2018-2019 Seminar Series

SUMMER 2019

Date	Time	Locations	Speaker	Title
June
10	1:30	K9509	Per Kragh Andersen - Professor, Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen	Measuring Expected Years of Life Lost

SPRING 2019

Date	Time	Locations	Speaker	Title
February
15	3:30	*SWH 10081	Sander Greenland - Emeritus Professor of Epidemiology and Statistics, University of California Los Angeles	CANSSI Seminar Series - Statistics as a condemned building: A demolition and reconstruction plan
22	1:30	ASB10900	Jessica Li - Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Biology, University of California Los Angeles	Neyman-Pearson Classification Algorithms and NP Receiver Operating Characteristics
March
15	1:30	ASB 10900	Aaron Danielson - Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Statistics, SFU	Network Imputation with Copula-based Methods
22	1:30	ASB 10900	Bowei Xi - Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Purdue University	A Game Theoretic Approach for Adversarial Machine Learning -- When Big Data Meets Cyber Security
29	1:30	ASB 10900	Nancy Flournoy - Curators Distinguished Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri	Adjusting for Bias Induced by Informative Dose Selection Procedures
April
12	1:30	ASB 10900	Ying Chen - PhD, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and University of Washington	On Measuring Functional Attribution

FALL 2018

Date	Time	Locations	Speaker	Title
September
21	1:30	K9509	Yongdao Zhou- Professor, Institute of Statistics, Nankai University, China	Uniform designs and their applications
28	1:30	K9509	Gwendolyn Eadie - Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Astronomy, University of Washington	Statistical challenges on an astronomical scale: Bayesian estimates of the Milky Way’s dark matter halo
October
12	1:30	K9509	Caroline Colijn- Professor & Canada 150 Research Chair, Department of Mathematics, SFU	Methods and challenges in understanding transmission from pathogen genetic data
19	1:30	K9509	Mei-Cheng Wang- Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Johns Hopkins University	Complexity in Simple Cross-Sectional Data with Binary Disease Outcome
		CANCELLED	Matt Higham- Statistics Department, Oregon State University	Adjusting for Imperfect Detection in Block Kriging and in a Bayesian Hierarchical Model
November
09	1:30	K9509	Xin (Shane) Liu - Postdoctoral Fellowship, Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science	Data-adaptive Kernel Support Vector Machine
16	1:30	*ASB10900	Hude Quan - Professor and Director, The Centre for Health Informatics Cumming School of Medicine, University of Calgary.	Using Administrative Data for Epidemiological Studies
23	1:30	K9509	Bohdan Nosyk - Associate Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, Simon Fraser University - Health Economic Research Unit, BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS	Using population-level data to support the response to the public health emergency on illicit drug overdose
30	1:30	*ASB10900	Teresa Cheung - Assistant Professor of Professional Practice, School of Engineering Science, SFU	Finding a needle in the haystack: The challenges in using Magnetoencephalography to localize brain activity
DECEMBER
		CANCELLED	Ying Qing Chen - Affiliate Professor, Biostatistics, Universtiy of Washington, USA	On Measuring Functional Attribution
14	1:30	*ASB10900	Celia Greenwood - Professor, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, McGill University	Mendelian Randomization in the presence of pleiotropy
21	1:30	K9509	Doug Schaubel - Professor, Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan	Matching methods for evaluating the effect of a time-dependent treatment on the survival function

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