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 2025

Date	Time	Location	Degree	Speaker	Title / Abstract Link
MARCH
7	11:00am	Zoom	M.Sc.	Yulia Kozhevnikova	BLOST: Bayesian Longitudinally Ordinal Sequential Trial Design for Evaluating Respiratory Disease Treatments
APRIL
15	10:00am	Zoom	Ph.D.	Jingxue (Grace) Feng	Advanced Bayesian Modeling for Public Health
16	9:30am	LIB 2020 & Zoom	M.Sc.	Chen Liu	A comparison of two extreme-phenotype sampling designs for sequencing studies of disease endophenotypes
22	10:00am	LIB 2020 & Zoom	Ph.D.	Renny Doig	Combining compound proposal mechanisms and annealing schemes to construct more effective modern Monte Carlo methods
22	2:15pm	LIB 2020	M.Sc.	Yingfei Sun	Optimal hurdle rate and investment policies in lifetime pension pools
23	2:00pm	ASB 10920 & Zoom	Ph.D.	Matthew Parker	Advances in Ecological Modelling and Disease Analytics
24	10:30am	LIB 7200	M.Sc.	So Yeon Park	Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Terror Attacks in South Asia with Extended Hawkes Process Models
MAY
22	2:00pm	LIB 2020	M.Sc.	Yichen Tang	Two-Stage Bayesian Analysis of Thick-Disk Galactic White Dwarfs

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