Events List

Reconstructing carbon dioxide for the last 2000 years: a hierarchical success story


Speaker: Speaker: Dr Doug Nychka, Director of the Institute for Mathematics Applied to Geosciences of the National Center for Atmospheric Research
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Michael Smith Labs, Room 102

Detecting Rate Changes in Point Processes


Speaker: Speaker: Dr. Michael Messer, PhD in Mathematics (Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany)
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Early Alert Orientation for Faculty, TAs, and Staff


Speaker: Speaker: Patty Hambler, MEd
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Development of the Bayesian approach in Canadian fisheries stock assessment


Speaker: Speaker: Murdoch McAllister
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Degree distribution of shortest path trees and bias in network sampling algorithms


Speaker: Speaker: Julia Komjathy
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building

Estimation under nearly-correct models


Speaker: Speaker: Dr. Thomas Lumley, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Auckland, New Zealand
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Approximate models and robust decisions

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Speaker: Speaker: James Watson, Statistics Research Student, University of Oxford
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Causal Inference Approaches for Dealing with Time-dependent Confounding in Longitudinal Studies, with Applications to Multiple Sclerosis Research

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Speaker: Speaker: Ehsan Karim, PhD Student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4133* (PIMS Library Area on 4th Floor)

Likelihood Ratio Test for Multisample Mixture Model and Its Application to Genetic Imprinting


Speaker: Speaker: Shaoting Li - Northeast Normal University, China
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Science Buildling, 2207 Main Mall

Bayesian False Discovery Rate Controlling Methodology


Speaker: Speaker: Daniel Yekutieli, Associate Professor and Head of the Statistical Consulting Laboratory in the Statistics and OR Department, Tel Aviv University (Israel)
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Science Buildling, 2207 Main Mall

Database of Religious History: A Statistically Analyzable Database of History


Speaker: Speaker: Michael Muthukrishna, Department of Psychology, UBC
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Science Buildling, 2207 Main Mall

The generalized lasso with non-linear measurements


Speaker: Speaker: Yaniv Plan, Department of Math, UBC, CRC 2, Data Science
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Science Buildling, 2207 Main Mall

Quantum Computation and Statistics


Speaker: Speaker: YaZhen Wang, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Science Buildling, 2207 Main Mall

Nonparametric Likelihood and Its Applications


Speaker: Speaker: Junjian Zhang - Professor, Guangxi Normal University, China
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Science Buildling, 2207 Main Mall

Projecting the uncertainty of sea level rise using climate models and statistical downscaling


Speaker: Speaker: Professor Peter Guttorp - Constance van Eeden Invited Speaker
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Lecture Theatre 102, Michael Smith Laboratories (2185 East Mall)

Co-op Experiences


Speaker:
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Jack Ni and Yifan Zhang (Master's Students in Co-op, Statistics, UBC)

Stat 450 & Stat 550 Poster Session 2015


Speaker: Speaker: Stat 450 and Stat 550 students
Event type: Poster Session
Location: Atrium, Earth Science Building, 2207 Main Mall

The Moving Holiday Model’s Design and Application - Taking the Chinese Spring Festival for Example


Speaker: Speaker: Professor Gang (JunYi) Shi (Visiting Associate Professor from Beijing Normal University)
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Science Buildling, 2207 Main Mall

Air Quality Model Evaluation through the Analysis and Modelling of Ozone Features


Speaker: Speaker: Tianji Shi PhD Candidate, UBC Department of Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Science Buildling, 2207 Main Mall

Smog, smoke and standards: modelling the effects of air pollution in space and time


Speaker: Speaker: Gavin Shaddick, University of Bath
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: 2012, Earth Science Buildling, 2207 Main Mall