Events List

Two UBC Statistics MSc student presentations (Johnny Xi & Naitong Chen)

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Speaker: Speaker: Johnny Xi, UBC Statistics MSc student; Naitong Chen, UBC Statistics MSc student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: Zoom / ESB 4192

Non-Crossing Dual Neural Network: Joint Value at Risk and Conditional Tail Expectation estimations with non-crossing conditions

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Speaker: Speaker: Juan José Vidal Llana, Ph.D. student, University of Barcelona Business School
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom

Improving multiple-try Metropolis with local balancing

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Speaker: Speaker: Philippe Gagnon, Assistant Professor of Actuarial Science, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Université de Montréal
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom / ESB 4192

Investigating pilotage as a navigational strategy in Northern Fur Seals (Callorhinus ursinus) during pre-migratory foraging trips

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Speaker: Speaker: Shannon Edie, UBC Statistics MSc student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: Zoom

An R package for computing the regularization paths for sparse group-lasso penalized problems

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

SSC Data Science & Analytics Section 2022 Webinar Series: Vincenzo Coia

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Speaker: Speaker: Vincenzo Coia, Assistant Professor of Teaching, UBC Department of Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom

UBC Statistics MSc students Co-op Talks II

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Speaker: Speaker: Jeffrey Yiu, UBC Statistics MSc student; Pramoda Jayasinghe, UBC Statistics MSc student; Li Zha, UBC Statistics MSc student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: Zoom

UBC Statistics MSc students Co-op Talks I

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Speaker: Speaker: Shirley Cui, UBC Statistics MSc student; Shuyi Tan, UBC Statistics MSc student; Zhipeng Zhu, UBC Statistics MSc student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: Zoom

Metropolis Adjusted Underdamped Langevin Trajectories: a robust alternative to Hamiltonian Monte-Carlo

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Speaker: Speaker: Lionel Riou-Durand, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Warwick
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom

Two UBC Statistics MSc student presentations (Grace Yin & Wei Tang)

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Speaker: Speaker: Grace Yin, UBC Statistics MSc student; Wei Tang, UBC Statistics MSc student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: Zoom / ESB 4192

Bayesian Dose-Finding Design for Molecularly Targeted Agents and Immunotherapy

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Speaker: Speaker: Haolun Shi, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom

Stochastic Geometry for Machine Learning

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Speaker: Speaker: Eliza O’Reilly, Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship Trainee, Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom / ESB 4192

Poster Session for STAT 450

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Speaker: Speaker: STAT 450 Students
Event type: Poster Session
Location: ESB Atrium - East Corridor (PME Gallery)

CANSSI Data Science ARES: Marie Auger-Méthé

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Speaker: Speaker: Marie Auger-Méthé, Assistant Professor, UBC Department of Statistics, Institute for the Oceans & Fisheries
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom (to register, see CANSSI website)

Non-reversible parallel tempering on optimized paths

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Speaker: Speaker: Saif Syed, UBC Statistics PhD Student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: Zoom

Doctor for AI: Prior-informed ML for Biomedical Imaging and Perception

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Speaker: Speaker: Liyue Shen, Ph.D. student, Department of Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom

What can statisticians learn from the analysis of C.elegans data?

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Speaker: Speaker: Gonzalo E. Mena, Florence Nightingale Bicentennial Fellow and Tutor in Computational Statistics and Machine Learning, Department of Statistics, University of Oxford
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom

Bridging the Gap Between Deep Learning and Probabilistic Modeling

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Speaker: Speaker: Geoff Pleiss, Postdoctoral Research Scientist, Department of Statistics and Zuckerman Institute, Columbia University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom

van Eeden seminar: An Automatic Finite-Sample Robustness Metric: Can Dropping a Little Data Change Conclusions?

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Speaker: Speaker: van Eeden Invited Speaker: Tamara Broderick, Associate Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom (registration required)

Meta-Analytic Inference for the COVID-19 Infection Fatality Rate

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Speaker: Speaker: Paul Gustafson, Professor and Department Head, UBC Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom