About the Seminar Series

The UBC Department of Statistics and the SFU Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science jointly host two seminars per year, one in the fall organized by the students from SFU and one in the spring organized by the students from UBC. These seminars are intended to be informal, and at a level accessible to graduate students. To this end, three students and one faculty member from each university share their interest and experience in Statistics. We aim at providing a place for graduate students to present their research, sharpen their presentation skills, seek potential collaboration opportunities, and interact with other students in their field. The seminar conveniently takes place in downtown Vancouver, at the SFU Harbour Centre facility near Waterfront Skytrain Station, and is easily accessible by transit.


Schedule for Sunday, March 16, 2014


09:30-10:00 Coffee and pastries at Blenz Coffee (508 West Hastings Street)

10:00-10:15 Head to Room 7000 at SFU Harbour Centre (555 West Hastings Street)



10:15-10:40 Pulindu Ratnasekera
Title: Functional Regression on Irregularly Spaced Time Series Data with Time Scale subject to Measurement Error
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10:40-11:05 Pavel Krupskii
Title: Structured factor copula models for multivariate data
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11:05-11:30 Michael Grosskopf
Title: High-Energy-Density Laboratory Astrophysics, Uncertainty Quantification in Computer Experiments, and Lessons Learned Working in a Large Multidisciplinary Scientific Project
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11:30-12:00 Dr Paul Gustafson, UBC Faculty Speaker
Title: The Publication Process in Statistics
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12:00-14:00 Lunch at The Old Spaghetti Factory (53 Water Street, Vancouver)


14:00-14:30 Dr Richard Lockhart, SFU Faculty Speaker
Title: Some statisticians I knew and some I didn't
Abstract

14:30-14:55 Neil Spencer
Title: Factorial Designs with Pre-specified Randomization Restrictions: An Algorithmic Approach
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14:55-15:20 Abdollah Safari
Title: Generating a random gene expression dataset from a Gene Network
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15:20-15:45 Vivian Meng
Title: Inferring population size for epidemiological purposes with the multiplier method: example of recent advancement
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Many Thanks to the Sponsors of this Event

Department of Statistics, UBC