Dalhousie Statistics Seminars 2021/2022

Statistics seminars are usually Thursdays, 11:35am in the Colloquium Room (Chase 319) in the Chase Building.

If you would like to schedule a talk or be added to, or removed from, the mailing list, please email Lam Ho. Here is the schedule:

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

Past Seminars

 2018/2019 
 2019/2020 
 2020/2021