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Summer 2021

Date Time Location Degree Speaker Title / Abstract Link

August

     
24 9:30am (PDT) Remote Ph.D. Charith Karunarathna Sequence Clustering for Genetic Mapping of Binary Traits
18 10:30am (PDT) Remote M.Sc Gloria (Xuefei) Yang Covariance-adjusted, Sparse, Reduced-Rank Regression with Adjustment for Confounders
17 10:30am (PDT) Remote M.Sc Zubia Mansoor Exploring Out of Distribution: Deep Neural Networks and the Human Brain
13 10:30am (PDT) Remote M.Sc Joosung (Sonny) Min Q-Learning with Online Trees
4
1:00pm (PDT)
Remote
M.Sc
Vivian (Yige) Jin
Numerical Approximation Algorithms for Pension Funding

July

     
22 2:30pm (PDT) Remote M.Sc. Seyeon Kim
Applications of Reserving Methods for Property and Casualty Insurance in Modeling of Mortality Rates
7 3:00pm (PDT) Remote M.Sc. Peter Tea
The Analysis of Serve Decisions in Tennis using Bayesian Hierarchical Models

June

     
18 1:30pm (PDT) Remote
Ph.D. Cheng-Yu Sun Factorial Designs under Baseline Parameterization and Space-filling Designs with Applications to Big Data
           

May

     
19 2:30pm(PDT) Remote M.Sc. Louis Arsenault-Mahjoubi On the Bayesian Estimation of Jump-Diffusion Models in Finance

Spring 2021

Date Time Location Degree Speaker Title / Abstract Link

April

     
26 1:00pm (PDT) Remote M.Sc. Lisa McQuarrie Autoregressive Mixed Effects Models and an Application to Annual Income of Cancer Survivors
21 10:30am (PDT)  Remote M.Sc. Yunwei Tu
Post-selection Inference
14
10:30am (PDT)   Remote M.Sc. Nikola Surjanovic An Efficient Approach to Pruning Regression Trees Using a Modified Bayesian Information Criterion

Fall 2020

Date Time Location Degree Speaker Title / Abstract Link

December

     
17 10am (PST) Remote M.Sc. Renny Doig
Efficient Bayesian Parameter Inference for COVID-19 Transmission Models
16 1:00pm (PST) Remote M.Sc. Dylan Maciel Systematic Comparison of Designs and Emulators for Computer Experiments Using a Library of Test Functions

November

     
25 2:30pm (PST) Remote M.Sc. James Thomson Contextual Batting and Bowling in Limited Overs Cricket
16
1pm (PST)   Remote M.Sc. Cherie Ng A Flexible Group Benefits Framework for Pricing Deposit Rates