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 2023
| Date | Time | Location | Degree | Speaker | Title / Abstract Link |
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April |
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| 6 |
10:00am | Zoom |
M.Sc. | Tianyu Yang |
A pedigree-transmission likelihood for multiplex families |
March
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| 31 | 1:00pm | Hybrid | M.Sc. | Hashan Peiris | Integration of Traditional and Telematics data for Efficient Insurance Claims Prediction |
January
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| 26 |
3:00PM |
Hybrid |
M.Sc. | Yaning Zhang |
Dimension Reduction Methods with Application in Automobile Insurance |
Fall 2022
| Date | Time | Location | Degree | Speaker | Title / Abstract Link |
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December
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| 19 | 2:00PM |
Hybrid | M.Sc. | Elijah Cavan | NHL Aging Curves Using Functional Principle Component Analysis |
| 14 | 10:30AM | LIB 2020 | M.Sc. | Carla Louw |
Post-Selection Inference in Cox Proportional Hazards Models |
| 1 |
2:00PM |
LIB 2020 | M.Sc. | Wenyuan Zhou |
A Complete Framework for Modelling Defined Benefit Pension Plans |
November
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| 28 | 4:30PM |
LIB 2020 | M.Sc. | Ryker Moreau |
Valuation of NHL Draft Picks using Functional Data Analysis |
| 28 | 2:30PM | LIB 2020 | M.Sc. | Brendan Kumagai | Dynamic Prediction of the National Hockey League Draft with Rank-Ordered Logit Models |
| 15 | 10:00AM |
Hybrid |
Ph.D. |
Lucas (Yifan) Wu |
Soccer Analytics |
September
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| 23 | 10:30AM (PDT) |
Hybrid |
Ph.D. |
Shaun McDonald |
Novel Approaches to Uncertainty Quantification in Nonparametric Settings |