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 |
|
| 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 |
Seminars given in previous academic years
Other seminar series
Graduate student defences
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