2020-2021 Seminar Series
If you wish to attend one of our remote (Zoom) seminars, please contact (stchsec at sfu.ca) during the week of the event for further details.
Spring 2021
| Date | Time | Locations | Speaker | Title |
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March |
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| 12 | 1:30pm (PST) | Remote | Jess McIver, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, University of British Columbia. |
The hunt for gravitational waves: new results from LIGO-Virgo’s third observing run |
February |
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| 26 | 1:30pm (PDT) | Remote | Yang Chen, Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of Michigan. |
Statistical and computational problems in space weather data challenges |
Fall 2020
| Date | Time | Locations | Speaker | Title |
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November |
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| 6 | 1:30pm (PST) | Remote | Tian Zheng, Professor, Dept. of Statistics, Columbia University. |
Topic-Adjusted Visibility Metric for Scientific Articles(Also a PIMS Distinguished Speaker Lecture.) |
October |
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| 30 | 1:30pm (PDT) | Remote | Wen Zhou, Assoc. Prof., Dept of Statistics, Colorado State University. |
Robust Multiple Inference for Large-Scale Multivariate Regression with Applications to Corpus Linguistics |
September |
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| 25 |
1:30pm (PDT) | Remote | Chris Bilder, Professor, Dept of Statistics, University of Nebraska-Lincoln | SARS-CoV-2 Detection through Group Testing |
Seminars given in previous academic years
Other seminar series
Graduate student defences
- See schedule of M.Sc. and Ph.D. defences.