Events List

Finding the Best Player via Multi-Player Comparisons

-
Speaker: Speaker: Sheldon Mark Ross, Daniel J. Epstein Chair and Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Extreme Value Modelling with Application to Reverse Stress Testing

-
Speaker: Speaker: Menglin Zhou, UBC Statistics PhD student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Modelling orbits to detect exoplanets

-
Speaker: Speaker: William Thompson, Herzberg Instrument Science Fellow, National Research Council of Canada, Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Statistics Canada Info Session

-
Speaker: Speaker: McKeowen Watts, Methodologist Quality Secretariat – Economic Statistics Methods Division Statistics Canada
Event type: Info Session
Location: P.A. Woodward Instructional Resources Centre (IRC) - 1

Dependence modelling in high dimensions with latent variables

-
Speaker: Speaker: Xinyao Fan, UBC Statistics PhD student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

MSc students' Co-op Presentations

-
Speaker: Speaker: Clayton Allard, UBC Statistics MSc student; Xiao (Nicole) Hu, UBC Statistics MSc student; Yicheng Wang, UBC Statistics MSc student; Yixin Zhang, UBC Statistics MSc student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

EDI Seminar Series: Dr. Gunilla Öberg

-
Speaker: Speaker: Dr. Gunilla Öberg, Professor, Institute for Resources, Environment and Sustainability, UBC
Event type: Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Bayesian Inference for Big Data

-
Speaker: Speaker: Trevor Campbell, UBC Statistics Associate Professor
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 1012 / Zoom

van Eeden seminar: Ethical AI is More than Loss Functions

-
Speaker: Speaker: van Eeden Invited Speaker: Dr. Sherri Rose, Professor, Stanford University
Event type: Seminar
Location: Online or ESB 5104 at the University of British Columbia

Dependence models for mortalities using a copula state-space approach

-
Speaker: Speaker: Ariane Hanebeck, PhD Student, Technical University of Munich
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Probabilistic topic models for single-cell genomics

-
Speaker: Speaker: Yichen Zhang, UBC Statistics PhD Student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Opportunities in the Actuarial Profession

-
Speaker: Speaker: Ben Marshall, Regional Director, Americas, Society of Actuaries
Event type: Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Margin-closed multivariate autoregressive time series models

-
Speaker: Speaker: Lin Zhang, UBC Statistics PhD Student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Speeding up Metropolis using Theorems

-
Speaker: Speaker: Jeffrey S. Rosenthal, Professor, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 5104 / Zoom

Uncertainty Quantification for Structure Learning and Interpretable Machine Learning

-
Speaker: Speaker: Lili Zheng, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rice University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Probabilistic methods for designing functional protein structures

-
Speaker: Speaker: Brian L. Trippe, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Statistics, Columbia University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Toward large-scale Bayesian inference with structured generative models

-
Speaker: Speaker: Ricardo Baptista, von Karman Instructor, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Advancing Biomedical Data Science: Leveraging ChatGPT for genomics data & Testing data-driven hypothesis post-clustering

-
Speaker: Speaker: Yiqun T. Chen, Data Science Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Identifiable and interpretable nonparametric factor analysis

-
Speaker: Speaker: Maoran Xu, Postdoctoral Associate, Department of Statistical Science, Duke University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Learning-Rate-Free Methods for Scalable Bayesian Inference

-
Speaker: Speaker: Louis Sharrock, Senior Research Associate in Statistical Machine Learning, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Lancaster University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom