New course! STAT 357/EECE 357 Stochastic Signals and Systems
The Statistics Department will be offering this new course, in cooperation with the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department. Although the course was developed for undergraduate students in Electrical Engineering, the material should be of interest to students in Statistics. In particular, students interested in data science methods in signal processing will find this course a good introduction.
Either EECE 357 or STAT 357 will count towards your statistics program requirements.
Jinyuan Zhang wins Best Poster Award at ARC
MSc. candidate Jinyuan Zhang won the Best Poster Award at the Actuarial Research Conference held at the UC Santa Barbara, CA on July 13-16, 2014. Jinyuan's poster is titled “Conditional Extremes in Asymmetric Financial Markets”, and is based on part of her MSc. project. Jinyuan is supervised by Professor Natalia Nolde.
New Statistics course offering in Data Science
This fall, the department is very pleased to expand upon the popular exploratory data analysis course (STAT 545A) by offering a follow-up topics course titled "Basic Training for Data Science" (STAT 547M) Both courses are open to graduate students from any discipline.
For more information, visit here.
PhD students Yang (Seagle) Liu wins best paper award in a competition organized by the ASA’s Section on Statistics and the Environment (ENVR).
Seagle's winning paper is entitled "Bayesian Melding of the Dead-Reckoned Path and GPS Measur ements for an Accurate and High-Resolution Path of Marine Mammals”.
Congratulations to FoS Achievement Award Winners Andrea and Andy!
Andrea Sollberger, our Student Services Coordinator, and Andy Leung, a Ph.D. student, have just been awarded Faculty of Science Achievement Awards for Service. These awards recognize exceptional contributions of faculty, staff, and students.
Congratulations to Andrea and Andy!
Paper by Recent PhD Graduate of the Department Ehsan Karim Picked as One of Top 10 for 2014
Congratulations to Ehsan Karim, a recent PhD graduate of the department!
The American Journal of Epidemiology selected his first-authored paper as one of its TOP 10 for 2014.
Take a look at the American Journal of Epidemiology's announcement here.
Congratulations, Ehsan!
Seagle Liu Talks Statistics and Marine Mammals
UBC Science interviewed Seagle Liu on his interesting marine mammal work!
You can check out the article here: Smart stats reveal the secret lives of sea lions.
Call for Nominations: Department of Statistics Award in Data Science
The Department of Statistics is soliciting nominations for the newly established Department of Statistics Award in Data Science, an award to recognize the importance of developing and applying tools to answer important questions through the analysis of data. This $1000 award is offered to an undergraduate or graduate student who has demonstrated initiative and creativity in making outstanding contributions in the field of Data Science.
2015 Constance van Eeden Seminar (Presented by Invited Speaker, Professor Peter Guttorp): Video and Slides
A video recording of this year's Constance van Eeden seminar (given by invited speaker Professor Peter Guttorp) and slides from this talk have now been posted online!
You may find everything from Professor Guttorp's March 24th talk, called "Projecting the Uncertainty of Sea Level Rise Using Climate Models and Statistical Downscaling", here.
2014 Marshall Prize winner - Vivian Meng
The Departmental Awards Committee is pleased to announce that the winner of the 2014 Marshall Prize is Vivian Meng. Vivian completed her MSc. thesis “Extensions to the Multiplier Method for Inferring Population size” under the supervision of Professor Paul Gustafson. Vivian is now a PhD student in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at McGill University.
Congratulations Vivian!