M.Sc. and Ph.D. Defences

This is the schedule for upcoming defences from graduate students in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science department.

Spring 2020

Date	Time	Location	Degree	Speaker	Title / Abstract Link
Jan
13	1:00	SECB 1011	MSc	Dani Chu	Foul Accumulation in the NBA
20	4:30	AQ 4120	MSc	Kanav Gupta	Optimal Investment and Consumption Strategy for a Retiree Under Stochastic Force of Mortality

Feb
13	10:00	Library 2020	MSc	Neil Faught	Assessing the Performance of an Open Spatial Mark Recapture Method on Grizzly Bear Populations When Age Data is Missing

Apr
Remote defences are being held due to Covid-19, if you wish to attend any defence remotely please email statgrad@sfu.ca.
7	1:00	Remote	MSc	Barinder Thind	Functional Neural Networks for Scalar Prediction
9	2:00	Remote	MSc	Sihan (Echo) Cheng	An application of clustering methods to improving forecasting performances of mortality models
17	10:00	Remote	MSc	Siyuan Chen	Approximate Marginal Likelihoods for Shrinkage Parameter Estimation in Penalized Logistic Regression Analysis of Case-Control Data
22	10:30	Remote	MSc	Matthew Berkowitz	A Bivariate Longitudinal Model for Psychometric Data
23	10:00	Remote	MSc	Gabriel Phelan	New Perspectives on Non-negative Matrix Factorization for Inference in Grouped Topic Models
24	10:00	Remote	MSc	Megan Kurz	Statistical analysis of multi-type recurrent events, with application in opioid use disorder studies

Date	Time	Location	Degree	Speaker	Title / Abstract Link
Sept
5	11:45	K9509	MSc	Qi (Emma) Wen	Prediction for Canadian Federal Election Aided by Canadian Community Health Survey

Nov
27	9:30	ASB 10920	MSc	Joel Therrien	The Competing Risks Random Forrest Method for Large-Scale Data