Events List

Modelling Complex Biologging Data with Hidden Markov Models

Tue, 09/17/2024 - 11:00 - Tue, 09/17/2024 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Evan Sidrow, UBC Statistics PhD student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Statistical Analysis with Non-Probability Survey Samples

Mon, 08/12/2024 - 11:00 - Mon, 08/12/2024 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Changbao Wu, Professor and Chair, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Two MSc student presentations (Charlotte Edgar & Graeme Kempf)

Thu, 07/25/2024 - 11:00 - Thu, 07/25/2024 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Charlotte Edgar, UBC Statistics MSc student; Graeme Kempf, UBC Statistics MSc student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

On Bayesian quadrature estimators

Thu, 08/08/2024 - 11:00 - Thu, 08/08/2024 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Masha Naslidnyk, PhD student, Department of Statistical Science, University College London
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

UBC Girls in Data Science Summer Camp 2024

Mon, 07/08/2024 - 10:00 - Mon, 07/08/2024 - 15:00
Speaker:
Event type: NA
Location: UBC Vancouver Campus

Automatic Massively Parallel MCMC with Quantifiable Error

Tue, 06/25/2024 - 11:00 - Tue, 06/25/2024 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Miguel Biron-Lattes, UBC Statistics PhD student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

CANCELLED: On False Positive Error

Thu, 06/06/2024 - 11:00 - Thu, 06/06/2024 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Armeen Taeb, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Washington
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Modular and Efficient Compilation of Probabilistic Programs

Tue, 06/11/2024 - 11:00 - Tue, 06/11/2024 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: David Broman, Professor, Department of Computer Science, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Generalized Data Thinning Using Sufficient Statistics

Thu, 05/09/2024 - 11:00 - Thu, 05/09/2024 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Jacob Bien, Professor of Data Sciences and Operations, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 5104 / Zoom

Testing for Change-points in Heavy-tailed Time Series – A Winsorized CUSUM Approach

Fri, 05/10/2024 - 11:00 - Fri, 05/10/2024 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Shiqing Ling, Chair Professor, Department of Mathematics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 2012 / Zoom

EDI Seminar Series: Sahir Moosvi

Tue, 04/16/2024 - 11:00 - Tue, 04/16/2024 - 12:30
Speaker: Speaker: Sahir Moosvi, EDI Data Analyst, Equity and Inclusion Office, UBC
Event type: Seminar
Location: ESB 5104 / Zoom

Poster Session for STAT 450

Wed, 04/10/2024 - 09:00 - Wed, 04/10/2024 - 10:15
Speaker: Speaker: STAT 450 Students
Event type: Poster Session
Location: ESB Atrium - East Corridor (PME Gallery)

Two MSc student presentations (Hannah Bobst & Nathaniel Dyrkton)

Tue, 04/02/2024 - 15:00 - Tue, 04/02/2024 - 16:00
Speaker: Speaker: Hannah Bobst, UBC Statistics MSc student; Nathaniel Dyrkton, UBC Statistics MSc student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Bayesian causal inference for discrete data

Tue, 04/02/2024 - 11:00 - Tue, 04/02/2024 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Daniel Daly-Grafstein, UBC Statistics PhD student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Causal clustering: design of cluster experiments under network interference

Tue, 04/02/2024 - 09:30 - Tue, 04/02/2024 - 10:30
Speaker: Speaker: Lihua Lei, Assistant Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Business / Assistant Professor, by courtesy, of Statistics, Stanford University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Finding the Best Player via Multi-Player Comparisons

Tue, 04/09/2024 - 11:00 - Tue, 04/09/2024 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Sheldon Mark Ross, Daniel J. Epstein Chair and Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Extreme Value Modelling with Application to Reverse Stress Testing

Tue, 03/26/2024 - 11:00 - Tue, 03/26/2024 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Menglin Zhou, UBC Statistics PhD student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Modelling orbits to detect exoplanets

Thu, 03/28/2024 - 11:00 - Thu, 03/28/2024 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: William Thompson, Herzberg Instrument Science Fellow, National Research Council of Canada, Herzberg Astronomy and Astrophysics Research Centre
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Statistics Canada Info Session

Thu, 03/14/2024 - 12:00 - Thu, 03/14/2024 - 13:00
Speaker: Speaker: McKeowen Watts, Methodologist Quality Secretariat – Economic Statistics Methods Division Statistics Canada
Event type: Info Session
Location: P.A. Woodward Instructional Resources Centre (IRC) - 1

Dependence modelling in high dimensions with latent variables

Thu, 03/14/2024 - 11:00 - Thu, 03/14/2024 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Xinyao Fan, UBC Statistics PhD student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom