Events List

The design and analysis of annealing algorithms for sampling and generative modelling

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Speaker: Speaker: Saifuddin Syed, Florence Nightingale Bicentenary Research Fellow, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Quantifying Uncertainty in Clustering Analysis: With Applications in Genetic Data and Phylogenetic Trees

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Speaker: Speaker: Thu Nguyen, UBC Statistics MSc student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Advancements in Probabilistic Circuits for Tractable Probabilistic Inference

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Speaker: Speaker: Martin Trapp, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Computer Science, Aalto University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Coin Sampling: Gradient-Based Bayesian Inference without Learning Rates

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

Inference with joint models under misspecified random effects distributions

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Speaker: Speaker: Sanjoy K. Sinha, Professor, School of Mathematics and Statistics, Carleton University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

MDS Vancouver Alumni Virtual Information Session

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Event type: Workshop
Location: Online

Approximate Marginal Likelihood Inference in Mixed Models for Grouped Data

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Speaker: Speaker: Alex Stringer, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Statistics Imagine Day 2023/24

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Event type: Student Event
Location: BUCH A104 for presentations / ESB 3009 for lunch

Fall 2023 Statistics Orientation/Faculty Flash Talks

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Event type: Social
Location: ESB 4192

Phylogenetic analysis: expectations, reality and bridging the gap between the two

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Speaker: Speaker: Julija Pecerska, Postdoctoral researcher, Zurich University of Applied Sciences
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Two MSc student presentations (Liam Gilson & Giuliano Netto Flores Cruz)

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Speaker: Speaker: Liam Gilson, UBC Statistics MSc student; Giuliano Netto Flores Cruz, UBC Bioinformatics MSc student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Risk Prediction for Premature Menopause in Childhood Cancer Survivors

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Speaker: Speaker: Yan Yuan, Associate Professor, School of Public Health, University of Alberta
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Regularized Relative Risk Regression: A Non-GLM Approach with Emphasis on Large p, Small N Simulations

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Speaker: Speaker: Xinyuan (Chloe) You, UBC Statistics MSc Student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192/Zoom

Two UBC Statistics MSc student presentations (Nirupama Tamvada & Maggie Liu)

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Speaker: Speaker: Nirupama Tamvada, UBC Statistics MSc student; Yitong (Maggie) Liu, UBC Statistics MSc student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Statistical Methods for Population Size Estimation on Trees

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Speaker: Speaker: Mallory Flynn, UBC Statistics PhD Student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192/Zoom

Conditional Inference and Prediction of a Survival Response Based on Vine Copula Models

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Speaker: Speaker: Shenyi Pan, UBC Statistics PhD Student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

On factor copula-based mixed regression models

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Speaker: Speaker: Pavel Krupskiy, Lecturer, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Two UBC Statistics MSc student presentations (Giuseppe Tomio & Jana Osea)

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Speaker: Speaker: Giuseppe Tomio, UBC Statistics MSc student; Jana Osea, UBC Statistics MSc student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Post hoc inference for genomics and neuroimaging

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Speaker: Speaker: Pierre Neuvial, CNRS researcher (DR) in Statistics, Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse (IMT)
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Epidemic models: can we make them behave better?

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Speaker: Speaker: Rob Deardon, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Calgary
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom