Events List
Transfer and Multi-task Learning: Statistical Insights for Modern Data Challenges
-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
-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
-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
-Speaker: Speaker: Andee Kaplan, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Colorado State University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
Prairielearn Tools for Canvas Migration, Question Bank, and Autotest
-Speaker: Speaker: Vincent Liu, Postdoctoral Research and Teaching Fellow, UBC Master of Data Science
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
SEDI Seminar Series: Dora Zhao
-Speaker: Speaker: Dora Zhao, PhD student, Stanford University
Event type: NA
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
Steps to Building a Forecasting System for Southern Resident Killer Whales in the Salish Sea
-Speaker: Speaker: Ruth Joy, Assistant Professor, School of Environmental Science, Simon Fraser University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
Computation-Aware Gaussian Processes: Model Selection And Linear-Time Inference
-Speaker: Speaker: Jonathan Wenger, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Department of statistics and Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
Challenges in empirical likelihood and mixture modelling
-Speaker: Speaker: Haodi (Jim) Liang, UBC Statistics PhD student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
Ranking the Cosmos: Identifying Strongly Lensed Galaxies
-Speaker: Speaker: Silke Rice, UBC Statistics MSc student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
LaCSH: model-based evaluation of socio-economic health and policy effects
-Speaker: Speaker: Grace S. Chiu, Professor, Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS)
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
Simulation Based Inference with Gaussian Processes for Understanding the Rise of Solar Cycle 25 at Mars
-Speaker: Speaker: Abby Azari, Postdoctoral Fellow, UBC Data Science Institute and Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
Extending hidden Markov models for rhythmicity
-Speaker: Speaker: Vinky Wang, UBC Statistics MSc student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
How quickly does the Gibbs sampler converge for log-concave distributions?
-Speaker: Speaker: Hugo Lavenant, Assistant Professor, Department of Decision Sciences, Bocconi University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
UBC Statistics Graduate Programs Virtual Info Session - Nov 19
-Speaker: Speaker: UBC Statistics Graduate Co-advisors, Alexandre Bouchard-Côté and Natalia Nolde
Event type: Info Session
Location: Zoom (Registration required)
Recent and current projects in statistics education
-Speaker: Speaker: Rachel Lobay, Joey Hotz, Gian Carlo Di-Luvi, and Kenny Chiu on behalf of the Flexible Learning in Statistics Group
Event type: Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
Ensembles in the Age of Overparameterization: Promises and Pathologies
-Speaker: Speaker: Geoff Pleiss, UBC Statistics Assistant Professor
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ICCS X836 / Zoom
Causal Inference with Cocycles
-Speaker: Speaker: Benjamin Bloem-Reddy, Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
Online Kernel-Based Mode Learning
-Speaker: Speaker: Tao Wang, Assistant Professor, Department of Economics / Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom
Careers and collaborations in health research statistics
-Speaker: Speaker: Grace Hsu, Director, Real-World Evidence, Cytel Inc.
Event type: Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom