Departmental Colloquia (Statistics)
The Statistics Colloquia welcomes speakers to lecture on all subjects in statistics including general statistical theory and methodology, statistical applications, Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, statistical computing, genetic statistics, statistical methods in Molecular Evolution and environmental statistics. It greatly enhances the communication of our faculty members with statistical scientists all over the world, and provides good learning opportunities for our graduate students.
Times are in either Atlantic Standard Time (UTC-4; Mid-Fall, Winter) or Atlantic Daylight Time (UTC-3; Spring, Summer, early-Fall)
2022-2023 (Current Schedule)
| Date & Time | Title & Presenter | How to Connect |
|---|---|---|
September 15, 2022 11:30AM - 12:30PM |
Cross-validated Z-residuals for Diagnosing Shared Frailty Models Cindy Feng (Dalhousie University) |
Via Zoom |
September 22, 2022 12:30PM - 1:30PM |
Janie Coulombe (Université de Montréal) |
Via Zoom |
September 29, 2022 12:30PM - 1:30PM *New time* |
Bayesian hierarchical modeling of spatial extremes Christian Genest (McGill University) |
Via Zoom |
October 6, 2022 11AM-12PM |
Is there a limit to human longevity? Léo Raymond-Belzile (HEC Montréal) |
Via Zoom 816 2064 7497 162459 |
October 13, 2022 11:30am-12:30pm |
Recent development on Bayesian causal estimation with longitudinal data Kuan Liu (University of Toronto) |
Via Zoom 816 2064 7497 |
| October 20, 2022 | ||
| October 27, 2022 | ||
November 3, 2022 11:30AM - 12:30PM |
Using optimal test assembly to shorten patient reported outcome measures: A case study of the PHQ-9 Daphna Harel (NYU Steinhardt) |
via Zoom 814 8148 5265 Passcode 977292 |
2021-2022
| Date | Talks |
|---|---|
| October 21, 2021 |
Hector Banos Cervantes (Dalhousie University) "Species Network Identifiability from Genomic Data under the Coalescent Model" Abstract |
| October 28, 2021 |
Charith Karunarathna (Dalhousie University) "Sequence clustering for genetic mapping of binary traits" Abstract |
| November 4, 2021 |
Aaron Smith (University of Ottawa) "Efficiency of Approximate MCMC" Abstract |
| November 18, 2021 |
Linh Vu (Dalhousie University) "Some Fluctuation Results on Draw-down Times for Spectrally Negative Levy Processes" Abstract |
| January 20, 2022 |
Toby Kenney (Dalhousie University) "Penalised Maximum Likelihood Deconvolution" Abstract |
| January 27, 2022 |
Quan Long (University of Calgary) "What is TWAS and how do we use it in integrating gene expression data" Abstract |
| February 7, 2022 |
James Hugh McVittie (McGill University) "Parametric modelling of combined failure time data from an incident cohort study and a prevalent cohort study with follow-up" Abstract |
| February 10, 2022 |
Theo Michelot (University of St Andrews) "Multiscale models of animal movement and space use" Abstract |
| February 14, 2022 |
Yuexia Zhang (University of Toronto) "Inverse Probability Weighting-based Mediation Analysis for Microbiome Data" Abstract |
| February 24, 2022 |
Yildiz Yilmaz (Memorial University of Newfoundland) "Modeling Cancer Progression Events in Genetic Association Studies" Abstract |
| March 31, 2022 |
Orla Murphy (Dalhousie University) "A penalized BIC for mixture model selection" Abstract |
| May 12, 2022 |
Paul Bastide (IMAG, Université de Montpellier) "A Cauchy process to model trait evolution on a phylogeny" Abstract |
2020-2021
| Date | Talks |
|---|---|
| October 8, 2020 |
Jason Xu (Department of Statistical Science, Duke University) "Likelihood-based Inference for Stochastic Epidemic Models, with application to High-resolution Contact Tracking Data" Abstract |
| October 22, 2020 |
James Thorson (Alaska Fisheries Science Center and National Marine Fisheries Service) "Forecasting nonlocal climate impacts for mobile species using multivariate spatio-temporal extensions to empirical orthogonal function analysis" Abstract |
| October 29, 2020 |
Qiong Zhang (School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Clemson University) "Sequential Selection for Accelerated Life Testing via Approximate Bayesian Inference" Abstract |
| November 5, 2020 |
James Hughes (Computer Science Department, St. Francis Xavier University) "Vaccinating a Population is a Programing Problem" Abstract |
| November 19, 2020 |
Haolei Weng (Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University) "Optimal estimation of functions of high-dimensional mean and covariance matrix" Abstract |
| January 28, 2021 |
Chris Sherlock (Mathematics and Statistics Department, Lancaster University) "Fast, exact inference for discretely observed Markov jump processes using finite rate matrices" Abstract |
| February 12, 2021 |
Jeffrey Picka (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Brunswick) "Choosing to be Scientific About Data Analysis " Abstract |
| March 4, 2021 |
Jinko Graham (Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University) "Relatedness, genealogies and DNA sharing" Abstract |
| March 18, 2021 |
Alexandre Bouchard-Côté (Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia) "Approximation of intractable integrals using non-reversibility and non-linear distribution paths" Abstract |
| May 6, 2021 |
Vianey Leos Barajas (Department of Statistical Sciences / School of the Environment, University of Toronto) "Extending the hidden Markov model to analyze complex ecological and environmental data" Abstract |
2019-2020
| Date | Talks |
|---|---|
| October 3, 2019 (Joint with CGEB Seminar) |
Marc Suchard (Departments of Biomathematics, Biostatistics and Human Genetics, UCLA) "Gradients do grow on trees: linear-time gradients for high-dimensional phylogenetics" Abstract |
| October 10, 2019 | Elias T. Krainski (Departments of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University) "Spacetime models using the SPDE approach" Abstract |
| October 31, 2019 | Andrew Rutenberg (Department of Physics, Dalhousie University) "The physics of human aging" Abstract |
| November 21, 2019 | Roman Smirnov & Kunpeng Wang (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University) "On mathematical and statistical tools for data analysis " Abstract |
| November 28, 2019 | Arnold Mitnitski (Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University) "Measuring and modeling health and aging" Abstract |
| March 2, 2020 | Eric Pedersen (Department of Biology, Concordia University) "Hierarchical Generalized Additive Models in ecology" Abstract |
| March 5, 2020 | Orla Murphy (McMaster University) "Applications in extreme value analysis and current work" Abstract |
| March 9, 2020 | Neil Spencer (Carnegie Mellon University) "A new framework for modeling sparse networks that makes sense (and can actually be fit!)" Abstract |
| March 18, 2020 (CANCELLED) |
Jeff Picka (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Brunswick) "When is data analysis scientific?" Abstract |
| March 19, 2020 (CANCELLED) |
Dr. Yildiz Yilmaz (Memorial University) "Modeling Cancer Progression Events in Genetic Association Studies" Abstract |
| April 16, 2020 (CANCELLED) |
Boris Kablar (Departments of Medical Neuroscience/Anatomy and Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University) "TBA" |
| April 30, 2020 (CANCELLED) |
James Thorson (Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service) "TBA" |
2018-2019
| Date | Talks |
|---|---|
| October 18, 2018 | Crispin M. Mutshinda (Marine Macroecology and Biogeochemistry Lab, Dalhousie University) "Bayesian methods for variable selection in high-dimensional regression models" Abstract |
| November 22, 2018 | Chris Field (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University) "Statistics for the Birds" Abstract |
| January 31, 2019 | Gary Sneddon (Department of Mathematics, Mount Saint Vincent University) "Modelling of cross-classified count data" Abstract |
| February 28, 2019 | Peter Wentzell (Department of Chemistry, Dalhousie University) "Exploring Multivariate Data with Sparse Projection Pursuit Analysis" Abstract |
| March 14, 2019 | Paulo Henrique Março (Federal Technological University of Paraná - Campo Mourão Campus) "HOW STATISTICS IS IMPROVING FOOD ANALYSIS IN SOUTH-AMERICA: AN OVERVIEW OF BRAZILIAN CASES" Abstract |
| March 28, 2019 | Cuong Nguyen (Amazon Web Services) "Online Variational Inference for Gaussian Processes and Deep Neural Networks" Abstract |
| August 22, 2019 | Ziheng Yang (Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London) "Bayesian Model Selection" |