Events List

Two MSc student presentations (Zefan Liu & Tom Tang)

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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

SEDI Seminar Series: Dr. Araba Sey

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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

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Speaker: Speaker: Oscar Hernan Madrid Padilla, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Statistics for Satellite Conjunctions

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Speaker: Speaker: Anthony Davison, Professor of Statistics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

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

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Speaker: Speaker: Seren Lee, 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

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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

Poster Session for STAT 450

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Speaker: Speaker: STAT 450 Students
Event type: Poster Session
Location: ESB Atrium - East Corridor (PME Gallery)

Approximate posterior inference for Bayesian nonparametrics with guarantees

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Speaker: Speaker: Xinglong Li, UBC Statistics Ph.D. student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Efficient smoothness selection for Markov-switching models

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Speaker: Speaker: Jan-Ole Koslik, PhD student, Department of Statistics, Bielefeld University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

CANCELLED: Policy Evaluation in Dynamic Experiments

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Speaker: Speaker: Yuchen Hu, Ph.D. student, Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

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

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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

CANCELLED: Deep Learning: a Non-parametric Statistical Viewpoint

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Speaker: Speaker: Saptarshi Chakraborty, Ph.D. student, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Transfer and Multi-task Learning: Statistical Insights for Modern Data Challenges

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Speaker: Speaker: Ye Tian, Ph.D. student, Department of Statistics, Columbia University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Markov chain Monte Carlo and variational inference in the age of parallel computation

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Speaker: Speaker: Charles Margossian, Postdoc Research Fellow at the Flatiron Institute
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

ML-assisted statistical inference for genetic discovery

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Speaker: Speaker: Jiacheng Miao, Ph.D. student, Biomedical Data Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Scaling Bayesian Record Linkage for Streaming Data Contexts

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Speaker: Speaker: Andee Kaplan, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Colorado State University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

SEDI Seminar Series: Dora Zhao

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Speaker: Speaker: Dora Zhao, PhD student, Stanford University
Event type: NA
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Computation-Aware Gaussian Processes: Model Selection And Linear-Time Inference

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Speaker: Speaker: Jonathan Wenger, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Department of statistics and Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Prairielearn Tools for Canvas Migration, Question Bank, and Autotest

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Speaker: Speaker: Vincent Liu, Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow, UBC Master of Data Science
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Challenges in empirical likelihood and mixture modelling

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Speaker: Speaker: Haodi (Jim) Liang, UBC Statistics PhD student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom