Events List

UBC Statistics Seminar on Tue, Nov 21: Bayesian latent variable models for understanding (pseudo-) time-series single-cell gene expression data

Tue, 11/21/2017 - 11:00 - Tue, 11/21/2017 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Kieran Campbell, UBC Statistics Post-doctoral Student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

UBC Statistics Seminar on November 2 at 4pm: Systems Monitoring and Personalized Health Management

Thu, 11/02/2017 - 16:00 - Thu, 11/02/2017 - 17:00
Speaker: Speaker: Kwok L. Tsui, Professor, Systems Engineering & Engineering Management City University of Hong Kong
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

UBC Statistics Seminar on Tuesday, November 7: Sequential decision model for inference and prediction on non-uniform hypergraphs with application to knot matching from computational forestry

Tue, 11/07/2017 - 11:00 - Tue, 11/07/2017 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Seong-Hwan Jun, UBC PhD Student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Introductory Statistics: the Flexible Learning Project

Tue, 10/31/2017 - 11:00 - Tue, 10/31/2017 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Bruce Dunham, Nancy Heckman, and Melissa Lee, on behalf of the Flexible Learning Intro Stat team
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Sequential ED-design for Binary Dose-response Experiments

Thu, 10/26/2017 - 16:00 - Thu, 10/26/2017 - 17:00
Speaker: Speaker: Xiaoli Yu, UBC PhD Student in Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Elicitability and backtesting: Perspectives for banking regulation

Tue, 10/24/2017 - 11:00 - Tue, 10/24/2017 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Natalia Nolde, Associate Professor, UBC Department of Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

UBC Statistics Seminar on Tue, Oct 17: Markov random fields, geostatistics, and matrix-free computation

Tue, 10/17/2017 - 11:00 - Tue, 10/17/2017 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Debashis Mondal, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Oregon State University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Special Lecture: 150 Years or More of Data Analysis in Canada

Thu, 10/19/2017 - 04:30 - Thu, 10/19/2017 - 06:30
Speaker: Speaker: David Bellhouse, Statistician and Statistics Historian
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: UBC Aquatic Ecosystems Research Laboratory (AERL) 120, 2202 Main Mall

UBC Statistics Seminar on Tuesday, Oct 10: Understanding gene regulation through graph-based posterior regularization in structured probabilistic models

Tue, 10/10/2017 - 11:00 - Tue, 10/10/2017 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Maxwell Libbrecht, Assistant Professor, School of Computing Science, Simon Fraser University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

UBC Statistics Seminar on Tuesday, September 26: An Easy-to-implement Variable Selection Method for Models Following Heredity

Tue, 09/26/2017 - 11:00 - Tue, 09/26/2017 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: William Li, Professor for Business Teaching and Research, University of Minnesota
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

UBC Statistics Seminar on Tue, Oct 3 at 11am (ESB 4192): A statistical view of uncertainty quantification: interface between statistics and applied mathematics

Tue, 10/03/2017 - 11:00 - Tue, 10/03/2017 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: C.F. Jeff Wu, Professor and Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics at the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Two UBC Statistics Master's Students' Presentations - Tue, Aug 22 at 11am (ESB 4192)

Tue, 08/22/2017 - 11:00 - Tue, 08/22/2017 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Qiong Zhang and Yiwei Hou, UBC Statistics Master's Students
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

The application of Machine Learning to risk/need assessment instrument LS/CMI in the prediction of offender recidivism

Tue, 09/19/2017 - 12:00 - Tue, 09/19/2017 - 13:00
Speaker: Speaker: Dr. Mahshid Atapour and Dr. Daniel Anvari
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192

Estimation in Functional Linear Quantile Regression - FRIDAY, August 18th at 11am in ESB 4192

Fri, 08/18/2017 - 11:00 - Fri, 08/18/2017 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Linglong Kong, Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Modelling under-reported data through INAR-hidden Markov chains - June 22, 2017 at 4pm in ESB 4192

Thu, 06/22/2017 - 16:00 - Thu, 06/22/2017 - 17:00
Speaker: Speaker: Amanda Fernandez-Fontelo, PhD student, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)