M.Sc. and Ph.D. Thesis Defences
This is the schedule for upcoming and recent thesis defences from graduate students in the SFU Statistics and Actuarial Science department.
Summer 2016
| Date | Time | Location | Degree | Speaker | Title / Abstract Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 02 | 10:30 | ASB 10908 | MSc | Mengyun (Moninca) Li | Analysis of Universal Life Insurance Cash Flows with Stochastic Asset Models |
| Jun 06 | 1:30 | IRMACS Theatre | PhD | Jack Davis | Analysis of Data in Network and Natural Language Formats |
| Jun 09 | 10:00 | IRMACS Theatre | MSc | Moyan Mei | A Goodness-of-fit Test for Semi-parametric Copula Models of Right-Censored Bivariate Survival Times |
| July 29 | 1:00 | SC K9509 | MSc | William Ruth | On Supervised and Unsupervised Discrimination |
| Aug 09 | 11:00 | IRMACS Theatre | MSc | Sonja Surjanovic | Using Computer Model Uncertainty to Inform the Design of Physical Experiments: An Application in Glaciology |
| Aug 18 | 10:30 | IMACS Theatre | PhD | Andrew Henrey | Statistical Learning Tools for Heteroskedastic Data |
Spring 2016
| Date | Time | Location | Degree | Speaker | Title / Abstract Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 06 | 11:00 | ASB 10908 | MSc | Dongmeng Liu | Bayesian Profile Regression with Evaluation on Simulated Data |
Fall 2016
| Date | Time | Location | Degree | Speaker | Title / Abstract Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 12 | 10:30 | IRMACS Theatre | PhD | Huijing Wang | Statistical inference under latent class models, with application to risk assessment in cancer survivorship studies |
| Dec 16 | 10:30 | IRMACS Theatre | PhD | Harsha Perera | Cricket Analytics |
| Dec 22 | 10:30 | IRMACS Theatre | PhD | Audrey Béliveau | Data integration methods for studying animal population dynamics |