Events List

Steps to Building a Forecasting System for Southern Resident Killer Whales in the Salish Sea

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Speaker: Speaker: Ruth Joy, Assistant Professor, School of Environmental Science, Simon Fraser University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Ranking the Cosmos: Identifying Strongly Lensed Galaxies

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

UBC Statistics Graduate Programs Virtual Info Session - Nov 19

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Speaker: Speaker: UBC Statistics Graduate Co-advisors, Alexandre Bouchard-Côté and Natalia Nolde
Event type: Info Session
Location: Zoom (Registration required)

LaCSH: model-based evaluation of socio-economic health and policy effects

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Speaker: Speaker: Grace S. Chiu, Professor, Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS)
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

How quickly does the Gibbs sampler converge for log-concave distributions?

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Speaker: Speaker: Hugo Lavenant, Assistant Professor, Department of Decision Sciences, Bocconi University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Simulation Based Inference with Gaussian Processes for Understanding the Rise of Solar Cycle 25 at Mars

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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

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

Recent and current projects in statistics education

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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

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Speaker: Speaker: Geoff Pleiss, UBC Statistics Assistant Professor
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ICCS X836 / Zoom

Causal Inference with Cocycles

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Speaker: Speaker: Benjamin Bloem-Reddy, Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Online Kernel-Based Mode Learning

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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

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Speaker: Speaker: Grace Hsu, Director, Real-World Evidence, Cytel Inc.
Event type: Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Modelling Complex Biologging Data with Hidden Markov Models

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Speaker: Speaker: Evan Sidrow, UBC Statistics PhD student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Statistical Analysis with Non-Probability Survey Samples

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Speaker: Speaker: Changbao Wu, Professor and Chair, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

On Bayesian quadrature estimators

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Speaker: Speaker: Masha Naslidnyk, PhD student, Department of Statistical Science, University College London
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Two MSc student presentations (Charlotte Edgar & Graeme Kempf)

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Speaker: Speaker: Charlotte Edgar, UBC Statistics MSc student; Graeme Kempf, UBC Statistics MSc student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

UBC Girls in Data Science Summer Camp 2024

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Event type: NA
Location: UBC Vancouver Campus

Automatic Massively Parallel MCMC with Quantifiable Error

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Speaker: Speaker: Miguel Biron-Lattes, UBC Statistics PhD student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Modular and Efficient Compilation of Probabilistic Programs

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Speaker: Speaker: David Broman, Professor, Department of Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

CANCELLED: On False Positive Error

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Speaker: Speaker: Armeen Taeb, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Washington
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom