Statistics Seminar | UBC Department of Statistics

Statistically efficient offline reinforcement learning

Friday, February 17, 2023 - 12:15 to 13:15

Speaker Masatoshi Uehara, PhD student, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University

Event Type Statistics Seminar

Location ESB 4192 / Zoom

Adversarial Bayesian Simulation

Monday, February 6, 2023 - 12:15 to 13:15

Speaker Yuexi Wang, PhD student in Econometrics and Statistics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

Event Type Statistics Seminar

Location ESB 4192 / Zoom

van Eeden seminar: The four pillars of machine learning

Thursday, February 2, 2023 - 11:00 to 12:30

Speaker van Eeden Invited Speaker: Kevin Patrick Murphy, Research Scientist, Google

Event Type Statistics Seminar

Location Zoom (registration required)

Understanding tumor heterogeneity through single-cell data

Thursday, October 27, 2022 - 11:00 to 12:00

Speaker Pedro Falé Ferreira, PhD student at Niko Beerenwinkel’s group, ETH Zürich

Event Type Statistics Seminar

Location ESB 4192 / Zoom

Model Projections in Model Space (MPMS): A geometric interpretation of the AIC and estimating the distance between the generating process and the best approximating model

Tuesday, November 9, 2021 - 11:00 to 12:00

Speaker José Miguel Ponciano, Department of Biology, University of Florida

Event Type Statistics Seminar

Location Zoom

CANSSI Ontario / U of T Statistical Sciences ARES Seminar: Tiffany Timbers

Monday, October 25, 2021 - 12:30 to 13:30

Speaker Tiffany Timbers, UBC Statistics Assistant Professor of Teaching / Co-Director, UBC Master of Data Science Program (Vancouver option)

Event Type Statistics Seminar

Location Zoom (to register, see CANSSI website)

Special Lecture: 150 Years or More of Data Analysis in Canada

Thursday, October 19, 2017 - 04:30 to 06:30

Speaker David Bellhouse, Statistician and Statistics Historian

Event Type Statistics Seminar

Location UBC Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL) 120, 2202 Main Mall

AI-Driven Experimental Design for Accelerating Science and Engineering

Monday, March 6, 2023 - 12:15 to 13:15

Speaker Willie Neiswanger, Postdoctoral Scholar, Computer Science Department, Stanford University

Event Type Statistics Seminar

Location ESB 4192 / Zoom

Optimal methods for reinforcement learning: Efficient algorithms with instance-dependent guarantees

Thursday, March 2, 2023 - 10:30 to 11:30

Speaker Wenlong Mou, PhD student, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, University of California Berkeley

Event Type Statistics Seminar

Location ESB 4192 / Zoom

The Consequences of Prior Misspecification in Bayesian Adjustment for Confounders

Thursday, February 16, 2023 - 10:00 to 10:30

Speaker Conor Morrison, UBC Statistics MSc Student

Event Type Statistics Seminar

Location Zoom

Statistically efficient offline reinforcement learning

Adversarial Bayesian Simulation

van Eeden seminar: The four pillars of machine learning

Understanding tumor heterogeneity through single-cell data

Model Projections in Model Space (MPMS): A geometric interpretation of the AIC and estimating the distance between the generating process and the best approximating model

CANSSI Ontario / U of T Statistical Sciences ARES Seminar: Tiffany Timbers

Special Lecture: 150 Years or More of Data Analysis in Canada

AI-Driven Experimental Design for Accelerating Science and Engineering

Optimal methods for reinforcement learning: Efficient algorithms with instance-dependent guarantees

The Consequences of Prior Misspecification in Bayesian Adjustment for Confounders

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