Events List

Statistics Canada: A Glimpse into the Work of a Mathematical Statistician

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Speaker: Speaker: Abhishek Shukla & Janet Lam, Statistics Canada
Event type: Info Session
Location: ANGU 254

AI, BI & SI—Artificial, Biological and Statistical Intelligences

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Speaker: Speaker: Dennis K.J. Lin, Distinguished Professor, Department of Statistics, Purdue University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Discipline-Specific TA Training: A Scalable Model for Departments

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Speaker: Speaker: Chelsea Uggenti, Assistant Professor of Teaching, University of Waterloo
Event type: Education Leadership Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Two Info Sessions: Innovation UBC & Mitacs

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Speaker: Speaker: Innovation UBC and Mitacs Representatives
Event type: Info Session
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Locally Equivalent Weights for Bayesian Multilevel Regression and Poststratification

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Speaker: Speaker: Ryan Giordano, Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

A Practical Introduction to LLMs, Chatbots, and Dashboards

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Speaker: Speaker: Daniel Chen, Lecturer, UBC Statistics and Master of Data Science
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Bayesian Modeling for Functional Neuroimaging Data

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Speaker: Speaker: Xiaomeng (Jasmine) Ju, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UBC Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

AutoStep: Locally adaptive involutive MCMC

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Speaker: Speaker: Tiange (Ivy) Liu, UBC Statistics M.Sc. student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Regularized Relative Risk Regression

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Speaker: Speaker: Javier Martinez-Rodriguez, UBC Statistics M.Sc. student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

UBC Statistics Imagine Day 2025

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Speaker: Speaker: TBA
Event type: Student Event
Location: ESB Main Lobby & CIRS 1250

Sequential Monte Carlo - EM algorithm for Disease Transmission Models

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Speaker: Speaker: Jonathan Agyeman, UBC Statistics Ph.D. student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Copula-based Non-Gaussian Time Series Models

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Speaker: Speaker: Sven Pappert, Ph.D. student, Technical University of Dortmund
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Probabilistic Modeling of High-Throughput Sequencing Data for Enhanced Understanding of DNA Methylation Heterogeneity

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Speaker: Speaker: Ning Shen, UBC Statistics Ph.D. student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Generative Data Mining with Longtail-Guided Diffusion

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Speaker: Speaker: David S. Hayden, Research Scientist, GM Cruise
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

A Computational Theory for Black-Box Variational Inference

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Speaker: Speaker: Kyurae Kim, Ph.D. student, Computer and Information Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Making a Training Dataset from Multiple Data Distributions

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Speaker: Speaker: Anvith Thudi, Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

UBC Girls in Data Science Summer Camp 2025

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Event type: NA
Location: UBC Vancouver Campus

First passage time distributions for jump-diffusion processes and flexible boundaries

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Speaker: Speaker: Liqun Wang, Professor, Department Statistics, University of Manitoba
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Two MSc student presentations: Henry Qian & Joey Hotz

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Speaker: Speaker: Xihan (Henry) Qian, UBC Statistics M.Sc. student & Joey Hotz, UBC Statistics M.Sc. student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

The Future of Statistics Education: A Computational Perspective

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Speaker: Speaker: Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, Professor of the Practice and the Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Statistical Science and an affiliated faculty in the Computational Media, Arts, and Cultures program, Duke University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom