Departmental Colloquia (Statistics)
The聽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). Seminars are scheduled to take place this academic year (2025-2026) on Fridays between 11:30AM and 12:30PM.
2025-2026
DATE |
TOPIC |
PRESENTER(S) |
September 5 |
No Event scheduled |
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September 12 |
No Event scheduled |
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September 19 |
No Event scheduled |
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September 26 |
Support for Research Computing from ACENET & The Alliance |
Ross Dickson-Tentative |
October 3 |
Overcoming Health Disparities Through Advanced Statistical Modeling and Data Analytics |
Le Bao |
October 10 |
No Event scheduled |
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October 17 |
Science Atlantic; No Event scheduled |
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October 24 |
Forestry (TBA) |
Max Turgeon |
October 31 |
Student Presentations |
Graduate talks |
November 7 |
Interpretability and explainability of black box methods |
Marouane Il Idrissi |
November 14 |
FALL READING WEEK |
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November 21 |
To be confirmed |
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November 28 |
(tentatively in person) |
Aurelie Labbe |
December 5 |
To be confirmed |
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December 12 |
No Event scheduled |
EXAMS |
December 19 |
No Event scheduled |
EXAMS |
December 26 |
University Closed |
BREAK |
January 2 |
To be confirmed |
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January 9 |
To be confirmed |
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January 16 |
To be confirmed |
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January 23 |
To be confirmed |
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January 30 |
To be confirmed |
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February 6 |
University Closed |
MUNRO DAY |
February 13 |
To be confirmed |
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February 20 |
No Event scheduled |
WINTER READING WEEK |
February 27 |
To be confirmed |
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March 6 |
To be confirmed |
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March 13 |
To be confirmed |
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March 20 |
To be confirmed |
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March 27 |
To be confirmed |
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April 3 |
University Closed |
GOOD FRIDAY |
April 10 |
To be confirmed |
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April 17 |
No Event |
EXAMS |
April 24 |
No Event |
EXAMS |
2024-2025
DATE |
TOPIC & AUDIENCE |
PRESENTER |
September 12 |
Topic: A new multivariate Poisson model [VIRTUAL] |
Juliana Schulz |
September 19 |
Topic: Estimating the Diet of Predators: Bridging Statistical Methods and Biological Insights [In-person] |
Connie Stewart |
October 3 |
Topic: Multivariate longitudinal data clustering with a dynamic copula kernel mixture model [In-person] |
Xi Zhang |
October 10 |
Topic: Five graduate students will be introducing their research area and projects in short presentations [In-person] |
Graduate student speakers: Joseph Barss, Claire Cui, Ethan O'Connell, Jingyu Li, Fatma Sarhan |
October 24 |
Topic: Predicting The Unpredictable: Integrating Environmental Stochasticity Into Wildlife Conservation [In-person] |
Mike Noonan |
October 31 |
Topic: Spatio-temporal modeling in sports: Building an industry leading sports intelligence platform [In-person] |
Nick Beck |
November 28 |
Topic: A Fisher鈥檚 Exact Test Interpretation of the TF-IDF Term-Weighting Scheme [In-person] |
Paul Sheridan |
January 23 |
Topic: Spatial causal inference in the presence of preferential sampling to study the impacts of marine protected areas [VIRTUAL] |
Brian Reich |
February 6 |
Topic: Statistical challenges in creating cardiac digital twins [VIRTUAL] |
Richard Wilkinson |
February 28 |
