMU

STAtistical Methods for the Physical Sciences Research Center

WORKSHOP DAILY ITINERARY

Please note that all times listed for the events are US Eastern Daylight Time

Saturday October 4th, 2025

8:30 AM

Registration

9:00 AM

Welcome & Introductory Remarks [View Recording] [View Slideshow]

9:15 AM

Keynote Talk - Kyle Cranmer, University of Wisconsin Madison   

Title: “Navigating the design space of SBI” [View Recording]  [View Slideshow]

10:15 AM

Coffee Break 

10:45 AM

Invited Talk - Stefan Radev, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Title: “Composing the score for stable and simulation-efficient amortized inference at scale” [View Slideshow]

11:25 AM

Invited Talk - Barnabas Poczos, Carnegie Mellon University

Title: “Diffusion Models for Science: Progress, Challenges, and Open Questions” [View Recording] [View Slideshow]

12:05 PM

Lunch

1:25 PM

Keynote Talk - Andrew Zammit-MangionUniversity of Wollongong

Title: “Neural SBI for spatial and spatio-temporal statistical models” [View Recording] [View Slideshow]

2:25 PM

Workshop Group Photo

2:35 PM

Poster Session 1 & Coffee Break

3:50 PM

Invited Talk - Minge XieRutgers University

Title: “Repro Samples and Fisher Inversion: A Framework for Solving Finite-Sample and Irregular Inference Challenges” [View Recording] [View Slideshow]

Sunday October 5th, 2025

9:00 AM

Keynote Talk - Joel Leja, The Pennsylvania State University

Title: "Rapid inference of galaxy properties in the age of deep and large-scale surveys of the universe" [View Recording] [View Slideshow]

10:00 AM

Coffee Break

10:30 AM

Invited Talk - Bingjie Wang, Princeton University

Title: “Simulation-based Inference for Galaxy Properties: Speed, Coverage, and New Physics” [View Recording] [View Slideshow]

11:10 AM

Invited Talk - Reetam Majumder, University of Arkansas

Title: “Vecchia approximated density regression for spatial models with intractable likelihoods”  [View Recording] [View Slideshow]

11:50 AM

Lunch

1:15 PM

Keynote Talk - Larry Wasserman, Carnegie Mellon University

Title: “SBI at CMU” [View Recording] [View Slideshow]

2:15 PM

Poster Session 2 & Coffee Break

3:30 PM

Invited Talk - Patrick HeimbachUniversity of Texas at Austin

Title: "Differentiable programming for hybrid data assimilation & machine learning” [View Recording] [View Slideshow]

4:10 PM

Invited talk  - Gaia GrossoMassachusetts Institute of Technology

Title: “From high dimensions to statistical discovery: anomaly detection at scale in the era of latent spaces”. [View Recording] [View Slideshow]