Events

• 2012-13 Seminar Series
• 2013 International Year of Statistics Public Lecture Series
  • Lecture 4. September 12, 2013, 4pm: Rob Tibshirani
  • Lecture 5. October 10, 2013, 4pm: Robert Gentleman
  • Lecture 6. November 21, 2013, 4pm: Susan Murphy
• Lecture 1. January 21, 2013, 4pm: Stephen E. Fienberg
• Lecture 2. March 7, 2013, 12pm: Douglas Nychka
• Lecture 3. April 1, 2013, 4pm: Noel A. Cressie

2012-13 Seminar Series

The Departmental Seminar Series is a forum for researchers to share their ideas and forge collaborative relationships.

Held every Thursday from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. in Sidney Smith Hall, Room 1083, 100 St. George Street.

Light refreshments will be served at 3:10 p.m.

Graduate Student Seminars (February 7, 2013 and April 4, 2013) will begin at 3:10 p.m. Light refreshments will be served at 3:00 p.m.

Occasionally, seminars are held on a different day or at a different time. Check the listing below. There are no seminars during the summer or during exam weeks.

If you wish to invite a speaker (or speak yourself), or if you have any questions/comments/suggestions, please contact christine@utstat.utoronto.ca Seminar Coordinator. Note that the time slots listed as TBA are still available.

Every effort will be made to ensure accessibility of our seminars. If you have an accommodation need, please contact Sarah Johns at 416-978-3452 and we will do our best to make appropriate arrangements.

Upcoming Seminars

April 4, 2013
Speaker: Graduate Student Seminar
Graduate Student Seminars – Abstracts
Host: RS

April 11, 2013
Speaker: Vanja Dukic, University of Colorado – Boulder
Tracking Epidemics with Google Flu Trends Data and a State-Space SEIR Model
Host: RC

Past Seminars

January 5, 2012
Join seminar with STAGE (tentative)

January 12, 2012
No Seminar

January 19, 2012
Speaker: Xiao-Li Meng Harvard University
Statistical Education and Educating Statisticians: Producing wine connoisseurs and master winemakers
Host: AG

January 20, 2012
(2:30-4:00 p.m. SS1073)
Speaker: Xiao-Li Meng Harvard University
The kick is in the residual (augmentation)!
Host: AG

January 26, 2012
Speaker: Mu Zhu University of Waterloo
Ensemble Learning: Classification and Variable Selection
Host: RC

February 2, 2012 – No Seminar

February 9, 2012

Speaker: Xiaoping Shi, Department of Statistics
A novel and fast methodology for simultaneous multiple structural break estimation and variable selection for nonstationary time series models
Location: SS1069
Host: NR

February 16, 2012
Speaker: Alex Bloemendal
Location: SS1069
Host: BV

February 23, 2012 – No Seminar

March 1, 2012
Speaker: Hanna Jankovski York University

Asymptotics of the discrete log-concave maximum likelihood estimator

Host: RC

March 8, 2012 – No Seminar

March 15, 2012
Speaker: Yongtao Guan, University of Miami
Optimal intensity estimation of the intensity function of an inhomogeneous spatial point process
Host: ZZ

March 22, 2012
Seminars will begin at 3:10pm sharp!
Graduate Student Seminars
Host: SJ
Speakers:
Edwin Lei, PhD candidate, year 2
Jason Ricci, PhD candidate, year 2
Zeynep Baskurt, PhD candidate, year 4
Alex Shestopaloff, PhD candidate, year 4
Avideh Sabeti, PhD candidate, year 4
Ramya Thinniyam, PhD candidate, year 4
Chunyi Wang, PhD candidate, year 4
Ximing Xu, PhD candidate, year 4

March 29, 2012
Speaker: Pengfei Li University of Waterloo
Hypothesis testing in finite mixture models: from the likelihood ratio test to EM-Test
Host: FY

April 5, 2012
Speaker: Zhibiao Zhao Penn State
Host: ZZ

May 3, 2012
Joint seminar with STAGE (tentative)

