Events List

MDS Vancouver Alumni Virtual Information Session

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Speaker:
Event type: Workshop
Location: Online

Causal epistemology: estimands

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Speaker: Speaker: Boris Sobolev, Professor and Head, UBC School of Population and Public Health
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

CANSSI Data Science ARES: Daniel J. McDonald

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Speaker: Speaker: Daniel McDonald, Associate Professor, UBC Department of Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom (to register, see CANSSI website) or Maple Room, University of Toronto

EDI Seminar Series: Dr. Emma Benn

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Speaker: Speaker: Emma Benn, Associate Professor, Center for Biostatistics and Dept. of Population Health Science and Policy, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Event type: Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Robust Statistical Learning and Generative Adversarial Networks

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Speaker: Speaker: Yuan Yao, Professor of Mathematics, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom

CANCELLED: Computationally Efficient Bootstrap Sampling Using Markov Chains

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Speaker: Speaker: Giorgio (Gio) Sgarbi, UBC Statistics MSc Student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Penalized Casebase in Survival Analysis

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Speaker: Speaker: Trevor Kwan, UBC Statistics MSc Student
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom

A Data-Driven Ensemble Framework for Modeling High-Dimensional Data: Theory, Methods, Algorithms and Applications

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Speaker: Speaker: Anthony-Alexander Christidis, UBC Statistics PhD Student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: Zoom / ESB 4192

Boosting for regression problems with complex data

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Speaker: Speaker: Jasmine Xiaomeng Ju, UBC Statistics PhD Student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: Zoom / ESB 4192

Vine copula mixture models and clustering for non-Gaussian data

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Speaker: Speaker: Özge Sahin, PhD Student, Technical University of Munich
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom / ESB 4192

Forming realistic population distributions for flood frequency assessments

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Speaker: Speaker: Vincenzo Coia, Assistant Professor of Teaching, UBC Department of Statistics
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom / ESB 4192

Design and Analysis of Computer Experiments: Large Datasets and Multi-Model Ensembles

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Speaker: Speaker: Sonja Isberg Surjanovic, UBC Statistics PhD Student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: Zoom

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