Events List
Two UBC Statistics MSc student presentations (Johnny Xi & Naitong Chen)
-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
-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
-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
-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
-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
-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
-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
-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
-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)
-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
-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
-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
-Speaker: Speaker: STAT 450 Students
Event type: Poster Session
Location: ESB Atrium - East Corridor (PME Gallery)
CANSSI Data Science ARES: Marie Auger-Méthé
-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
-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
-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?
-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
-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?
-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
-Speaker: Speaker: Paul Gustafson, Professor and Department Head, UBC Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom