Events List

Model Projections in Model Space (MPMS): A geometric interpretation of the AIC and estimating the distance between the generating process and the best approximating model

Tue, 11/09/2021 - 11:00 - Tue, 11/09/2021 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: José Miguel Ponciano, Department of Biology, University of Florida
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom

Optimal Transportation in the Inference of Finite Mixture Models

Tue, 11/02/2021 - 11:00 - Tue, 11/02/2021 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Qiong Zhang, UBC Statistics PhD student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: Zoom

Data Journalism and the Pandemic: Observations from 19 months of Charts

Tue, 10/26/2021 - 11:00 - Tue, 10/26/2021 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Justin McElroy, Municipal Affairs Reporter, CBC Vancouver
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom / ESB 4192

CANSSI Ontario / U of T Statistical Sciences ARES Seminar: Tiffany Timbers

Mon, 10/25/2021 - 12:30 - Mon, 10/25/2021 - 13:30
Speaker: Speaker: Tiffany Timbers, UBC Statistics Assistant Professor of Teaching / Co-Director, UBC Master of Data Science Program (Vancouver option)
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom (to register, see CANSSI website)

Computational methods for genomics data analysis: Cancer detection using circulating tumor DNA and miRNA expression inference in single cells

Tue, 10/19/2021 - 11:00 - Tue, 10/19/2021 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Jakob Skou Pedersen, UBC Statistics Visiting Professor
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom / ESB 4192

COVID-19 Modelling and Forecasting in the US and Canada: A statistician’s pro(retro)spective

Tue, 10/12/2021 - 11:00 - Tue, 10/12/2021 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Daniel J. McDonald, UBC Statistics Associate Professor
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom / ESB 4192

Navigating challenging EDI conversations: Tips and tricks for allies

Tue, 10/05/2021 - 11:00 - Tue, 10/05/2021 - 12:30
Speaker:
Event type: Workshop
Location: Zoom

Department Faculty Flash Talks

Tue, 09/14/2021 - 11:00 - Tue, 09/14/2021 - 12:00
Speaker:
Event type: Social
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Two UBC Statistics MSc student presentations (Kevin Chern & Matteo Lepur)

Thu, 09/02/2021 - 11:00 - Thu, 09/02/2021 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Kevin Chern, UBC Statistics MSc student; Matteo Lepur, UBC Statistics MSc student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: Zoom

Improved conditional generative adversarial networks for image generation: methods and their application in knowledge distillation

Tue, 08/31/2021 - 11:00 - Tue, 08/31/2021 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Xin Ding, UBC Statistics PhD Student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: Zoom

Two UBC Statistics MSc student presentations (Gian Carlo Di-Luvi & Kenny Chiu)

Tue, 08/24/2021 - 11:00 - Tue, 08/24/2021 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Gian Carlo Di-Luvi, UBC Statistics MSc student; Kenny Chiu, UBC Statistics MSc student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: Zoom

The augmented maximum likelihood estimation, and testing for homogeneity under finite vector-parameter mixture models

Tue, 07/20/2021 - 11:00 - Tue, 07/20/2021 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Julian (Ho Yin) Ho, UBC Statistics PhD Student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: Zoom

The Neutral-to-the-Left Mixture Model

Tue, 07/13/2021 - 11:00 - Tue, 07/13/2021 - 11:30
Speaker: Speaker: Sean La, UBC Statistics MSc Student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: Zoom

Two UBC Statistics MSc student presentations

Tue, 05/25/2021 - 11:00 - Tue, 05/25/2021 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Sherry Gao, UBC Statistics MSc student; Ian Murphy, UBC Statistics MSc student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: Zoom

Movement data reveal dynamic social relationships

Tue, 05/18/2021 - 11:00 - Tue, 05/18/2021 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Henry Scharf, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, San Diego State University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom

Joint colloquium with the University of British Columbia and the University of Washington

Fri, 05/14/2021 - 15:30 - Fri, 05/14/2021 - 16:30
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

Tue, 05/04/2021 - 11:00 - Tue, 05/04/2021 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Lulu Pei, UBC Statistics MSc student; Lily Xia, UBC Statistics MSc student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: Zoom

Vintage Factor Analysis with Varimax Performs Statistical Inference

Tue, 04/27/2021 - 11:00 - Tue, 04/27/2021 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Karl Rohe, Associate Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom

Two UBC Statistics MSc Co-op student presentations

Thu, 04/22/2021 - 16:00 - Thu, 04/22/2021 - 17:00
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

CANSSI National Seminar Series: April speaker, Grace Yi

Thu, 04/22/2021 - 10:00 - Thu, 04/22/2021 - 11:30
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)