Topic: Investigating Trends in Ontario鈥檚 Fire Regime: Fire Season Length and Monthly Ignition Frequencies [In-person] |
Kevin Granville |
March 13 |
Topic: Scalable Bayesian computation for networks utilising Aggregated Relational Data [VIRTUAL] |
Owen Ward |
March 20 |
Topic: A conditional approach to estimate and account dependence formed by long-term pairs in mark-recapture studies [VIRTUAL] |
Simon Bonner |
March 31 |
Topic: Pandemic preparedness needs modelling preparedness: highlighting the role of mechanistic models and the gap in supporting Canadian small jurisdictions [In-person] |
Amy Hurford |
2023-2024
DATE |
TITLE |
PRESENTER(S) |
September 14, 2023 |
SpICE: Interpretable method for spatial data |
Natalia da Silva |
September 28, 2023 |
Approximate Marginal Likelihood Inference in Mixed Models for Grouped Data |
Alex Stringer |
October 19, 2023 |
Estimation of the time to a tipping point |
Susanne Ditlevsen |
November 2, 2023 |
Single visit variable effort survey design for robust statistical analysis of point count and ARU data in the presence of detection error |
Subhash Lele |
November 16, 2023 |
Unbalanced longitudinal data clustering via a copula kernel mixture model |
Xi Zhang |
November 30, 2023 |
Covariance-based distance-weighted regression for incomplete and misaligned spatial data |
Meredith Franklin |
January 18, 2024 |
Accelerating variational inference for stochastic differential equations |
Dennis Prangle |
February 1, 2024 |
Title Unknown |
Sanjeena Dang |
February 8, 2024 |
Title Unknown |
Sanja Stanojevic: in-person |
March 7, 2024 |
Title Unknown |
Pratheepa Jeganathan-virtual |
March 21, 2024 |
Title Unknown |
Jamie Stafford-unsure if in-person or virtual |
April 4, 2024 |
Title Unknown |
Debbie Dupuis-likely virtual but will consider in-person if weather is good |
2022-2023
| Date & Time | Title & Presenter | How to Connect |
|---|---|---|
September 15, 2022 11:30AM - 12:30PM |
Cindy Feng (pilipili漫画) |
Via |
September 22, 2022 12:30PM - 1:30PM |
Janie Coulombe (Universit茅 de Montr茅al) |
Via |
September 29, 2022 12:30PM - 1:30PM *New time* |
Christian Genest (McGill University) |
Via |
October 6, 2022 11AM-12PM |
L茅o Raymond-Belzile (HEC Montr茅al) |
Via 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 816 2064 7497 |
| October 20, 2022 | ||
| October 27, 2022 | ||
November 3, 2022 11:30AM - 12:30PM |
Daphna Harel (NYU Steinhardt) |
via 814 8148 5265 Passcode 977292 |
2021-2022
| Date | Talks |
|---|---|
| October 21, 2021 |
Hector Banos Cervantes (pilipili漫画) "Species Network Identifiability from Genomic Data under the Coalescent Model" |
| October 28, 2021 |
Charith Karunarathna (pilipili漫画) "Sequence clustering for genetic mapping of binary traits" |
| November 4, 2021 |
(University of Ottawa) "Efficiency of Approximate MCMC" |
| November 18, 2021 |
Linh Vu (pilipili漫画) "Some Fluctuation Results on Draw-down Times for Spectrally Negative Levy Processes" |
| January 20, 2022 |
Toby Kenney (pilipili漫画) "Penalised Maximum Likelihood Deconvolution" |
| January 27, 2022 |
(University of Calgary) "What is TWAS and how do we use it in integrating gene expression data" |
| February 7, 2022 |
(McGill University) "Parametric modelling of combined failure time data from an incident cohort study and a prevalent cohort study with follow-up" |
| February 10, 2022 |
Theo Michelot (University of St Andrews) "Multiscale models of animal movement and space use" |
| February 14, 2022 |
Yuexia Zhang (University of Toronto) "Inverse Probability Weighting-based Mediation Analysis for Microbiome Data" |
| February 24, 2022 |
(Memorial University of Newfoundland) "Modeling Cancer Progression Events in Genetic Association Studies" |
| March 31, 2022 |
Orla Murphy (pilipili漫画) "A penalized BIC for mixture model selection" |
| May 12, 2022 |
(IMAG, Universit茅 de Montpellier) "A Cauchy process to model trait evolution on a phylogeny" |
2020-2021
| Date | Talks |
|---|---|
| October 8, 2020 |
(Department of Statistical Science, Duke University) "Likelihood-based Inference for Stochastic Epidemic Models, with application to High-resolution Contact Tracking Data" |
