Spring 2022
April
DATE |
TIME |
LOCATION |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
1 |
1:30 PM (PST) |
AQ 3149 and Remote |
Dr. Elizabeth (Eliza) O’Reilly, Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship Trainee in Computing and Mathematical Sciences, Department of Computing and Mathematical Sciences, California Institute of Technology |
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| 8 | 1:30 PM (PST) | Hal 126 and Remote | Dr. Laura Cowen, Professor, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Victoria | Research through Teaching: Case Studies in Ecological Statistics |
| 22 | 1:30 PM (PST) | Hal 126 and Remote | Dr. Jinko Graham, Professor, Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University | Relatedness, genealogies and DNA sharing |
March
DATE |
TIME |
LOCATION |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
4 |
1:30 PM (PST) |
Hal 126 and Remote |
Dr. Saifuddin Syed, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Computational Statistics and Statistical Machine Learning, Department of Statistics, Oxford University |
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| 11 | 1:30 PM (PST) | Hal 126 and Remote | Dr. Zheyuan Li, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University | General P-Splines for Non-Uniform B-Splines |
18 |
9:30 AM (PST) |
Remote |
Dr. Marine Randon, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University |
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25 |
1:30 PM (PST) |
Hal 126 and Remote |
Dr. Sarah (Sally) Otto, Professor, Department of Zoology, University of British Columbia |
Inferring the Past for Traits that Alter Speciation and Extinction Rates |
February
DATE |
TIME |
LOCATION |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
18 |
1:30 PM (PST) |
Hal 126 and Remote |
Dr. Lisa Strug, Director of the Data Sciences Institute at the University of Toronto, Director of the Ontario Region of CANSSI, and Senior Scientist, Genetics and Genome Biology at SickKids in Toronto |
Statistical Tools For Improved Understanding of GWAS Loci: Applications in Cystic Fibrosis |
January
DATE |
TIME |
LOCATION |
SPEAKER |
TITLE |
14 |
1:30 PM (PST) |
Remote |
Sarah Ford and Kanthi Jayasundera, Program Director, Centre for Educational Excellence, Simon Fraser University |
Join Discussion with the Centre for Educational Excellence for Excellence |
21 |
1:30 PM (PST) |
Remote |
Dr. Alexandre Bouchard-Côté, Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia |
Approximation of Intractable Integrals Using Non-Reversibility and Non-Linear Distribution Paths |