Dalhousie Statistics Seminars 2019/2020
Statistics seminars are usually Thursdays, 3:30pm 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 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"
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| October 10, 2019 |
Elias T. Krainski (Departments of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University)
"Spacetime models using the SPDE approach"
Abstract
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| October 31, 2019 |
Andrew Rutenberg (Department of Physics, Dalhousie University)
"The physics of human aging"
Abstract
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| November 21, 2019 |
Roman Smirnov & Kunpeng Wang (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University)
"On mathematical and statistical tools for data analysis "
Abstract
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| November 28, 2019 |
Arnold Mitnitski (Department of Medicine, Dalhousie University)
"Measuring and modeling health and aging"
Abstract
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| March 2, 2020 |
Eric Pedersen (Department of Biology, Concordia University)
"Hierarchical Generalized Additive Models in ecology"
Abstract
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| March 5, 2020 |
Orla Murphy (McMaster University)
"Applications in extreme value analysis and current work"
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| March 9, 2020 |
Neil Spencer (Carnegie Mellon University)
"A new framework for modeling sparse networks that makes sense (and can actually be fit!)"
Abstract
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March 18, 2020
(CANCELLED) |
Jeff Picka (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Brunswick)
"When is data analysis scientific?"
Abstract
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March 19, 2020
(CANCELLED) |
Dr. Yildiz Yilmaz (Memorial University)
"Modeling Cancer Progression Events in Genetic Association Studies"
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April 16, 2020
(CANCELLED) |
Boris Kablar (Departments of Medical Neuroscience/Anatomy and Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University)
"TBA"
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April 30, 2020
(CANCELLED) |
James Thorson (Alaska Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service)
"TBA"
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