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2022-2023 Seminar Series 

Fall 2023

December

DATE

TIME

LOCATION

SPEAKER

TITLE

1

1:30 PM (PST)

ASB 10900

Ian Laga, Montana State University
The Network Scale-up Method and the Degree Ratio

November

DATE

TIME

LOCATION

SPEAKER

TITLE

10

1:30 PM (PST) 

ASB 10900

Ruth Joy, Simon Fraser University
Orcas on the Move: Building an Operational Forecasting System for Southern Resident Killer Whales in the Salish Sea
17 1:30 PM (PST) ASB 10900 Yang Chen, University of Michigan
Video Imputation and Prediction Methods with Applications in Space Weather
24 1:30 PM (PST) ASB 10900 Tsz Chai Fung, Georgia State University
Soft splicing model: Bridging the gap between composite model and finite mixture model

October

DATE

TIME

LOCATION

SPEAKER

TITLE

27

1:30 PM (PST) 

ASB 10900

Trevor Campbell, University of British Columbia
Bayesian Inference for Big Data

September

DATE

TIME

LOCATION

SPEAKER

TITLE

15

1:30 PM (PST) 

ASB 10900

Alex Stringer, University of Waterloo
Approximate Marginal Likelihood Inference in Mixed Models for Grouped Data

Spring 2023

March

DATE

TIME

LOCATION

SPEAKER

TITLE

10

1:30 PM (PST) 

ASB 10900

Geneviève Gauthier, HEC Montreal
Joint dynamics for the underlying asset and its implied volatility surface: A new methodology for option risk management

17

1:30 PM (PST) 

ASB 10900 Douglas Nychka Fast methods for conditional simulation

Fall 2022

October

DATE

TIME

LOCATION

SPEAKER

TITLE

14

1:30 PM (PST) 

ASB 10900

Elika Garg, Bioinformatician, CGEn's HostSeq Genetic Epidemiology Sub-Committee

Insights from HostSeq: Canada's National Whole Genome Sequencing Cohort of 10,000 Canadians Infected with SARS-CoV-2

21
1:30 PM (PST) ASB 10900 Dr. Xuekui Zhang, Canada Research Chair in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Victoria Cost-efficient approach for phenotyping cells in large cohorts and relating them with COPD clinical outcomes
28 1:30 PM (PST) ASB 10900 Dr. Natalia Nolde, Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of British Columbia
Extreme value analysis for financial risk management

November

DATE

TIME

LOCATION

 

TITLE

4  

1:30 PM (PST)

ASB 10900

Dr. Qingrun Zhang, Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Calgary
Stabilized Core gene and Pathway Election uncovers pan-cancer shared pathways and a cancer specific driver
18 1:30 PM (PST)
ASB 10900 Dr. Kehinde Olobatuyi, Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Victoria
Hybrid Variational Algorithms for Approximate Hierarchical Bayesian Inference of High-Dimensional Data

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