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Model Projections in Model Space (MPMS): A geometric interpretation of the AIC and estimating the distance between the generating process and the best approximating model

Tuesday, November 9, 2021 - 11:00 to 12:00
José Miguel Ponciano, Department of Biology, University of Florida
Statistics Seminar
Zoom
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Optimal Transportation in the Inference of Finite Mixture Models

Tuesday, November 2, 2021 - 11:00 to 12:00
Qiong Zhang, UBC Statistics PhD student
Graduate Student Seminar
Zoom
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Data Journalism and the Pandemic: Observations from 19 months of Charts

Tuesday, October 26, 2021 - 11:00 to 12:00
Justin McElroy, Municipal Affairs Reporter, CBC Vancouver
Statistics Seminar
Zoom / ESB 4192
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CANSSI Ontario / U of T Statistical Sciences ARES Seminar: Tiffany Timbers

Monday, October 25, 2021 - 12:30 to 13:30
Tiffany Timbers, UBC Statistics Assistant Professor of Teaching / Co-Director, UBC Master of Data Science Program (Vancouver option)
Statistics Seminar
Zoom (to register, see CANSSI website)
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Computational methods for genomics data analysis: Cancer detection using circulating tumor DNA and miRNA expression inference in single cells

Tuesday, October 19, 2021 - 11:00 to 12:00
Jakob Skou Pedersen, UBC Statistics Visiting Professor
Statistics Seminar
Zoom / ESB 4192
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COVID-19 Modelling and Forecasting in the US and Canada: A statistician’s pro(retro)spective

Tuesday, October 12, 2021 - 11:00 to 12:00
Daniel J. McDonald, UBC Statistics Associate Professor
Statistics Seminar
Zoom / ESB 4192
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Navigating challenging EDI conversations: Tips and tricks for allies

Tuesday, October 5, 2021 - 11:00 to 12:30
Workshop
Zoom
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Department Faculty Flash Talks

Tuesday, September 14, 2021 - 11:00 to 12:00
Social
ESB 4192 / Zoom
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Two UBC Statistics MSc student presentations (Kevin Chern & Matteo Lepur)

Thursday, September 2, 2021 - 11:00 to 12:00
Kevin Chern, UBC Statistics MSc student; Matteo Lepur, UBC Statistics MSc student
Graduate Student Seminar
Zoom
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Improved conditional generative adversarial networks for image generation: methods and their application in knowledge distillation

Tuesday, August 31, 2021 - 11:00 to 12:00
Xin Ding, UBC Statistics PhD Student
Graduate Student Seminar
Zoom
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