Events List
A Practical Introduction to LLMs, Chatbots, and Dashboards
-Speaker: Speaker: Daniel Chen, Lecturer, UBC Statistics and Master of Data Science
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
Bayesian Modeling for Functional Neuroimaging Data
-Speaker: Speaker: Xiaomeng (Jasmine) Ju, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, UBC Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
AutoStep: Locally adaptive involutive MCMC
-Speaker: Speaker: Tiange (Ivy) Liu, UBC Statistics M.Sc. student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
Regularized Relative Risk Regression
-Speaker: Speaker: Javier Martinez-Rodriguez, UBC Statistics M.Sc. student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
UBC Statistics Imagine Day 2025
-Speaker: Speaker: TBA
Event type: Student Event
Location: ESB Main Lobby & CIRS 1250
Sequential Monte Carlo - EM algorithm for Disease Transmission Models
-Speaker: Speaker: Jonathan Agyeman, UBC Statistics Ph.D. student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
Copula-based Non-Gaussian Time Series Models
-Speaker: Speaker: Sven Pappert, Ph.D. student, Technical University of Dortmund
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
Probabilistic Modeling of High-Throughput Sequencing Data for Enhanced Understanding of DNA Methylation Heterogeneity
-Speaker: Speaker: Ning Shen, UBC Statistics Ph.D. student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
Generative Data Mining with Longtail-Guided Diffusion
-Speaker: Speaker: David S. Hayden, Research Scientist, GM Cruise
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
A Computational Theory for Black-Box Variational Inference
-Speaker: Speaker: Kyurae Kim, Ph.D. student, Computer and Information Sciences, University of Pennsylvania
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
Making a Training Dataset from Multiple Data Distributions
-Speaker: Speaker: Anvith Thudi, Ph.D. student, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
First passage time distributions for jump-diffusion processes and flexible boundaries
-Speaker: Speaker: Liqun Wang, Professor, Department Statistics, University of Manitoba
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
Two MSc student presentations: Henry Qian & Joey Hotz
-Speaker: Speaker: Xihan (Henry) Qian, UBC Statistics M.Sc. student & Joey Hotz, UBC Statistics M.Sc. student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
The Future of Statistics Education: A Computational Perspective
-Speaker: Speaker: Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, Professor of the Practice and the Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Statistical Science and an affiliated faculty in the Computational Media, Arts, and Cultures program, Duke University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
Two MSc student presentations: Christine Chuong & Sarah Masri
-Speaker: Speaker: Sarah Masri, UBC Statistics M.Sc. student & Christine Chuong, UBC Statistics M.Sc. student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
CANSSI Prairies Workshop: Processing and Forecasting with Epidemic Surveillance Data
-Speaker: Speaker: Daniel J. McDonald, Associate Professor, UBC Department of Statistics
Event type: Workshop
Location: Hybrid (in person and on Zoom); University of Manitoba, Fort Gary Campus, Armes Building, Room 200
CTLT Program Talk: Getting Involved in Teaching & Learning
-Speaker: Speaker: Kenny Chiu, UBC Statistics Ph.D. student
Event type: Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
Multivariate extreme inference with application to systemic risk
-Speaker: Speaker: Xiaoting Li, UBC Statistics Ph.D. student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
Two MSc student presentations (Zefan Liu & Tom Tang)
-Speaker: Speaker: Zefan (Steve) Liu, UBC Statistics M.Sc. student & Tom Tang, UBC Statistics M.Sc. student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom