Events List

Two MSc student presentations: Christine Chuong & Sarah Masri

Tue, 05/06/2025 - 11:00 - Tue, 05/06/2025 - 12:00
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

CTLT Program Talk: Getting Involved in Teaching & Learning

Tue, 04/22/2025 - 12:00 - Tue, 04/22/2025 - 13:00
Speaker: Speaker: Kenny Chiu, UBC Statistics Ph.D. student
Event type: Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

UBC Girls in Data Science Summer Camp 2025

Mon, 07/07/2025 - 10:00 - Mon, 07/07/2025 - 15:00
Speaker:
Event type: NA
Location: UBC Vancouver Campus

Multivariate extreme inference with application to systemic risk

Tue, 04/22/2025 - 11:00 - Tue, 04/22/2025 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Xiaoting Li, UBC Statistics Ph.D. student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

SEDI Seminar Series: Dr. Araba Sey

Tue, 04/15/2025 - 11:00 - Tue, 04/15/2025 - 12:30
Speaker: Speaker: Araba Sey, Deputy Director of Research ICT Africa
Event type: NA
Location: Zoom

Multilayer random dot product graphs: Estimation and online change point detection

Fri, 04/11/2025 - 12:30 - Fri, 04/11/2025 - 13:30
Speaker: Speaker: Oscar Hernan Madrid Padilla, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Two MSc student presentations (Zefan Liu & Tom Tang)

Thu, 04/17/2025 - 11:00 - Thu, 04/17/2025 - 12:00
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

Statistical models that are known or suspected to be partially identified: Issues of parameterization, computation, and software development

Mon, 04/07/2025 - 10:00 - Mon, 04/07/2025 - 11:00
Speaker: Speaker: Seren Lee, UBC Statistics Ph.D. student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Statistics for Satellite Conjunctions

Tue, 04/08/2025 - 11:00 - Tue, 04/08/2025 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Anthony Davison, Professor of Statistics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

CANSSI Prairies Workshop: Processing and Forecasting with Epidemic Surveillance Data

Fri, 04/25/2025 - 06:30 - Fri, 04/25/2025 - 15:00
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

Poster Session for STAT 450

Wed, 04/02/2025 - 09:00 - Wed, 04/02/2025 - 10:15
Speaker: Speaker: STAT 450 Students
Event type: Poster Session
Location: ESB Atrium - East Corridor (PME Gallery)

Efficient smoothness selection for Markov-switching models

Tue, 03/11/2025 - 11:00 - Tue, 03/11/2025 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Jan-Ole Koslik, PhD student, Department of Statistics, Bielefeld University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Approximate posterior inference for Bayesian nonparametrics with guarantees

Fri, 03/21/2025 - 12:30 - Fri, 03/21/2025 - 13:30
Speaker: Speaker: Xinglong Li, UBC Statistics Ph.D. student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

van Eeden seminar: From Diffusion Models to Schrödinger Bridges - When Generative Modeling meets Optimal Transport

Fri, 04/04/2025 - 10:30 - Fri, 04/04/2025 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: van Eeden Invited Speaker: Dr. Arnaud Doucet, Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind
Event type: Seminar
Location: Online or ESB 5104/5106 at the University of British Columbia

CANCELLED: Policy Evaluation in Dynamic Experiments

Fri, 02/28/2025 - 12:15 - Fri, 02/28/2025 - 13:15
Speaker: Speaker: Yuchen Hu, Ph.D. student, Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

CANCELLED: Deep Learning: a Non-parametric Statistical Viewpoint

Tue, 02/25/2025 - 10:30 - Tue, 02/25/2025 - 11:30
Speaker: Speaker: Saptarshi Chakraborty, Ph.D. student, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Efficient stochastic generators with spherical harmonic transformation for high-resolution global climate simulations

Thu, 02/27/2025 - 10:30 - Thu, 02/27/2025 - 11:30
Speaker: Speaker: Yan Song, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Computer, Electrical and Mathematical Sciences and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST)
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom