2016-2017 Seminar Series
SUMMER 2017
| Date | Time | Locations | Speaker | Title |
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August |
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| 25 | 11:00 | K9509 | Ryan Lekivetz, Senior Research Statistician Developer, JMP Division of SAS | Five years out: Things I would tell my younger (grad student) self |
SPRING 2017
| Date | Time | Locations | Speaker | Title |
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January |
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| 27 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Thomas Levi, Director of Data Science, Unbounce, Vancouver, BC | Using NLP to understand and predict web page quality and conversion performance |
February |
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| 03 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Kary Myers, Scientist, Statistical Sciences Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamo, NM | Intrusion Detection in Critical Infrastructure |
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| 24 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Nimal Wickremasinghe, Department of Statistics, University of Columbo, Sri Lanka (Visiting Faculty - Statistics & Actuarial Science - SFU) | Some Highlights and Applications of the General Linear Model |
March |
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| 03 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Ahad Jamalizadeh, Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics & Computer, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Iran | Skew-elliptical distributions and their relationship with order statistics |
| 10 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Forrest W. Crawford, Assistant Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Yale University | Link-tracing studies of hidden networks |
| *15 | 11:00 | ASB 10900 | Leilei Zeng, Associate Professor,Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo | Cohort Studies with Complex Sampling Scheme and Loss to Followup |
| 17 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Peter Xuekun Song, Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan | Fusion Learning of Model Heterogeneity in Data Integration |
| 31 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Peihua Qiu, Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Florida | Dynamic Disease Screening: An Approach For Disease Early Detection and Prevention |
April |
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| 07 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Hulin Wu, Professor & Associate Chair Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health Professor, School of Biomedical Informatics University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston | Two Big Data Research Projects: High-Dimensional Differential Equation and Network Modeling for GEO Genomics and EHR Phenomics Data |
FALL 2016
| Date | Time | Locations | Speaker | Title |
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September |
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| 09 | *2:30 | IRMACS | Gord Willmot - Professor, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo | Remarks on nonhomogeneous birth process claim count models |
| 23 | 1:30 | IRMACS | Vinayak Rao - Assitant Professor, Department of Statistics, Purdue University | Path and parameter inference for Markov jump processes |
| 30 | 1:30 | IRMACS | Debashis Mondal - Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Oregon State University | Hamiltonian Monte Carlo sampling in Bayesian empirical likelihood computation |
October |
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| 07 | 1:30 | IRMACS | Arnie Bhadury - Data Scientist at Flipboard | Topic Models - Simple, Modular and Effective ! |
| 14 | 1:30 | IRMACS | Yue Wang - Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Simon Fraser University | Quantifying speech production and perception in different communication contexts |
| 21 | 1:30 | IMACS | Farouk Nathoo - Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, University of Victoria | A Bayesian Group Sparse Multi-Task Regression Model for Imaging Genetics |
| 28 | 1:30 | IRMACS | Martin Andresen - Professor, School of Criminology, Simon Fraser University | Crime, statistics, and crime statistics: searching for patterns with the aim of prevention |
November |
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| 04 | 1:30 | IRMACS | Giles Hooker - Associate Professor, Department of Biology Statistics and Computational Biology, Cornell University | Decision Trees and CLT's: Inference and Machine Learning |
| 18 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Mirza Faisal Beg - Professor, School of Engineering and Assoiate Dean, Faculty of Applied Science, SFU | Problems in High Dimensional Computational Brain and Eye Anatomy |
| *29 | *3:00 | ASB 10900 | Jonathan Taylor - Professor, Department of Statistics, Stanford University | Interactive data analysis via selective inference |