September 20, 2012
Speaker: H. Helen Zhang, North Carolina State University
Identify Interactions for Ultra-high Dimensional Data
Host: JS

September 27, 2012
Speaker: Kavita Ramanan, Brown University
On The Hard Core Model and Its Applications
Host: JR

October 4, 2012
Speaker: No speaker event scheduled.
Host:

October 5, 2012  (12:00 – 1:00 p.m)
Speaker: Dr. Sharon Browning, Washington Seattle
Identity by Descent in “Unrelated” Individuals
Joint seminar with STAGE
Location: The Hospital for Sick Children, CDIU Multimedia Theatre, Room 4132, 4th Floor, Elm Elevators, 555 University Avenue

October 11, 2012
Speaker: Mike West, Duke University
Dynamic Latent Threshold Modelling
Host: JS

October 18, 2012
Speaker: Yufeng Liu, UNC Chapel Hill
Statistical Significance of Clustering for High Dimensional Data
Host: FY

October 25, 2012
Speaker: Zhiqiang Tan, Rutgers University
Resampling Markov Chain Monte Carlo Algorithms: Basic Analysis and Empirical Comparisons
Host: RC

November 1, 2012
Speaker: Peter Song, University of Michigan
Merging Multiple Longitudinal Studies with Study-Specific Missing Covariates: A Joint Estimating Function Approach
Host: FY

November 8, 2012
Speaker: Johanna G. Nešlehová, McGill University
Copula-based Inference for Discrete or Mixed Data
Host: RC

November 15, 2012
Speaker: Simon Bonner, University of Kentucky
Mark-recapture of Whale Sharks with Multiple, Natural Marks: A Bayesian Approach
Host: JR

November 22, 2012
Speaker: S. Ejaz Ahmed, Brock University
Relative Performance of Absolute Penalty and Shrinkage Estimation in Weibull Censored Regression Models
Host:JS

November 29, 2012   CANCELLED
Speaker: John Lafferty, University of Chicago
Graph Estimation
Host: RS

December 6, 2012
Speaker: Norman Breslow, University of Washington
Clinical Trials and Epidemiology: Reflections of the Statistician for the National Wilms Tumor Study
DLSS Fields Institute, Room 230, 3:30 p.m.

December 7, 2012
Speaker: Norman Breslow, University of Washington
Inference on Hazard Ratios and Survival Probabilities from Two-phase Stratified Samples
DLSS Fields Institute, Room 230, 10:00 a.m.

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September 8, 2011
Orientation week (no seminar)

September 22, 2011
Speaker: Gareth Roberts University of Warwick
Retrospective simulation
Host: JR

September 29, 2011
Speaker: Rob Deardon University of Guelph
Efficient forms of individual-level models for large-scale spatial infectious disease systems
Host: RC

October 6, 2011
TBA

October 13, 2011
Speaker: Wenguang Sun University of Southern California
Large-Scale Multiple Testing Under Dependence and Beyond
Host: ZZ

October 20, 2011
New TA Training

October 27, 2011
Speaker: Jiahua Chen University of British Columbia
Properties of the Adjusted Empirical Likelihood
Host: SL

November 3, 2011
Speaker: Paul McNicholas University of Guelph
Non-Gaussian model-based clustering and classification
Host: NR

November 10, 2011
Speaker: Zhibiao Zhao Penn State University
Efficient Regressions via Optimally Combining Quantile Information
Host: ZZ

November 17, 2011
Speaker: Jan Hannig UNC Chapel Hill
On Generalized Fiducial Inference
Host: NR

November 24, 2011
Speaker: Graduate Student Seminar
Detecting Pleiotropic Effect via Bayesian Latent Variable ModelingA general statistical framework for analyzing rare variantsSurvey Design and Data Analysis with Embedded Experiments
Host: KK

December 1, 2011
Joint Seminar with STAGE (tentative)

December 8, 2011
Speaker: Chris Wild University of Auckland
Visualising randomisation and the bootstrap
Host: AG