Events List
Two UBC Statistics Co-op M.Sc. Student Presentations
-Speaker: Speaker: Jonathan Steif and Qiaoyue Tang (UBC Statistics M.Sc. Co-op Students)
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Infectious disease transmission and genomic data: who infected whom?
-Speaker: Speaker: Caroline Colijn, Professor & Canada 150 Research Chair, SFU
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
2018-19 Constance van Eeden Lecture: The Blessings of Multiple Causes
-Speaker: Speaker: van Eeden Invited Speaker David Blei, Columbia University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 2012, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall, UBC)
Prediction based on conditional distributions of vine copulas
-Speaker: Speaker: Bo Chang, UBC Statistics Ph.D. student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
CANCELLED: Geo-dependent spatial models of infectious disease transmission
-Speaker: Speaker: Rob Deardon, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, University of Calgary
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Neyman-Pearson Classification Algorithms and NP Receiver Operating Characteristics
-Speaker: Speaker: Jessica Li, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Department of Human Genetics, University of California, Los Angeles
Event type: Biostatistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Clustering and modelling of phase variation for functional data
-Speaker: Speaker: Eric Fu, UBC Statistics PhD Student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
The Use of Probabilistic Graphical Models in Evaluating the Current Opioid Overdose Crisis
-Speaker: Speaker: Michael Irvine, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, BC Ministry of Mental Health & Addictions, BC Centre for Disease Control, University of British Columbia
Event type: Biostatistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Profiling Hospital Performance Based on Racial and Socioeconomic Disparities in Readmissions
-Speaker: Speaker: Guohai Zhou, Senior Statistician at Yale School of Medicine
Event type: Biostatistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
From single-cells to patient diagnosis: statistical machine learning approaches to biomedical discovery
-Speaker: Speaker: Kieran Campbell, Banting Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Statistics at UBC, Department of Molecular Oncology at BC Cancer, and at the UBC Data Science Institute
Event type: Biostatistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Statistical Inference for Cataloging the Visible Universe
-Speaker: Speaker: Jeffrey Regier, Postdocoral Researcher, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Accurate inference of DNA methylation data: statistical challenges lead to biological insights
-Speaker: Speaker: Keegan Korthauer, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Biostatistics & Computational Biology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute; Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health
Event type: Biostatistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Preferential attachment and neutral random graphs: statistically useful generative models of network data
-Speaker: Speaker: Benjamin Bloem-Reddy
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Support points – a new way to reduce big and high-dimensional data
-Speaker: Speaker: Simon Mak, Postdoctoral Fellow, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Connections between optimization and sampling
-Speaker: Speaker: Daniel Paulin, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Mendelian randomization: A comprehensive statistical approach and applications to preventing heart disease
-Speaker: Speaker: Qingyuan Zhao, Postdoctoral Fellow, Statistics Department of the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Non-iterative Estimation Update for Parametric and Semiparametric Models with Population-based Auxiliary Information
-Speaker: Speaker: Fei Gao, Senior Fellow, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Sparse Generalized Eigenvalue Problem and Its Application to Multivariate Statistics
-Speaker: Speaker: Kean Ming Tan, Assistant Professor, University of Minnesota, School of Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Bayesian adjustments for disease misclassification in epidemiological studies of health administrative data
-Speaker: Speaker: Tanja Högg, UBC Statistics PhD Student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)
Special Seminar: Scalable Bayesian Inference with Hamiltonian Monte Carlo
-Speaker: Speaker: Michael Betancourt, Principle Research Scientist with Symplectomorphic, LLC
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Beaty Museum Auditorium