Events List

How quickly does the Gibbs sampler converge for log-concave distributions?

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Speaker: Speaker: Hugo Lavenant, Assistant Professor, Department of Decision Sciences, Bocconi University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Ensembles in the Age of Overparameterization: Promises and Pathologies

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Speaker: Speaker: Geoff Pleiss, UBC Statistics Assistant Professor
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ICCS X836 / Zoom

Causal Inference with Cocycles

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Speaker: Speaker: Benjamin Bloem-Reddy, Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Online Kernel-Based Mode Learning

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Speaker: Speaker: Tao Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics / Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Statistical Analysis with Non-Probability Survey Samples

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Speaker: Speaker: Changbao Wu, Professor and Chair, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

On Bayesian quadrature estimators

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Speaker: Speaker: Masha Naslidnyk, PhD student, Department of Statistical Science, University College London
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

CANCELLED: On False Positive Error

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Speaker: Speaker: Armeen Taeb, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Washington
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Modular and Efficient Compilation of Probabilistic Programs

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Speaker: Speaker: David Broman, Professor, Department of Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Generalized Data Thinning Using Sufficient Statistics

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Speaker: Speaker: Jacob Bien, Professor of Data Sciences and Operations, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 5104 / Zoom

Testing for Change-points in Heavy-tailed Time Series – A Winsorized CUSUM Approach

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Speaker: Speaker: Shiqing Ling, Chair Professor, Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 2012 / Zoom

Causal clustering: design of cluster experiments under network interference

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Speaker: Speaker: Lihua Lei, Assistant Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Business / Assistant Professor, by courtesy, of Statistics, Stanford University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Finding the Best Player via Multi-Player Comparisons

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Speaker: Speaker: Sheldon Mark Ross, Daniel J. Epstein Chair and Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Modelling orbits to detect exoplanets

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Speaker: Speaker: William Thompson, Herzberg Instrument Science Fellow, National Research Council of Canada, Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Bayesian Inference for Big Data

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Speaker: Speaker: Trevor Campbell, UBC Statistics Associate Professor
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 1012 / Zoom

Dependence models for mortalities using a copula state-space approach

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Speaker: Speaker: Ariane Hanebeck, PhD Student, Technical University of Munich
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Speeding up Metropolis using Theorems

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Speaker: Speaker: Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, Professor, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 5104 / Zoom

Uncertainty Quantification for Structure Learning and Interpretable Machine Learning

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Speaker: Speaker: Lili Zheng, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Probabilistic methods for designing functional protein structures

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Speaker: Speaker: Brian L. Trippe, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Statistics, Columbia University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Toward large-scale Bayesian inference with structured generative models

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Speaker: Speaker: Ricardo Baptista, von Karman Instructor, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Advancing Biomedical Data Science: Leveraging ChatGPT for genomics data & Testing data-driven hypothesis post-clustering

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Speaker: Speaker: Yiqun T. Chen, Data Science Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom