Events List

Conditional Inference and Prediction of a Survival Response Based on Vine Copula Models

Tue, 07/25/2023 - 11:00 - Tue, 07/25/2023 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Shenyi Pan, UBC Statistics PhD Student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

On factor copula-based mixed regression models

Thu, 07/20/2023 - 11:00 - Thu, 07/20/2023 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Pavel Krupskiy, Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Two UBC Statistics MSc student presentations (Giuseppe Tomio & Jana Osea)

Tue, 06/20/2023 - 11:00 - Tue, 06/20/2023 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Giuseppe Tomio, UBC Statistics MSc student; Jana Osea, UBC Statistics MSc student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Post hoc inference for genomics and neuroimaging

Thu, 06/08/2023 - 11:00 - Thu, 06/08/2023 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Pierre Neuvial, CNRS researcher (DR) in Statistics, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse (IMT)
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Epidemic models: can we make them behave better?

Tue, 06/06/2023 - 11:00 - Tue, 06/06/2023 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Rob Deardon, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Calgary
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom

A corrected Clarke test for model selection

Tue, 05/23/2023 - 11:00 - Tue, 05/23/2023 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Aleksey Min, Professor and Chair of Mathematical Finance, Technical University of Munich (TUM)
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Markov Chain Monte Carlo and Langevin equations on a Stratification

Tue, 05/09/2023 - 11:00 - Tue, 05/09/2023 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Miranda Holmes-Cerfon, Associate Professor, UBC Mathematics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Co-op Report: Cardiovascular Network of Canada (CANet)

Thu, 04/20/2023 - 16:00 - Thu, 04/20/2023 - 16:30
Speaker: Speaker: Tigana Runte, UBC Statistics MSc Student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: Zoom

Bayesian Models for Hierarchical Clustering of Network Data

Thu, 05/04/2023 - 11:00 - Thu, 05/04/2023 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Creagh Briercliffe, UBC Statistics PhD Student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

EDI Seminar Series: Dr. Melania Alvarez

Tue, 05/02/2023 - 11:00 - Tue, 05/02/2023 - 12:30
Speaker: Speaker: Dr. Melania Alvarez, Education Coordinator, Pacific Institute for the Mathematical Sciences, UBC
Event type: Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Two UBC Statistics MSc student presentations (William Laplante & Elvis Cai)

Thu, 04/20/2023 - 11:00 - Thu, 04/20/2023 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: William Laplante, UBC Statistics MSc student; Elvis Cai, UBC Statistics MSc student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Statistical Imaging of Black Holes using the Event Horizon Telescope

Tue, 04/25/2023 - 11:00 - Tue, 04/25/2023 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Paul Tiede, Postdoctoral Researcher, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard & Smithsonian
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Statistical implications of group invariance of distributions

Thu, 04/20/2023 - 13:00 - Thu, 04/20/2023 - 14:00
Speaker: Speaker: Peter Orbanz, Professor of Machine Learning in the Gatsby Computational Neuroscience Unit at University College London
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192

VanBUG Bioinformatics Seminar: Yongjin Park

Thu, 04/20/2023 - 17:00 - Thu, 04/20/2023 - 21:00
Speaker: Speaker: Yongjin Park, Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: St. Paul's Hospital, Cullen Family Lecture Theatre (Room 1477), Providence Building, Level 1, 1081 Burrard St, Vancouver, BC V6Z 1Y6 / Zoom meeting available at https://www.vanbug.org on seminar day.

Two UBC Statistics MSc student presentations (Yuwei Yang & Marc Wettengel)

Tue, 04/18/2023 - 11:00 - Tue, 04/18/2023 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Yuwei Yang, UBC Statistics MSc student; Marc Wettengel, UBC Statistics MSc student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: Zoom

Poster Session for STAT 450

Wed, 04/05/2023 - 09:00 - Wed, 04/05/2023 - 10:00
Speaker: Speaker: STAT 450 Students
Event type: Poster Session
Location: ESB Atrium - East Corridor (PME Gallery)

Two UBC Statistics MSc student presentations (Jiayang Yin & Jintong Yan)

Tue, 04/11/2023 - 11:00 - Tue, 04/11/2023 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Jiayang Yin, UBC Statistics MSc student; Jintong Yan, UBC Statistics MSc student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: Zoom

AI-Driven Experimental Design for Accelerating Science and Engineering

Mon, 03/06/2023 - 12:15 - Mon, 03/06/2023 - 13:15
Speaker: 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

Thu, 03/02/2023 - 10:30 - Thu, 03/02/2023 - 11:30
Speaker: 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

Thu, 02/16/2023 - 10:00 - Thu, 02/16/2023 - 10:30
Speaker: Speaker: Conor Morrison, UBC Statistics MSc Student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: Zoom