M.Sc. and Ph.D. Defences
Below is the schedule of upcoming defences for graduate students in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science. If you wish to attend, please email statgrad at sfu.ca.
Spring 2024
| Date | Time | Location | Degree | Speaker | Title / Abstract Link |
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April |
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| 9 | 9:00am | LIB 2020 & Zoom |
M.Sc. | Diksha Jethnani | Analysis of rare variants in the first exon of the ataxin-2 gene in patients with neurodegenerative diseases |
March |
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| 29 | 11:30am | LIB 2020 & Zoom |
Ph.D. | Yanjun Liu |
A Multiscale Stochastic Cellular Automaton Model for Dispersion Process with Applications to Mountain Pine Beetle Infestations |
| 21 | 1:30pm | LIB 2020 | M.Sc. | Yirong Zhu |
Enhanced Hierarchical Bayesian Modeling of Mortality Rates Incorporating Jumps: A Multi-Country Perspective |
| 15 | 2:30pm | LIB 2020 | M.Sc. | Yiting Chen |
A new class of depth-based statistics with same attractor |
| 13 | 2:00pm | Zoom | M.Sc. | Yueyang Han | Testing the Effectiveness of Treatment for Cancers for which the Endpoint is Survival Using Bayesian Subgroup Analysis |
| 13 | 1:00pm | Hybrid | M.Sc. | Nikhil Kapoor | Impact of Asset Modeling Choices on Lifetime Pension Pools |