Events List
Joint colloquium with the University of British Columbia and the University of Washington
-Speaker: Speaker: Trevor Campbell, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, UBC; Alex Luedtke, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, UW
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom
Two UBC Statistics MSc student presentations
-Speaker: Speaker: Lulu Pei, UBC Statistics MSc student; Lily Xia, UBC Statistics MSc student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: Zoom
Two UBC Statistics MSc Co-op student presentations
-Speaker: Speaker: Jingyiran Li, UBC Statistics MSc Co-op student; Harper Cheng, UBC Statistics MSc Co-op student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: Zoom
van Eeden seminar: How to represent part-whole hierarchies in a neural network
-Speaker: Speaker: van Eeden Invited Speaker Geoffrey Hinton, Professor Emeritus, Computer Science Department, University of Toronto
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom (registration required)
Vintage Factor Analysis with Varimax Performs Statistical Inference
-Speaker: Speaker: Karl Rohe, Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom
CANSSI National Seminar Series: April speaker, Grace Yi
-Speaker: Speaker: Grace Yi, Tier I Canada Research Chair in Data Science and Professor of the Department Statistical and Actuarial Sciences and the Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: via Zoom (to register, see the CANSSI website)
CANSSI National Seminar Series: March speaker, Fabrizia Mealli
-Speaker: Speaker: Fabrizia Mealli, Professor of Statistics, Università degli Studi di Firenze
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: via Zoom (to register, see CANSSI website)
CANSSI National Seminar Series: February speaker, Dylan Small
-Speaker: Speaker: Dylan Small, Class of 1965 Wharton Professor of Statistics, Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: via Zoom (to register, see CANSSI website)
CANSSI National Seminar Series—January speaker, Linbo Wang
-Speaker: Speaker: Linbo Wang, Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: via Zoom (to register, see the CANSSI website)
Addressing Open Challenges in Data Science Education
-Speaker: Speaker: Stephanie Hicks, Assistant Professor, Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom*
The CHIME Telescope and the Search for Fast Radio Bursts
-Speaker: Speaker: Davor Cubranic, Software Developer, UBC Department of Physics & Astronomy
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom*
Bayesian sparse regression for large-scale observational healthcare analytics
-Speaker: Speaker: Akihiko (Aki) Nishimura, Assistant Professor of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom*
Accounting for Preferential Sampling in the Statistical Analysis of Spatio-temporal Data
-Speaker: Speaker: Joe Watson, PhD student, UBC Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom*
CANSSI National Seminar Series: October speaker, Christopher Jackson
-Speaker: Speaker: Christopher Jackson, Senior Investigator Statistician, MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: via Zoom (to register, see CANSSI website)
How to Improve Prediction Accuracy in the Analysis of Computer Experiments: Exploitation of Low-Order Effects and Dimensional Analysis
-Speaker: Speaker: Alexi Rodríguez-Arelis, PhD student, UBC Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom*
Penalized empirical likelihood inference for abundance from capture-recapture data
-Speaker: Speaker: Pengfei Li, Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom*
Point process models for sequence detection in neural spike trains
-Speaker: Speaker: Scott Linderman, assistant professor of Statistics and Computer Science, Stanford University.
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom*
New challenges in phylogenetic inference
-Speaker: Speaker: Claudia Solis-Lemus, Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, Department of Plant Pathology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom*
Bayesian adjustment for preferential testing in estimating infection fatality rates: Theory and methods as motivated by the COVID-19 pandemic
-Speaker: Speaker: Harlan Campbell, Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Statistics at UBC
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom*
CANSSI National Seminar Series: September speaker, Ruth King
-Speaker: Speaker: Ruth King, Thomas Bayes’ Chair of Statistics at the University of Edinburgh
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: via Zoom (to register, see CANSSI website)