2015-2016 Seminar Series
SUMMER 2016
| Date | Time | Locations | Speaker | Title |
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July |
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| 08 | 1:30-2:10 | *ASB 10901 | Kam Chuen Yuen - Professor, Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science, University of Hongkong | Optimal reinsurance under thinning dependence |
| 08 | *2:20-3:00 | *ASB 10901 | Shuanming Li - Associate Professor, Centre for Actuarial Studies, Department of Economics, The University of Melbourne | On the discounted aggregate claims occurred in certain states in a MAP risk process |
| 15 | *2:30 | ASB 10900 | Steven Gilmour - Professor, Department of Mathematics, King's College London, | New families of Q_B-optimal saturated two-level main effects screening designs |
August |
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| 05 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Emma Jingfei Zhang, Assistant Professor, Mangement Science, University of Miami | Clustered Temporal Point Process Model with Application to Sina Weibo User Data |
| *Mon. 15 | *11:00 | *K9509 | Zhenhua Lin, PhD candidate, Department of Statistical Sciences, University of Toronto | Mixture Models and Densities for Functional Data |
SPRING 2016
| Date | Time | Locations | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
January |
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| 15 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Hui Xie - Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, SFU | A Scalable Approach to Measuring the Impact of Nonignorable Nonresponse with An Application to EMA Data |
| 22 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Ben Haaland - Assistant Professor, Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Georgia Tech | Computationally efficient approximation of large-scale and high-dimensional simulations |
| 29 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Jason Loeppky - Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia Okanagan | A New Look at Statistical Invariance |
February |
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| *03 Wed | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Jochen Brumm, Ph.D. - Senior Statistical Scientist, Genentech | Statistics in Drug Development: A Personal Perspective |
| 05 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Rob Deardon - Associate Professor, University of Calgary | Approximate Bayesian inference for large-scale epidemic models |
| 19 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | ||
| 26 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Peter Qian - Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison | Some Statistical Aspects of Uncertainty Quantification |
March |
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| 04 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Paul McNicholas - Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, McMaster University | Mixture Model-Based Clustering |
| 11 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | CANCELLED | |
| 18 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | John Braun - Professor, Department of Statistcs, University of British Columbia Okanagan | Dionysus: a Randomized Fire Growth Simulator |
April |
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| 01 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | CANCELLED Sallie Keller - Director and Professor, Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech - | Building Resilient Communities: Harnessing the Power of Data |
| 08 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | ||
FALL 2015
| Date | Time | Locations | Speaker | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
September |
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| 18 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | 1.) Wayne Wang - VPR USRA Recipient 2.) Nathan Esau - NSERC USRA Recipient 3.) Hongshi (Jenny) Li -VPR USRA Recipient 4.) Yifan (Lucas) Wu - VPR USRA Recipient 5.) Philippa Swartz - NERSC USRA Recipient |
1.) Quality control and imputation of genomic data from the Alzheimer's Disease Neuroimaging Initiative 2.) Intergenerational Equity in Pension Plans 3.) Statistical Analysis of Damage Caused by Atlantic Hurricane Landfalls in US 4.) Home Field Advantage in the MLS 5.)Quality of Pitches in Major League Baseball |
| 25 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Jiguo Cao - Associate Professor, Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science, SFU | Estimating time-varying gene regulation network |
October |
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| 02 |
1:30 |
ASB 10900 | Yuling Zhou - FCAS, FCIA, Associate Manger, Actuarial Services, BCAA |
Theory to Business Success |
| 09 |
1:30 |
ASB 10900 | Haocheng Li - Assistant Professor, Department of Oncology, University of Calgary |
Functional Data Analysis in Physical Activity Studies |
| 16 |
1:30 |
ASB 10900 | Charles Manty - PBI Actuarial Consultants |
Keeping Pension Plans Healthy with Stochastic Projections |
| 23 |
1:30 |
ASB 10900 |
Mathieu Gerber - PDF Harvard University |
Sequential quasi-Monte Carlo |
| 30 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Chris Carleton - SFU Archaeiology | Complications in analytical archaeology |
November |
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| 06 |
1:30 | ASB 10900 | Michael Grosskopf - PhD student, Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science, SFU | Aligning replicate time series for cyber-physical network intrusion detection |
| 27 |
1:30 | ASB 10900 | Elena Popovici - Senior Scientist, Phd, at Icosystem | Small Data, Rich Data: Exploratory Analysis and Visualization |