| October 22, 2020 |
(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" |
| October 29, 2020 |
(School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences, Clemson University) "Sequential Selection for Accelerated Life Testing via Approximate Bayesian Inference" |
| November 5, 2020 |
(Computer Science Department, St. Francis Xavier University) "Vaccinating a Population is a Programing Problem" |
| November 19, 2020 |
(Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University) "Optimal estimation of functions of high-dimensional mean and covariance matrix" |
| January 28, 2021 |
(Mathematics and Statistics Department, Lancaster University) "Fast, exact inference for discretely observed Markov jump processes using finite rate matrices" |
| February 12, 2021 |
(Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Brunswick) "Choosing to be Scientific About Data Analysis " |
| March 4, 2021 |
(Statistics and Actuarial Science, Simon Fraser University) "Relatedness, genealogies and DNA sharing" |
| March 18, 2021 |
(Department of Statistics, University of British Columbia) "Approximation of intractable integrals using non-reversibility and non-linear distribution paths" |
| May 6, 2021 |
(Department of Statistical Sciences / School of the Environment, University of Toronto) "Extending the hidden Markov model to analyze complex ecological and environmental data" |
2019-2020
| Date | Talks |
|---|---|
| October 3, 2019 (Joint with CGEB Seminar) |
(Departments of Biomathematics, Biostatistics and Human Genetics, UCLA) "Gradients do grow on trees: linear-time gradients for high-dimensional phylogenetics" |
| October 10, 2019 | Elias T. Krainski (Departments of Mathematics and Statistics, pilipili漫画) "Spacetime models using the SPDE approach" |
| October 31, 2019 | (Department of Physics, pilipili漫画) "The physics of human aging" |
| November 21, 2019 | Roman Smirnov & Kunpeng Wang (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, pilipili漫画) "On mathematical and statistical tools for data analysis " |
| November 28, 2019 | Arnold Mitnitski (Department of Medicine, pilipili漫画) "Measuring and modeling health and aging" |
| March 2, 2020 | (Department of Biology, Concordia University) "Hierarchical Generalized Additive Models in ecology" |
| March 5, 2020 | Orla Murphy (McMaster University) "Applications in extreme value analysis and current work" |
| March 9, 2020 | Neil Spencer (Carnegie Mellon University) "A new framework for modeling sparse networks that makes sense (and can actually be fit!)" |
| March 18, 2020 (CANCELLED) |
Jeff Picka (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of New Brunswick) "When is data analysis scientific?" |
| March 19, 2020 (CANCELLED) |
Dr. Yildiz Yilmaz (Memorial University) "Modeling Cancer Progression Events in Genetic Association Studies" |
| April 16, 2020 (CANCELLED) |
(Departments of Medical Neuroscience/Anatomy and Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, pilipili漫画) "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, pilipili漫画) "Bayesian methods for variable selection in high-dimensional regression models" |
| November 22, 2018 | Chris Field (Department of Mathematics and Statistics, pilipili漫画) "Statistics for the Birds" |
| January 31, 2019 | Gary Sneddon (Department of Mathematics, Mount Saint Vincent University) "Modelling of cross-classified count data" |
| February 28, 2019 | Peter Wentzell (Department of Chemistry, pilipili漫画) "Exploring Multivariate Data with Sparse Projection Pursuit Analysis" |
| March 14, 2019 | Paulo Henrique Mar莽o (Federal Technological University of Paran谩 - Campo Mour茫o Campus) "HOW STATISTICS IS IMPROVING FOOD ANALYSIS IN SOUTH-AMERICA: AN OVERVIEW OF BRAZILIAN CASES" |
| March 28, 2019 | (Amazon Web Services) "Online Variational Inference for Gaussian Processes and Deep Neural Networks" |
| August 22, 2019 | (Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment, University College London) "Bayesian Model Selection" |