Events List
van Eeden seminar: The four pillars of machine learning
-Speaker: Speaker: van Eeden Invited Speaker: Kevin Patrick Murphy, Research Scientist, Google
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom (registration required)
Stabilized COre gene and Pathway Election uncovers pan-cancer shared pathways and a cancer specific driver
-Speaker: Speaker: Qingrun Zhang, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Calgary
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
Understanding tumor heterogeneity through single-cell data
-Speaker: Speaker: Pedro Falé Ferreira, PhD student at Niko Beerenwinkel’s group, ETH Zürich
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
Estimating Global and Country-Specific Excess Mortality During the COVID-19 Pandemic
-Speaker: Speaker: Jon Wakefield, Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics, University of Washington
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
Causal epistemology: estimands
-Speaker: Speaker: Boris Sobolev, Professor and Head, UBC School of Population and Public Health
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
CANSSI Data Science ARES: Daniel J. McDonald
-Speaker: Speaker: Daniel McDonald, Associate Professor, UBC Department of Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom (to register, see CANSSI website) or Maple Room, University of Toronto
Robust Statistical Learning and Generative Adversarial Networks
-Speaker: Speaker: Yuan Yao, Professor of Mathematics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom
Penalized Casebase in Survival Analysis
-Speaker: Speaker: Trevor Kwan, UBC Statistics MSc Student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom
Vine copula mixture models and clustering for non-Gaussian data
-Speaker: Speaker: Özge Sahin, PhD Student, Technical University of Munich
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom / ESB 4192
Forming realistic population distributions for flood frequency assessments
-Speaker: Speaker: Vincenzo Coia, Assistant Professor of Teaching, UBC Department of Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom / ESB 4192
Non-Crossing Dual Neural Network: Joint Value at Risk and Conditional Tail Expectation estimations with non-crossing conditions
-Speaker: Speaker: Juan José Vidal Llana, Ph.D. student, University of Barcelona Business School
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom
Improving multiple-try Metropolis with local balancing
-Speaker: Speaker: Philippe Gagnon, Assistant Professor of Actuarial Science, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Université de Montréal
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom / ESB 4192
SSC Data Science & Analytics Section 2022 Webinar Series: Vincenzo Coia
-Speaker: Speaker: Vincenzo Coia, Assistant Professor of Teaching, UBC Department of Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom
Metropolis Adjusted Underdamped Langevin Trajectories: a robust alternative to Hamiltonian Monte-Carlo
-Speaker: Speaker: Lionel Riou-Durand, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Warwick
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom
Bayesian Dose-Finding Design for Molecularly Targeted Agents and Immunotherapy
-Speaker: Speaker: Haolun Shi, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom
Stochastic Geometry for Machine Learning
-Speaker: Speaker: Eliza O’Reilly, Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship Trainee, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom / ESB 4192
CANSSI Data Science ARES: Marie Auger-Méthé
-Speaker: Speaker: Marie Auger-Méthé, Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Statistics, Institute for the Oceans & Fisheries
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom (to register, see CANSSI website)
Doctor for AI: Prior-informed ML for Biomedical Imaging and Perception
-Speaker: Speaker: Liyue Shen, Ph.D. student, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom
What can statisticians learn from the analysis of C.elegans data?
-Speaker: Speaker: Gonzalo E. Mena, Florence Nightingale Bicentennial Fellow and Tutor in Computational Statistics and Machine Learning, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom
Bridging the Gap Between Deep Learning and Probabilistic Modeling
-Speaker: Speaker: Geoff Pleiss, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Department of Statistics and Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom