2017-2018 Seminar Series
SUMMER 2018
| Date | Time | Locations | Speaker | Title |
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May
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| 04 | 1:30 | ASB10900 |
Hanlin Shang- Associate Professor of Statistics, ANU College of Business and Economics, Australian National University | Stopping time detection in functional time series: An application to Wood industry |
June |
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| 14 | 1:30 | ASB10900 | Alexandre Bureau - Professor, Department of Social and Preventative Medicine, University of Laval | Statistical analysis of cosegregation of rare genetic variants with a disease in families |
SPRING 2018
| Date | Time | Locations | Speaker | Title |
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January |
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| 19 | 1:30 | K9509 |
Jens von Bergmann - Engineer, Mountainmath Software | Taking the pain out of census and other public data |
February |
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| 02 | 1:30 | K9509 | Gary Chan - Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington | Terminal behavior of recurrent marker processes with informative failure events |
March |
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| 02 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Katrin Heitmann - Physicist & Computational Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory | Exploring the Dark Universe |
| 09 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Doug Wiens - Professor Emertus, Mathematical & Statistical Sciences, Universtiy of Calgary | Model Robust Scenarios for Active Learning |
| 16 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Dan Apley - Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University | Understanding the Effects of Predictor Variables in Black Box Supervised Learning Models |
| 23 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Sandrine Dudoit, Professor, Department of Statitics, Div of Biostatistics, School of Public Health University of Californiam, Berkley | Statistical Methods and Software for the Study of Stem Cell Differentiation Using Single-Cell Transcriptome Sequencing |
April |
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| 06 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Ehsan Karim, Assistant Professor, School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, and Scientist and Biostatistician, Centre for Health Evaluation and Outcome Sciences. | Can We Train Machine Learning Methods to Outperform the High-dimensional Propensity Score Algorithm? |
FALL 2017
| Date | Time | Locations | Speaker | Title |
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September |
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| 22 | 1:30 | K9509 |
Yi Li - Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan, USA | Conditional Network: A New Framework for Integrative Analyses |
| 29 |
1:30 | K9509 |
Chad He - Professor, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, University of Washington, USA |
Statistical Approaches for Analyzing Cancer Somatic Mutation Data |
October |
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| 06 | Cancelled | Frederick Phoa - Associate Research Fellow, Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taiwan | Circulant Orthogonal Array: Construction via GDS and Applications to fMRI Experiments | |
| 13 | 1:30 | K9509 | Maxwell Libbrecht - Assistant Professor, School of Computing Science, SFU | Understanding gene regulation through graph-based posterior regularization in structured probabilistic models |
| 27 | 1:30 | K9509 | Kwok Tsui - Professor, Systems Engineering & Engineering Managment, City University of Hong Kong | Systems Monitoring and Personalized Health Management |
November |
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| 03 | 1:30 | K9509 | Laura Cowen - Associate Professor, Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria | POPULATION DYNAMICS WITHOUT INDIVIDUAL IDENTIFICATION: HIDDEN MARKOV MODELING OF BATCH-MARKING DATA |
| *08 | 1:30 | *ASB9896 | John Neuhaus - Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Biostatistics, UCSF School of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, USA | An assessment of bias in longitudinal studies with outcome-dependent visits |
| 17 | 1:30 | K9509 | Marie Auger-Méthé - Assistant Professor, Institute for the Oceans and Fisheris, and the Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia | From footsteps to foraging: using movement models to understand animal behaviour |
December |
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| 01 | 1:30 | K9509 | Grace Chiu - Seniour Lecturer, Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Statistics, Australian National University | Longitudinal modelling of crop root physiology as a breed-specific spatial response to environmental conditions |