Events List

Integrating multiple types of genomics data to disentangle meaningful associations


Speaker: Speaker: Sara Mostafavi, Post Doc in the DAGS Group, Stanford University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Computational methods for mixed effects models in large-scale genetic and genomic studies


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

Marine mammal research in the 21st century: big data, big animals, and big issues


Speaker: Speaker: Dr. Andrew Trites, UBC Fisheries Centre, Department of Zoology, UBC
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building, 2207 Main Mall

Interpretable Functional Principal Component Analysis


Speaker: Speaker: Jiguo Cao, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, SFU
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

S-estimators for functional principal component analysis


Speaker: Speaker: Matias Salibian-Barrera, Associate Professor, Dept of Statistics, UBC
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Change-point Estimation and Inference in Nonparametric Regression Using Different Regularization Concepts


Speaker: Speaker: Matus Maciak, Department of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, University of Alberta
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Dimensional Analysis and Its Applications in Statistics


Speaker: Speaker: Dennis K.J. Lin, Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Supply Chain, Penn State University
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Interactive Engagement in the Classroom: Our Experiences with Teaching Upper-Level Statistics


Speaker: Speaker: Paul Gustafson and Will Welch (Professors, Dept of Statistics, UBC)
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Intergenerational equity and sustainability in a collective defined contribution plan


Speaker: Speaker: Barbara Sanders, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, SFU
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Statistics and Big Data at Google


Speaker: Speaker: Tim Hesterberg
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 2012, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Recent Progresses of the General Minimum Lower Order Confounding Theory and Its Application in Experimental Designs


Speaker: Speaker: Professor Runchu Zhang
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

STATS/MATH/PIMS Event: Indian Residential Schools & Their Legacy: Reconciliation through Education


Speaker: Speaker: Paulette Regan, PhD.
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 1013, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

From Geometry of the Limit Set to Extremal Dependence Properties of Light-tailed Distributions


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

Jointly Modeling Longitudinal Process with Measurement Errors, Missing Data, and Outliers


Speaker: Speaker: Tingting Yu and Yunlong Nie, MSc Students, UBC Department of Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Adaptive learning rates and Bayesian updating in the presence of drift, with applications


Speaker: Speaker: Christoforos Anagnostopoulos, Department of Mathematics, Imperial College, UK
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Switching Nonparametric Regression Models


Speaker: Speaker: Camila P. Estevam de Souza
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)

Modeling Dependencies in Multivariate Data


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

A Robust Fit for Generalized Partial Linear Partial Additive Models


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

International workshop/PIMS: on the Perspectives on High-dimensional Data Analysis III

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Speaker: Speaker: See Invited Lecturers
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 2012, Earth Sciences Building - See Workshop Schedule

Bayesian Methods for Alleviating Identification Issues with Applications in Health and Insurance Areas


Speaker: Speaker: Chaoxiong (Michelle) Xia, PhD candidate, Department of Statistics, UBC
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Room 4192, Earth Sciences Building (2207 Main Mall)