Events List

Valid Inference After Hierarchical Clustering

Thu, 02/03/2022 - 11:00 - Thu, 02/03/2022 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Lucy Gao, Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom

A simple measure of conditional dependence

Tue, 02/01/2022 - 11:00 - Tue, 02/01/2022 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Mona Azadkia, Postdoctoral Researcher, Seminar for Statistics, Department of Mathematics, ETH Zürich
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom

Some probability “paradoxes” to warm up your winter

Tue, 11/30/2021 - 11:00 - Tue, 11/30/2021 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Mark Holmes, UBC Mathematics Visiting Professor; Professor of Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes, School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Melbourne
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom / ESB 4192

Semiparametric inference under a density ratio model

Tue, 11/23/2021 - 11:00 - Tue, 11/23/2021 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Archer Gong Zhang, UBC Statistics PhD student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: Zoom / ESB 4192

Model Projections in Model Space (MPMS): A geometric interpretation of the AIC and estimating the distance between the generating process and the best approximating model

Tue, 11/09/2021 - 11:00 - Tue, 11/09/2021 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: José Miguel Ponciano, Department of Biology, University of Florida
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom

Kriging Performance Without Kriging Complexity

Tue, 11/16/2021 - 11:00 - Tue, 11/16/2021 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Donald R. Jones, Department of Aerospace Engineering, University of Michigan
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom / ESB 4192

CANSSI Ontario / U of T Statistical Sciences ARES Seminar: Tiffany Timbers

Mon, 10/25/2021 - 12:30 - Mon, 10/25/2021 - 13:30
Speaker: Speaker: Tiffany Timbers, UBC Statistics Assistant Professor of Teaching / Co-Director, UBC Master of Data Science Program (Vancouver option)
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom (to register, see CANSSI website)

Optimal Transportation in the Inference of Finite Mixture Models

Tue, 11/02/2021 - 11:00 - Tue, 11/02/2021 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Qiong Zhang, UBC Statistics PhD student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: Zoom

Data Journalism and the Pandemic: Observations from 19 months of Charts

Tue, 10/26/2021 - 11:00 - Tue, 10/26/2021 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Justin McElroy, Municipal Affairs Reporter, CBC Vancouver
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom / ESB 4192

Computational methods for genomics data analysis: Cancer detection using circulating tumor DNA and miRNA expression inference in single cells

Tue, 10/19/2021 - 11:00 - Tue, 10/19/2021 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Jakob Skou Pedersen, UBC Statistics Visiting Professor
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom / ESB 4192

COVID-19 Modelling and Forecasting in the US and Canada: A statistician’s pro(retro)spective

Tue, 10/12/2021 - 11:00 - Tue, 10/12/2021 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Daniel J. McDonald, UBC Statistics Associate Professor
Event type: Statistics Seminar
Location: Zoom / ESB 4192

Navigating challenging EDI conversations: Tips and tricks for allies

Tue, 10/05/2021 - 11:00 - Tue, 10/05/2021 - 12:30
Speaker:
Event type: Workshop
Location: Zoom

Department Faculty Flash Talks

Tue, 09/14/2021 - 11:00 - Tue, 09/14/2021 - 12:00
Speaker:
Event type: Social
Location: ESB 4192 / Zoom

Two UBC Statistics MSc student presentations (Kevin Chern & Matteo Lepur)

Thu, 09/02/2021 - 11:00 - Thu, 09/02/2021 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Kevin Chern, UBC Statistics MSc student; Matteo Lepur, UBC Statistics MSc student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: Zoom

Improved conditional generative adversarial networks for image generation: methods and their application in knowledge distillation

Tue, 08/31/2021 - 11:00 - Tue, 08/31/2021 - 12:00
Speaker: Speaker: Xin Ding, UBC Statistics PhD Student
Event type: Graduate Student Seminar
Location: Zoom