2019-2020 Seminar Series
Spring 2020
| Date | Time | Locations | Speaker | Title |
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January |
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| 10 |
1:30 | ASB 10900 | Jared Niemi, Associate Professor, Dept of Statistics, Iowa State University | Sequential Knot Selection in Sparse Gaussian Processes |
March |
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| Unfortunately this seminar has been cancelled due to Covid-19 concerns. |
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| 27 | 1:30 | SSB 7172 | Quan Long, Assistant Professor, Dept of Biochem & Mol. Bio. and Dept of Math & Stats, University of Calgaray. | Accurate and explainable auto-detection of adverse events in electronic medical records using modern machine-learning methods. |
April |
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FALL 2019
| Date | Time | Locations | Speaker | Title |
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September |
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| 20 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Yuna Chen, Health Promotion Specialist, Health & Counselling, SFU | Promoting well being in learning environments |
| 27 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Aaron Danielson, Simon Fraser University | Mind and Body: Statistical Models for Two Biological Networks |
October
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| 4 | 1:30 |
ASB 10900 | Leah Johnson, Assitant Professor, Dept of Statistics, Virginia Tech | Strategic vs Tactical Modeling Approaches to Predicting Mosquito-borne Disease in the Americas |
| 18 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Lata Kodali, PhD Candidate, Dept of Statistics, Virginia Tech | |
| 25 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Doug Nychka, Professor, Applied Mathematics & Statistics, Colorado School of Mines | Non-stationary spatial data: think globally act locally |
November |
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| 1 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Richard Lockhart, Professor, Statistics & Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University | Michael Stephens: 1927-2019 Abstract and Video of Talk |
| 8 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Jose Garrido, Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Concordia University | Deep Neural Networks with Long Short-Term Memory for Human Mortality Modeling |
| 15 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Bryon Aragam, Assistant Professor, Econometrics and Statistics, University of Chicago | Identifiability of nonparametric mixture models, clustering, and semi-supervised learning |
| 22 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Daniel McDonald, Associate Professor, Dept of Statistics, Indiana University, Bloomington | Markov-Switching State Space Models for Uncovering Musical Interpretation |
| 29 | 1:30 | ASB 10900 | Ruth Joy, Statistical Ecologist, School of Environmental Science and Adjunct Professor, Dept of Statistics & Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University | Statistics in science and policy: A case study of the Southern Resident Killer Whales |