2017-2018 Seminar Series

SUMMER 2018

Date	Time	Locations	Speaker	Title

May
04	1:30	ASB10900	Hanlin Shang- Associate Professor of Statistics, ANU College of Business and Economics, Australian National University	Stopping time detection in functional time series: An application to Wood industry
June
14	1:30	ASB10900	Alexandre Bureau - Professor, Department of Social and Preventative Medicine, University of Laval	Statistical analysis of cosegregation of rare genetic variants with a disease in families

SPRING 2018

Date	Time	Locations	Speaker	Title

January
19	1:30	K9509	Jens von Bergmann - Engineer, Mountainmath Software	Taking the pain out of census and other public data
February
02	1:30	K9509	Gary Chan - Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington	Terminal behavior of recurrent marker processes with informative failure events
March
02	1:30	ASB 10900	Katrin Heitmann - Physicist & Computational Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory	Exploring the Dark Universe
09	1:30	ASB 10900	Doug Wiens - Professor Emertus, Mathematical & Statistical Sciences, Universtiy of Calgary	Model Robust Scenarios for Active Learning
16	1:30	ASB 10900	Dan Apley - Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University	Understanding the Effects of Predictor Variables in Black Box Supervised Learning Models
23	1:30	ASB 10900	Sandrine Dudoit, Professor, Department of Statitics, Div of Biostatistics, School of Public Health University of Californiam, Berkley	Statistical Methods and Software for the Study of Stem Cell Differentiation Using Single-Cell Transcriptome Sequencing
April
06	1:30	ASB 10900	Ehsan Karim, Assistant Professor, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, and Scientist and Biostatistician, Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences.	Can We Train Machine Learning Methods to Outperform the High-dimensional Propensity Score Algorithm?

FALL 2017

Date	Time	Locations	Speaker	Title

September
22	1:30	K9509	Yi Li - Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, USA	Conditional Network: A New Framework for Integrative Analyses
29	1:30	K9509	Chad He - Professor, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, USA	Statistical Approaches for Analyzing Cancer Somatic Mutation Data
October
06	Cancelled		Frederick Phoa - Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan	Circulant Orthogonal Array: Construction via GDS and Applications to fMRI Experiments
13	1:30	K9509	Maxwell Libbrecht - Assistant Professor, School of Computing Science, SFU	Understanding gene regulation through graph-based posterior regularization in structured probabilistic models
27	1:30	K9509	Kwok Tsui - Professor, Systems Engineering & Engineering Managment, City University of Hong Kong	Systems Monitoring and Personalized Health Management
November
03	1:30	K9509	Laura Cowen - Associate Professor, Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria	POPULATION DYNAMICS WITHOUT INDIVIDUAL IDENTIFICATION: HIDDEN MARKOV MODELING OF BATCH-MARKING DATA
*08	1:30	*ASB9896	John Neuhaus - Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA	An assessment of bias in longitudinal studies with outcome-dependent visits
17	1:30	K9509	Marie Auger-Méthé - Assistant Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheris, and the Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia	From footsteps to foraging: using movement models to understand animal behaviour
December
01	1:30	K9509	Grace Chiu - Seniour Lecturer, Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Statistics, Australian National University	Longitudinal modelling of crop root physiology as a breed-specific spatial response to environmental conditions

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