Events List

Extreme Value Approach to CoVaR Estimation

Tue, 06/18/2019 - 11:00 - Tue, 06/18/2019 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Menglin Zhou, UBC Statistics M.Sc. student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Looking for Anomalies in Correlated Time Series

Tue, 05/14/2019 - 11:00 - Tue, 05/14/2019 - 11:30
Speaker: Speaker: Abdullah Farouk, UBC Statistics MSc student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Monitoring test under the density ratio model for unequal sized clustered data

Tue, 04/30/2019 - 11:00 - Tue, 04/30/2019 - 11:30
Speaker: Speaker: Yanchao Luo, UBC Statistics M.Sc. student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Two UBC Statistics M.Sc. Student Presentations

Thu, 04/18/2019 - 16:00 - Thu, 04/18/2019 - 17:00
Speaker: Speaker: Xinzhe Dong and Xinmiao Wang, UBC Statistics M.Sc. Students
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Uncovering the Hidden Universe of Rental Units in Surrey

Tue, 04/16/2019 - 11:00 - Tue, 04/16/2019 - 11:30
Speaker: Speaker: Tom Park, UBC Statistics Co-op M.Sc. student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

UBC Statistics M.Sc. Co-op Student Presentations

Thu, 04/04/2019 - 16:00 - Thu, 04/04/2019 - 17:00
Speaker: Speaker: Kathy Zhao and Yidie Feng, UBC Statistics M.Sc. Co-op students
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Two UBC Statistics Co-op M.Sc. Student Presentations

Thu, 03/28/2019 - 16:00 - Thu, 03/28/2019 - 17:00
Speaker: Speaker: Jonathan Steif and Qiaoyue Tang (UBC Statistics M.Sc. Co-op Students)
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Infectious disease transmission and genomic data: who infected whom?

Tue, 03/19/2019 - 11:00 - Tue, 03/19/2019 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Caroline Colijn, Professor & Canada 150 Research Chair, SFU
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

2018-19 Constance van Eeden Lecture: The Blessings of Multiple Causes

Thu, 03/21/2019 - 17:30 - Thu, 03/21/2019 - 18:30
Speaker: Speaker: van Eeden Invited Speaker David Blei, Columbia University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 2012, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall, UBC)

Prediction based on conditional distributions of vine copulas

Tue, 03/12/2019 - 11:00 - Tue, 03/12/2019 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Bo Chang, UBC Statistics Ph.D. student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

CANCELLED: Geo-dependent spatial models of infectious disease transmission

Tue, 03/05/2019 - 11:00 - Tue, 03/05/2019 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Rob Deardon, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Calgary
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Clustering and modelling of phase variation for functional data

Tue, 02/26/2019 - 11:00 - Tue, 02/26/2019 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Eric Fu, UBC Statistics PhD Student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Statistical Inference for Cataloging the Visible Universe

Tue, 01/22/2019 - 11:00 - Tue, 01/22/2019 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Jeffrey Regier, Postdocoral Researcher, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Preferential attachment and neutral random graphs: statistically useful generative models of network data

Tue, 01/15/2019 - 11:00 - Tue, 01/15/2019 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Benjamin Bloem-Reddy
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Support points – a new way to reduce big and high-dimensional data

Tue, 12/11/2018 - 11:00 - Tue, 12/11/2018 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Simon Mak, Postdoctoral Fellow, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Connections between optimization and sampling

Tue, 11/27/2018 - 11:00 - Tue, 11/27/2018 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Daniel Paulin, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Mendelian randomization: A comprehensive statistical approach and applications to preventing heart disease

Thu, 12/06/2018 - 11:00 - Thu, 12/06/2018 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Qingyuan Zhao, Postdoctoral Fellow, Statistics Department of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Non-iterative Estimation Update for Parametric and Semiparametric Models with Population-based Auxiliary Information

Tue, 01/08/2019 - 11:00 - Tue, 01/08/2019 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Fei Gao, Senior Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Sparse Generalized Eigenvalue Problem and Its Application to Multivariate Statistics

Tue, 12/04/2018 - 11:00 - Tue, 12/04/2018 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Kean Ming Tan, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, School of Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Bayesian adjustments for disease misclassification in epidemiological studies of health administrative data

Tue, 11/13/2018 - 11:00 - Tue, 11/13/2018 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Tanja Högg, UBC Statistics PhD Student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)